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Now What's Your Excuse? Westin Rolls Out New Guest-Approved Fitness Studios
Now it's almost mid-February, you may have forgotten all about those pesky little things called New Year's Resolutions. Especially if they involve sweating up a storm. But Westin Hotels hasn't!
Westin Hotels & Resorts is transforming the fitness centers at each of its 186 hotels around the world, based on research into what guests want in a hotel gym. The new design means new equipment, more floor space for stretching, yoga and other mat-based work, and something called blue-light therapy.
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Now You Can Hone Your Boxing Skills At The Mark New York
New York has really cleaned up its act since the 80s, and the likelihood of getting mugged on the Upper East Side is pretty much slim to none. However! If you happen to be staying at The Mark New York, and are looking to beef up your self-defense skills, a good place to start might be the hotel's new martial arts and kickboxing studio, Punch Fitness Center.
The studio, which opened in November, and its owner, Adelino Da Costa, were profiled by the NY Times back in 2008 for introducing the world of boxing to the affluent Upper East Side neighborhood—and with great success. Now, Da Costa has set up on the hotel's second floor to offer his unique blend of Thai boxing, boxing, kickboxing and martial arts conditioning to guests whenever they want it.
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Radisson Blu Peekaboo: The New Chicago Hotel Has a Running Track, Billiards Room
The Aqua wall and weights just inside the gym entrance
Happy Friday! We've spent most of this week filling you in on everything from the beds and balconies to the design details of the just-opened Radisson Blu Aqua Chicago, but there's one huge area we've saved for last: the massive fitness center, outdoor activity deck and two pools.
The reason for these extra amenities and the large gym is the fact that the Aqua Tower is also a condominium. Want to live above the Radisson Blu hotel? You can, and if you do, you'll need more than a typically small hotel-size gym. Thus the fitness center is 8,000 square feet with new machines, stretching areas and floor-to-ceiling windows. Inside it is also what we'd consider one of the coolest "secret" amenities of the hotel: a basketball half-court.
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5 Fun Alternatives to the Hotel Treadmill
We're always looking to find a treadmill alternative when we hit the hotel gym so we that's why we often gravitate to group fitness classes. Now ordinarily, amenities like the new yoga classes at the Hudson Hotel and the Mondrian SoHo would have us prepping our mat.
But we're tired of the same old offerings on the schedule—spinning is so '90s and even worse, step classes are so '80s. So we looked around to find some classes that not only would help us torch calories but have some fun doing it.
Check out our top five list of fun hotel fitness classes.
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Morgans Gets in Gear with Equinox
Sometimes, a few treadmills and a couple of hand weights just aren't enough for hotel guests when they are traveling, which is probably why Morgans Hotel Group has partnered with Equinox gyms in New York and Miami to offer guests a more complete workout option.
Guests at the Hudson, Royalton, Morgans, and Mondrian SoHo in New York City, and Delano, Mondrian South Beach and Shore Club will have access to the Equinox gyms in town including special guest rates on personal training sessions and 15 percent off spa services. Guests can request a special one-day VIP pass to Equinox through the hotel's concierge.
In addition, guests at the Hudson and the Mondrian South Beach will be able to purchase the Equinox Limited Edition Derringer cycle, Derringer's first pedal bike through Semi-Automatic, the luxury vending machine that's featured at both hotels. Just remember to insert $2,300 into the machine to get your bike.
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Mondrian South Beach Is Getting a SoulCycle Studio For Christmas
If you're looking for a way to 1) escape the cold, 2) stay at a cool hotel over the winter break, and 3) do something about those New Year fitness goals, the Mondrian South Beach is calling your name. On December 23, the hotel opens its new SoulCycle Studio, the first outpost of the indoor cycling program outside of New York. Doesn't that make you feel better about hitting Miami in a bikini already?
The new 30-bike studio will be located next door to Mondrian's super-pretty Agua Spa and Fitness Center, and will feature all the same equipment and workouts as the NYC studios. SoulCycle should fit right in at the hotel--they even share a yellow, black and white color scheme.
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You'll Be Down in the Gym, Working on Your Fitness at the Andaz Fifth Avenue
After waxing lyrical about the cheese at Andaz 5th Avenue's the bar downstairs, we found ourselves drawn back to try even more small plates and cocktails a week later. The spot in the hotel's basement is so warm and cozy and laidback that we found it hard to leave. When we finally did, we stumbled across a part of the hotel we hadn't seen before (but probably should acquaint ourselves with after all that cheese): the gym.
Like many NYC hotel gyms, Andaz 5th's is in the basement. But it's much more spacious and attractive than that suggests.
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The Chair With Balls Inside The Chatwal's Fitness Center
From its Deco bars to its leather-wrapped guest-room walls, The Chatwal New York is a new hotel that's also a throwback to the Jazz Age. But when we got a peek at the hotel's new spa and fitness center recently, we also got an eyeful of this...
Now, it's not a classic piece from any Art Deco period we know of, nor does it look like a piece of gym equipment to get us as whipper-snapper slim as a flapper. So what the hell is it?
Clearly it's a chair--and one our dogs would go bananas for. (Seriously, remind us never to bring her here lest we end up paying for the inevitable irreparable damage.)
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Lock Up Eloise! The Situation Wants to Teach Abs Classes at The Plaza
After watching Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino completely break down these past two weeks on "Jersey Shore" (fighting Angelina, trying to pull a robbery on Vinny's cougar girl, smacking Snooki in the mouth) as well as on "Dancing with the Stars" (his wooden dancing skills were voted off this week), this latest news about The Plaza's own situation with The Situation has us very concerned.
According to the NY Post, The Situation and The Plaza are in talks to make him the face and partner of a new luxury gym that would open in The Plaza's retail spaces where the old Radu gym used to be. NOMG!
"There will be a very select clientele. Members would need letters of reference, and there will be a high initiation fee. The Situation will be originating a workout program, and he'll occasionally teach abs class himself."
WAIT, IT GETS WORSE:
Our source said, "The deal could also be rolled out to other Fairmont hotels."
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Sheraton Tightens Its Abs With the Core Performance Program
Where: United States
Mark Verstegen, Founder of Core Performance, after leading the Times Square workout.
Wow, talk about an extreme makeover. First we heard about Sheraton's new spa concept, then we got a look at the brand's redesigned rooms. But Sheraton ain't stopping there. The hotel chain now has its sights set on making you over, with its new fitness program.
So far, 60 Sheraton properties are offering the new fitness program--Sheraton Fitness Programmed by Core Performance--and 70 more hotels will have it on tap by the end of the year.
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Would You Try The Trazer At The Fontainebleau?
Some hotels hide their gyms in the basement, others entice guests to work out with pretty water views or treadmills overlooking the pool. But in Miami—where, let's face it, the body-beautiful pressure is high—the Fontainebleau has a brand new toy it's using to tempt guests to get fit. And it's not The Situation.
It's name is the Trazer 2 and it's a "sports simulator" that "makes healthy exercise more fun." That's the official description, anyway. Then there's the Thrillist definition. To them, the Trazer 2 is "essentially an overgrown Wii designed to bring you to the brink of vomiting."
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Is a Surprise Hotel Fitness Fee Worse Than a Steep WiFi Charge?
Just when we thought paying for WiFi to be the worst of hotel extra evils, a reader has reminded us of yet another devil in the details: additional charges for using the hotel's gym. Calling out Chicago's Palmer House Hilton in particular, our tipster uncovers more than just the fee, but also the lack of signage regarding it:
Just discovered -- the Palmer House charges $18 (!!) for guests to use their fitness center. I'm sure it's lovely, but at the news of $18 I turned around and left. Outrageous on several levels: the price (although I wouldn't pay anything) and the fact that there was absolutely no clue until I walked and found a front desk that there were any fees involved. Even then, nothing's posted.
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