11/30/08

ATLANTIS HOTEL

Atlantis Hotel Overview – Dubai, U.A.E.

This article is an overview of the Atlantis Hotel, in Dubai, U.A.E. The article will include info like the hotel’s amenities, service, and room/suite rates. Therefore, without further ado, we shall being our review of this grand hotel.


Situated in 113 acres of lush land, overlooking the Arabian Gulf, the Atlantis Hotel is the newest of a line of luxury hotels in Dubai. Furthermore, the hotel is built on the island, Palm Jumeirah, the world’s largest man-made island.


The grand hotel has 1539, spacious rooms for you and other guests to enjoy. In each room, you will find amenities such as finely-made bathroom robes/slippers, high-speed Internet access in every room, iPod Deck, Satellite TV, and balconies with picturesque views of the Arabian Gulf.


For, the hotel’s overall amenities and services, they include fitness center, sauna/spa, tennis court, boutique shops, water sports, beauty salons, conference/meeting rooms, banquet facilities, sauna/spa facilities, swimming pools, a running track, and a private beach.


With all these activities, you will never have to worry about being bored. Now, if you’re looking for a place to eat in Dubai, the hotel’s restaurants are good places to eat and drink. With 17 restaurants, lounges, and bars, you have plenty of choices as to where to eat and drink. The Nasimi is one of the best of these restaurants and offers its guests good, fine dining and drinking.


Here, you can eat some of the fines Arabian, Asian, Mediterranean, and other ethnic dishes and drinks. As for the hotel’s room cancellation policy, cancellations should be done around 14 days during peak season, 8 days during the high season, and 4 days, during low season.


The hotel also has a child policy, where infants up to 3 years of age can eat free and kids from ages 4-11 can eat free as well. The nightly rates for each room start at $26,000 plus tips and other gratuities.

11/25/08

WESTWOOD HOTEL

Westwood Hotel - Best Hotels in Los Angeles

The hotel being discussed in this part is the Westwood Hotel of West Los Angeles.

Located on 930 Hilgard Avenue, at the foothills of Beverly Hills, the hotel is a boutique-style, luxury hotel that has 258 rooms, guest suites, and an array of amenities and services.


Some of these services include fax sending/receiving services, early checkouts, pet and child services, extra bed/tote services, access for the disabled, and more!

Suite at Westwood Hotel

Furthermore, the hotel provides its customers with in-room amenities such as private bathrooms, cable/satellite TV, private telephone w/ voicemail, finely made towels and linens, and room/laundry services.

Lobby

If you like to be one the outside, the hotel has a first-class restaurant, a 7,000-square foot spa facility to relax in, a fitness center to get a good workout, an outdoor pool to cool off on those hot, summer days, and a facility where you can a good jog in.

Whiskey Blue Lounge

If you are at the hotel on business, or want to hold an important meeting, try using many of the hotel’s meeting rooms. Want to host a banquet at the hotel? Try the large, stately banquet room, where you and your guest can have a fine gala, followed by a banquet.

Restaurant

If you like to shop, eat at more fine restaurants, or have some fun at nearby beach, the west L.A. area has plenty of all three. Imagine you shopping the area’s finest shops, eating in the finest restaurants, and enjoying some outdoor fun at the area’s finest beaches. As for the rates for the hotel’s rooms and suites, they begin at $379 per night (plus taxes and applicable fees and services.)


In short, theirs is plenty to do – in and outside of the hotel’s grounds. After all, this is L.A. and the city is full of things to do and to see. This concludes the second part of our “best five-star hotels” series.

11/17/08

BEST WESTERN PRESIDENTIAL HOTEL

Best Western Presidential Hotel Review

This article is the last part in our series of the best hotels of New York City. This final part will talk about the Best Western Presidential Hotel, including some of its amenities and features. Therefore, without further interruption, we shall begin our series on this hotel.


Located in the heart of downtown Manhattan, on 234 West 48th Street, the hotel is just blocks away from the Rockefeller Center and Radio Music City Hall.


For the features of this hotel, they include 238 non-smoking rooms, 46 suites, 2 penthouses, and an array of inner and outer room services and amenities. These services and amenities include a 24-hour desk service, fax sending and receiving service, ice/vending machines, a number of elevators, and gift shops to buy the latest products.


In addition, the guest service amenities include a color TV, free local calls, free long distance, a phone with voicemail, a personal hairdryer, coffee/tea maker, completely newspaper and plenty more!


The executive rooms have both cable and satellite TV services, two-line telephones with voicemail, a desk to write on, a high-speed Internet connection, and upgraded bathrooms with personal toiletries.


Moving on to the features of the penthouses in the hotel, the features include modern furniture pieces, a state-f-the-art equipment center, panel-sliding doors, a private Jacuzzi and a eight-foot long sink. Talk about amenities, these are sure to satisfy the tastes of even the wealthiest of residents.


In addition, those who stay in a penthouse must pay a $500 damage deposit, no parties are allowed, and check-in must be paid via credit card or cash (no debit cards!)


Now, for the rates of the rooms, they start at $180 a night and go as high as $280 a night (depending on club membership, types of services being used, etc.) Of course, the suites are much expensive and the penthouses are really expensive to stay in, so make sure to bring all your credit cards and cash, if you plan to stay there.

11/10/08

NEW YORK PALACE HOTEL

The Best Hotels of New York (part 2)

The name of the hotel in this series is the New York Palace Hotel and will include very important details, including amenities, features, rates, and other information. Therefore, without further interruption, we shall being our overview of this fine hotel.

New York Palace Hotel

Located on 455 Madison Avenue, the hotel is one of the most luxurious hotels in all NYC and its main features include 806 guest rooms, 86 finely decorated suites, a spa and fitness center, rooms and suites with rooftop terraces, and four triplex penthouses. This is a fine place to be, if you are a true lover of fancy furnishings.

New York Palace Hotel Bar

Other features of this hotel include two fine-dining restaurants and a space to hold conventions and meetings. Now, for some of the in-room services the hotel has, they include an in room safe, iron with an ironing board, dual line phones with voicemail, high speed Internet access, complimentary shoeshines, and more!


For those who have Executive Club memberships, services include express checkouts, a 300 square foot executive room, full breakfast, lunch and dinner meals with snacks, and private meeting rooms with high-speed Internet access.

Lobby In New York Palace Hotel

For tower residents, the amenities include personal shopping bags, express elevators, private reception rooms, robes/slippers made out of microfiber, concierge desk services and more!

View from New York Palace Hotel

Now, if you want to relax, for a spell, in their hot tubs, or work out in their gyms, you have the option of doing both. The spa center is open all day everyday and they offer its guests a 25-minute quick relief massage. If you want a good workout, to tone those muscles, check out their fitness center.

Room in New York Palace Hotel

As for the average room rates at this hotel, they start at $650 a night for one person (no kids) and end at $2300 per night for one person (no kids.)

11/3/08

TRUMP INTERNATIONAL TOWER

The Best Hotels in New York (part 1)

The mane of the hotel being overviewed in this first part is the Trump International Tower. Located on One Central Park Way, in Manhattan, the hotel is one of the finest in all New York City and offers its guests nicely decorated rooms, an in-house restaurant, rooms for conferences and meetings, and other services.


First, the hotel consists of 38 deluxe guestrooms, 89 one-bedroom suites, and two 40-bedroom suites. All this in a skyscraper-style hotel.


Second, the hotel’s inner room amenities include custom-made furnishings, bathrooms made of marble, a computer in every room, fully-equipped kitchen, a 42-inch flat-screen TV, high speed Internet access in every room, three dual-line telephones, a private jacuzzi, and floor to ceiling windows.

Madison Square Garden

Now, for the outer features of the hotel, they include the famous Trump Spa, rooms for meetings and other private events, business and attaché services for guests on business and other events.

Yankee Stadium

But, if you want to see the city, in your free time, there is plenty to see. One place is the Broadway Theatre. Here, you can entertain yourself to a good play for two. Also, if you like basketball, Madison Square Garden is hosing home games for the New York Knicks. In the spring and summertime, baseball is in play and you could see a game or two at Shea Stadium or Yankee Stadium (which is playing in a new stadium next season.)

Theatre

In short, staying at the Trump International Tower Hotel, in New York City, can be a relaxing and interting experience and if you have the money to afford to stay there, more power to you. The avetage prices for the rooms are almost $1000 a night!