Experience Hotels Suites In Virginia Beach|"Instagram Hotel Gives Away Free Nights"

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Category         :    Courtyard Virginia Hotels
By                   :     Natalie Paris
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The boutique 1888 Hotel in Sydney is encouraging guests to take pictures of themselves using Instagram by displaying the best on its walls for others to see. A giant digital photo frame hangs in the lobby, there's a "selfie" space in which to snap yourself, and guests are encouraged to capture their stay and then share their images with friends - providing the hotel with free publicity. To ensure that photos of the hotel are seen by as many people as possible, guests with more than 10,000 followers on Instagram - something likely to apply to only a few people - are being offered a free night’s stay. Pictures that are particularly good may be hung in the hotel’s 90 rooms, allowing guests to leave a personal stamp on the property.As you would expect, the Wi-Fi is complimentary and there is an iPad available in each room, so guests can review their favourite images from the comfort of their beds.

Paul Fischman, the chief executive officer of hotel company 8Hotels, told Mashable, the social media news website, that the hotel caters to today's modern traveller. "There has always been a strong, intrinsic link between travel and photography,” he said “But the advent of social media and Instagram has made photo-sharing an even bigger part of the traveler's experience. "People not only want to visit and stay in beautiful places, they also want to capture and share it with their friends and networks as it happens."Instagram is famous for its easily shared vintage-style images and has grown increasingly popular in the past few years, leading to the site’s acquisition by Facebook in 2012. The 1888 Hotel is the latest property to target travellers with social media inspired gimmicks. The world’s first Twitter-themed hotel opened in Magaluf, Majorca in August, allowing guests to check-out online whoever else was checking in.

Source:telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/10283906/Instagram-hotel-gives-away-free-nights.html

Experience Hotels Suites In Virginia Beach|"Distrito Cantina at Revel, An Expensive Hotel Food Truck Experience"

Source              :   hotelchatter.com
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By                   :   juliana 
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When you put a food truck into the middle of a hotel-casino, you probably should expect higher prices than the average food truck that dishes out tacos and hot dogs. But at the Distrito Cantina and its funky Distrito Taco Truck at Revel in Atlantic City, we paid way more than we would at our local Mexican restaurant here in LA. The Distrito Taco Truck is located on the second floor of Revel (or rather, the third floor, since the second floor is the gaming area.) We dined at Chef Jose Garces' Distrito restaurant at The Saguaro Hotel in Scottsdale last year and loved it. So when we saw the taco truck--an actual truck that's been placed inside the casino hotel--we had to sit down at one of the festively decorated picnic benches and try it.

We're happy to report that the East Coast counterpart is just as good. Ok, maybe the guacamole needed some work (more salt, more flavor) but the chicken and carnitas tacos were delicious and pretty-looking. And thanks to a super friendly server, we tried a Coronita for the first time ever which is exactly what it sounds like, a margarita with a baby Corona stuffed into it. The only thing that killed our buzz was the bill. The salsa, which we thought came complimentary as it is as most taco joints, was $10. The guacamole was $12. Our coronitas were $14 a piece and the tacos, three of each kind, were $11. All in all with taxes, our bill was $77. And there was no hope of us even winning some money downstairs to pay for it all. The casino was one giant cooler. Looks like we have something in common with Revel after all.

Source:hotelchatter.com/story/2013/8/9/0275/35303/hotels/Distrito_Cantina_at_Revel,_An_Expensive_Hotel_Food_Truck_Experience

Experience Hotels Suites In Virginia Beach|"Hotels Help Guests Relive Experience At Home"

Source              :   lansingstatejournal.com
Category         :   Experience Hotels Suites In Virginia Beach
By                   :   Michael Patrick 
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Your hotel room is coming home with you. At least some of it is. And more than just the little shampoo and bottles you compulsively stash away for your guest bathroom at home. The hotel industry is increasingly seeking to create an ongoing relationship with guests by sending items home with them. “We are convinced that Fairmont clients will remember their stay for all the good reasons plus a new and addictive Fairmont olfactive signature,” say the creators of Le Labo.

Want sweet dreams of Mackinac Island’s lilacs, geraniums and fudge? The Grand Hotel Touch of Softness private label mattress sets, complete with the green, Grand Hotel logo on the corner of the mattress, can be ordered while on the island or by calling Capitol Bedding, in Lansing. “People who visit Grand Hotel come away with wonderful memories and a personal attachment to the hotel,” says Capitol Bedding’s Bill Beuerle. “They want to relive that comfortable experience every night in their own home, too.” Capitol Bedding has been family owned since 1946 and each mattress and springs are handmade in Michigan.

As a complimentary amenity, all Peninsula Hotels often gives young children its Peter Bear, an adorable teddy bear dressed in the distinctive uniform of a Peninsula Page. “They are also available for guests who book children’s afternoon tea,” says Peninsula spokesperson Stacy Lewis. “The bears can also be purchased at the Pen Boutique — $12 for small; $20 for large.” It is likely that guests will run into a larger-than-life Peter Bear in costume during their stay. If you get so wrapped up in your luxurious Four Seasons hotel robe that you simply must take it, do heed the signs that suggest the hotel will have to charge you for it. For a less guilty version of that guilty pleasure, visit Robeworks.com, since they produce robes for Four Seasons and other hotel companies plus major celebrities, including Harrison Ford and Oprah Winfrey. Robeworks will monogram your robe, deliver it, and make sure you have the perfect fit, so you can feel like you’re at Four Seasons — even at home.

Source:lansingstatejournal.com/article/20130728/THINGSTODO/307280063/Hotels-help-guests-relive-experience-home

Experience Hotels Suites In Virginia Beach|"It Takes Two: Downtown Greensboro Gets Another Hotel"

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One new hotel on the north end of downtown Greensboro — as announced last Friday — could dramatically change the landscape and the character of a city yearning for new life. But news Monday that a second developer, Randall Kaplan, is working with Wyndham Hotels and Resorts on a roughly $40 million, 180-room conference hotel farther south makes the impact resonate even deeper. It also signals to city leaders and hotel experts that local, regional and national factors are causing an economic turnaround in center city Greensboro. They point to a better economy and more money to borrow as examples. And something else: the local effort to raise $60.5 million for a proposed performing arts center. Last Friday, developer Roy Carroll said that he plans to build a hotel on property he owns east of NewBridge Bank Park. Chief among his reasons: progress being made on the arts center.

“It’s a vote of confidence on the overall climate downtown,” said Keith Debbage, an urban geographer at UNCG. “You’ve got two projects backed by substantive folks.” Kaplan, a longtime local businessman who owns the Elm Street Center meeting rooms at the corner of South Elm and February One Place, said Monday that he’s been working with a development partner for about nine months 9-10 months to put the plan together. “With the improvement in the economy and the brightened prospects for downtown, we have been working diligently on our project,” Kaplan said. If it works out, the luxury hotel would extend from South Elm along February One to Davie Street.

Construction would begin in spring 2014 and the hotel could open in late 2015, Kaplan said. He believes downtown has needed a full-service hotel with meeting space for some time. Kaplan began working with development partners in 2008 to build one. But the economy tanked and the project stalled. With financing available and a brighter outlook for downtown development, Kaplan said, it’s time to get back to work. “I absolutely think that all of the economic development downtown together will enhance the desire for people to stay downtown,” Kaplan said. City Councilman Zack Matheny said one major downtown hotel, the 270-room Marriott, is not enough. “There’s room for another one and I would say an upscale one,” he said. Still, Kaplan and Carroll can’t get caught up in economic excitement, Debbage said. “It’s a double-edged sword,” he said. “There is a very finite and limited market for rooms in downtown Greensboro.” Those who study the hotel industry say that investors are looking at small markets like Greensboro because larger ones may be too crowded. One hotel expert said Monday that developers like Kaplan and Carroll were likely doing homework long before other community projects gained speed. “I must give the benefit of the doubt to the hotel property owners,” said E. Sirakaya-Turk, professor at the University of South Carolina’s School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management. “I am sure they are depending on other statistics which we do not have access to right now.” 

Source : news-record.com/news/local_news/article_3077f524-0379-11e3-b05e-001a4bcf6878.html

Experience Hotels Suites In Virginia Beach|"Sinkhole Opens Under Florida Resort Complex"

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All 105 people staying at the Summer Bay Resort in Clermont, near Disney World, were safely evacuated when the ground gave way on Sunday night. By Monday morning, nearly a third of the complex had collapsed into a sinkhole up to 100ft (30m) in diameter. Much of Florida straddles a system of limestone caverns that are subject to water erosion, causing them to cave in. In March, a sinkhole beneath a house in the suburbs of Tampa, swallowed a man who was in his bed. His body was never recovered. The state requires home insurers to provide coverage against sinkholes.

The 15ft (5m) deep sinkhole at the Summer Bay Resort swallowed a villa with 24 three-storey units, and endangered two other villas.People were in shock to see a structure of that size just sink into the ground slowly”. The resort's staff subsequently decided to evacuate the villa. Mr Shanley said the building then began to sink, while banisters fell down as he climbed the stairs to warn residents by knocking on their doors. Amy Jedele, who was staying in one of the adjacent villas, said: "You could hear the pops and the metal, the concrete and the glass breaking." "You could see the ground falling away from the building where the building started leaning," she told AP. "People were in shock to see a structure of that size just sink into the ground slowly." Over the next five hours, the villa split into several parts and collapsed into the sinkhole.

"My heart sunk," resort president Paul Caldwell told reporters. "No doubt there would've been injuries if they hadn't gotten the building evacuated." Mr Caldwell said there had been no signs of a sinkhole developing before Sunday, and that the ground had undergone geological testing when it was built 15 years ago and been declared stable.

Source : bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23668885