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The POTUS Is Just Like Us--He Stays at The Element Hotel!
It's been a while since we checked in on the hotel habits of the POTUS but yesterday we we were psyched to see that Barack Obama stayed at a hotel that we've actually stayed at before...twice!
When visiting Las Vegas on the campaign trail, Obama eschewed the hotel casinos on the Strip and instead took over the entire Element Las Vegas hotel in Summerlin, about 15 minutes from the Strip. 8newsnow.com reports:
Onlookers were curious as to why President Obama chose to stay farther away from the bright lights of the Las Vegas Strip. "This Element is earth friendly, and I think he's trying to promote that on his visit," Carol Bieganowski said.
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Smile! You're On Camera (If You Want to Be) at The Shore Hotel
Aside from having stylish and green guestrooms with Pacific Oceans views, an eco-friendly fitness center and an upcoming Blue Plate Taco restaurant, The Shore Hotel in Santa Monica has now added a bit of fun for their guests in the form of a digital photo booth.
Found in the lobby near the check-in desk the photo booth lets guest take either a single image or an old-school photo strip with the Shore Hotel logo (as you can see in the gallery below, the hotel's logo is everywhere!).
And keeping in line with the hotel's emphasis on being green and conserving waste, the photos are only emailable (no paper waste here) and you can share them on Facebook and Twitter as well. Cheeeeese!
Room rates at the hotel start around $220 a night.
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The Water Bottle Water Fountain isn't The Only Green Thing at the Shore Hotel
Two of you hotel experts were stumped but Dbenaderet was absolutely correct in guessing the hotel with the water bottle water fountain was the new Shore Hotel in Santa Monica.
After touring the hotel the other day, we're not so sure we've ever seen a more stylish yet totally green hotel from the construction of the building to the materials in the rooms down to the recycling bins under the desk. The hotel even employs its own Green Concierge. And below is the shot of the hotel's fitness center where we found the water bottle water fountain and which has a floor made from recycled rubber and tires.
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Can You Guess The Hotel With the Water Bottle Water Fountain?
It's another game of Guess the Hotel! Except this time we're going green. The rules are the same as ever--we give you some hints, you drop your guesses in comments below and we'll reveal the hotel in a few days! On your mark, get set, go!
· This hotel features a water bottle water fountain in its fitness room which allows you to refill up your water bottle without the hassle of bending it sideways and only being able to fill it up halfway. You can also use it as a regular water fountain too.
· The floor of the fitness center is made out of recycled tire and rubber, just one of the MANY green features and practices of the hotel.
· The place has killer ocean views.
· We saw rooms at this hotel on HotelTonight for just $139 a night. Not a bad place for a last-minute hotel stay.
· Lastly, it's super new. Like a few months old new.
Did we make this one too easy or are you still stumped? Either way, try your hand at guessing this hotel in comments below!
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Costa Rica's Eco-Friendliness Means Recycling in Your Room
We learned something yesterday while in the sky somewhere above Nicaragua. It's something shocking, but in a very positive way and it absolutely effects hotels. You see, Costa Rica is known for being green and expertly riding the wave of eco-tourism, but they're so serious about their commitment to the environment, that they're on track to become a completely carbon-neutral country by 2012. That's next year...like less than two months away.
Due to their extreme dedication to preserving Pura Vida, Costa Rican hotels are held to high standards of eco-friendliness. We're talking programs that go above and beyond those "do you or don't you want your sheets changed to save water" things, though there's that too. For example, at the Four Seasons Resort Peninsula Papagayo (say that three times fast), every guestroom is equipped with a super trashcan—a single unit with three clear and separate areas for Paper, Plastic and Organic garbage.
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Old School Veuve Clicquot Estate Sheds WWI Damage for New School Makeover
Is that neon-lighting we see in the background?
Long operating hotels are working double time to keep up with their slick newer counterparts, undergoing minor facelifts or totally gutting their interiors to compete with fresh faced, showy young'uns. Truth be told, we often enjoy staying at places with a bit of time-worn character, but when a building's facade bears damage from World War I, even us history buffs think it's time for an extreme makeover.
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45 Park Lane is Now Open, Complete with Custom Bath Menu
45 Park Lane has finally, formally opened its swanky, $567 per night doors in West London, with many a bell and whistle accompanying its Mayfair debut. With a mere 45 rooms (clever coincidence, eh?), the hotel is relatively modest in size but decidedly immodest by way of luxuries: bespoke furniture, Bang & Olfusen televisions, views of Hyde Park, marble baths, a Media Room available for private hire, and a custom, to-order Bath Menu are just a few perks up for offer. And a partridge in a pear tree.
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Green Hotel Jobs: Babysitting Turtles In The Maldives
All this week, HotelChatter contributor Eric Rosen will be talking with the people who perform some of the coolest Green Hotel Jobs 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.
In case you didn't know, we kind of have a thing for endangered turtles: we've documented turtle-friendly spots like Big Pine Key in Florida, Playa Viva in Mexico, the Hilton Barbados, the Bolivian Amazon, and even all the way over in Oman.
So for the final installment in this week’s series on the Coolest Green Hotel Jobs, we’d like to introduce you to Patrik Svensson, the Marine Discovery Centre Manager at the Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Kuda Huraa.
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Green Hotel Jobs: Managing The Subterranean Rivers At Fairmont Mayakoba
Where: Carretera Federal Cancún- Playa del Carmen Km. 298 Playa del CarmenSolidaridad, , Quintana Roo, Riviera Maya, Mexico, 77710
All this week, HotelChatter contributor Eric Rosen will be talking with the people who perform some of the coolest Green Hotel Jobs 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.
When we think of interesting ecology, the tequila-soaked clubs and crowded beaches of Cancun don’t spring to mind. But just 45 minutes south of party central on the way to the Riviera Maya, is the exclusive enclave of Mayakoba, a lush, jungly environment with three luxury resorts discreetly arranged among the winding limestone canals and mangrove-anchored beaches.
There, we talked to the Fairmont Mayakoba’s Ecology Manager and Green Team Leader, Lyn Santos. Hear about the resort's natural underground rivers, stingless Melipona bees, and why Santos loves boating on the resort’s freshwater lagoons and wetlands.
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Green Hotel Jobs: What It's Like Overseeing A 4,000-Acre Reserve In Australia
All this week, HotelChatter contributor Eric Rosen will be talking with the people who perform some of the coolest Green Hotel Jobs 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.
Wolgan Valley Resort and Spa in Australia’s picturesque Blue Mountains is the world’s first certified carbon neutral luxury resort, so naturally when we were thinking of the coolest Green Hotel Jobs out there, we thought we’d say g’day to the resort’s Senior Field Guide, Ben Boothby, whose job it is to basically oversee every living thing on the 4,000-acre reserve.
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Green Hotel Jobs: 'Naturalists' At the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel
All this week, HotelChatter contributor Eric Rosen will be talking with the people who perform some of the coolest Green Hotel Jobs 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 Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel.
30-year-old Will Steinreide, a Dana Point native who, after working with Jean-Michel Cousteau’s 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 scavenger hunts, while educating them about indigenous peoples of the area, tending to the hotel kitchen’s organic garden, and snorkeling in the kelp forests of nearby Hidden Cove.
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Green Hotel Jobs: Four Seasons Hualalai’s Director of Natural Resources
After last week’s turbulent stock market rollercoaster at least there was some good economic news: unemployment is down. And they say that one of the biggest growth markets will be in environmental fields. So all this week, HotelChatter contributor Eric Rosen will be talking with the people who perform some of the coolest Green Hotel Jobs 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.
Islands are some of the most fragile environments on earth. Before the advent of modern technology, islands had to be self-sufficient, self-sustaining ecosystems. So it’s no wonder that some of the most interesting, innovative eco-jobs in the hospitality industry are at island resorts. That’s why we start out this week’s series on the coolest Green Hotel Jobs out there by talking with David Chai, the Director of Natural Resources at the Four Seasons Resort at Hualalai.
