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At the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel, you don't have to leave your room to have a multiple-course gourmet meal.All you have to do is pick up your phone and call in your order.Bucking a trend to deliver room service as fast as possible, general manager Offer Nissenbaum gives guests a choice: Have your meal delivered all at once, or course by course."We're creating a regular dining room experience in your room," Nissenbaum says.ALSO ONLINE: Hotel room service speeds upMany hotels, including the Four Seasons, have recently launched room service options guaranteed to arrive within a certain amount of time.But Nissenbaum believes that many travelers still want long, leisurely meals. If you go the multiple-course route, the waiter will deliver each course and your wine whenever ... Continue reading →
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – There was a time not long ago when a climb to the top of Yosemite National Park's Half Dome was a solitary trek attempted by only the most daring adventurers.Over the past decade, however, the route has been inundated with up to 1,200 nature lovers a day seeking to experience the iconic mountain that is stamped on the California quarter, stitched on a line of outdoor clothing and painted on the side of the park's vehicles.Now officials want to permanently limit access to the granite monolith, frustrating both hikers who journey there for a transcendent experience and advocates who say the plan doesn't go far enough to protect a place in a federally designated wilderness area."At the end of the ... Continue reading →
The Marriott Marquis in New York City's Times Square is ready for Chinese tourists as they visit the USA in increasingly larger numbers, my colleague Roger Yu writes in his Money section story.The hotel, run by Marriott veteran Mike Stengel, has taught staff the Asian way of presenting business cards how to say "Hello, thank you" in Mandarin.But perhaps even more importantly, the hotel eliminated the room numbers of its largest suites on the tower's 44th and 45th floors, since the number four is considered a bad luck number in Asian cultures.Other steps taken by the hotel:Marquis employees are also quick to point out to Chinese guests that its lobby is on the eighth floor, considered a lucky number. "We want as many eights as ... Continue reading →
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At the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel, you don't have to leave your room to have a multiple-course gourmet meal.All you have to do is pick up your phone and call in your order.Bucking a trend to deliver room service as fast as possible, general manager Offer Nissenbaum gives guests a choice: Have your meal delivered all at once, or course by course."We're creating a regular dining room experience in your room," Nissenbaum says.ALSO ONLINE: Hotel room service speeds upMany hotels, including the Four Seasons, have recently launched room service options guaranteed to arrive within a certain amount of time.But Nissenbaum believes that many travelers still want long, leisurely meals. If you go the multiple-course route, the waiter will deliver each course and your wine whenever ... Continue reading →
