HotelChatter - Tag: Ritz Carlton Hotels

Washington: Angella Reid Says Bye-Bye Ritz Carlton, Hello White House

ASchechter — 2011-10-05T09:15:02-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/White_House_Front_Twilight.jpg" class="top">Almost three years ago, America welcomed its first black president. This week, history was made again when the White House <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/white-house-gets-its-first-female-chief-usher-20111004">hired</a> its first-ever female Chief Usher, Angella Reid. OK, fine, not quite as ground-breaking as Obama's inauguration. But still! One small step...yada yada. Reid will leave her post as general manager of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/10/22/125726/78/hotels/Ritz_Carlton_Pentagon_City">Ritz Carlton Pentagon City</a> to take over the coveted position, which entails housekeeping duties like property inventory, state dinners, and Inauguration Day house moves. That last one's gotta be a doozymoving the president isn't exactly your standard U-Haul by-the-hour operation! Two decades of work for the Ritz Carlton brand (at properties in Miami, New York, D.C., and Rocky Hill, CT) should have prepared

Marina Del Rey: The Ritz Carlton's Missing Rembrandt Turns Up In A Church

ASchechter — 2011-08-17T10:49:07-05:00

Well, someone must have been paying attention when we sent out a plea yesterday to help the Ritz Carlton Marina Del Rey get their Rembrandt etching back.

The tiny portrait (it only measured 11" x 6"!) was finally recovered Monday evening—in the pastor's office of an Episcopal Church! What is it with scandalous pastors this week? Someone reportedly saw the missing artwork at the church and alerted the authorities. Though, to be fair, Father Mike Cooper hasn't been arrested, nor have detectives figured out exactly how the sketch traveled twenty-odd miles from the hotel into his office. Maybe it just needed some fresh air.

Dana Point: Green Hotel Jobs: 'Naturalists' At the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel

EricRosen — 2011-08-16T11:47:42-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/18481/189599_10150178686079575_129566299574_8589974_4508228_n.jpg" class="top"> All this week, HotelChatter contributor Eric Rosen will be talking with the people who perform some of the coolest <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Jobs">Green Hotel Jobs</a> out there. He reached out across the globe to talk to the dynamic folks who do everything from breeding fish to teaching indigenous survival courses, and everything in between. Today we travel from one coastal environment (Hawaii) to another (Laguna) to talk to one of the naturalists at the <a href="http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/LagunaNiguel/Default.htm">Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel</a>. 30-year-old Will Steinreide, a Dana Point native who, after working with Jean-Michel Cousteaus Ambassadors of the Environment (AOTE) on Catalina Island, now leads AOTE-partnered guest activities and programs at the Ritz-Carlton. In the role, he gets to take guests on

Marina Del Rey: Help The Ritz Carlton Marina Del Rey Get Their Rembrandt Back!

ASchechter — 2011-08-15T09:42:31-05:00

If any of you have special access to surveillance tapes at the Ritz Carlton Marina Del Rey, we would sure love to take a look (no, we're not snooping for candid Britney footage).

On Saturday, a $250,000 Rembrandt etching known as "The Judgment" disappeared from an exhibit in the hotel lobby. So how exactly does a 350-year-old lithograph just vanish? Well, that's kinda what police are trying to figure out. In the words of the LA County Sheriff's Department:

"When the curator that was attending to the art exhibit turned back to the exhibit, he noticed immediately that this individual drawing...was gone."

Charlotte: Hide from Black Friday Crowds in Style at the Ritz-Carlton Charlotte

KatieK — 2009-11-11T12:08:28-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/living_room.jpg" class="top"> Are you one of those crazies who get up at the crack of dawn to haul out for Black Friday shopping? Honestly, were more the online shopping types fewer black eyes, more time spent in PJs. But leave it to the new <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Ritz-Carlton+Charlotte/local/1554">Ritz-Carlton Charlotte</a> to make even that sound luxe. In fact, their L3 shopping package Laptops, Lounging and Libations makes us think weve been doing something seriously wrong. Designed for Black Friday cyber shoppers, the package includes an extended one-night stay and a private special online shopping lounge, on the 15th floor, that offers free Internet, hand and wrist massages, holiday cocktails and champagne, and light snacks to last from 12:01 a.m.