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A Few of Our Favorite Things at East, a 'Business Hotel with a Life'
We got a chance to tour the East Hotel in Hong Kong in the city's Taikoo Shing district which bills itself as a "business hotel with a life" and while the hanging chairs in the suites definitely topped our list of Things We Liked, there's so much more to explore.
Our contributing editor, JetsetCD, did a thorough review of the hotel last year so be sure to read her play-by-play of an overnight stay if you're interested in booking a room here. But for now, allow us to pull out a few of our favorite things about East:
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Marriott Sexes Things Up with New Ad Campaign
Hotels Mag recently took a closer look at the new $6 million global ad campaign for Marriott Hotels and it's clear this is not your Grandma and Grandpa's Marriott anymore.
The Experience More at Marriott campaign features watercolor illustrations from artist Kareem Iliya whose done work for Louis Vuitton, Perrier Jouet and Tiffany & Co., a clear sign that Marriott is trying to showcase its newer, upscale properties.
One ad is targeted for business travelers, showing a shot of the hotel lobby with the tagline: "Where good company meets good business." A second ad shows off the spa ("Where relaxed meets revitalized"), while another one features a rooftop bar over a glittering city ("Where sophistication meets comfort.")
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Hello, Captain Obvious: London Home to 14 of The U.K.'s Top Business Hotels
We've seen many a posh businessman quaffing whisky cocktails at the Mandarin Oriental London
File this under "Painfully Obvious": per results from the annual Condé Nast Traveller Readers' Travel Awards, London was voted the U.K.'s favorite city, with 14 of the top 15 U.K. business hotels located in London. Right. Because we expected Wolverhampton to give the nation's capital a run for its money in both categories.
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AC By Marriott is Not to Be Confused With Another AC by Marriott, The Autograph Collection
The AC Vilamari Hotel in Barcelona.
Marriott Hotels announced today an agreement to form a "hotel joint venture and new "co-brand" with a Spanish hotel group which will be called AC by Marriott.
This brand, sprung from the loins of AC Hotels headed by Antonio Catalan who will remain on board, will aggressively go after the business travel and urban-leisure markets in Europe, particularly Spain, and Latin America.
“AC by Marriott” will incorporate the concept and business model of AC Hotels’ urban-style four-star hotel product, characterized by a unique blend of quality, comfort, design and technology, with Marriott International’s global systems, distribution, and sales platforms, particularly Marriott Rewards, one of the world’s largest hospitality loyalty programs with 33 million members.
Yup, that's right. Guests staying at AC By Marriott will be able to tap into the Marriott Rewards loyalty program, earning and using points during their stays.
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These Hotels Are Doing Business Travel Right
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As more and more leisure travelers start to bring their laptops, smartphones and other gadgets on vacation with them, hotels have responded by adding more plug panels, bigger workspaces, ergonomic desk chairs and better, although not always free, internet access option. In fact, nearly all hotel rooms we've stayed in this year could double as a business traveler's dream hotel.
But of course, not all hotel rooms are created equal. Some hotels clearly cater to the business traveler in better ways and Inc.com has summed up who's doing it best.
In their Business Travel 50 list, the mag compiled the best in biz travel from trip-planning tools, airlines, travel gadgets and our fave, hotels.
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The Plaza's Butlers Are Now Ready for Business Time
Ah, it's just like Upstairs, Downstairs! While Todd English is holding court with his new food hall down in the basement, the men in white gloves upstairs at The Plaza are getting ready to give you the business. That is, the hotel has just introduced its new Business Butler Package.
In a world of Foursquare and Twitter, and hotel technology that means we don't even have to talk to anyone if we don't want to, the idea of a butler is so quaint, isn't it? But, hell, if a man in a frock coat wants to run us a bath, plump our pillows and give our Louboutins a polish, we're not going to argue.
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Trying to Go Budget and Failing
No wine for Myra!
Our very own hotel Agent Zero returns with yet another review. Her not-real name is Myra Ellen and she's our version of Alex Goran who travels once a week for business, usually along the Eastern seaboard. Every so often, she'll be dropping in with her latest hotel and travel observations. In this episode, she tries to go budget.
For about an hour, I was proud of myself. Proud that, with trips to two smaller cities in quick succession, I booked two nights in two budget chain hotels. (Granted, these particular towns didn’t have much else to offer in terms of upscale hotels. But I digress.) I even bragged about my frugality to Hotelchatter.
Here’s how I went wrong:
The first hotel, Courtyard by Marriot, didn’t have room service, but instead a lobby bar filled with businessmen buried in their USA Todays and a "pantry." My day-ending glass of wine was not to be had because my day ended too late by their standards. At 11:05pm, the bar was closed and the lobby empty.
Blessedly, the second hotel, an old-school Marriott Hotel, had room service, which felt inherently risky but inevitable after another long day. When an odd seafood dish arrived instead of "Shiraz", I had a sad. (And then waited for half an hour for the switch.)
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Plug Panels, Coppola Wine, Pajamas and More at The Hotel Palomar Westwood
It turns out the Hotel Palomar Westwood really doesn't need that reality TV show package to lure in new guests. That's because we found all the entertainment we could want inside the rooms.
We popped in the Wilshire Corridor hotel yesterday to see how it's been holding up after opening two years ago. And we think the rooms and amenities have actually improved since we did our first sneak peek in 2008.
Ok, so the desk's awesome plug panel and the room's ginormous flat-screen TV have always been there, same with the free WiFi for Kimpton InTouch members.
But the Palomar has really upped the goodie factor from Francis Ford Coppola's wine and tons of treats in the minibar to the animal-print pajamas in the closet, jogging maps for the LA/Westwood area on the desk, an easy-to-read in-room dining menu from the restaurant, BLVD 16 and the "Forgot It? We've Got It Program", we don't think we'd want for anything staying here.
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James Chicago is Telling You To Turn Off Your Laptop
We all know how clever hotels have become lately with their wake-up calls but one hotel in Chicago is taking a different route by encouraging guests to put away their laptops and go out and have some fun.
The "Shut Down" Calls are now a part of the services at The James Hotel, which is promoting the service as a part of their larger, "Weekday Bleisure" package. (Business + Leisure = Bleisure.) So instead of someone calling your room to tell you to wake-up, they are actually telling you to turn off your laptop. This is something we could use on a regular basis. (That and a mom voice to tell us to "Sit up straight!")
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The Ritz-Carlton Battery Park is Guilty of Sucking Up to Lawyers
Lawyers are probably the last people you’d think need a hotel discount, but that’s just what they’re getting at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park next month. Perhaps the Financial District hotel is sick of the area’s Wall Street bankers? Or maybe this is just an admission of the kind of clientele the R-C Battery Park likes to cultivate?
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The Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown Gets a Tech-Savvy Upgrade
In keeping up with our ongoing series about Hotel Renovations, we've got word on the recent changes to the The Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown Hotel. The $20 million renovations were spent on redesigning the 295 guestrooms and suites and public spaces. The rooms were taken out of the mid-1990s and refreshed with a new millenium look with white sheets on the Sheraton Sweet Sleeper beds (no patchwork comforters here), 37-inch LCD TVs, and roomy work spaces with ergonomical desk chairs.
In fact, while we're on the topic of business travel hotels this place is the ideal hotel for a biz traveler in Albuquerque.
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Not Much Cool at the Five Cool Rooms
Allow us to introduce our newest contributor. J. Jennings Moss has started a new business travel blog over at Portfolio.com which focuses on business travel. Recently, he scoped out the hotel scene in Buenos Aires. Got any questions about biz travel? Send 'em to us and we'll have him answer them for you.
Don't be fooled by the name. There isn't much that's "cool" about the Five Cool Rooms Hotel in Buenos Aires.
A disclosure to begin with: Five Cool Rooms was not our first choice for a boutique hotel. That honor, based on reviews in HotelChatter and word-of-mouth from friends, was Home Hotel. But Home was booked during our trip in early April, and we were swayed by the generally positive write-ups we’d seen of Five Cool Rooms, as well as by its advertising and jazzy website.
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