HotelChatter - Tag: Fairmont Hotels

San Francisco: How Hotels Effect the Presidential Race

jennm — 2008-08-19T15:35:13-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/11725/fairmontsanfran.jpg" class="imgborder">Ah, if only we could get inside the minds of this year's presidential candidates. We'd know for sure then, whether Obama intentionally plays the race card, like McCain alleges, or whether McCain really thinks like a wealthy elitist, as the Democrats allege, or how candidates choose hotels to host fundraisers ... You think they use TripAdvisor? It would appear so, given the <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g60713-d81397-r18953663-The_Fairmont_San_Francisco-San_Francisco_California.html">rave reviews</a> of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Fairmont+San+Francisco/local/8">The Fairmont San Francisco</a>, where Obama just hosted a fundraiser that brought in his largest amount of campaign dough yet: $7.8 million, according to the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/18/MNCI12CVH8.DTL&type=politics">San Francisco Chronicle</a>. Because really, if you're going to ask a bunch of C-level execs to fork over $2,300 for dinner you want

Montreal: Montreal Hotel Strike Heats Up as Fairmont's QE Workers Strike

juliana — 2008-08-08T10:30:06-05:00

<![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/icon_small_hell.gif">The hotel strike in Montreal shows no sign of slowing down. We got a tip yesterday from a reader who said that attendees for the upcoming UFCW convention on August 17th--that's the United Food and Commercial Workers union--have ditched their planned accommodations at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Fairmont+The+Queen+Elizabeth/ian/173750">Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel</a> and are instead shacking up at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Loews+-+Hotel+Vogue/ian/125486">Loews</a>.The reason why? As you can guess, Fairmont's workers have just walked off the job. From the <a href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=5e6be604-981c-419b-ad0a-5803fd445c3a">Montreal Gazette</a>: <blockquote>Workers at the largest hotel in Quebec, Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel, have joined forces with other locked out or striking hotel employees in a labour conflict that now affects four major Montreal-area hotels. The Queen Elizabeth workers walked off the

Fairmont Fit Sending Shoes to the Needy

amandak — 2008-08-08T08:53:45-05:00

The Fairmont Fit program has been up and guests have been running since the start of 2007 in most Fairmont Hotels. With plenty of Fairmont President's Club members happily borrowing or buying athletic gear so they can keep fit while staying at a Fairmont, they've decided to go one step further and turn the whole program into a touchy-feely donation thing too.

Fairmont Hotels Will Only Drive a Hybrid Lexus From Now On

juliana — 2008-07-24T09:35:22-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/fairmontlexus.jpg" class="imgborder"><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/fairmont%20hotels">Fairmont Hotels</a> has just entered a new partnership with Lexus in which Fairmont President's Club members will be able to be transported wherever their heart desires in one of Lexus' hybrid automobiles.<blockquote> Lexus is the only luxury automaker with hybrid vehicles in its line-up and Fairmont guests will be able to travel in the style and comfort of a RX 400h hybrid luxury utility vehicle or the GS 450h, a luxury performance sedan. Both vehicles demonstrate how eco-savvy customers can enjoy making less of an impact on the earth without sacrificing luxury. </blockquote>Fairmont and Lexus have also teamed up to create a specialty eco-suite called Lexus Hybrid Living Suites. These suites are environmentally sustainable and feature efficient

Tamarack: Game, Set, Collapse :: Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf Will Not Be Hoteliers After All

juliana — 2008-07-22T16:38:36-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/agassi_tamarack.jpg">"It was just a pipe dream honey."When <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/andre%20agassi">Andre Agassi</a> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/8/26/124141/702/hotels/Andre_Agassi_Steffi_Graf_Building_Idaho_Hotel">announced</a> he would help Fairmont Hotels build a hotel in Idaho's Tamarack Resort, we were all excited. Think of those hotel tennis courts!Yet, it was not meant to be. The tennis superstar and his wife, Steffi Graf have cancelled the resort. As usual, money woes are to blame for the development's collapse. <blockquote>The husband-and-wife tennis champions pulled the plug on the development because Credit Suisse Group sued to foreclose on a US$260 million loan to Tamarack's founders, said Joel Goldman, chief operating officer at Echo Partners, which also invested in the development.</blockquote>Deposits taken for condo units in the development will be refunded. Perhaps Andre and Steffi would want