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After years of slashing rates and cutting extras hotels are finally getting
their groove and their amenities back.
And we're talking about way more than a free breakfast.
At hotels these days it's all about the wow factor and that ranges from
designer pajamas by lingerie designer Arielle Shapiro in the VIP Suites the
W South Beach Hotel all the way up to the 24-carat gold iPads at Dubai's
Burj Al Arab.The hotel claims to be the first in the world to offer the
iPads to guests.No the iPad is not yours to keep.
And there's a world of cool amenities that fall somewhere between free PJs
and 24-carat gold iPads.
At The Kitano Hotel in Manhattan they're very proud of their new toilets.
Their toilets?
Yes said General Manager Clement Carey.At The Kitano Hotel we have 149
guest rooms each one equipped with a Toto toilet. It's a combination bidet
and toilet he said.They cost $1500. It's quite an amenity.
There's a wash feature (you choose pulsating or not) and a blow dry
feature. It's a warm wind of air that dries you off Carey said. The Kitano
is the only New York City hotel to offer the Toto toilets in every room, a
feature desired by the hotel's large Japanese clientele. Totos are popular
in Japan but only now starting to catch on in the U.S.
If fancy toilets aren't your thing, head uptown to the Surrey Hotel on the
Upper East Side where the in-room mixology program sends a bartender to
your room to mix drinks to your liking. And it won't cost you a penny more
than the bottle you buy.
"The mixologist will come to your room and create a drink for you based on
the flavors you like said Patrick Chiappetta director of operations.The
bartender will make the first four or five for you teach you how to do it
and if you want to have them come back they will or you can make them on
your own.
It's the perfect amenity Chiappetta said for people who want to relax with
a cocktail in the luxury of their hotel room before heading out for a night
on the town. And the experience is a memorable one.
One couple that ordered the cocktail experience called back a month later
from Australia to find out what ingredients were used and how exactly it
[the drink] was made
Speaking of drinks and fancy mixologists there's also a new camel's milk
mixologist at the Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi.Locally-sourced camel milk
combined with freshly muddled ingredients like strawberry and mint were
initially introduced for Ramadan.But the camel milk mixologist will make
the drinks anytime.
Camel milk has only recently been introduced to the main-stream consumer
said manager Hasan Al Masri manager of Mijana the hotel's Arabic restaurant
where the concoctions are available.Our guests are always looking for new
experiences and this would be an interesting and authentic opportunity for
anyone visiting Abu Dhabi.
Back in the U.S. at least two California hotels offer luxury cars to
guests. Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa recently rolled out a program that
allows guests to borrow a Porsche complimentary as long as it's returned
the same day.There are three models available: 911 convertible Panamera
Hybrid and a Cayenne GTS. And at the Beverly Wilshire a Four Seasons Hotel
a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce Phantom is on hand to take guests anywhere
they want to go in the three-mile radius of the hotel.And if the Rolls is
out with another guest? There's a Mercedes on hand too.

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