Category: Hotels

  • College towns often struggle with accommodating visitors during events like graduation day, leading to a shortage of hotel rooms and inflated prices.
  • Parents of college kids often endure inflated prices, not only during graduation season, but also during events like family weekends or homecomings.
  • Tips for avoiding graduation day nightmares include booking early, exploring alternatives like Airbnb and checking secondary markets for hotel room availability.

If you think getting tickets to a Taylor Swift concert or the World Series is tough, try booking a hotel room in an American college town for Graduation Day.

Toni Milbourne faced this before her

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IHG Hotels & Resorts and NOVUM Hospitality announced a significant expansion in Germany. The move will double IHG’s presence in the region to over 200 hotel properties across approximately 100 cities, positioning it as a prominent player in the midscale and upper-midscale hotel market. The collaboration between IHG and NOVUM Hospitality, a private hotel operator owned by David Etmenan, will introduce new brands to the European market, including Garner and Candlewood Suites. It will also include a novel co-branding initiative between Holiday Inn and NOVUM’s niu.

The 30-year agreement includes options for renewal, and NOVUM will join 108 of its

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  • Leura Gardens Resort

The Elanor Hotel Accommodation Fund, managed by Elanor Investors Group, has sold the Leura Gardens Resort just under 12 months after acquisition.

The freehold going concern interest in the Blue Mountains resort has been sold to the Schwartz Family Company, Australia’s largest privately owned hotel group, which owns the nearby Fairmont Resort.

The sale amount represents a 25% premium on the fund’s original purchase price. The deal was struck after a direct off-market approach through the original selling agent, CBRE Hotels’ National Director Wayne Bunz.

Situated on an expansive 18,793sqm

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Creators Club, a new concierge lounge at Disney’s new Pixar Place Hotel, will open on May 24, the resort announced Friday.

The new lounge will have continental breakfast, wine and cheese receptions, beer, sparkling wine, hot bites and desserts in the evening, and a dedicated concierge.

The space, whose décor will pay homage to the collaboration between Walt Disney Imagineering and Pixar Animation Studios, will have concept art, maquettes, and a ride vehicle from Jessie’s Critter Carousel, an attraction in Disney’s California Adventure.

The lounge is only accessible for “club-level guests.” To book a concierge-level room, guests should select a

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British holidaymakers have blasted two men for hogging five sunbeds between them at a Benidorm resort – in what could be an early sign of the poolside chaos to come this summer.

Last season’s sunbed wars are threatening to make a comeback as hotels in hotspots including Spain’s Costa Blanca fill up with tourists from northern Europe looking for a sunny getaway.

Paul Hitchcock, who regularly holidays in Benidorm, shared a picture of two sunseekers at his hotel who had stacked up multiple deckchairs – seemingly preventing other holidaymakers from bagging a spot.

‘Two people, five sunbeds, and they are

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A major UK hotel chain has told ITV News that it has instructed all its venues not to accept bookings from cosmetic companies after a woman required hospital treatment following a botched procedure.

Malmaison, which describes itself as offering luxury boutique accommodation, has banned aesthetic companies from operating out of its venues after an invasive procedure was carried out on its premises.

The hotel chain informed ITV News: “Invasive medical procedures are not allowed on our premises. All hotels in our UK estate have been instructed not to accept any bookings from such companies and reminded to thoroughly vet all

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Labor Expert, Austin Gamey, has told Parliament to take a keen interest in the sale of Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) hotels.

He said the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) must make it a priority to probe the matter.

“Parliament should take a key interest in this development, and the Public Accounts Committee must look into it,” Mr Gamey said on the Ghana Tonight show on TV3 on Monday, May 20.

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  • Best Western Port Aransas

HVS Brokerage & Advisory announced the sale of the 59-key Best Western Port Aransas, located at 400 East Avenue G, Port Aransas, Texas 78373.

The property, built in 1997, was purchased by BWPA Holdings LLC, based in Aransas Pass, Texas, from LVV Properties, based in Port Aransas, Texas.
Vince Vanorman, Principal of LVV Properties, commented, “It was a pleasure working with Andrew and the HVS team on the successful closing of our Best Western in Port Aransas, our first ever venture into the hotel business. They showed excellent understanding

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