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The Best And Worst of Our American Road Trip
Do not attempt these stairs after a few drinks: the Hotel Monaco Baltimore
Greetings from soggy London! After six weeks, 20 states and 7000 miles, our US road trip has finally come to an end and we are back in the city of grey. Hopefully we’ll be back to test your speed limits soon; until then, we’ll be wowing London with our awesome t-shirt collection (one for every state) and shouting “USA, USA” at every opportunity. How glad to have us back they must be.
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Those Hot New Mexican Baths On Video
Remember last week we told you about those baths in New Mexico that fill with water straight from the hot spring bubbling beneath Truth or Consequences? And how we said they were possibly the best baths ever? We captured them in their full videotastic glory. Here's the one in the Jetsons themed room—yours for $125 a night. Given that it could fit a few of you in there, you could just split the cost.
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Mellowing With The Hippies in Riverbend, New Mexico
Although we checked out the best baths ever at the Blackstone during our visit to Truth or Consequences this week, we actually stayed down the road, at the Riverbend Hot Springs.
You know the hippies we were talking about yesterday? This is where they congregate. The staff have long grey ponytails and wear tie dye. They leave you little envelopes for tips for the cleaners with peace signs on them. And they want bathing in their springs (they’ve harnessed them with five hot tubs) to be a communal experience.
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Possibly The Best Baths Ever: The Blackstone New Mexico
The beauty of a roadtrip is being able to stop exactly where you want when the whim takes you – especially if it’s in a town with a funny name. That’s how we ended up in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico (we were aiming for Roswell but the name was calling us too hard to miss).
Truth or Consequences used to be a popular spa town called Hot Springs before it changed its name to that of a game show in 1950. Then in the sixties, the hippies moved in, and never left. And now it’s on the cusp of turning upscale thanks to the Virgin Galactic Spaceport America being built 30 miles down the road.
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Room With a Killer View :: The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs
We are suckers for a room with a killer view. We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.
The five-star Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO boasts 700 rooms and killer views from almost all of them -- and, frankly, for the price (suites can go for $715 per night), the view had better be awesome.
The hotel is known for its extensive spa and impressive golf course, but the real draw here might be the forthcoming Broadmoor Cottages. In May 2009, the hotel will unveil six cottages (up to 6,300 square feet) with killer views of Cheyenne Mountain and the 18th hole. Five cottages will have eight bedrooms and one will have four bedrooms -- and we can just imagine the kickass snowy weekends we could have with all our best friends.
That said, while this photo was snapped on October 5th, it might be wise to double check on the construction situation with the cottages -- since they're not finished yet, we assume there is the potential for some nasty anti-viewness here while they're going up.
[Photo: lavivienne]
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Holistic Hotels Are Happy Hotels
A recent survey carried out by the Healing Hotels of the World group says that hotels with a holistic approaches and a focus on health and wellbeing are, basically, doing good for everyone. Healing Hotels members usually offer services like spas, meditation, yoga, life coaching and healthy eating, and we've never heard people complain that somewhere had too many spas (although we're not quite sure if getting analyzed by a life coach is quite what we want on our holiday).
The survey also found that a hotel focused on these kinds of add-ons also makes for a better working environment:
Hoteliers reported deeper commitment from their employees when the whole philosophy of the hotel revolved around wellness and healing
So the hotel workers are happier, which surely means they serve us better, and everyone goes to bed at night healthy and happy. Who said a spa can't change the world?
[Photo: Jennifer Yeung]
Related Stories:
· Healing Hotels of the World [Official Site]
· Staff Benefit When A Hotel Goes Holistic [eHotelier]
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Unsurpassed Extraordinariness at the Dart Marina Hotel
It seems there are more than just funky artist communities and sensible beaches in south-west England: Devon also boasts a fancy spa resort in the form of the Dart Marina Hotel. Recently refurbished (aren't they all), Dart Marina sells itself as being located on "one of the most spectacular estuaries in Europe", and since most people aren't sure what an estuary really is, who's gonna call them on this? With one of those over-adjectived websites, we always get a little bit sceptical that the food might be slightly less than "extraordinarily tasty" and the spa facilities not quite as "unsurpassed" as they claim.
And when we get hold of last weekend's Guardian review it turns out our scepticism may be on the money. While reviewer Rafael Behr is plenty pleased with the medical-like touches to the spa resort (they erase the guilt, apparently, by helping you believe that it's a necessity instead of a luxury), he suggests that the whole resort might be a bit on the bland side. He has two big gripes: the rooms have those terrible plug-in "lavender-copy" air fresheners, and the informal restaurant did something quite unwelcoming:
The soundtrack to dinner was a single CD programmed to repeat. There is no surer way of making guests feel they have outstayed their welcome than to force them to memorise the track list of your one Lounge Classics Vol VII album.
Fair point. Room rates (starting at $250 a night in March) do include breakfast and dinner, though, so at least your repeating-CD-nightmare doesn't feel like it comes at an extra cost.
[Photo: Daymo7]
Related Stories:
· Dart Marina Hotel reviews [TripAdvisor]
· Checking In: Dart Marina [Guardian UK]
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Get Your Shrink Fix at the Como Shambhala, Bali
When it's not enough to provide benefits for the holidaymaker's body like herbal wraps, ayurveda, fancy massage therapy and yoga galore, you have to start dealing with your guests' minds. That's the message we're getting from the Como Shambhala at Uma Ubud on Bali, which has just started offering the services of a counselling psychologist.
It'd be nice if being on holiday was mental therapy enough, but perhaps some people have trouble adjusting to the lack of tightly scheduled routine, the excess of time spent lying by the pool or the presence of delicious foods prepared by somebody else. It mightn't be long before psychological travel becomes the new catch phrase of hotel and spa stays.
[Photo: annaiam]
Related Stories:
· Como Shambhala [TripAdvisor]
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Britney Spears Checks In To Sanctuary, Nudity Sure To Ensue
According to plenty of hit or miss celebrity dailies, Britney Spears checked into Sanctuary @ Camelback Mountain on New Years Day to recover from the "exhaustion" caused end of 2006 antics that we are all too familiar with.
Sanctuary is luxe spa hotel which accommodates both hotel guests and local resident members. Sometimes these two groups end up fighting like the Hatfield's and the McCoy's (usual arguments: locals think they own the place, those from away act better than the locals--blah, blah, blah). What both groups agree on are that the facials and other spa treatments offered here are amongst the best in the biz.
Oh, and one recent negative review from a tipster that came in over the holidays is sure not to bother Britney:
They only had one private dressing room which I would be using because I am a modest person and don't typically walk around naked in public with strangers.
That was far too easy.
[Photo: Pug Daddies]
Related Stories:
· Britney Spears checked into Scottsdale's Sanctuary Spa [Muzica]
· Sanctuary Arizona Hotel Reviews [TripAdvisor]
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