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Now What's Your Excuse? Westin Rolls Out New Guest-Approved Fitness Studios
Now it's almost mid-February, you may have forgotten all about those pesky little things called New Year's Resolutions. Especially if they involve sweating up a storm. But Westin Hotels hasn't! Westin Hotels & Resorts is transforming the fitness centers at each of its 186 hotels around the world, based on...
February 09, 2012
The Westin St. Francis Offers Last-Minute Chinese New Year Specials
If you are looking to ring in the Lunar New Year, San Francisco throws one of the best Chinese New Year parades in the world: the night-time parade features floats, elaborate get-ups, firecrackers and a 250-foot-long dragon manned by 100 martial artists. And, to lure Year of the Rabbit...
February 15, 2011
The Westin St. Francis Won't Let Guests Touch Dirty Money
Germaphobes will like dropping coin at the Westin St. Francis. That's because the San Francisco hotel washes all of the coins it takes in so you won't have to touch grimy, dirty change. Yep, the Union Square hotel scrubs every penny, dime, nickel and quarter with soap and water...
January 04, 2011
Some Hotels Put Up Christmas Lights, The Westin St. Francis Constructs a Sugar Castle
Hotels are getting in a holiday mood! Usually around this time, we spotlight all the delicious holiday cocktails that hotels concoct for the season. Don't worry, we're not giving up the booze but we are keeping tabs on all the wonderful, wild, and in some cases, weird Holiday Hotel...
November 17, 2010
Michael Mina's Bourbon Steak Moves Into The Westin St. Francis
Even for a celeb chef, Michael Mina is a busy man. He has restaurants in seven states, with the latest--his 18th--opening at The Westin St. Francis just over a week ago. The new restaurant--which replaces Mina's eponymous resto in the same space (it has a new location elsewhere)--is Bourbon Steak,...
October 20, 2010
When Visiting San Francisco, You May Get 'Caught in a Bad Hotel'
Guests at the Westin San Francisco over the weekend had some fantastic entertainment to watch in the hotel's lobby. That's because gay rights' groups, San Francisco Pride at Work and One Struggle One Fight (along with the Brass Liberation Orchestra) put on a special show just to urge guests to...
May 13, 2010
Hop to These Five Hotels for Easter Brunch
The Taj Boston will serve a view with Easter brunch. Here's what's fun about Easter: bunnies, holiday candy and good eats. What's not so fun about the holiday is cooking said good eats and, even worse, doing the dishes. This year, get out of the kitchen and let someone...
April 01, 2010
Westin St. Francis Has Its New Look Ready
In San Francisco, the famous Westin St. Francis has finished its extreme makeover, and almost on time, too. When we last checked into things, they were promising a Spring 09 finish, and they've nearly got that right. And we're pretty impressed – spending $40 million in just two years...
June 30, 2009
Where to Find the Most Extravagant Hotel Holiday Displays
We've already covered the grossest holiday hotel decorations (hello, fake snow, old friend...) but if you're getting into the holiday spirit and wanting to hit up hotels nearby to take in some festive feasts for the eyes, Hotel Interactive put together a list of the most killer hotel holiday...
December 19, 2008
Top Five Thanksgiving Buffets at Hotels
Last-minute Thanksgiving planners, rejoice! Nowhere is more forgiving of large groups and indecisive diners than a hotel restaurant with an overpriced holiday buffet. So as we prepare to give thanks for bountiful candied yams and cornbread in all forms, we did some dirty work to dig up the details...
November 26, 2008
A Castle Made of Sugar That You Can't Eat
The very first of chef Houdré's Sugar Castles, 2005. Be honest: you know that part of the reason you watch those Food Network pulled-sugar competitions or crazy TV cake bakeoffs is to see the competing chefs' creations collapse, spectacularly implode or get dropped in a heap of empty calories and...
November 07, 2008
Westin St. Francis Introduces "BrainBody Fitness" Starring the Wii
We think the execs over at Westin Hotels may be having a bit of an identity crisis, because lately it seems like the company wants to less like a hotel and more like a personal trainer. To wit: First, they introduced WestinWORKOUT rooms, complete with in-room exercise equipment; then, with...
July 16, 2008
The Westin St. Francis to Get Extreme Makeover
A couple weeks ago we wrote about the tired-looking Westin St Francis. We don't want to assume we are some kind of soothsaying project of visionaries, but let's just say we found it very interesting that the grand dame of San Francisco has just announced they are undergoing a $40...
June 03, 2008
The Westin St. Francis: 'Classic' Can Mean Weathered
We were very excited to stay in a grand dame hotel like The Westin St Francis on the south edge of Union Square. We don't always go for landmark hotels like this, but the occasion called for it and we went in with eager eyes. The other organ that...
May 19, 2008
HotelChatter Reader Deals: Last Chance at Spring Getaways
In which, HotelChatter readers are treated to exclusive hotel deals dug up by us. All deals have a limited amount of rooms attached to them and may sell out quickly. Today's Hotel Deals Spring Fling in Santa Fe$168 a night The El Dorado Hotel and Spa is offering a...
March 27, 2008
Holiday Hotels: Gingerbread Houses To Make, Play In or Stay In
This seems to be a popular hotel trend for the holidays--gingerbread houses. But not those little teeny ones you make in your grandma's kitchen. No, when hotels do something they do it big. Here are a few hotels around the world that go a little crazy with their gingerbread...
November 27, 2007
The Joy of Giving, Westin-Style
With holidays just around the corner, hotels are in a giving mood. If you spend two nights at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, a third night is on the hotel. Simply arrive on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday for a three-night stay and explore great holiday shopping and...
November 08, 2007
Westin St. Francis Unveils 'Meet Me at the Clock' Contest
Much like the promotion over at the Hotel Nikko, the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco is looking for a couple who may have met under the hotel's historic Great Magneta Grandfather Clock which turns 100 this year.Over the past century, the refrain "meet me under the clock" has become...
September 12, 2007
Westin St. Francis Deal For Those With Definite, Non-Refundable Plans
There's a better deal in San Francisco right now than the Hotel Vitale's Locals Only Offer and you don't have to be a Bay Area resident to take advantage of it. Perfect Escapes has put together a three night package at the Westin St. Francis in Union Square (that's the...
December 22, 2006
HotelChatter Open Thread: Where to Spend Your SPG Points in SF
[ED. Note: HotelChatter's first ever open thread! Get in here and help a Hotel Maven out will ya? Edster1972 wants to know which hotel he should stay in on his first visit to San Francisco. But since he's recently came into a vast fortune of Starwood Preferred Guest Points, he's...
August 01, 2006
Gavin Newsome tries to end lockout at the Westin St. Francis
SF Mayor Gavin Newsome made good on his promise yesterday when he showed up at the upscale Westin St. Francis hotel in Union Square, in support of the hotel workers, who are now being locked out by many area hotels. Gavin bellowed to onlookers: "There are dozens of hotels...
October 27, 2004
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