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| Your Feedback Matters - 2007 Annual Survey |
As 2007 comes to an end, your team at CCRA International thanks you for your continued support this year. What else are you looking for in your 2008 hotel bookings? Please take just a minute to complete our brief, year-end survey. This is our chance to ensure that we thoroughly understand your hotel needs.You will automatically be entered to win a $250, $100 or $50 gift reward in appreciation for your time!
Click here to complete and submit your survey.
This December newsletter also features a top quality line-up of Partner hotels. See what's on offer at three lovely beach locations - Don CeSar Beach Resort on the Gulf, Ocean Key Resort & Spa in Key West, and The Portofino Hotel & Yacht Club in Southern California. Plus two refurbished gems overseas - the Charing Cross in London and Harbour Plaza Hong Kong.
We are pleased to report for 2008 our largest Hotel Partner participation ever! Via your GDS and CCRAtravel.com, you will have access to CCRA negotiated rates at over 20,000 hotels worldwide, in every category from luxury to family value brands. Remember our CCRA negotiated rates guarantee lower rates, last room availability, walk policy, and superior customer service, plus a block space request program.
We hope that you have taken note of the incredible selection of hotel types, and the many Net Rate opportunities in CCRAtravel.com. In 2008, you can look forward to even more Net Rates at over 40,000 hotels worldwide. Our best tip of year - prepaid Net Rates are a perfect choice for booking pre and post-cruise stays. There are Net Rates in port cities worldwide. Still have questions? Just visit CCRAtravel.com for quick and easy training tools.
We wish you and your families a wonderful Holiday Season. Thank you for your friendship and support. Travel safe and we’ll see you in 2008!
Patti Free, Nancy Freigher, Liz Badras, Jeff Kirk, Lew Faber |
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| Harbour Plaza - Refresh by the Water Front
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 The Harbour Plaza Hong Kong – a five-star waterfront hotel providing resort-style facilities and an array of dining options along with its first-class meeting and business facilities – allows travellers to experience the urban beauty of Hong Kong from a most unique vantage point.
The Harbour Plaza Hong Kong features 506 spacious refurbished rooms each averaging approximately 400 square feet. Furnishings have all been re-fitted and a new pay-movie system has been added for guest convenience. Transformed with a new colour scheme, new carpet and bedding, 70% of the hotel’s rooms and 100% of the suites enjoy a magnificent view of famous Victoria Harbour.
The hotel is situated on a harbour front promenade just steps from the famous Victoria Harbour, where you can take an uninterrupted, scenic stroll. Sit outside at the harbour’s only waterfront al-fresco Italian restaurant where an acclaimed Venetian chef plies his trade. Or spoil yourself with an international buffet at the remodelled Buffet Restaurant – complete with fabulous harbour views, and extended new VIP area. The much-anticipated, completely refurbished Buffet Restaurant at Harbour Plaza Hong Kong is now open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Lined with floor to ceiling windows, marble flooring, and plush seating area, the Buffet Restaurant boasts extensive buffet service, including additional live cooking stations, quality selection of fresh seafood, and a fully serviced black granite buffet area ensuring continuous food and beverage service.
For the indefatigable business traveller, the recently refurbished Harbour Club Lounge provides facilities and services most appreciated by executive guests. On the 19th floor, the spacious Club Lounge offers guests an atmosphere of quiet and comfort to enjoy an invigorating cup of coffee at the coffee and tea bar, and complimentary breakfast at the extended buffet area. Also located within the lounge is an office alcove where guests can take care of urgent business. Club Floor guests can also make use of the convenient check-out and trip planning services rendered by the Club hosts.
The hotel is nestled in a charming café and boutique-laden neighbourhood – perfect for afternoon shopping, sipping a cup of traditional Chinese tea or for enjoying a dim-sum lunch – and adjacent to ferries travelling frequently to the popular Island districts of Central, Wanchai, and North Point. It is a mere five minutes from Hong Kong's busiest shopping area - Tsimshatsui.
Back at the hotel, however, respite awaits: visit the resort-style rooftop pool for an evening dip with the picturesque skyline as backdrop. Enjoy a poolside massage or a trip to the Fitness Centre, where sauna and steam are at the ready. Have dinner at any of the luxurious property's fabulous restaurants – including Japanese, Cantonese, premium grill, and a waterfront al-fresco terrace – all looked after by an international team of chefs.
To book the Harbour Plaza Hong Kong, visit CCRAtravel.com. For the best value in GDS-published rates, book the CCRA rate by selecting CCR in Amadeus, Sabre and Worldspan or CCRA in Galileo.
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To locate all the best rates, including Net Rates, visit CCRAtravel.com. For the best value in GDS-published rates, book the CCRA rate by selecting CCR in Amadeus, Sabre and Worldspan or CCRA in Galileo. |
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| The Don CeSar Beach Resort Announces the Opening of Spa Oceana
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 The Don CeSar Beach Resort, A Loews Hotel, announces the addition of Spa Oceana, scheduled for completion in Spring 2008. With 11,000 square feet and 16 treatment rooms, Spa Oceana will feature a rooftop garden overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, a private reception area for soothing meditation, deluxe couples treatment rooms with oversized, European-style soaking tubs and suite areas for private parties.
The opulent Spa Oceana will draw from the natural surroundings of the Don, such as the sand from St. Pete Beach and ingredients from the sea, as part of the Loews brand promise to provide guests with an experience that's
“uniquely local." Signature to Spa Oceana, and prior to every treatment, guests will be served herbal elixirs in the Relaxation Room and treated to a footbath infused with orange blossoms, utilizing St. Pete Beach sand for exfoliation. A post treatment ritual on the rooftop garden includes aromatherapy eye pillows and noise-canceling Bose headphones that play a binaural beat overlaid with the sound of the waves to help induce a state of meditation. Maintaining the Mediterranean theme of the spa, steam rooms will have ballet bars for gentle yoga stretches and a salt-water whirlpool.
 The setting of Spa Oceana will feature Mediterranean, diaphanous draping, maritime mosaics, numerous water features and gentle wave sounds, representing a modern Gulf environment, as well as adobe, whitewashed walls with blue accents and light tropical furniture. As tidal sounds echo gently throughout the spa, guests are drawn to the deeply rhythmic and relaxing atmosphere.
 Retail will offer marine based product lines such as Thalamer, Phytomer and Kerstin Florian incorporating organic seaweed as well as a complete collection of sea salts from exotic locales, including the Dead Sea, Fijian coral, Celtic Grey, Hawaiian Red Clay and Sicily. Once a playground for distinguished celebrities such as Clarence Darrow and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Loews Don CeSar Beach Resort continues to charm and impress guests with the gracious service preserved from the Great Gatsby era of pampering. Sugar-sand beaches, seaside massages, sunset boat trips and Four-Diamond dining await visitors who return season after season. Blending European grandeur, seaside elegance and sweet sunsets with the enchantment of yesteryear, the romantic legend exemplifies the grandness of America’s traditional beach resorts and is the only historic resort on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
To locate all the best rates for Don Cesar Beach Resort visit CCRAtravel.com. For the best value in
GDS-published rates, book the CCRA rate by selecting CCR in Amadeus, Sabre and Worldspan or CCRA in Galileo.
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| Ocean Key Resort & Spa in Key West |
 Walk away from reality and be welcomed by warm tropical breezes and the azure waters of Key West harbor. Accommodations in our One Bedroom Oceanfront Suite will entice a state of relaxation. At 600 square feet, your suite is appointed with a large living room, dining area, and a 42” plasma screen TV. Your separate bedroom ensures a tranquil nights sleep in a king sized sleigh bed. Both rooms open onto your oversized oceanfront balcony, with views unsurpassed on the island. Our tenured staff is at your service to ensure superior personal attention. All of our suites are full of Florida Keys energy and are appointed with hand painted furniture, local artwork, and bold colorful fabrics. You will enjoy daily breakfast with our compliments, at Hot Tin Roof, our Four Diamond waterfront restaurant. Plan your escape! We are waiting for you, here in paradise. Includes waterfront breakfast for two on your private balcony, or in Award winning Hot Tin Roof restaurant.
A minimum stay of seven nights is required to qualify for this special rate. The 7 Sunsets Package is based on availability and blackout dates.
December 1 –23, 2007 |
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Sunday – Thursday $399/night plus tax. |
Friday & Saturday $499/night plus tax. |
January 1 – May 31, 2008 |
Sunday – Thursday $599/night plus tax. |
Friday & Saturday $699/night plus tax. |
To locate all the best rates for Ocean Key Resort & Spa in Key West,
visit CCRAtravel.com. For the best value in GDS-published rates, book the CCRA rate by selecting CCR in Amadeus, Sabre and Worldspan or CCRA in Galileo. |
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| Charing Cross Restores Its Victorian Glamour
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 Luxury brand Guoman Hotels unveils its third London property
The historic Charing Cross hotel is set to re-establish its reputation as one of London’s most elegant and charming hotels thanks to a £6m investment by Guoman Hotels.
Following an initial spend of £1m this year, the hotel now opens its doors as ‘Charing Cross,’ part of the exclusive collection of Guoman hotels in London which includes The Cumberland at the top of Park Lane.
Guoman Hotels is a unique collection of deluxe hotels each with its own distinctive look and feel, set apart by the location, architecture, design and heritage.
Previously a Thistle hotel, Charing Cross has been refurbished to truly reflect its Victorian glory. The hotel boasts 239 bedrooms, including suites, executive rooms and deluxe rooms. There are nine meeting rooms, the largest of which seats 150 theatre style, plus a lounge, restaurant and bar, including the Terrace on the Strand restaurant with floor to ceiling windows looking out over The Strand and Trafalgar Square.
The hotel has already had its restaurants and bars lovingly refurbished, as well as The Betjeman room, one of London’s most ornate meeting rooms, with its marble dance floor and stunning dome-shaped high ceiling. A new exclusive executive club lounge has been added and all bedrooms have new 26” plasmas TV’s with high quality satellite viewing. The extensive refurbishment will continue next year throughout 83 bedrooms in the Buckingham Wing.
Sarah Wilkinson, General Manager of the hotel, said: “Inspired by our grand architecture, we have endeavoured to provide our guests with a hotel experience that invokes a sense of history, but a feeling of home. As well as some large transformations, there have also been very subtle changes to preserve the natural elegance and refinement of the hotel.”
“We offer our guests an elegant experience where they can relax and escape the daily rush, whilst enjoying the high standard of service you can expect from a Guoman Hotel.” |
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| The Portofino Hotel & Yacht Club in Redondo Beach, CA
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 Luxury on the Ocean
Located in Redondo Beach on a lush private peninsula just minutes from LAX, The Portofino Hotel & Yacht Club is one of the few oceanfront hotels in Los Angeles. The recent multi-million dollar renovation included a new ocean-inspired theme for the lobby and upgraded guest rooms and baths. The all-new BALEEN losangeles brings an eclectic, eccentric fine dining experience to Redondo Beach.
Guests can ride complimentary beach cruiser bicycles through nearby Manhattan and Hermosa Beaches along ‘The Strand,’ a 27 mile-path leading from the Palos Verdes Peninsula to Malibu. In addition to great ocean views, hotel amenities include an ocean view swimming pool and whirlpool, fitness facility, a 24- hour business center and wireless high-speed Internet access.
The Portofino is centrally located to Trump National Golf Course, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Disneyland, Universal Studios, Aquarium of the Pacific and The Queen Mary. |
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