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• Oakland gets a taste for gourmet
10.16.2009 Outlet: San Francisco Chronicle When Jeremy Umland was considering opening a second location of his popular San Francisco restaurant, Ozumo, he considered Napa and Walnut Creek. Instead, he decided to follow the money. "Investors and developers, all with a lot more cash to risk • 'Duck' Into Citizen Hotels Grange Restaurant For Some 'Fowl Play' 10.14.2009 Outlet: HotelChatter Where: 926 J St. [map], Sacramento, CA, United States, 95814 October 15, 2009 at 9:19 AM | by EricRosen | 0 Comments When it opened last December, we told you all about the geeky glory of the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento. Now we want to tell • Hotels get creative to cope with hard times 10.12.2009 Outlet: Miami Herald - Online, The Faced with the toughest financial crunch in decades, hotels are moving beyond typical discounts and offering unusual promotions to lure clients and create buzz. The 27-room Crane's BeachHouse in Delray Beach, for example, offers a ''The Bed-in for • I'M ASITTING IN MY OWN PRIVATE CABANA HERE AT THE HOTEL MAYA SWAGO. 10.12.2009 Outlet: KTLA Morning News - KTLA-TV HI, ALLIE. Reporter: GOOD MORNING, YOU GUYS. I'M ASITTING IN MY OWN PRIVATE CABANA HERE AT THE HOTEL MAYA SWAGO. WE'RE GOING TO WIND UP DINE LARESTAURANT WEEK. COMING UP WE'LL SHOW YOU ALL THE APPETIZERS, ENTTRAYS, ALL COMING UP LIVE FROM LONG BEA • In San Francisco, hotel rooms for less than $100 10.09.2009 Outlet: Austin American-Statesman - Online TRAVEL By Helen Anders SAN FRANCISCO The Good Hotel is a good hotel. Its rooms are small and spare but contemporary-cool, and they have everything you need: a bathroom, a safe, TV, free wireless, an iPod dock and clever art. Some rooms are even ai • San Francisco Japantown hotel delivers anime immersion 10.02.2009 Outlet: Los Angeles Times - Online Check into mainstream manga: A Bay Area Best Western rethemed by a boutique hotel chain buzzes with vibrant comic sensibility. Click to Enlarge Three unique restaurants in San Francisco Hotel Guide Restaurant Guide Attraction Guide • HOTELS 10.01.2009 Outlet: Los Angeles Times Infobox Infographic Hoping to keep its 119 rooms filled, Hotel Erwin on Venice Beach is offering an unusual promotion for its countercultural clientele: an Ink and Stay package that includes $100 toward a tattoo and a bottle of tequila to numb • Treating Your Employees Like Honored Guests = Outstanding Customer Service = Business Success 09.30.2009 Outlet: Fast Company - Online FC Expert Blog This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. Chip Conley, founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre, the largest group of boutique hotels in California, believes in treating hi • Gourmet Stimulus Plan 09.30.2009 Outlet: North Bay Bohemian More than two dozen restaurants are offering $25 prix fixe menus as part of the inaugural Santa Cruz Restaurant Week, Oct. 1-8. Full menus are posted at www.santacruzrestaurantweek.com. Our advice: make reservations. Aptos Sanderling's Oc |
California's Largest Independent Boutique Hotelier To Give Away A Year Of Hotel Stays To The Best Shutterbug
San Francisco, May 12, 2008 - Joie de Vivre (JdV) announced today a summer-long photo contest that will offer the grand prize winner stays for a year at Joie de Vivre Hotels throughout California. JdV's "Your California" Photo Contest in partnership with Southwest Airlines invites everyone from California natives to those who have traveled to the sunny state to pull out their cameras (or cell phones) and take pictures that portray "Your California."
All are invited: From accomplished photographers to amateurs who have taken accidental, award-winning shots can submit their photos for a chance to win. To level the playing field, there are four categories for photo submission including Amateur Photographer, Photo Journalist, Joie de Vivre Employee and Southwest Airlines Employee. The grand prize winner in the Amateur Photographer category will receive free hotel stays for a year at Joie de Vivre Hotels, their choice of any Joy of Life Club reward (Joie de Vivre Hotels' loyalty program) and six (6) tickets on Southwest Airlines flights to visit magnificent locations within California. The Photo Journalist category winner will receive a $500 gift certificate for Wolf Camera, a two-night stay at the JdV hotel of their choice and two (2) tickets on Southwest Airlines flights within California. Five other prizes will be awarded to each of the four categories inclusive of hotel stays and flights on Southwest's 100 nonstop daily departures within California.
Shutterbugs enter by uploading their California images on the Joie de Vivre Hotels website (www.jdvhotels.com/photocontest). There is no limit to the number of photographs a person may upload, however, each photograph should communicate a uniquely-California moment, place, person or whatever defines "Your California." The contest's distinctiveness lies in the participants' representation and perspective of what California means to them. It's a contest for those who would like to share how California and its many beauties can be defined from behind a lens.
Voting is on a rolling basis and visitors to www.jdvhotels.com/photocontest may vote once for each of their latest favorite photographs in every category. Photograph submissions and subsequent voting ends on August 31, 2008 and winners will be announced mid-September. All winners, with the exception of the "Staff Picks," are chosen based on the online popular vote.
About Joie de Vivre Hospitality
Based in San Francisco, JdV is a creative collection of lifestyle businesses. As California's largest boutique hotelier, Joie de Vivre encompasses other hospitality businesses such as restaurants and spas. Celebrating more than 20 years of creating dreams, Joie de Vivre Hospitality is expanding its California presence in Sacramento, Huntington Beach, Sunnyvale and Santa Cruz.
Partnering in the contest, Southwest Airlines celebrates 100 nonstop daily departures within California.
Official Contest Rules available at www.jdvhotels.com/photocontest
