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The Ritz-Carlton at Lake Las Vegas to Close on May 2
Semi-shocking news for Las Vegas. The Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas is reportedly closing down on May 2nd. According to KTNV, the 304 employees at the hotel were given notice yesterday that the resort would be closing. Hotel officials have said that, predictably, the tourist slump in Vegas and the poor economy is to blame. USA Today also reports that the owner of the property, Village Hospitality, has decided to stop funding the place.
The reason why this closure is not so shocking is that with so many new rooms open on the Strip that are keeping prices down, it's hard to justify a trip far off the Strip for the same price as a room near all the action. That said, this is Vegas. Never admit defeat right? So it's a little surprising that the place would close down entirely.
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JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Turn on The Lights at LA Live
Last month we gave you a preview of the new J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton at L.A. Live in Downtown Los Angeles. Last night, we headed back to the colossal glass tower to mingle amidst celebrities and philanthropists, and witness the inaugural lighting up of the building. We even took a video of the event, which was not without a few quickly resolved technical glitches, that you can check out above.
The open-bar cocktail reception took place up on the 26th-floor pool deck of the Ritz-Carlton with a live band playing old standards. The whole evening (appropriately) felt like a movie premiere, with red carpet entrances, dozens of spotlights in the sky, and swarms of helicopters (we counted seven at one point) hovering to get good shots of all the action.
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Score Some Ritzy Hotel Furniture for Your Pad
You can put on the Ritz in your own home. The Ritz-Carlton Chicago renovated its lobby and its cast-offs are up for grabs.
Fort Pitt Hotel Furniture Liquidators kicked off the sale at its Chicago warehouse on Thursday, which drew a few thousand people through the weekend. But Fort Pitt owner Scott Zawitz says there's tons Ritz items left—and even more to come.
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The Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain Opens Today
Ritz-Carlton just keeps rolling out properties these days it seems, and today, it’s opening its 72nd property, the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain in the hidden hamlet of Marana, about 30 miles north of Tucson. The Dove Mountain resort is the chain’s first property in Southern Arizona, and is getting the full Ritz rollout.
Over 300 new staff members were hired, and have been undergoing a rigorous training regimen under the guidance of over 40 Ritz-Carlton managers from around the world. The goal is to be ready to open the doors to the public at 4:00pm. That means all the restaurants and the spa, as well as the 250 guest rooms, suites and multi-bedroom casitas will be available for bookings.
We tried checking rates for opening night, but it looks like the hotel is already completely booked. Looking at the following week, we found rates starting at $299 for a standard guest room, $329 for a Casita guest room, $469 for a one-bedroom Executive Suite, and $629 for a Casita Suite.
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Oompa Loompas Invade The Ritz-Carlton Naples This Weekend
Oompa loompa doompadee doo, we’ve got a perfect puzzle for you: where can you combine one of the greatest movies of all time with the most candy you’ve ever seen in your life, in a setting that is equal parts sunshine and sophistication? This weekend, the answer is the Ritz-Carlton, Naples for the fourth annual Willy Wonka Weekend starting Friday.
For the first time this year, the weekend kicks off with a premiere event on Friday night from 5:30-8:30pm. Guests who buy “golden tickets” ($95 for adults, $85 children ages 12 and under) can enjoy a themed dinner buffet, and an exclusive question-and-answer session with Naples residents Theo and Maddie Dahl, the son and daughter-in-law Roald Dahl. The elder Dahl wrote the original 1964 book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on which the movie was based. Guests that evening will also receive a copy of the book signed by Theo Dahl.
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Anchors Away for the Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island's Gingerbread ... Pirate Ship?
Ahoy, Mateys! No, it's not National Talk Like a Pirate Day (that were the 19th o' September, me hearties), and we haven't changed our Facebook language settings, either. But, it is time for another hotel snapshot—this here holiday oddity courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island.
That's a gingerbread pirate ship you see above, constructed in time for the holidays as "a tribute to the legends and lore of ... Amelia Island." And how'd they do it, you ask? Here are the whopping stats for the painfully sweet creation:
Ingredients* 1,200 pounts of flour
* 900 pounds of sugar
* 3,000 eggs
* 435 egg whites
* 300 pounds of shortening
* 15 gallons of milk
* 14 pounds of special holiday spices
We seem to be missing the rest of the recipe, but you just know it's something like: pour into biggest soaking tub in the hotel, whisk, beat, and, er, bake.
We're still stuck on that ingredient list. Even butter-happy Paula Deen would blanch at those numbers. Holy sugar coma, Batman.
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There's Snow in Lake Tahoe and The Ritz-Carlton is Open For Business
It’s -9ºF in Lake Tahoe today. But that didn’t stop folks from coming out to celebrate the opening of the new Ritz-Carlton Highlands, Late Tahoe. The area received over 30 inches of snow at the summit in the 48 hours leading up to the resort’s debut. Which makes us wonder: Is there anything the R-C and their concierges cannot do? (Maybe the Ritz-Carlton in NYC could do something about this rain?)
The Ritz-Carlton Highlands was five years in the making, and offers the all-important ski-in, ski-out experience for all those CEOs with too much time on their hands. (On the upside, the construction created over 350 jobs in Northern California this year. Yay, employment!)
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Ritz-Carlton Coming to the Holy Land
It’s hard to believe that the Ritz-Carlton, with 73 properties scattered around the globe, does not yet have a presence in Israel, but this week, the company announced plans to open its first hotel there.
The new property will be located in a coastal suburb just north of Tel Aviv called Herzliya.
According to Ritz-Carlton CEO, Simon F. Cooper, it’s about time. “For a number of years,” he said in a statement, “the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company has recognized the strategic potential of extending our brand to Israel. Having spent several years in Israel earlier in my career as a hotelier, I know the country very well.”
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The Giant Gingerbread House at The Ritz-Carlton is Now Open
The holiday hotel decorations extravaganza is in full effect and the nearly life-sized, eco-friendly gingerbread house we reported on last week has risen!
Jaunted alerted us to The Ritz-Carlton Charlotte's TweetPhoto of the finished product and we have to say, it's not as fugly as most gingerbread candied houses are. It's actually quite sweet-looking (No pun intended! Ok, maybe a little pun intended.) Next year, we think the Ritz should make an entire gingerbread suite for hotel guests. Then upon checking out, we could eat the bed. Mmmm....
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A Sneak Peek of the J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton at L.A. Live
The entrance to the hotels at LA Live.
Though in the past we’ve had a few quibbles with the carpet selection at the new J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton at L.A. Live in downtown, we got to go on a top-secret hard-hat tour (yes, there was an actual hard hat involved, as well as protective glasses, a hideous orange vest, clomping work boots, and a release form!) inside the new property to see how construction is going and what progress is being made so that the hotel can open on-time in mid-February.
THE FACTS
his property is the first of its kind for Marriott and Ritz-Carlton. Though they have other hotels that are connected through spa and meeting facilities, this is the first property where both hotels are in the same structure. The J.W. Marriott rooms will be located on floors 4-21 in both towers on the property, and the Ritz-Carlton rooms will be on floors 22-26 in both towers.
The Ritz-Carlton residence suites will be on floors 27-54 in the tall main tower that looks like a glass sheath, will be LEED certified, and is the first new skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles in nearly 20 years. The entire building was designed by the Gensler architectural firm, while Barry Design is in charge of the interior design.
Apart from sharing conference facilities and the 8,000 square-foot Ritz-Carlton Spa, the two hotels will be very distinct from one another.
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New 'Bites' on The Menu at The Ritz-Carlton Naples
As if you aren't already overstuffed from Thanksgiving dinner, the is giving you yet another reason to keep on eating. Tomorrow, the hotel will open their new restaurant called Bites.
The idea is kind of revolutionary for a Ritz-Carlton since Bites, as the name suggests, will offer small plates and cocktails in an intimate lounge-like setting.
No, there’s nothing new about a lounge serving tapas or small-plates menu, but whereas you’ll usually find white table-cloth and sparkling crystal service when dining at a Ritz-Carlton property, Bites is meant to mark a “return to intimacy and comfort in dining, which industry leaders and chefs are noting as necessities in the new decade of dining.”
Translation: this recession is making people nervous, so they want comfortable food and ambiance. That must be why Bites is only charging between $2-14 for each of the 40 plates on the menu, with the average falling around $7.
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Let The Hotel Holiday Decorations Extravaganza Begin
Pshaw. This is child's play.
Not only do hotels like to dream up some Holiday Cocktails for lushes like us but they also like to go crazy with Holiday Decorations. So until the holidays are over, we'll be profiling some of the more outrageous ones we hear of and see. Know of an over-the-top decoration we should check out? Send it to us!
Move over John Galliano-designed Christmas Tree at Claridge's. Here's comes The Ritz-Carlton Charlotte's ginormous gingerbread house. The LEED-built hotel is creating a 10x14' environmentally-friendly, all-organic Gingerbread House that will be available for public viewing on Friday, November 27.
The structure will be overseen by Chef Jon Farace and the structure will be built by Jonathan Gellman of Skyward Builders, "using efficient framing practices, recycled nails and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified lumber and OSB panels obtained from within a 500-mile radius of the hotel." So it truly is green.
Now here's what it takes to build something this big:
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