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Now Embassy Suites Wants You To Win A Free Vacation, Too
Hotel contests are everywhere we look this week, and today we thought we'd let you know about a competition being run by the Embassy Suites Hotels group.
Not too much imagination or hard work needed to have a chance in this contest: all you have to do is book a stay in an Embassy Suites hotel between now and December 31, 2009, using the "Embassy Suites Vacation" promotion rate, and you will be put in the draw. FYI: they say you should use the code FSR to book that rate.
A hundred people will win $100 Visa gift cards, but the grand prize winner gets something much better. They'll be whisked off, airfares included, to any of Embassy's nine resorts for a five-day, four-night stay. Possible destinations includes Embassy Suites Boca Raton, Embassy Suites Lake Tahoe and Embassy Suites Los Marlins in the Dominican Republic. Not a bad result for doing nothing more than booking a one-night stay, but of course you have to be the lucky one.
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In Napa, Even Embassy Suites Goes Gourmet
Travelers to Napa Valley are used to the finest wines and freshest foods around, so in order to keep up with the gourmet competition and cater to its demanding guests, even the Embassy Suites (which in the town of Napa itself) is taking its food and beverage operation upscale.
Starting now, the 205-room all-suite hotel, which is managed by Hilton, has brought in a new food and beverage management team headed up by Napa native Christy Gianelli, who has worked with a who’s who of Napa hospitality including Wine Adventures, the ultra-luxe Silverado Resort, and the Napa Valley Conference and Visitors Bureau.
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Embassy Suites Ventures Into the Biz Travel Blogosphere
It's looking like more and more hotels and hospitality-focused companies are zeroing in on the business travel sector (er, are they maybe the only ones that are really traveling these days?) — and now Embassy Suites has gotten in on what seem to be two of the hottest trendy-trends in the industry: social media (or, like, blogginess) and business travel.
The chain has revamped and repositioned its BusinessBalance.com site, and while the previous iteration of the site was all about offering advice to biz travelers, it's keeping all that up but with new experts dishing out the tips — and in a blog format. Sweet. Oh, and they switched from a Flash site to a more reader-friendly HTML-style site. Yay!
The blogging experts offering up the tips are:
· Jane and Michael Stern of Roadfood.com (writing about food, obviously)
· Erin Whitehead and Jenn Walters of FitBottomedGirls.com (writing about fitness)
· Erin Kane and Kristin Brandt of ManicMommies.com (writing about balancing work and life)
Some of the newer blog entries give tips on how to stay fit on the road (whether it's heading out of the hotel's immediate area to find a hiking trail or just treading water downstairs in the hotel pool) — and there are some pretty sweet food tips here, too.
Head on over to check out the new site. We dig.
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Hilton Launches Four-Pronged Panama City Invasion
Now you don't see 'em, now you do: the Hilton chain is going back into Panama City, Panama. And they're not doing it lightly, with plans announced for four different Hilton-branded hotels to hit the capital within the next couple of years.
Two of the four will be brand spankin' new: the Hilton Panama in the financial district will take up 27 floors of a 68-floor building and be just 5 miles from that famous canal, and the Embassy Suites by Hilton Panama City is also in the financial district and should be ready in October 2011.
The other two Panama City Hilton properties are franchise agreements. One will be the Doubletree by Hilton Panama City, a big renovation of an existing eight-story hotel near the Iglesia del Carmen. The Doubletree reopening should be ready by the spring of 2010. Hilton's also taking on the Hilton Garden Inn Panama; it's the only one of the four where they explicitly mention free WiFi and wired internet access, but we're hoping they'll be including it everywhere. Hilton says they're looking to expand throughout the Caribbean and Latin America so this big Panama City expansion is probably just the beginning.
[Photo: thinkpanama]
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Embassy Suites Near Tampa Airport Has Rooms Open for Super Bowl
Know of a hotel room open for Super Bowl? Tell us where right here.
Another day, another hotel has rooms open for Super Bowl XLIII. Today it's the Embassy Suites Tampa Airport/Westshore with availability. A rep from the hotel contacted us to say that the hotel currently has 25 rooms open for the Big Game.
While many hotels we've covered are further outside of Tampa, this one is two miles from Tampa Stadium. But that proximity is going to cost ya.
The required stay is 1/29-2/2/09 and the rate is $1,050 per night.
At that rate and with the three-night minimum, your total will come out to $3,150. The hotel does have a restaurant on-site, as well as cooked-to-order breakfasts and a nightly manager's reception that serves snacks and drinks. So we suggest splitting that rate and the two-room suites with a couple of friends.
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Room with An Anti-View : Embassy Suites LAX Left Out Their View Of El Segundo
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
Ok, this has to be one of the craziest anti-views we have ever encountered. We have seen frosted windows before, nothing new there. However, the Embassy Suites LAX South took it up a notch by frosting the one big giant feature window in room 247.
Yup, completely frosted. So tell us El Segundo Embassy Suites, what exactly were you hiding behind that frosted glass?
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Room With an Anti-View: Don't Look Outside the Embassy Suites Albuquerque
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
According to previous guest bk1bennett, the Embassy Suites Hotel in Albuquerque is a place that knows about its anti-view :
Because of the landscaping along the road, you can't see the slums from the car. I walked on the sidewalk and was amazed by the living arrangements. The hotel very cleverly constructed its grounds to keep this out of sight.
This is the view across the street from the hotel, but a lot of guests wouldn't even see it, which we suspect is a pretty good thing. The hotel website explains its location as being "in the heart of the downtown business district", which is, well, not that far away, judging by this photograph.
But despite all that, people like it. TripAdvisor reviews have calculated it the #2 hotel in Albuquerque, out of well over a hundred choices; although several did suggest the area was not the kind you'd want to walk through alone at night. Average room rates of $182 make it relatively reasonable but many suggest you should stay inside the hotel and forget the surroundings completely.
[Photo: bk1bennett]
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The Disturbing Results of Embassy Suites' 'Do Not Disturb' Sign Contest
Where: United States
Embassy Suites has announced the five winners of last year's "Do Not Disturb" sign design contest, and, if this was the best of the lot, we imagine that the other 7,000-plus entries must have been truly and excruciatingly unfunny.
The winners, who came up with slogans like, "Aww Mom, just five more minutes. Please?" and "Shh... I'm hatching a plan to bust some little soaps out of here," receive a three-night stay at select Embassy Suites locations and, beginning March 5, will see their designs displayed at the hotelier's 190 properties.
But not all of the winning slogans are as embarrassingly childish for a grown adult to hang on his or her door as "I've built a pillow fort and I am not opening the door for anybody!" Clever selections include, "Pillow fight in progress" and "There are days when I wish I could wear this around my neck," which is what we guess the Embassy Suites marketing team was thinking when they came up with this contest.
Because out of all these creations, we still prefer Embassy Suites' own variation on the "Do Not Disturb Sign": "There's a good reason for you NOT to knock right now."
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News Briefs: Trump is Everywhere
· While Trump Soho rises, Donald Trump and his spawn are presenting the Trump Hotel Collection which includes properties in Chicago, Las Vegas and Dubai. Each will come with a Trump Spa, Trump Attache service (think butler/concierge) and superior accommodations. And don't forget Trump Steak, Trump Water, Trump Vodka and Trump Suits.
· Room rates are on the rise. Smith Travel Research reports that rates increased 12.1 percent to an average of $108.90. Sadly, all the hotels we want to stay in cost quadruple that.
· Disaster at the Embassy Suites in Baltimore.
A glass roof covering the interior atrium fell approximately eight floors to the center of the hotel.
Fortunately, no one was hurt but the hotel is closed.
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We Hate Boring Door Hangers
The hotel contests just keep coming.
So, we already give kudos to the Embassy Suites Hotels for changing their boring "Do Not Disturb" sign to ""There's a Good Reason for you NOT to Knock Right Now." But now they're wanting us to all get creative and dream up a few more.
The Do Not Disturb Door Hanger contest began last week and you have to get your entry in by October 31 at the Embassy Suites Do Not Disturb Sign Contest website. Winners with the most "clever, outrageous and inspiring" door hanger mottos will receive a 4-night stay at an Embassy Hotel. And the honor of seeing your own clever door hanger being pinched by tons of Embassy guests. Good luck!
Related Stories:
· Design Embassy's New `Do Not Disturb' Sign [USA Today]
· Embassy Suites Contest [Official Site]
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Ritz-Carlton Hotels and Noise Top the 2007 Guest Satisfaction Survey Study
Where: United States
We've had it with thin walls and smoke. We also prefer Ritz-Carlton Hotels for our luxury trips.
That's according to the results of a JD Power and Associates Guest Satisfaction Survey, who surveyed 47,634 travelers to discover that the overall #1 complaint about hotels is noise and the best in service is the Ritz.
Hotel guests are also tired of cigarette smells, they like their free continental breakfast and most would really like to know if the hotel they are staying in has environmentally-friendly programs in place or not.
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Latest Comments: 'Apprentice'-Designed Embassy Suites Uniforms Suck
We love when people comment on HotelChatter stories because aside from making us tingle inside, we like to encourage conversation about hotels, hotel trends, hotels with good or bad WiFi, Tori and Dean, Paris going to jail, etc., etc.
But it's hard to keep track of all the latest comments, especially if they are written about year-old stories. And some of you readers have great things to say. (Spammers, this does not mean you at all whatsoever.) So from time to time we will be highlighting some of the funny and informative things recent commenters posted.
Like this comment about uniforms for Embassy Suites hotels that were designed by contestants of the Season 5 Apprentice reality show.
I work as a bell man for an Embassy Suites and all I can say is HIDEOUS. The only reason this uniform "won" in the voting I am sure is because it was probably the least offensive. Can't wait for the summer temps to hit 100+ and your outside helping unload bags. Shirts look like surgical scrubs...atrocious. My tenure at Embassy is done for this very reason!
And they looked so pretty coming down the runway. Looks like runway fashion can never be trusted.
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· Embassy Suites Gets "Apprentice" Unis [HotelChatter]
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