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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 |
Joie de Vivre's Hotel Vitale and Ventana Inn & Spa Named Travel + Leisure's "T+L 500" List
San Francisco (January 7, 2009) - Joie de Vivre, California's largest boutique hotel collection, announces two of its luxury properties - Hotel Vitale in San Francisco and Ventana Inn & Spa in Big Sur - were named among the world's top 500 properties by readers of Travel + Leisure. The hotels were voted to the seventh annual "T+L 500" list, which appears in the January 2009 issue.
The 199-room Hotel Vitale - new to the "T+L 500" - was noted for its Embarcadero location facing the landmark Ferry Building, the Bay Bridge and San Francisco Bay, as well as its resort-like amenities. Reader recommended: Spa Vitale's "indulge bathing ritual" - a soak in an outdoor tub in the rooftop bamboo garden.
Travel + Leisure readers' also singled out the Ventana Inn & Spa's location. Nestled on a hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the famed coastal town of Big Sur, the 60-room hotel features luxurious "rustic" cedar lodges, one of the area's top spas, 243 wooded acres, and complimentary daily guided exploration hikes. Ventana Inn & Spa recently underwent an $18 million renovation.
Ventana Inn & Spa was also named to Condé Nast Traveler's annual 2009 "Gold List," which is the magazine's "ultimate annotated guide to the world's finest properties and cruise lines, as elected by more than 32,000 Condé Nast Traveler readers." Hotel Vitale also was noted as a "Reserve" hotel on the "Gold List" in the January 2009 issue.
"We are very excited to have two Joie de Vivre properties be named to these prestigious lists," says Ingrid Summerfield, president and chief operation officer of Joie de Vivre. "With our diverse collection, it's great to see our hotels recognized for their individual stories and beauty."
For more information on Hotel Vitale and Ventana Inn & Spa, please visit www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/vitale or www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/ventana. Or, call the hotels at (888) 890.8688 and (831) 667-2331, respectively.
About Joie de Vivre
Based in San Francisco, Joie de Vivre (http://www.jdvhotels.com) is a creative collection of lifestyle businesses. As California's largest independent boutique hotel collection, Joie de Vivre encompasses other hospitality businesses such as restaurants and spas. Celebrating 21 years of creating joy, Joie de Vivre is expanding its California presence in Sacramento, Oakland, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Huntington Beach, and beyond.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Lori Lincoln, Director of Public Relations, Joie de Vivre Hospitality
T. 415.773.1067/ email llincoln@jdvhospitality.com
Alexis Evans, Public Relations Manager, Joie de Vivre Hospitality
T. 415.248.5951/ email aevans@jdvhospitality.com
