Clay Lee
Broker/Realtor®
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5 Star Hotel Bedrooms – In Your Own Home!
June 25th, 2008 Categories: Buying Real Estate, Home Improvement & Design, Kids, Family & Personal Stuff, Market Trends, Real Estate News
If you’ve ever stayed in a great hotel and when it came time to check out you didn’t want to leave, you are not alone. Today’s 5 star hotels and many 4 star hotels are making their beds and bathrooms more luxurious all the time. It’s almost as if it’s a competition between them to see who can top the other. The bathrooms keep getting larger and the beds keep getting fluffier with even higher and higher thread count sheets.
But going home doesn’t have to be the end of your stay at your favorite hotel! Due to an enormous amount of client demand, many of the 5 and 4 star hotels are now selling almost everything you need to recreate your hotel experience at home. If you had to pull all the materials together yourself, it would take extensive travel and weeks of internet searching to find all the bedding, accessories, towels, and plumbing products. Now with just a simple phone call you can have almost everything you see!
For example, W Hotels has a retail store in most every hotel and a magazine in most of their hotel rooms that sell most of the accessories and the linens. They even sell the special BLISS SPA soaps you use in all of their bathrooms. The Ritz Carlton does a similar set up, but even includes an option to purchase the same mattress you slept on. I think Westin Hotels have the best program. You can buy the complete “Heavenly Bed” you slept in, the “Heavenly Bath” shower head from the bathroom, the towels, the robe, and more! Even the smaller boutique hotels are getting in on the action.
Next time you stay in a hotel that you just love, ask the concierge how to purchase the items from your room. I almost forgot the most important part. These companies even sell these items at LESS than you would pay if you had to go out and find all of these items on your own!
Some travelers like to take this one step further and literally buy a piece of real estate designed by their favorite hotel. The luxury hotel chains are all doing it in places all over the world. It goes from basic hotel rooms, to suites, to condos, to even complete stand alone residences. In most cases you get full or partial deeded ownership. The hotel completely designs and decorates the property and maintains it! Don’t get me wrong, it’s not inexpensive, but it’s definitely the easy way to get your luxury pad without all the hassles.
For more tips on living the luxury lifestyle, please feel free to contact me anytime at RCLayLee@yahoo.com
Clay Lee
College Station’s #1 Luxury Real Estate & Lifestyle Expert For More Than a Decade!
The great parts about hotel stays that you can’t yet take home with you…room and maid service!
So Clay – which hotel do YOU think has the best bedding?
I love the Westin’s Heavenly Bed. They got the name right.