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Andaz San Diego in Gaslamp District is pet-friendly: offers Pampered Pup package

SAN DIEGO — There’s a pet-friendly hotel in San Diego that is now offering a packaged deal not only for human guests but for their furry friends.

This may come as good news for those who enjoy vacationing with their dog, or even for local San Diegans looking for a nice pet-friendly retreat.

Representatives for andaz/en-US/sanas-andaz-san-diego/?src=corp_lclb_gmb_seo_sanas”Andaz San Diego, which is located in the historic Gaslamp District, says those staying at the Hyatt connected establishment can relax and unwind with their dogs in-style.

The hotel launched what it calls their “Pampered Pup” offer, which includes an array of amenities and services that can be enjoyed by their four-legged guests.

The excusive and unique “Pampered Pup” package includes the following:

  • A customized robe fit for both parent and pup with monogrammed initials.
  • Makeovers for both the pet and parent.
    • Private makeup/hair styling session for parent.
    • Full grooming session for pet.
  • Choice of on-site photoshoot for parent and pup at the Andaz San Diego rooftop or a one-of-a-kind pet portrait.
  • In-Suite snack bar fitted with fruit and alcohol for parent, and treats for pet.
  • An afternoon in a private pool cabana.
  • Insider Guide to the best spots to visit with a dog in San Diego
  • A dining credit worth $100 at Rooftop by STK.

There’s just one stipulation: Andaz San Diego says dogs must be under 50 pounds to be allowed in guest rooms.

Guests can book this package by calling (619) 849-1234. The hotels says booking two weeks in advance is encouraged.

If you’re needing a space for some rest and relaxation, this downtown San Diego hotel might be what your looking for — and your dog too!

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This Beloved Hawaii Resort Got a Lush $300 Million Makeover. Here’s a Look Inside.

What does $300 million look like? Head to Hawaii to find out.

Travelers familiar with the grande dame of Hanalei Bay, the St. Regis Princeville, won’t recognize the long-standing resort following its April grand reopening. Not only has it seen a complete design overall but it has also rebranded as the new 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay.

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Here’s a look at where all that money went.

Sense of Place 

The entrance to 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay

The entrance to the resort now has an only-in-Hawaii look and feel.

Towering and white, the resort’s redesign aimed at blending it into its verdant surroundings, where it has always stood out.

Plants now cover much of the beachfront facade, and the resort’s biophilic design adds 30 percent more outdoor space to the 252-room property (including 51 suites, three with private terraces). Roofs were removed from the lobby, the ballroom, and other areas and transformed into lush outdoor lounges with streams, native ferns palms, kukui nut trees, and responsibly sourced teak and puka lava rock for a calming effect. Rooftop gardens help to cool the carbon-neutral property and supply its three restaurants with fresh vegetables and micro-greens.

It’s a similar story inside, where 1 Hotel’s Nicole Hollis–designed interior feels distinctly Hawaiian, with its handwoven lighting fixtures, reclaimed wood ceilings, basalt flooring, local artwork, and traditional punai daybeds. These daybeds, framed by oversize openable windows, provide the perfect place to take in the liquid-gold sunset over Mount Makana, also known as Bali Hai. Guests can also grab a cocktail or dinner at its in-house Japanese restaurant Welina Terrace or local Kauai cuisine at 1 Kitchen and gaze out over the crescent beach at the world-class view.

The Setting

A room at the 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay.

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CIM Group Refinances Dominick Hotel in Soho With $83M Loan

CIM Group has decided to refinance the Dominick Hotel in Soho after exploring a sale of the 391-key property last year.

Ramsfield Hospitality Finance and funds managed by Alliance Bernstein’s CarVal alternative investment manager provided CIM with an $83 million loan for the hotel at 246 Spring Street, the lenders announced Thursday.

Ramsfield president Richard Mandel said the financing allows CIM, a Los Angeles-based real estate private equity firm, to keep its options open.

“All of our loans are floating rate and they provide flexibility on prepayment,” he said.

A spokesperson for CIM did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

CIM acquired the Dominick, formerly the Trump Soho Hotel Condominium, through foreclosure in 2014. The firm then rebranded the 46-story glass tower in 2017 after terminating the licensing agreement with the Trump Organization.

Headed by founders Shaul Kuba, Avi Shemesh and Richard Ressler, CIM has in recent years flirted with the idea of selling the hotel, first in 2019 and more recently in September of last year, Bloomberg reported.

Ramsfield’s Mandel said that with Disney’s 1.2 million-square-foot new headquarters set to open across the street at 4 Hudson Square next year, the hotel submarket will receive a significant boost.

The lender’s joint venture with AB CarVal has loaned more than $1 billion over the past 18 months, Mandel said, and is one of the most active hotel lenders in New York City.

Last year, Ramsfield provided a $239 million loan to Massachusetts-based investor Sonesta International Hotels to buy a portfolio of four Manhattan hotels.

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Hotel Rates Are Projected To Keep Rising in US and Europe
Mia Taylor
by Mia Taylor
 Last updated: 5:30 PM ET, Mon June 12, 2023

Amid a summer that was widely expected to be extremely busy, it should be no surprise that hotel room supply is not keeping pace with demand.

The supply versus demand challenges are now amounting to bad news for travelers—higher prices. Hotel room rates in both the United States and Europe are steadily increasing and are likely to get even more pricey, according to report from Reuters that’s based on insights from hotel industry executives.

In the United States in particular, hotel room supply has remained largely static thanks to tighter lending standards from banks, which is making it challenging for developers to proceed with projects.

“We had robust supply growth over an extended period of time, which did keep rates down,” IHG Hotels and Resorts CEO Keith Barr said at the NYU International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference on Monday, according to Reuters.

U.S. hotel room inventory grew by about 3 percent in April of this year from the same month in 2019, according to Reuters. As of April, about 153,000 hotel rooms are under construction. That figure represents a significant decline from the 2020 peak of 220,000 rooms, according to hotel analytics firm STR.

Further exacerbating the current situation? It doesn’t look as if supply is going to improve significantly at least for the next year or more.

At the same time, growing numbers of Americans are planning to stay in hotel rooms. As TravelPulse reported in May, the latest data from the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s Hotel
Booking Index found that American adults are more likely to stay in
a hotel (56 percent), take more frequent (55 percent) and longer (52 percent)
leisure trips this year.

So what does it all mean for prices? In

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Illinois hotel industry, downtown residents speak out on migrant crisis

Some residents say Chicago hotel housing migrants has caused problems in the community

The Chicago hotel industry is looking for solutions to help migrants get work. However, at one downtown hotel, neighbors say there has been nothing but problems.

CHICAGO – There is a push for federal legislation aimed at assisting migrants in securing employment.

Currently, asylum seekers who arrive in the United States and navigate the legal process must wait for a period of six to nine months before being eligible to work.

However, a bill currently under consideration in Congress seeks to reduce this waiting period to just one month.

Recently, the Illinois Hotel and Lodging Association (IHLA) returned from Washington, D.C., where they lobbied for the bill to be enacted into law.

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The IHLA has a partnership with the state to offer temporary lodging in hotels for thousands of migrants until they can get on their feet.

According to the association, many of these individuals are staying in hotels that are understaffed and urgently require various positions to be filled, including housekeeping staff, culinary workers, front desk personnel, customer service representatives, and sales and marketing employees.

Michael Jacobson, President and CEO of the Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association, has underscored the importance of addressing this situation promptly.

“That’s the crazy thing about this is that we have 1,600 open positions in hotels just in the city of Chicago and we have thousands of migrants looking to work. The math doesn’t add up. People want to work and we have positions open for them and yet, our federal government is telling them you have to wait six months until we allow you to work. Something needs to change here,” Jacobson said.

One of the last known hotels that migrants called home

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Sustainable Wellness Retreat 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay Kauai

Last time I sat at this outdoor bar, 15 years ago, to be exact, I marveled at the view, as anyone would. In the near distance, Hanalei Bay glistens in panoramic splendor, and further out in one’s field of vision, the green cliffs of the North Shore mysteriously beckon. At the time, the hotel here was the St. Regis Princeville Resort, but everything has changed now that 1 Hotel has arrived. hanalei-bay” aria-label=”1 Hotel Hanalei Bay”1 Hotel Hanalei Bay is a veritable game-changer, elevating what we have come to know as Kaua’i luxury, encompassing expansive opportunities for wellbeing.

1 Hotel was founded in 2015 by Starwood Capital Group Chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht as a “mission-driven” luxury hotel brand. And I can attest that the company’s mission is not just marketing-speak where both environmental impact and guest wellness are concerned. The resort — the brand’s first in its otherwise urban hotel portfolio — offers Kaua’i’s deepest dive into one’s own wellness journey, starting with its immersive. soul-bending location and (not) ending with its destination Bamford Spa, where you can experience Hawaiian botanicals in the context of the most cutting-edge technology available for stress reduction and holistic wellness, including hyperbaric oxygen therapy, cryotherapy, sensory deprivation floating, and infrared sauna.

While the spa is a world unto itself, it’s fully integrated into the hotel, starting with the chill vibe. Rooms look out onto glorious Hanalei Bay, and huge windows provide not only dreamy views but also breezes throughout the day that allow you to keep an open channel with the ocean and its hypnotic soundtrack 24/7, if you like. During the renovation, 144.6 tons of materials were

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City tax funds used to cover Soldier Field bond gap

The Soldier Field bonds are for the extensive renovations from 20 years ago that transformed the historic stadium. But as the city’s tourism industry still struggles to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, the hotel taxes that were earmarked to pay off the bonds have caused a gap. 

Meanwhile, the ISFA is facing a debt of $743 million, including interest, to be paid off by 2032, according to Shields. “Debt service this year totals $53.5 million and rises to $56.8 million next year,” she reports. “It hits $60 million in 2025 and $64 million in 2026 before holding steady at $67.5 million for three years. It then ramps to $78.6 million in 2030, $86.5 million in 2031 and $90.5 million in 2032.”

“Advanced payments” are made on the bonds, Shields explains, using “up to 60% of a 5% statewide hotel tax,” but the ISFA has to pay most of that advance back by the end of each fiscal year using revenues from the hotel tax as well as a pair of $5 million annual subsidies it receives from both the state and city of Chicago. 

But the deal, made under then-Mayor Richard M. Daley, would allow the state to fill any gap in that advance repayment using money from the city of Chicago’s share of income taxes. 

At Capitol Fax, Rich Miller points out that one way to help make up the gap would be to force home-share businesses to pay the same hotel tax that hotel chains already do, noting that the Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association has suggested this. While Airbnb pays the tax, Miller notes, other similar businesses do not. 

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For One Night In Paris, Hotel Rochechouart Offers It All

If you only have one night in Paris, Hotel Rochechouart does it all: drinking, dining, dancing, and vintage Parisian vibes.

In the heart of Pigalle, Hotel Rochechouart is an 8-story private building that has played a key role in the cultural heritage of the neighborhood. Renowned in the late 1920s, it attracted travelers, locals, intellectuals, and even celebrities who frequented the theaters and art galleries of the district. Today, after a splendid renovation, Hotel Rochechouart has restored its Art Deco allure under the Orso brand.

Orso, the hotel‘s parent brand, characterizes itself as a company that embodies the art

of good manners, simplicity, and generosity. Founded by Anouk and Louis Solanet, Orso treats guests as friends, while striving to build connections to the surrounding neighborhoods and local merchants. Orso redefines hospitality by, in their words, “awakening the senses and invoking memories.” To achieve this mood, the refurbishment and design was handled by design duo Festen. Do they accomplish this mission at Hotel Rochechouart? Undoubtedly.

Entering the hotel, the immediate feeling is one of hospitable warmth and faded grandeur. The marble staircase and a vintage glass elevator set the stage for an atmospheric stay. Rooms feature subdued colors, natural wood, and an overall mood of cozy ambiance to create a sense of lived-in comfort. The color palette pays homage to Parisian weather, featuring shades of gray clouds punctuated with hues of the 1920s, such as green, bronze, tobacco, mocha, terracotta, and yellow.

Every room is slightly different. Mine was small but cozy and perfect for one night of rest before heading off to the airport in the morning. Wooden headboards lend textural charm, while the retro curves of

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Ensuring cleanliness for your summer travel plans

Hotel check up before you check in

FOX 26 Consumer Reporter Heather Sullivan has some smart sense on ways you can check to make sure your hotel room was cleaned after you check in.

HOUSTON – Before you make travel plans for summer, have you ever wondered how well your hotel room was cleaned?

You can find out by checking hotel inspections before you go. You can usually find swimming pool and restaurant inspections for your destination, too.

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Let’s start with hotels.

AAA offers both hotel and restaurant inspections, giving them ratings ranging from approved to three, four, and five diamonds, based on their level of cleanliness, service, and quality.

An AAA hotel inspector let me in on a quick way to know how well your hotel room has been cleaned: Look in the mirror.

If you see water splatters or debris on the mirror, he says that’s a sign the bathroom hasn’t been cleaned very well.

The inspector walked us through all the parts of a hotel room they inspect.

“We will look under couches to make sure there are no crumbs or pens stuck under there from a previous guest,” AAA inspector 563 showed us, lifting some couch cushions.

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We can’t show you his face or tell you his name. AAA hotel inspectors are anonymous, checking for hotel safety, such as door peepholes, locks, and lighting.

“We ensure a light works correctly, flipping it on and off, and peeking behind couches. You’d be amazed at what you find behind couches and draperies,” he said giving the hotel room a thorough inspection.

And they check for cleanliness.

“You’d be amazed at how

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Let’s Take a Look Inside the Carlyle Hotel, Celebs’ Go-To Stay for the Met Gala

On the Upper East Side of New York City, there’s no shortage of sparkly hotels for the rich and famous to rest their heads on high-thread-count pillows. After all, this part of town is home to Park Avenue, Central Park, and Serena van der Woodsen and co’s various escapades.

But for just over 90 years, The Carlyle Hotel has been leading the charge as the favored landing pad for the countless Hollywood celebs and famous figures who find themselves in uptown Manhattan. And we don’t mean those faintly familiar D-listers. This building has had some of the most clouted names in history stay at least a night. I’m talking U.S. presidents (Kennedy! Carter! Reagan!) and British royalty (Princess Diana was a guest many times, and Will and Kate chose it for their first-ever NYC trip). Seriously, cultural legends love this place. For perspective, it’s where Jackie Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn first met. And have you ever heard that (unconfirmed…) rumor that Marilyn Monroe would link up with JFK by going through a secret underground tunnel? Yeah, that was *allegedly* here.

But there’s truly no time at this hotel quite like Met Gala season. If you thought you were unfamiliar with this hotel’s layout before clicking this, think again. There’s no doubt that around the first Monday of May each year, your social feeds are filled with photos taken right outside The Carlyle’s iconic entryway. After all, it’s where everyone from Rihanna to the Kardashians makes their highly documented jaunt into those sleek black cars that’ll drop them right off on the Met Gala’s red carpet.

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Today, The Carlyle is a part of Rosewood, a hotel group that manages luxury resorts, hotels, and residences all around the world. Sooo

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