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Good Rate: Weekend Deals at the St. Regis Houston
October 24, 2006 at 11:15 AM | 0 Comments
[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same city and decide which is better worth your hard-earned benjamins. The rate listed here was valid on October 24, 2006 and rates are subject to change.]
If you are heading to Houston before the end of the year, enjoy a sweet deal at the St. Regis for under $200 per night. If you book a weekend room now through 12/30, you can get a regular room for $165 or a deluxe room for $185 (before taxes and fees). Or go all out and get a junior suite for $240.
The St. Regis in Houston is no humdrum affair. A hotel that brashly bills itself as "a haven of style, sophistication and unmatched pampering" is not going to make you carry your own bags and deal with an outsourced concierge. Room sizes start at 500 square feet and all of them come with a CD player, Pratesi Linens, pillowtop mattresses, robes, a scale, and nightly turndown service.
Considering that weekday rates at this upper crust hotel routinely hit the $350 level, this is a bargain of Texas-sized proportions. Follow this link to book directly at the hotel site, where we've noticed a new luxury best rate guarantee. (They only give you a 10% discount for finding a better rate though, so that doesn't inspire much confidence.)
Related Stories:
· St. Regis Houston reviews [TripAdvisor]
Hotels
Hotel Derek Hearts Business Travelers
February 7, 2006 at 5:27 PM | 0 Comments
Talk about catering to the business travelrs, the Hotel Derek in Houston, TX has announced today a set of new guestrooms called, "Business Lofts."
In what has to be one of the finest examples of creative writing in a press release that ranks high on the Unintentional Comedy Scale is the following description:
Called Business Lofts, these six, complete business rooms provide road warriors with the tools and toys they need to get the job done while away from their office.
The tools include a business alcove, with a Texas-sized desk, a Dell Personal Computer with a 19-inch Flat Panel Monitor as well as a Dell 1600 Multi-function Laser Printer and a business tool box, filled with all your favorite items from grade school like scissors, calculator, white out, paper clips, ruler, tape, stapler and sniffing glue (We made that last one up.)
Toys include a deck of cards, Etch-A-Sketches, putting machines, a Trivia game and an iSoother AM/FM alarm clock that can charge most iPod and MP3 players.
These rooms should set your company back about $300 a night and make it virtually impossible for you to get any "real" work done.
Related Stories:
·Travelers Have Lofty Deal at Hotel Derek [Houston Chronicle]
·Hotel Derek reviews [TripAdvisor]
