Hotels & Resorts
Eat, stay, love with yoga at Loden, Vancouver
In celebration of International Yoga Month in September, Vancouver's Loden Hotel invites travellers to channel their inner yogi with its "Eat, Stay, Love"package. Through Sept. 30, the package features Garden Terrace room rates starting at $259 nightly, double occupancy. It includes an in-room yoga mat, dedicated yoga channel, unlimited access to the Loden's infrared sauna and daily in-room orange juice delivery. Guests can up the add on a private yoga session with a professional trainer for $125 more. This must be confirmed at the time of booking, at least 72 hours before the requested time....
Come Together with Fairmont
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Abbey Road Studios and The Savoy, A Fairmont Managed Hotel, are joining forces to offer guests the opportunity of a lifetime with a new "Record a Song Experience." The special offer allows guests a behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's most iconic recording studios -- which is not accessible to the public -- where legends like The Beatles and Pink Floyd have recorded. Once inside, guests will get the ultimate rock star treatment when they record a group song from the Abbey Road Studio catalogue. As a memento from this exclusive experience, guests will hear...
A new Tune in Thailand
Asia's low-cost, limited service hotel brand has arrived in Bangkok, opening its new Tune Hotel in the city's busy downtown area, Asoke. Owned and operated under a franchise agreement by Red Planet Hotels, the Tune Hotel Asoke, Bangkok in Sukhumvit Soi 14 features 130 rooms and is a short walk from Bangkok's newest mega-mall, Terminal 21. The hotel is also close to the Asoke BTS Skytrain station and Sukhumvit MRT underground train network, which provides easy access to all key shopping, financial and entertainment areas and attractions in Bangkok. For more, go to...
Alberta sizzles in 2012
The summer of 2012 proved a sizzling season for the Alberta hotel industry. According to HotelsCombined's year-on-year price index, average nightly rates in the oil-laden province soared in comparison to the rest of Canada. Based on average hotel prices throughout June, July and August, all major Alberta destinations experienced significant hotel rate increases in summer 2012 compared to summer 2011, with an average upturn of 16%. Likely thanks to the 100th Anniversary of the Stampede, Calgary snagged the highest price increase in the country, with a 27% rise in the average nightly hotel rate...
Stay and play at Makai
The Makai Golf Club on Kauai's north shore has unveiled details of a new stay-and-play package in conjunction with The St. Regis Princeville Resort. The new "Limitless Golf" package includes accommodations at the St. Regis Princeville Resort, unlimited play at the Makai Course (as many holes as you can play from check-in to check-out at the resort), a sleeve of Makai logo Callaway Hex Black Tour balls, a custom St. Regis/Makai Course logo ball marker, and a 15% discount at the Makai Golf shop. Rates for the "Limitless Golf" package vary depending upon choice of room category, starting at $735...
Agent deals in St. Lucia
St. Lucia's Anse Chastanet is offering travel agents and their families a chance to experience the resorts facilities and services with its "Let Us Indulge You" program. The packages are designed so that travel agents experience, first hand, all that the property has to offer. Included is breakfast and dinner daily, a spa treatment, a scuba or snorkel experience, a jungle biking or sea kayaking pass, a half day sailing cruise on the resort's yacht, Serenity and a tour of the property's 600 acres. The special agent rates for the promotion are US $139 per person per day from now through Oct. 31...
World hotel prices on the rise
For the first time in five years, travellers paid more on average for their hotel rooms during the first six months of 2012 in all parts of the world, according to Hotels.com's latest "Hotel Price Index (HPI)." The global 4% rise, compared to the same period the year before, demonstrated that the economic recovery in the hotel industry was well-established. The HPI stood at 108 for this period meaning that, despite the latest increase, hotel prices in general were still considerably lower than in the first half of 2007 when the HPI was at its peak of 119. Launched in 2004, the HPI looks at...
Hilton grows Latin America
Hilton Worldwide reports that it has opened six new hotels and signed 10 agreements in the last 12 months in Latin America. Danny Hughes, senior vice-president, Caribbean, Mexico and Latin America, for Hilton Worldwide, pointed out that the company "is experiencing a period of remarkable global growth -- with the industry's largest global pipeline by rooms -- and Latin America is among our leading markets for upcoming hotel openings." Hughes noted that "with stable and growing economies throughout the region, Latin America continues to offer great opportunities for both business and leisure...