Marriott’s new residences, shedding one other Las Vegas icon, a serious improve to a storied Irish citadel and different resort information you missed
Consider it or not, the primary month of 2024 has come and gone. January is type of bizarre, proper? It is a time to set new intentions for the approaching yr — but additionally a month that feels sluggish and sleepy.
Nevertheless, within the resort world, issues maintain shifting proper alongside at a fast clip — and each month, I, one in every of TPG’s senior resort reporters, write this column to maintain you, pricey readers, updated with some attention-grabbing resort tidbits which may have handed you by.
One purpose that January is wild for individuals in — or orbiting — the resort universe is that the American Lodging Funding Summit takes place in Los Angeles. Fortunately for all of us, my unbelievable colleague and fellow senior resort reporter Cameron Sperance was there to report on all of it.
One article of Cameron’s you’ll want to try is his interview from ALIS with Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano, the place the 2 mentioned the corporate’s new manufacturers, the expansion of Marriott Bonvoy and plans to maintain a few of Marriott’s fan-favorite manufacturers as recent as ever.
Together with main model information, this is the resort information you might have missed in January.
Flats by Marriott Bonvoy is rising
Final yr, we shared the information that Marriott was leaning additional into residential-style choices by launching the primary Flats by Marriott Bonvoy in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Now, Marriott has shared its plans to develop the gathering of apartment-style properties with signed growth agreements in Detroit and St. Louis, Courmayeur within the Valle d’Aosta area of Italy and Neom in Saudi Arabia.
We’ll have to attend to study extra about these properties, however we do know that Flats by Marriott Bonvoy will take part in Marriott Bonvoy, and members who guide the luxurious residences will earn 5 base factors per greenback spent on qualifying prices, plus qualifying bonus factors based mostly on standing and one elite evening credit score per every keep evening, amongst different perks.
The solar is setting on Tropicana in Las Vegas
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With all of that change, we have additionally needed to say goodbye to locations close to and pricey to the hearts of many Las Vegas fanatics, just like the Mirage, which is reworking into the Onerous Rock Las Vegas (learn my love letter to the resort right here).
Now it is time to say goodbye to the Tropicana Las Vegas, which opened in 1957. The resort will “stop operations” on April 2, in keeping with KTNV Las Vegas, and ultimately be demolished and changed with a stadium for the Oakland Athletics baseball staff, which is relocating to Las Vegas.
It is definitely unhappy to see one other iconic and historic property chunk the mud on the Las Vegas Strip, however there are nonetheless many unbelievable accommodations in Sin Metropolis so that you can guide.
A preferred Spanish resort model is increasing (much more)
Melia Lodges Worldwide won’t have the identical identify energy as Marriott or Hilton, however it’s a model we have been maintaining a tally of because of its fast progress worldwide. It is a model you must maintain your eyes on, too, whether or not you are in search of a metropolis resort in New York Metropolis or an all-inclusive resort within the Dominican Republic.
Melia has introduced that in 2024, the corporate plans to open greater than 20 accommodations — means up from the dozen it opened final yr. And it has its eyes set on large worldwide progress, with plans to develop in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, plus enter new territories like Albania and different Mediterranean locations.
In case you’re heading to Spain this yr and need to get a style of the model’s Spanish hospitality, contemplate reserving a keep at Torre Melina Gran Melia in Barcelona. Or, in case you’re headed to Mallorca, reserve a room at Zel Mallorca to see how the model teamed up with tennis participant Rafael Nadal to serve up an ace in hospitality.
An Irish citadel will get a luxurious non-public residence
In case you’ve ever wished to remain in a citadel, Dromoland Fortress in Eire must be high of thoughts. I’ve personally by no means stayed in a citadel (sigh!) however plan to sometime. If I do make it to Dromoland, I positively need to test into the citadel’s stylish new sister property, Dromoland Lodge, a five-bedroom non-public residence on the citadel’s golf course.
For folk who guide a keep within the charming lodge that may sleep a whole household after which some, an entire host of unbelievable perks come normal, together with each day breakfast within the lodge or on the Earl of Thomond restaurant, golf carts to make use of across the 500-acre property, airport transfers and a private residential assistant to assist make your each want come true.
As for the lodge itself, friends can get pleasure from a personal placing inexperienced, board video games within the recreation room, a parlor with a totally stocked bar and the power to have a personal chef prepare dinner for you within the kitchen. Outdoors the lodging, friends can be a part of the resident falconer (as a result of each citadel wants a type of, too!) for the afternoon “Hawk Stroll,” hit up the tennis or pickleball courts, spend a day trip boating or head to the Fortress Spa for a cleaning therapy with Dr. Barbara Sturm or Seabody merchandise.
Whether or not you guide one of many 97 rooms within the citadel or the thrilling new lodge, simply remember to ask me!
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A chunk of Nashville is returning to Santa Fe
On the weekends of Feb. 16 to 17 and March 15 to 16, the Bluebird will host its iconic “Within the Spherical” songwriter nights at Bunkhouse. Through the rounds, hit songwriters sit in a circle and play songs from their catalogs (together with large hits and people you have in all probability by no means heard however must be hits) for the viewers. This yr’s lineup consists of the writers of songs like “Sangria” by Blake Shelton and “Amazed” by Lonestar.
Friends are additionally invited to get pleasure from Nashville-style barbecue “with a New Mexican Twist” at SkyFire, the place govt chef Pablo Peñalosa will serve a mouthwatering meal for $95 an individual. Performances begin at 6 p.m., with the dinner beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the songwriter rounds begin at $75 and may be bought by contacting bl.adventures@aubergeresorts.com.
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