Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach

Summer just seems to last longer in Southern California, especially when you’re in Huntington Beach: Surf City, USA. The Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa is an ideal spot to relax while watching the surf.

The 517 rooms (including 57 suites) include private terraces with views of the ocean and surrounding beaches. In-room amenities include high-speed wireless Internet access, 27-inch color TVs with Playstation 2, CD/clock radios, refrigerators, pillow-top mattresses and down duvets, hair dryers, bathrobes, and spacious balconies. Rates start at $240.

Relax and watch the surf from your room

The Hyatt Regency is within easy walking distance of the beach—just across Pacific Coast Highway on the hotel’s pedestrian bridge. No need to bring your own beach gear, because beach cruiser bicycles, surfboards, body boards, wetsuits, umbrellas, chairs and other beach equipment rentals are available through the hotel. The resort’s Adventure Hyatt store, Toes on the Nose, can help guests plan surf lessons, kayaking experiences, fishing excursions and beach bonfires.

If lounging on the beach isn’t enough to lose that office stress, try the Pacific Waters Spa Wellness Retreat. A personalized itinerary it tailored to each guest’s needs and the on-site wellness team coordinates all retreat activities. The retreat includes deluxe guestroom accommodations, two 60-minute spa services per day, daily access to in-spa amenities, and daily food and beverage credit to the resort’s restaurant, The Californian.

Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa, (714) 698-1234
21500 Pacific Coast Highway, Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Photos courtesy of the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa

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Hyatt’s makeover of its 54 extended stay properties is taking it into social territory, where hotel guests will stay in apartment-style suites and mix and mingle in a social environment under the new Hyatt House (TM) concept.

The name “Hyatt House” for the brand is special not just because it makes it feel like home, but also because it was the name of the first-ever Hyatt hotel – Hyatt House at Los Angeles International Airport, which opened way back in 1957.

Hyatt House guest suite with kitchen

Hyatt properties being rebranded by early 2012 under the new Hyatt House brand include the 38 Hyatt Summerfield Suites hotels, and the 16 Hotel Sierra hotels that Hyatt recently acquired from LodgeWorks, L.P.

Signature elements of Hyatt House include:

Apartment-Style Suites: The studio, 1 and 2 bedroom kitchen suites have the look and feel of an urban residence with facilities and design elements suitable for extended stay travelers.

Each suite comes with a Hyatt Grand Bed, peek-a-boo cabinets in the kitchen, and an entryway hall tree with cubbies for guests to hang keys, coats, umbrellas.

Each suite also offers a multi-tasking space where guests can prepare meals, watch TV, and work on their laptops. The suites will feature a dream shower, flat-panel HDTV and DVD players.

Great Lounge: Every Hyatt House will have a multi-purpose “Great Lounge” with signature chairs that feature built-in digital plugs and gadget resting spots. There will be an oversized social sectional, a glass-enclosed game room equipped with a home entertainment system, pool table and more.

Each Great Lounge will have an H Bar that will turn from a breakfast bar in the morning to a cocktail bar in the evening. Each property will also have a home-like backyard and conversation area set around a back patio, fire pit and outdoor kitchen with grills.

Amenities: Complimentary breakfast where guests can order eggs and toppings any way they like from the chef each morning. The open house seven days a week offers good food and cocktails at happy hour prices from 5 to 10 pm – an extended time-slot to match hectic travel schedules.

The fitness centers are being redesigned to make them bigger with more exercise equipment, and every Hyatt House will have an indoor or outdoor swimming pool.

The guest market will offer traditional and gourmet groceries, and personal shopping services enable all guests a chance to have their refrigerators stocked ready with food before they arrive.

More info: hyattdevelopment.com

Photo: Hyatt Hotels

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You might call it an ad campaign, but The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company is calling “Let Us Stay With You” a whole new brand platform. Will it change your stay at one of their properties? Probably not, but you might have a better understanding of why guests continually pay more to stay at Ritz-Carlton Hotels all over the world.

Let Us Stay With You is the brand’s attempt to convey luxury and a hotel stay that is about creating unique memories. It will include updated advertisements as well as specially themed packages at some locations.  For example,  ‘Rejuvenate You’ packages will be available at Ritz spas. RitzCarlton.com will also undergo a redesign.

Watch this video from the Ritz-Carlton YouTube channel for a better idea of what’s to come from the brand:

Some of our favorite Ritz-Carlton properties? We recommend a visit to The Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island for a Heaven in a Hammock treatment.

At the HDBoutique show in Miami Beach, the Boutique & Lifestyle Lodging Association (BLLA) announced the winners of the 2011 BLLA Awards.

The boutique hotel of the year award for 2011 went to The Iron Horse Hotel in Milwaukee, WI. The lifestyle hotel of the year award was taken by The W Hotel & Residences Hollywood.

Iron Horse Hotel, Milwaukee

The finalists in both categories are listed below:

Boutique Hotel finalists:

The Iron Horse Hotel, Milwaukee, WI

The Hotel Andaluz, Albuquerque, NM

The Jupiter Hotel, Portland, OR

Hotel Renew, Honolulu, HI

Lifestyle Hotel finalists:

W Hollywood Residences, Hollywood, CA

The Good Hotel, San Francisco, CA

The Surrey, New York, NY

The Westlake Village Inn, Westlake Village, CA

The Iron Horse Hotel has won this award for the second year running. The hotel’s owner Tim Dixon was also named BLLA 2011 Hotelier of the Year.

“I’m honored to have received these awards from BLLA and I accept on behalf of an amazing team,” said owner Tim Dixon. “This honor shows that exceptional, experiential and independent hotels can thrive in any market as long as there is a vision and commitment to customer service.”

The 102-room Iron Horse Hotel, located across the river from the Harley-Davidson Museum, is celebrating its 3rd anniversary after opening in what was formerly a historic 100 year old warehouse.

The hotel has made a name for itself not just as a luxury hotel that caters to business travelers and motorcycle enthusiasts alike, but also for the sweeping artwork by Charles J. Dwyer, and for its green practices and environmental sustainability.

Photo – Iron Horse Hotel

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