Topic: Hotels

Lofty Living On the Cheap

What's the next thing in hotel rooms? High ceilings.READ»

Hotel Me No Secrets II

Yesterday at Ad:Tech, BzzAgent's Dave Balter commented briefly on the future of loyalty programs. This morning's edition of USA Today features a piece about how Best Western has stepped up as the "official hotel of NASCAR." Not only ...READ»

The Top 10 Eco-Friendly Hotels

The greenest vacation is a day hike in your backyard. But if you need to get a little further away from home, there are plenty of responsible--dare we say, trendy--resorts to choose from. Online travel community TripAdvisor ...READ»

Vintage Bohemia: Small Hotels Take On the Dark Side of Interior Design

A new book extolling the design trend of the past several years--a recreated, embellished vintage look incorporating brick, iron, wood, velvet, and fur--at last christens a genre of interior design seen from New York to Paris. Dark ...READ»

Jeeves <em>Plugs</em> In

Introducing the BlackBerry-powered hotel butler.READ»

The Net/Net

A go-to guide of the products and services featured in this month's issue.READ»

The Net/Net

A go-to guide of the products and services featured in this month's issue.READ»

Funky Fresh: Ace Hotel's New Breed of Design Comes to New York

The New York branch of the Ace Hotel just opened yesterday, and it's a great corrective to the bloated, blinged-out interiors we've come to expect from boutique hotels. Rooms begin at a very reasonable rate for New York--$199 ...READ»

Improving the Chain Gang

Staying in a drab chain hotel can suck the life out of any traveler. We asked three design professionals their strategies for bringing the surroundings up a notch.READ»

Index to advertisers

Interact with the companies whose products and services are advertised in Fast Company.READ»

Road Rules - Rule 1

Don't eat where you sleep.READ»

Fix Up Your (Hotel) Room!

Road Rules -- Rule #5READ»

The Net/Net

A go-to guide of the products and services featured in this month's issueREAD»

Marriott Cuts Free Newspapers for Guests, 'USA Today' Feels the Pain

The familiar sight of newspapers scattered on the floor outside hotel rooms might soon be a thing of the past. In what is being billed as an environmentally-conscious move, Marriott International Inc. announced today that ...READ»

Lessin's Lineup

A peek at the Web-based businesses in Bob Lessin's personal portfolio.READ»

Index to Advertisers

Interact with the companies whose products and services are advertised in Fast Company.READ»

Innovation: The Air Up There

Decades ago, the airship was touted as the wave of the future in travel, with the Hindenburg zeppelin poised to be the proof of that prophecy. The largest airship ever built, the Hindenburg offered the height of luxury travel and was ...READ»

Somnus-Neu: Grier Govorko's Multimedia Bed

The Somnus-Neu makes you want to do everything but sleep.READ»

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Throwing in the Towel

Today is also Holiday Inn's Towel Amnesty Day. If you've ever made off with a Holiday Inn towel while traveling for business -- or pleasure -- if you share your story about the towel (why you took it, what you did with it, how you ...READ»

Holidays to Koh Samui

Holidays to Koh SamuiSituated at just an hour’s flight from Bangkok, off the east coast of Thailand, lies the lovely island of Koh Samui. Though not as interesting as few of the other Thai tourist spots, it is an excellent ...READ»

The Wal-Mart Blog, Weekend Edition: What Would You Ask CEO Lee Scott?

Last fall, addressing a conference of American magazine editors in Puerto Rico, Scott finished his speech with a little story. He said Wal-Mart staff members who travel on business for the company -- literally thousands are on the ...READ»

The Net/Net

A go-to guide of the products and services featured in this month's issue.READ»

High-Speed Hotels

Just a few short years ago, trying to connect to the Internet from your hotel room was an iffy proposition, with many older properties having noisy phone lines that resulted in extremely low-connection speeds. Today, most major business-oriented hotels offer some form of high-speed Net access -- either wired (Ethernet) or wireless (Wi-Fi).READ»

Start Your Vacation on the Web

Are you planning on getting away this summer? Then get on the Web. Here's all you need to know about getting good deals, finding exotic locations -- in short, planning a dream vacation.READ»

The Net/Net

A go-to guide of the products and services featured in this month's issue.READ»