The Chanler at the Cliff Walk

The Chanler, an award-winning small hotel located on the Cliff Walk in Newport, Rhode Island, is offering two spectacular packages for visitors looking to enjoy one of the most beautiful locations in the world.

The Even Couples Can Enjoy Great Things In Threes package is available from June 1, 2010 to October 7, 2010 and includes the following:

• Three nights in the Signature room of your choice (Regency, Louis XVI, English Tudor, or the Renaissance)
• Three gourmet breakfasts each morning of your stay
• Three courses in the on-site Spiced Pear Restaurant for both of you on the evening of your choice
• Three romantic elements – Chilled Champagne, Fresh Flowers and a Butler Drawn Bath

Plus, three fun activities:
• Anniversary shopping at Portobello Jewelers located on world-famous Bellevue Avenue with a special 15% discount on any purchase.
• Exclusive Island Tour by Bird’s Eye View Helicopters including round-trip transportation to and from the Newport Airport and a 30 mile aerial view of the historic Newport Mansions and gorgeous Ocean Drive
• Tandem 60 minute couples massage (in the privacy of your room)

The Threes package starts at  $3,333 for three nights, plus tax and gratuity, for any three nights, seven days per week.  However, Saturday arrivals are not available.

The Cliff Walk End to End package is available from July 1, 2010 to October 17, 2010 and includes the following:

• Two nights of accommodations in Newport’s Mansion Hotel by sea
• Full Chanler breakfast each morning
• A three-course dinner for two in the on-site Spiced Pear Restaurant
• Tickets to tour Doris Duke’s Rough Point mansion and exhibition
• Complimentary Valet Point to Point Transportation
• Complimentary Valet Parking

This package starts at $1158 per night, plus applicable taxes.

The Chanler
117 Memorial Boulevard
Newport, Rhode Island 02840
(401) 847-1300

Photo credit: The Chanler

The Mosaic PATHWAY (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses) hotel design from design firm WATG won the Radical Innovation in Hospitality award at the recently concluded HD Expo in Vegas.

WATG Popup Resort

In simple terms, it’s a popup hospitality unit – refabricated and portable to virtually anywhere.

WATG says it can be used for adventure travel and voluntourism vacations where you can combine a vacation with volunteer work or disaster relief.

What made the Mosaic hotel design a winner among the 30 projects submitted by designers from eight countries?

For starters, there’s the design’s flexibity, with individually configured, modular prisms which can be outfitted as needed into spas, salons, guestrooms, or additions to a luxury resort at peak season.

Mike Seyle, CEO of WATG, says “We asked some of our bright young minds to create a design that addresses hospitality beyond the standard hotel, something that would respond to all that is going on in the world today.”

WATG Mosaic Popup Hotel

Mosaic popup hotels might come in pretty handy in a disaster zone like Haiti, where UN aid workers have been living onboard luxury cruise ships and are transported to shore and back everyday.

The Mosaic hubs and prisms can accommodate volunteers and then remain as housing for local communities after the aid workers have gone home.

The organic prisms are collapsible for ease in transportation, with built-in fixtures and furnishings, and come with self-contained energy, plumbing and lighting systems and self-leveling foundations.

In short, its not a bare-bones tent where you’ll be camping out – this is a very well furnished hotel room.

Questions remain – How much will it cost? How hard will it be to assemble? When will it be commercially available? All this is going to take a while because Mosiac is just a design, as of now. WATG says it will use the $10k prize booty they won to build an actual prototype.

Photos courtesy WATG

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If you thought Britney Spears’ demand to have a stripper pole installed in her luxury hotel suite at the Dorchester in London was outlandish, that’s nothing compared to what the Argentine team is demanding of its team hotel at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

HPC Pretoria & Zakumi

The Argentine team’s demands include painting all team rooms white and tearing up and replacing toilet bowls and wash-basins for manager Diego Maradona’s bathrooms.

Maradona’s new E-Bidet luxury toilet seats offer warm water, a heated seat, warm air blow-dryer and front and rear bidet wands.

The Argentinians also want 14 different salads, 3 pasta sauces and at least 3 puddings for each meal. And 10 hot dishes a day and ice-cream all day long.

Why on earth would anyone need 14 different salads for a single meal? The poor hotel suffering at the hands of the Argentine prima donnas is the University of Pretoria’s High Performance Centre.

By comparison, the other teams are being positively un-diva like, even though some of it is still borderline weird.

The Mexican team at the Thaba Ya Batswana lodge is carting in its own priest to conduct services in a church at the lodge. The Brazilians at the Fairway Hotel have not one, but two chefs in tow.

The Italians apparently have no regard for the pasta at the Leriba Lodge in Centurion, so they’re bringing their own pasta. The Villas Luxury Suite hotel in Arcadia, Pretoria will not be using its flour because the Slovakians are packing along bags of flour.

The Kiwis chose the sprawling bungalows at the Serengeti Golf Estate so they could take golf lessons, while the Slovakians want two table-tennis tables.

The Italians had Leriba Lodge layout high-speed fiber optic cables so they could watch Italian TV channels, while the Fair City Roode Vallei got off easy with the Ghanian team who only want to watch African channels.

HPC photo – Univ. of Pretoria; Zakumi – shine2010

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I was so enchanted with Guanajuato, Mexico, that it hardly mattered where I stayed, as long as the accommodations were affordable and located near the city center. I wanted to wander for hours around Guanajuato’s elegant gardens and charming squares, making my way from one performance to another between stops at outdoor cafes and coffee shops, and still be able to walk back to my room after dark. La Casa del Tio Hostel fit the bill perfectly.

Casa del Tio Hostel, Guanajuato, Mexico

Located in the heart of the historic center, La Casa del Tio offered two private rooms with ensuite bathrooms, as well as four dorms with shared bathrooms. Male, female, and mixed dorms were furnished with comfortable bunk beds, while a family dorm had a combination of a “matrimonial” bed and bunks, and all dorms were equipped with metal lockers for safeguarding personal belongings. The dorms surrounded separate men’s and women’s bathrooms and a common kitchen with TV, although sitting on Read More »