Hotels & Resorts
Days Inn Hotel & Suites comes to Lloydminster
Realstar Hospitality has expanded its portfolio in Alberta with a new Days Inn Hotel & Suites in Lloydminster. The 128-room conversion property offers a range of facilities and services, including an on-site restaurant and lounge, free high-speed wireless Internet, indoor heated pool, fitness centre, meeting rooms and a banquet facility. Located on Highway 16, the six-storey hotel features spacious rooms and suites. Guests will enjoy convenient access to restaurants, shopping, golf courses and area attractions. Free parking is available for all hotel guests....
Two additional buses announced for Sandals convention
Sandals Resorts has announced that two additional buses will offer complimentary, same-day round trip transportation for travel agents in Southwestern Ontario to attend their one-day national convention in Toronto on Oct. 18. Space is limited and agents are encouraged to register today. One bus will depart from Windsor and the other from Niagara Falls, with both making several stops along the way. There is also no charge for agents to attend the "Sandals MORE Quality Inclusions"convention, which takes places at the Toronto Congress Centre (North Building). Agents can participate in a full day...
Four Seasons back in Toronto
Four Seasons is back in Toronto with the opening of its new flagship property in Yorkville. The all-new 259-room Four Seasons Hotel Toronto features the city's newest dining experience, Café Boulud and the first Spa at Four Seasons in the city, with more than 2,700 square metres of space includes 17 treatment rooms with several suites for two, a pool, a nail and hair bar, men's and women's change rooms with separate steam rooms, and a spa boutique. The hotel also features 1,331 square metres of event space. In celebration of the grand opening, Four Seasons is offering a Welcome Back...
Karisma moving into Jamaica
Karisma Hotels & Resorts, which has 11 El Dorado Spa Resorts & Hotels, El Dorado Generations, and Azul Hotels and Villas by Karisma properties on Mexico's Caribbean coast, is expanding beyond the Riviera Maya to Jamaica. Karisma Hotels & Resorts has acquired majority and controlling interest in the former Sandy Bay Beach Resort in Negril, which will now operate under the name Seashore Bay Beach Resort. The directors of Poinciana Resorts Ltd. were confident in the partnership with the 12-year-old Karisma Hotels & Resorts after visiting each of the group's properties, saying, "The Gourmet...
Say ‘I do’ with Aqua
Couples dreaming of a Hawaii wedding that is "not only affordable, but also stress-free"can say "I do"to Aqua Hotels & Resorts' No Commitments Wedding Guest Accommodations Program. No Commitments makes "planning a Hawaiian wedding a breeze"by eliminating contracts, minimums and hassles. Aside from standard cancellation policies, wedding parties aren't bound to minimum room counts or contracts. Aqua will work with a wedding party of any size and all guests can easily book through the web site. In addition, Aqua provides discounted group rates with an array of complimentary and customized...
Four Points by Sheraton debuts in DR
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. has returned to the Dominican Republic with the debut of its Four Points by Sheraton brand in Punta Cana. Four Points by Sheraton Puntacana Village is located just steps from Punta Cana International Airport and is the first of two hotels Starwood will open this year in the Dominican with its partner Grupo PUNTACANA. In late 2013, The Westin Puntacana Resort will open. The newly constructed Four Points features 124 guest rooms, an outdoor pool and access to five miles of private beach. Four Points by Sheraton Puntacana Village also provides meeting...
Mixing business with pleasure
A new survey has found that business travellers in the U.S. and around the globe weren't shy about mixing business with pleasure during their travels this year -- reporting that they've invited family members along on previous trips and tacked on extra personal time. The survey was commissioned by the Wyndham Hotel Group to better understand the habits of business travellers around the globe, and it polled just over 4,300 adults who travel for business in key cities throughout the U.S., the U.K., Canada, China and Brazil. It discovered that 52% of U.S. business travellers admit to inviting...
Better by the Night
Starwood Hotels & Resorts has launched a new global promotion, "SPG Better by the Night," where members registered for the promotion can earn unlimited bonus Starpoints during the earning period of Oct. 1, 2012 to Dec. 20, 2012. Members will receive up to three times their normal Starpoint awards at more than 1,000 participating hotels and resorts worldwide, with the potential to earn additional bonuses on reservations made through the new SPG App for...