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The Westin Riverfront Has a Kids Club That Even We Want to Join
Westin Kids Club
It's hard for parents to keep the kids occupied during the winter, when they're cooped up inside. But kiddies can enjoy the great, cold outdoors with the Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa's Mini Mountaineer package.
Don't worry, there's no actual mountaineering going on. The hotel's playing off of its location at the base of the Beaver Creek Mountain. Your 6-year-old won't get a harness and helmet and get sent down a mountain for some rappelling. Instead, the fam will get a two-bedroom condominium and a s'mores kit delivered to the room upon arrival.
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Starwood To Cram in More Westin Hotels Before 2010
More Westin Heavenly Beds for Everyone!
If you're into Westin Hotels and white tea scents then you'll be happy to know that Starwood Hotels plans on opening six Westin Hotels before the year is out. The WSJ reports:
The company, based in White Plains, N.Y., will cut the ribbon on two new Westins--one near the Washington Dulles Airport and the other in Orlando--on Thursday. The rest, built from the ground up, will open in China and India by the end of the year.
Mickey Mouse and Westin? That sounds so dirty. And so good.
But there's already a Westin in Orlando near Disney World called The Westin Imagine Orlando. The newest Orlando hotel is actually the Westin Lake Mary, Orlando North. Yeah, it's a mouthful. The hotel, which opened on November 12, is located in the center of Florida's High Tech Corridor and while corporate offices for companies like Allstate, Mitsubishi, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Scholastic are within a few miles away, Disney World and more fun attractions are about 40 minutes away. (Room rates start at $159 a night.)
So Starwood might be cramming in the rest of their Westins for 2009 but they are kind of ho-hum hotels.
Next year, Westin will plan on opening 12 more hotels in more exotic locations like Mexico, Canada, Greece and Japan. And we fully expect the signature white tea scent to be wafting throughout every one of them.
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Got Tix to The World Series? They May Have Cost Less Than Your Hotel Room
The Yankees and The Phillies are set to square off in the 2009 World Series Championships on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium and tickets on Stubhub.com are starting out at nearly $300 a piece. That's definitely steep but if you're a fan, then money's no object. Your hotel room, however, is another issue.
Let's get to the good news first. If you're a lucky ticket holder, the Westin Times Square is offering a $50 credit in the hotel's Bar 10. Here's a look at what $50 will get you:
Yankees fans can snack on grilled sirloin sliders and crisp calamari fries, or throw back a few celebratory drinks in anticipation of their team’s win. Fans that really want to hit it out of the ballpark can opt for the Fall Unwind special, available in Bar 10 from 5 p.m. – 11 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. Customers can sample the beer package, which includes a choice of four bottles of their favorite brews (Sam Adams, Budweiser, Bud Light, Miller Light and Coors light) and an order of select lounge fare, all for just $28.
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The Westin New York's GM Takes Us Inside His 'Healthy Hotel'
Welcome to our regular Monday feature, Pitch Your Hotel, where we let hoteliers, general managers and other hotel execs tell us on-camera what makes their hotels so different from all the rest. And believe us, the competition is fierce these days. So sit back, relax and listen to them explain why their hotels are worthy of your hard-earned dollars or rewards points.
We popped into the Westin New York so that we could ask Gerard Widder, the hotel's general manager, about what makes his hotel so great. But instead of just giving us a stand-up pitch, Gerard took us along on a tour of his hotel--showing off the hotel's fitness center, spa, new executive guest rooms and the lobby bar, Bar 10. (We have to give him major props for filming all of this on the fly and while running on the treadmill too!)
Westin Hotels really need no introduction but Widder wanted to show us that despite being located amidst the frenetic pace of Times Square--which is where tourists and business travelers alike converge--the Westin Times Square goes to great lengths to offer a respite from the mad world below.
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At Westins in the Caribbean, Pumpkin Soup Makes Babies
Gettin' romantic with your other half is a pretty common goal on a Caribbean vacation, but don't forget the new trend is to conceive a baby while you're at it – and hotels out there are trying their best to persuade you to take a Conception Moon at their place. Yeah, we thought this is a private matter, but hotel marketers don't. Here's proof.
The extreme case is at the Westin Aruba Resort where they've got a Conception Credit deal going. This means that if you can prove (retrospectively, of course) that your baby was conceived while you were staying at the Westin Aruba, then they'll give you a $300 credit on future bookings. They'll need a doctor's note as proof and that credit is enough for about one and a half night's stay – weird, but worth doing if your luck turns out that way. And at least you don't have to advertise to everyone in advance that you're going to stay in your room and try to make a baby.
On the other hand, at the Westin St. John Resort and Villas in the Virgin Islands, you're pretty much making your plans public if you book their Procreation Vacation.
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Westin Launches New Mobile Site For Cell-Phone Enabled, Laptop-Disabled Travelers
Westin Hotels just launched a new mobile site at westin.mobi, offering basic functionality like finding hotels, reserving rooms, and checking reservations.
The project is part and parcel of Westin's ongoing efforts to expand their digital offerings, and it also puts the brand in the same category as other hotels with expanded cell-phone friendly offerings. Now they too are available to travelers who head into strange cities with no reservation, no laptop, a last generation smartphone but a functionally limitless bank account. So if you're among that quirky crowd, the Westin family welcomes you.
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Westin Hotels Get a (Virtual) Renovation
If you're anything like us, you're fans of the Westin Heavenly Bed, and don't mind the Westin Heavenly Bath products either. There's something comfortable and unassuming about the Westin brand, even if it doesn't set your heart racing. Or, as the chain says on its website, Westin is "a haven of serenity" that is "welcoming yet never overwhelming." Next Monday, the brand re-launches Westin.com with those values in mind. But really? We're not sure anything was wrong with the old website.
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A Building's Exterior and Random Statues Do Not Make For a Pretty View
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.
Wow. Talk about disappointing. A HotelChatter Flickr member dropped in this shot of the view from their room at the Westin Melbourne saying:
Crappy view of wall. The statues were something to look at at least.
Hmmm...we're having a hard time focusing on the statues because there's just so much wall in this shot.
We actually passed up staying at this hotel a while back because the hotel charged for WiFi in the guestrooms. Guess we'll have to stay away because of the view as well. But they do have a pretty website if that counts for anything!
[Photo: Vissi87/HotelChatter Flickr Pool]
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It's Worth It to Stay Way Up There at The Westin Seattle
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.
HotelChatter Flickr Group member Kyle.Britten dropped in this shot from the Westin Seattle into our HotelChatter Flickr Pool to show us just how pretty the view can get from the 47th floor, room 4737 to be exact. When you're up that high, you can see nearly as much as you can from the Space Needle as well as the needle itself.
While we'd prefer a small boutique hotel over the massive Westin Seattle towers (891 rooms in total), sometimes riding that elevator high up into the sky is worth it.
Rooms start this weekend at $199 a night. A bonus shot of the hotel's two towers, shot during our recent trip to Seattle in May, is after the jump.
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Westin's Beds May Be Heavenly But Their Wireless Internet is Not
Heavenly beds at the Westin Bonaventure in LA.
Most of us agree that the Westin Hotels Heavenly Bed feels quite nice and those of us who have tried the hotel brand's new Heavenly Bath toiletries would agree that the shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, et.al, go above and beyond what we would expect from hotel toiletries. But when it comes down to Westin WiFi, the experience is more hellacious than heavenly.
Westin is part of Starwood Hotels and while the WiFi is free in the lobbies, in-room guests have to pay. Usually the fee starts at $9.95 and goes up from there, depending on the hotel.
Paying for WiFi is akin to those ridiculous checked baggage fees that airlines charges, but if we pay for it we want that internet connection to be faster than Usain Bolt. Unfortunately, many hotels just take your money and leave you surfing the web at a snail's pace. But the worst is when you call down for help and they tell you to contact their service provider.
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Westin is Putting 'All Things Heavenly' On Sale on Monday
Want to stock up on White Tea Aloe Conditioner and Body Lotion? Forget Costco. Hit up the Westin's Heavenly Sale on Monday which will discount "all things Heavenly" from the namesake Heavenly Beds to travel blankets to White Tea scent products and more. The sale will last for two weeks from August 24 to September 7 at www.westin.com/store.
Or you could always book a stay at the Westin Riverfront in Avon, Colo. where you get a free Heavenly Bed after a three-night stay. Then again, we know how nutso some of you are about those new Heavenly Bath toiletries. It's ok, you can admit to us that you raided the housekeeping cart.
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LA's Westin Bonaventure Is Getting Some Very Necessary Renovations
The Westin Bonaventure has caught our attention as of late for all their frantic Twitter deals but it's never really been top on our list of Los Angeles hotels to visit, or even on our list of Downtown Los Angeles hotels to visit. This is despite the hotel being a Westin brand with its relaxing, white tea scents and those coveted SPG points and despite the hotel's revolving cocktail lounge at the top of the hotel.
Still the Twitter deals had us intrigued so we decided to head downtown the other week and see what was new at the hotel. We are happy to report that there's a lot in the works. But the key words are: "in the works."
The hotel was built in 1976 by architect John Portman who created four separate towers of hotel rooms (there's over 1,300 in total) that are joined together by a large atrium at the ground level. This serves as the hotel's lobby as well as a sort of shopping plaza where about 42 shops and restaurants have opened.
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