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You know how they say you can know a how guy will treat his girl if you look at how he treats his mom? Well, the same can be said about the Loews Philadelphia. You know they'll take care of you, just by knowing how they treat their staff.
Last week was International Housekeeping Week and they jumped feet-first into the action with daily activities to honor the housekeeping staff. We so wish we had been there.
Get your hot dogs, sunscreen and beer guts ready: Independence Day is just over two weeks away! If you're headed to a big city for some fireworks fun, we'll be taking a look at hotels with prime fireworks views. Have a favorite hotel for gawking at bombs bursting in air? Send it our way.
Got kids, a love of old-school boy bands and/or a knack for history? Our hotel pick for families this Fourth of July is Loews Philadelphia, recently named Loews' Hotel of the Year.
Philly features the impressive Sunoco Welcome America! festival and the hotel offers a sweet deal for the whole family to go along with it (with cameos by historic characters every day!)
Looks like that $9 million renovation last year paid off at the Loews Philadelphia. The hotel was just awarded Hotel of the Year by Loews CEO Jonathan Tisch at the company's annual national meeting in Orlando in Orlando earlier this week. Hotel-Online reports:
Loews Philadelphia Hotel received the company's top honor, "Hotel of the Year." The hotel was recognized for its overall commitment to guest and employee satisfaction, compliance with brand initiatives and standards, year-over-year profits in both average room rate and food and beverage outlets, and implementation of the "Good Neighbor Policy," to list a few criteria for the award.
The hotel's director of sales and marketing, Anthony Del Gaudio, also won "Marketer of the Year" for all the partnerships he has forged between the hotel and the community.
Now if only they would make that WiFi free.
See what we had to say when we stayed at the Loews Philadelphia back in February 08.
We hopped down to Philadelphia last weekend to check out the opening of a Star Wars exhibit and explore the city's geeky offerings for Jaunted. Our base of operations was the Loews Philadelphia, a place we stayed right after its $9 million spruce up last year.
The Center City location is a short cab ride from just about everywhere, and it's definitely cool to be staying in a historic Art Deco bank building. So how was it?
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This March, the Loews Philadelphia wrapped up a year long, $9 million dollar renovation job that saw the upgrade of all 581 of the hotel's guest rooms. Intrigued by both the sum and the timing -- the hotel only opened in 2000 -- we popped by to see how far a cool $9 mill' goes these days.
Bam Margera and Missy Rothstein were married back in February, and despite the spotty history of MTV reality show couples, the Margeras let MTV film the whole thing.
Last nights episode culminated with a 300+ person wedding ceremony and celebration that was held at Loews Philadelphia Hotel.
In a weekend celebration that featured Bam trying to push a broken footed, wheel chair ridden, Novak down an escalator, Iggy Pop hopping into bed with Bam and Novak in just a bathrobe, and plenty of jack-assian antics, the Loews appeared to hold up really well. Sure the antics were noticeably toned and we have been to plenty of weddings that were way more jack ass antic filled than that one, however, the Loews Hotel still came out of the whole thing looking great.
Staffers were pleasant and helpful, the rooms looked sleek and quite large, and wedding went off without a hitch.
One caveat, the bathrooms, even in suite 2920, where the bride stayed, appeared to have that terrible fluorescent hotel bathroom lighting that shows every blemish--not necessarily a plus for worried brides, but just turn those damn fluorescent lights off and you will be set.
Related Stories:
· Loews Philadelphia Weddings [Official Site]
· Loews Philadelphia Comments [TripAdvisor]
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