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Wyndham Hotels Does Not Want Your Flu Germs, Thank You Very Much
Had your flu shot yet? You never can tell who’s laden with germs. That’s why Wyndham Hotels is now handing out complimentary bottles of hand sanitizer to guests arriving at 10 of their airport hotels. But don’t worry, they won’t be spraying you with the stuff as you check in, just giving you a pocket-sized sanitizer from the Bath & Body Works PocketBac Deep Cleansing Hand Gel range.
In the words of Wyndham Hotels and Resorts president Jeff Wagoner:
"This is just one more way that Wyndham hotels care for guests as part of our ‘Be Well’ philosophy."
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Condé Nast Traveler Readers Choice Awards Favor Killer Views, Weird Bathrooms
The stunning coastal views from Hotel Du Palais
They say the customer is always right, and we generally agree. PR pushes and clever marketing can often make a hotel sound better than it is, but leave it to a consumer to give you the inside track with merciless honesty. This is precisely why Readers Choice lists are more trusted than other carefully cultivated round-ups.
Last week, Condé Nast Traveler's unveiled its 22nd Annual Readers Choice Awards, a respectable overview of the best cities, islands, resorts, airlines, and other travel-related miscellany. It's the location-specific hotel and resort "Top Three" lists that caught our eye first, of course, but there were some questionable standouts as well.
Some of the top picks were self-evident, like Biarritz' Hotel Du Palais, honored by readers as the Top European Resort and called out by our discerning HotelChatter family for its stellar beach and pool views. Here on the mainland, meanwhile, Pebble Beach's Inn at Spanish Bay was named one of the Best U.S. Resorts. Having taken in the coastal surroundings along Monterey Peninsula's famed 17-Mile Drive last year, we can vouch for the Inn's luxury credentials.
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Element Hotels Open in Denver and in Dallas
Element Hotels, a spin-off of the Westin Hotels brand, are slowly but surely expanding. The green extended-stay hotel chain has announced the openings of their fifth and sixth hotels in Denver Park Meadows and at Dallas Ft. Worth Airport North.
Rates at the Element Denver, which is actually on the outskirts of the city near the Denver Tech Center, start at $144 a night for a room with a king bed and a queen sleeper sofa and that rate includes a full hot breakfast. You can also make your own meals in the full kitchens that come with every room. Rates at the Dallas Airport location were not available yet as the hotel is expected to open later this week.
Up next for Element? The Element Hotel in Ewing, New Jersey which will open on November 5. We still have to wait a little bit longer for the promised NYC property as the Element Times Square West is now set for an August 2010 date.
[Photo of the original Element, Element Lexington, by Working and Playing/TripAdvisor]
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A Fresh Take on the Airport Hotel at the Marriott Miami Airport
To be perfectly honest, the phrase "airport hotel" doesn't conjure up the most pleasant associations. While they boast close proximity to the Arrivals and Departures gates, the overall experience usually pales in comparison to those hotels located in city centers. We're pretty sure the constant stream of planes flying overhead has something to do with this.
But Marriott be damned if they won't try to reform the image of airport hotels, namely by feeding $15 million into a renovation of their Miami Airport location. Our first peek at the Marriott Miami Airport reveals space age light fixtures, vaulted ceilings with bright paneling for openness, and row upon row of cushy chairs for businessmen to take power naps in pre-meeting.
The layout of communal areas around the lobby is meant to support both work and play, with a living room-esque feeling that invites you to actually take advantage of your surroundings and mingle with other travelers rather than retreat to your room.
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The PDX Aloft Hotel Introduces New 'Bike and Fly' Program
Aloft Portland Airport at Cascade Station is trying to make transportation even easier for PDX residents with the country's first ever “Bike & Fly” program. With the purchase of a one-night stay (starting at $130), guests departing Portland International Airport can stash their bikes in a secure bike parking storage area for up to 14 days. The city’s MAX light rail line conveniently stops right in front of Aloft.
This all sounds good and green, but we’re having a hard time wrapping our head around why anyone in the Portland area would want to plunk down $130 to store their bike and what instances would require an overnight stay on an outbound itinerary? Wouldn’t it be more economical (and easy) to simply take MAX light rail line straight to the airport, suffer through TSA and call it a day?
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The Superest Super 8 of Them All?
You don't want to know how we stumbled upon this TripAdvisor review for the Super 8 Airport South in Austin, Tex. but we sure are glad that our dubious internet skills took us here. That's because we might have found the superest Super 8 of them all.
The reviewer mentioned that the hotel's lobby had a Nintendo Wii for guests to use. Yes, a Wii which proves that Wiis are not just limited to Westins and boutique hotels.
But looking around some more, we saw that the hotel was ranked the #2 hotel in Austin by reviewers. So what gives? It can't be entirely due to the Wii, could it? Well we noticed that guests loved the amenities offered in-room such as lots of pillows on the bed and the flat-screen TVs (The suites have 52-inch flat screens too.) But also outside the rooms, guests were impressed by the food offerings and the free internet. We're also impressed by the fact that the entire hotel is non-smoking. A trucker stop, this is not.
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Hyatt Regency O'Hare Is Not Your Typical Airport Hotel
More often than we'd like to admit, we've had to crash at an airport hotel and brave the sheets and the scuzzy bathroom for a few hours pre-flight, and each of those times we wish it had been as nice as the Hyatt Regency O'Hare Airport outside of Chicago.
First off, there's the free airport shuttle, but more importantly the hotel just completed a $64-million-dollar renovation which updated all 1,100 of their rooms and suites. Back in 2007 when the work began, the hotel was able to show off two new contemporary restaurants and a humongous conference center, but now the rooms also boast of fresh touches like 37” flat-screen LCD televisions, ergonomically correct workspaces, energy saving lighting, and plush Hyatt Grand Beds.
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Heathrow's T5 Will Get the Biggest Holiday Inn Express in Europe
While our brothers at Jaunted are busy bringing live reports of Virgin Atlantic's 25th Birthday Bash to you from Heathrow today (and the 25th anniversary flight goes from LHR to EWR a bit later this morning, by the way), we've got some news out of the Heathrow hotel world, too: Europe's biggest Holiday Inn Express is set to be opening up at Heathrow's Terminal 5.
Holiday Inn recently announced that it was going to be the official hotel of the 2012 Olympic Games — and now they're making sure they're as close to the world traveling action as possible, with the planned 300-room hotel already undergoing the early phases of construction at T5 (the new British Airways terminal). According to The Daily Mail, the first phase of the rooms will be ready to go by May of next year, and the rest should be available by the time the Olympics roll around in 2012.
But for today, get your London airport fix by watchin' the Heathrow action (and Richard Branson-ness) unfold at Jaunted.
[Photo: Daily Mail]
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Park Inn Heathrow Has Some Pretty Fly Wheels
Ha. This car is funny.
This bad boy belongs to Park Inn Heathrow, and it was snapped by recent guest Michael Coleman who says, "Hotel seemed to have a small fleet of minis - don't know why. Seem a bit impractical if people have luggage?"
Hmm, yeah. Kinda. We're not so sure what they use these little buggers for, though — the hotel's website specifically mentions guests should take the "Hoppa bus to and from the airport" (oh, and "with reasonable charges") — and when we called the hotel rezzie line, we were told that guests can't rent these out. So we're not sure whether they're just an eye-catching advertisement for the property — but, either way, they certainly did catch our eye. How stylin'. Sorta reminds us of some pants we saw one of the dudes from Milli Vanilli wearing once.
[Photo: Michael Coleman]
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Holiday Inn Santiago Airport Makes You Wish You'd Missed Your Flight
The Holiday Inn brand doesn't necessarily evoke a sense of hipness or luxury, but the Holiday Inn Santiago Airport just may change everything you think about this well-known chain.
Located literally less than 50 steps from the front entrance to Aeropuerto de Santiago, this property has every amenity the business or casual traveler needs for a long layover or comfortable overnight stay. If you miss your flight or get delayed, there may just be no better place to stay in Santiago.
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A Pod Hotel For San Francisco Airport?
Ladies and gentlemen, get a couple Andrew Jacksons ready and prepare to rest your wary traveler's head upon something slightly more plush than a crappy gateside airport chair: there are hot little rumors coming out of California today that insist the airport pod hotel concept in the US — a la Yotel — may be on its way to San Francisco Airport.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
The airport is seeking a concessionaire to build and operate what it calls "sleep units" in the International Terminal. SFO officials don't want a traditional hotel, but rather a collection of tiny rooms - like Japanese-style pod or capsule hotels - that fliers could rent for a couple of hours between flights.
While some U.S. airports have full-service hotels on site, even connected to terminals, SFO would be the first to offer roomlets for rent.
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Possibly the Worst Peekaboo Bathroom Yet
Last we checked, it seemed that nobody really enjoyed the whole "peekaboo" bathroom trend. This new seethrough-restroom thing that hotel designers seem to be into nowadays appears to appeal to very few of the folks who actually need to use these seethrough-restrooms, and having our jiggly bits displayed to our hotel room-mates — and, good lord, our private business exposed — does not particularly scream sex and sensuality. If there are places to forgo function for style, we think everyone is in agreement that the commode and body-cleaning area is not the place to do so.
But this one may be one of the worst we've seen: check out this snapshot of the Crowne Plaza Changi Airport in Singapore, dropped into the HotelChatter Flickr Pool by lyh1. Doesn't this sort of remind you of what would happen if an aquarium, a bathroom and one of those picture frames you used to make at summer camp (back when Hawaiian prints were super trendy, by the way) all got together and had a baby?
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