Plaza Hotel New York

Plaza Hotel, New York

If you are interested in total relaxation, The Plaza Hotel in New York, NY is the place to go to. The luxurious property reopened in 2008 with an 8,000 square foot ‘Caudalle at The Plaza’, a spa in which wine and spa treatments are combined for the ultimate in relaxation. Guests have numerous alternatives to choose from.

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They can be scrubbed with crushed grape seeds, enjoy a fresh grape manicure or soak in a wine casks. After you’ve been pampered, you can hang out in the relaxation lounge, which also acts as a wine tasting room manned by a sommeller. And it that’s not enough, you can sample the caviar offerings in the Champagne Bar or enjoy dinner in the Oak Room.

Best World Hotels and Spas: Room in Plaza Hotel

The Oak Room re-opened in 2008 with a renovation of the restaurant, along with the entire plaza hotel. The hotel was first opened in 1907 and designed by Henry Hardenbergh and an addition in 1932 by Warren & Wetmore, the grand hotel is combined with Edwardian posh and the style of a grand French chateau and offers rooms at the opening for $2.50 per night. My, how times have changed.

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Canyon Ranch Miami Beach

Canyon Ranch Miami Beach, Florida

One of the best hotel/spas is Canyon Ranch Miami Beach in Florida. It is commonly associated with elaborate rejuvenation retreats. Canyon Ranch perpetuates is a classic resort group with a healthful theme… that is what it is best known for.

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Canyon Beach is nestled in the warm sands of a big beach; nice elaborate accommodations are offered at the hotel and are emphasized by the well-being spa. The property is a 70,000 square foot facility, which provides a balance of standard and unique spa services. They offer nutritionists, therapists and exercise physiologists and are on-hand for more assistance and fitness if necessary, especially during walks and climbs.

Best World Hotels and Spas: Canyon Ranch Miami Beach

Their popular Aquavana treatment utilizes mineral-rich thermal waters of Europe and has been upgraded and designed into the first therapeutic suite in the U.S.

They have specialized touch therapies, aqua-conditioning workouts, meditation workouts and hot stone massages, and their body rituals add to the list of all the possibilities to choose from.

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Every aspect of this property is encompassed with health, happiness and a pure lifestyle in every aspect.

Best World Hotels and Spas: Inside Canyon Ranch

Canyon Beach Ranch is definitely a place to visit for the first timer as well as the seasoned pro. With all they have to offer, you’ll come out feeling like a million dollars.

Orchard Garden Hotel

Orchard Garden Hotel

The hotel: One of the most eco-friendly hotels in the country, Orchard Garden Hotel is located in the heart of San Francisco. It is situated near the Financial District, Moscone Convention Center, and its famous legendary cable cars. The hotel staff also offers hospitality to all the guests. Many entertainment places such as shops, restaurants and parks are found near the hotel.

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Accommodations: Guests may choose from Standard King and Double Rooms as well as Junior Suites. The eco-friendly guestrooms and suites are designed perfectly to relax the mind whenever you are in it.

Best World Hotels and Spas: Orchard Garden Hotel View

The eco-rooms include facilities like air conditioner, bathrobes, cable TV, CD and DVD player, radio, coffee or tea maker, dual line phones, magnetic keys, hairdryer, ironing board, desks, and sleeper sofa in junior suites. Other rooms feature minibar, refrigerators, evening turndown service, morning newspaper delivery, housekeeping, iPod docking station, and closet safe that can accommodate laptops.

Best World Hotels and Spas: Room in Orchard Garden Hotel

Services and Features: One of its best features is that it is an entirely smoking free property. The hotel also offers its fitness center, swimming pool, restaurants, bars and lounges, business center, parking services, wake-up calls, dry cleaning service, and conference rooms. The hotel also caters special events or any social gatherings.

Best World Hotels and Spas: Night View in Orchard Garden Hotel

Dining: Roots restaurant is found in hotel and it provides delicious meals everyday. With the international guests coming in the hotel, the chef sees to it that they prepare different cuisines such as French, Italian, and even Asian. Most of the dishes products are from local farmers that prove that the vegetables are really fresh. The Roots bar is also a perfect place to meet new people who are also staying in the hotel.

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Meetings: Conferences and meetings can also be held in the hotel. The Rooftop terrace is highly recommended of such events. Some of the amenities included are audiovisual services, shipping and receiving services, business center, wi-fi internet access, entertainment services, and catering and beverage options.

Rates: Room rates might vary depending on the season of the year.

THE RITZ CARLTON, PHILADELPHIA

The Ritz-Carlton, Philadelphia

Philadelphia is one of the most visited cities in America. The city of Philadelphia has a rich historical background and comprises of some magnificent architectural structures. One such splendid structure is the Ritz-Carlton building which has now been transformed into a world-class, five star hotel.


The Ritz-Carlton hotel is located in the heart of Philadelphia and is in the centre of all the commercial activities. The Ritz-Carlton hotel comprises of approximately more than 250 guest rooms which include the penthouses as well. The Ritz-Carlton hotel has its own fine dining restaurant, “10 Arts” designed and decorated by the famous architect “Eric Ripert”. The hotel also includes 18 splendid conference rooms and a personal lounge “10 Arts lounge” in the lobby of the hotel.


The rooms in Ritz-Carlton include various amenities, such as Wi-fi internet connection, 24x7 room service, wide display LCD televisions, housekeeping, free newspapers and coffee. The hotel services include two spectacular ballrooms, health centre, and crèche for babies and the world famous Richel D’Ambra Spa centre. The hotel also provides accommodation for your beloved pet, and provides services for its daily activities as well.


THE RITZ-CARLTON SPA CENTRE

The spa centre is the attraction of the hotel as the services are excellent. The moment you enter the spa centre, the serene atmosphere will automatically take away all tension. The “Richel D’Ambra” Spa centre comes along with a salon as well which offers complete revitalization, and will leave you feeling fresh and energized. The spa centre offers the most unique massage therapies, such as the body wrap, Chinese massage and the stone therapy.


GOLF COURSES

The Ritz-Carlton hotel is situated at the centre of the city and is in close proximity to the most famous golf courses in Philadelphia. The Ashbourne country golf club is the oldest golf course in Philadelphia and is just 3-4 kilometers from the hotel. The Scotland Run and the Pine Hill golf courses are near from the Ritz-Carlton hotel.


SPECIAL EVENTS AND OCCASSIONS

The Ritz-Carlton hotel offers you services for celebrating your special occasions like the wedding, anniversary celebrations and birthday celebrations. You can celebrate the most beautiful day of your life at the Ritz-Carlton hotel and cherish it forever.


The Ritz-Carlton hotel is the most perfect place to stay in Philadelphia, as the hotel provides you with world-class services combined with the rich history of Philadelphia.

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.

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.

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.)

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!

WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, New York

Next article is about famous hotel the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, located in Manhattan, New York, New York. The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is the finest in all the U.S. and has been home to many famous people, such as former U.S. Army general, Douglas MacArthur, former U.S. president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and former Nobel Peace Prize winner and inventor, Nikola Tesla.

Front of Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

For a little bit of history about this hotel, it originally opened as a two-part hotel, which one part was owned by William Waldorf Astor, a cousin of the infamous John Jacob Astor, who owned the other part of the hotel – and died in 1912, while on the Titanic’s maiden voyage.

Room in Waldorf-Astoria

The hotel that you and I see today is a renovation of the original hotel, which reopened in 1931, when it became known as the world’s most famous hotel. Let us not forget the lovely features and amenities that this hotel offers it guests.

Waldorf-Astoria

First, the hotel consists of 1233 rooms, 177 suites, an array or in-house restaurants and bars and sap and massage parlors. The basic room amenities of this hotel consists of soft, feculent pillows and bed mattresses, cable/satellite TV connections, private telephone service, room and laundry service, private baths and a minibar.

Waldorf Salat

If you are looking for a little R&R outside of your room or suite, take a stroll down to the either the hotel’s fitness club or massage parlor, where you can be treated to a fine back and legs massage.

Waldorf Astoria Cake

Want to a bit of working out? Get it in the hotel’s fitness room, where you can sweat those pounds away! As for the hotel’s restaurants, “Bull and Bear,” “Oscar’s,” “Inagiku,” “Sir Harry’s” and “Cocktail Terrace,” they all have a strict dews code that muse be adhered to – ranging from elegant casual to smart causal.

View from Waldorf-Astoria

This concludes tour of this elegant and upscale hotel, so until next time, good luck and happy stay at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel!