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Capella Singapore Opens On a Pricey Note
A lousy economy filled with budget-aware travelers didn't keep the luxe high-end Capella Singapore on Sentosa from opening for business today.
Unlike another musically named, South East Asian hotel (Tune in Malaysia) Capella costs a lot more than a pretty penny. Room rates start at $750 Singapore dollars per night (which equals about $492 U.S. dollars)for rooms that are double in size than the average hotel room. Capella square-footage can reach well over 4,000-sq-ft.
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Capella Pedregal Well Underway, Shooting for November Open
Last we heard, the Capella Pedregal was on track for a "Fall 2008" opening. (And construction was well underway.) Now we hear that the 66-room hotel part of the property will start taking guests in November.
While it'll probably be a bit of a soft open, many amenities will be ready to go. (So they say.) Among them are 61-foot yachts available for charter and the Auriga spa.
You'll have to be a guest to get all the goods though; the resort sits outside Cabo San Lucas and is only accessible via private tunnel. Swanky!
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Capella Hotels Gets Chauffeur Service, Restaurant Recognition
Capella Hotels, the high-end company developing resorts around the world had to do something to drum up publicity since most of its properties aren't taking guests anytime soon. So to get us talking, the brand has announced that two custom Rolls Royce Phantoms will be available to guests at the Capella Singapore, opening in late 2008.
The breathless release announcing the cars doesn't specifically say if they'll just be doing airport runs or providing around-the-town driving too. Knowing the MO of Capella, though, we'd guess they'll drive you anywhere you want if you pay enough.
Meanwhile, one of the two hotels that's actually open has just gotten some recognition for its restaurant Schlossstern. (Yep, that's three s's.) With a Michelin star and a 17-out-of-20 rating from the Gault Millau guide, the Capella Schloss Velden sounds like it might actually be worth the big bucks.
[Photo: Wikipedia]
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Before Airbrushing: The Capella Hotel in Cabo San Lucas Under Construction
Back in September we let you know about Capella Hotels plans for a Cabo San Lucas resort to be called Capella Pedregal.
As we mentioned then, the centerpiece of the resort will be the spa.
The centerpiece is a gigantic spa designed by Sylvia Sepielli, the Ian Schrager of spa design. Auriga-branded space will sprawl for 10,000 square feet, with treatment rooms, pools, a fitness center and other spa standards.
Today, a very generous HotelChatter reader sent us some snaps of the construction going on at Capella Pedregal as well as some interior room pics. This should fulfill your hardhat/hotel construction erotica needs.
However, it will still be another year before you can lay your head down on the pillows of money at this resort. A Fall 2008 opening is planned.
MORE pictures after the jump.
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Capella Announces Second Mexico Hotel
Capella Hotels is wasting no time breaking ground in Mexico. The luxe resort/condotel brand is at work on Capella Pedregal in Cabo San Lucas, and they've just announced a project on the Riviera Maya: Capella Bahia Maroma. (Nevermind that they've only actually opened two hotels worldwide.)
The Caribbean outpost 26 miles from Cancun International Airport isn't scheduled to open for at least another year. (They don't even have renderings of finished rooms yet.) But that isn't stopping Capella from hyping it. Along with 82 guest suites, plans call for 130 vacation "residences" with price tags starting just under $3 million.
Besides the almost-mile-long beach, guests and owners will have a private golf course and golf club at the ready. A massive Capella-branded spa is also part of the plan.
[Photo of Quintana Roo: kyle simourd]
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Capella Pedregal Unveils New Rich-People Spa
The new high-end hotel brand Capella Hotels and Resorts has only opened two properties so far, and truth be told, neither sounds superb for a winter vacay: One is in Austria and the other in Ireland. But plans for some fun-in-the-sun hotels are moving right along, particularly at Capella Pedregal, the Cabo San Lucas property slated to open in Fall 2008.
The centerpiece is a gigantic spa designed by Sylvia Sepielli, the Ian Schrager of spa design. Auriga-branded space will sprawl for 10,000 square feet, with treatment rooms, pools, a fitness center and other spa standards.
Things go to the next level with yoga on the beach, spa services coordinated to the cycles of the moon and a private gym area, says the press release, for guests who travel with their own trainer. They really are going after Uncle Pennybags.
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Hotels Out to Please Uncle Pennybags
Looks like Steve Case's $800 million Costa Rican ultra-luxe resort Cacique isn't the only ultra-fancy hotel set to open in the next few years. TIME magazine is reporting that these days super-luxury is the new luxury:
These are the places at which you can call a hotel butler in the morning, say, "I need a helicopter at 3 o'clock," and actually get one.
Not that you'll want to leave. The new Capella Hotels, which so far are open in Ireland and Austria, have more amenities than you can use. The Hotel Fouquet's Barriere Paris will ask ahead of time what kind of schwag you want in your room and go over-the-top when you check in.
Of course, all this luxury will cost you: The Capella Castlemartyr's presidential suite goes for $3,750 a night.
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Telluride to Get Mega-Resort by 2008
Some more hotel construction news for you today. Capella Hotels and Resorts have been working for the past year on a mega-luxury hotel in Telluride called simply Capella Telluride.
This property is significant because its the resort chain's first U.S. property. The other resorts are found in Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Singapore and Austria. It's also supposed to be five times larger than any other development project in the area, which seems so wrong to brag about pouring concrete like that.
Nevertheless, Capella Telluride will open by the 2008 holiday season (meaning Christmas 2008, not January) and will feature 148 units, along with residences, in a European-style ski-in/ski-out setup. When you visit the hotel, you pretty much will not leave the grounds for anything else as the place will include a bar, lounge, restaurant, spa, pool, fitness center, ice-skating rink and entertainment and high-end retail boutiques.
All they need now is a Whole Foods and the place is complete.
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