With The Godfrey Hotel Chicago now open, we wanted to share with you some updated photos from the guest rooms! No matter the type of room you book with us, you’ll always find a place to relax, and a place to work (if you need it). Look forward to luxurious towels and spa products in the bathrooms, too.
Headboards are here! We take a good night’s sleep very seriously here at The Godfrey Hotel, so we’re currently putting together dream-like guest rooms complete with stylish details to make your stay with us that much more comfortable. Stay tuned to see what they look like in the rooms!
With health and fitness on everyone’s mind this New Year, we want to share an update on our fitness center. It will be open 24/7 for hotel guests, and includes treadmills, ellipticals, and strength and weight training equipment.
Happy New Year to everyone from The Godfrey Hotel! Set a goal to stay active and eat healthy this year, and come visit us in 2014.
Think selecting the soap for a hotel is pretty easy? Not so fast.
George Jordan, SVP of Operations at Oxford Hotels & Resorts, shares how a lot of thought and consideration goes into selecting the soaps and alarm clocks. For example, in-shower soap and shampoo pump systems didn’t test well with female travelers for a particular hotel.
To read the full article, visit Hotel News Now.
More about George Jordan: He is the senior vice president of operations for Oxford Hotels & Resorts, and Chicago area hotel cluster general manager for Hotel Cass, Hotel Felix and Godfrey Hotel (opening early 2014). Over the past 30 years, he has held key management roles with The Arizona Biltmore, The St. Paul, The Marquette, The Drake and The Raffaello Hotel. Jordan rose through the ranks while attending college at University of Southern California and Arizona State University, where he obtained a B.S. in Finance. He served as area food and beverage director for Hilton International, based out of The Drake Hotel Chicago, and also as hotel manager at The Drake. Today, he contributes his extensive operational, revenue management and marketing expertise to Oxford’s national acquisition activities.
Today, we conducted a site visit to check out the latest and greatest at the hotel. With so many changes happening, we could hardly decide where to focus. But, we reflect back on the female guests and frequent travelers who we surveyed and questioned months ago about their travel preferences.
We consistently heard three requests for amenities in the room:
We can now say: Check, check and check.
First, we learned many ladies (and likely our gentleman too) want a full length mirror in the hotel room. We certainly understand – even when you’re on the road, you still want to look stylish. Here’s a look at the full length mirror:
Second, we know bathroom products matter. Guests love quality products and L’Occitane delivers nothing short of a “beauty phenomenon,” as we’ve heard others say. We previously blogged about how excited we are to offer these products in our guest bathrooms – you can view the blog post here.
Last, for the counter space, we heard many female (frequent) travelers say they preferred the extra counter space in the bathroom. The extra space allows them to set up their hair products and tools, along with their makeup bags and other needs. The extra space (shown below) allows for at least two people to easily share the space with their travel kits and make up.
Enjoy, ladies! And we know the male travelers won’t mind either. Enjoy, all!
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