Posts Tagged ‘Green Hotels & Resorts’

Boston, MA. The award-winning Seaport Hotel recently introduced four PURE Allergy-Friendly Rooms, in an effort to provide travelers with allergies or asthma peace of mind while visiting Seaport. Every surface within these guest rooms has been professionally treated to minimize irritants, contaminants and odors, allowing the rooms to be certified hypoallergenic and friendly to those with respiratory illnesses.

Prior to certifying a room, an extensive, multi-step deep cleaning process takes place. Each room also features allergy-friendly bed encasings, and hypo-allergenic pillows and duvets have replaced Seaport’s traditional bedding. An electronic air purifier and ionizer, classified as a class II medical device by the FDA, have also been installed in the room, aiding guests that are sensitive to normal airborne contaminants. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dian Hasan | October 7, 2009

Explora started life as Chile’s leading adventure tour operator, taking world travelers to witness her majestic – and diverse – landscapes that are distinctively different. Atacama Desert in the north and the world-famous Patagonia in the south that leads to the southernmost tip of Tierra del Fuego.

Evolving into hotels was a natural progression for Explora. And it opened its first – Hotel Salto Chico in Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, in 1993. Following its success, Hotel de Larache opened five years later in the Atacama Desert, and in December 2007 the newest hotel, Posada de Mike Rapu, opened on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Posada Mike Rapu is Chile’s first LEED-certified property, Chile’s first when it opened.

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By Dian Hasan | July 27, 2009

If there’s any similarity between Hollywood movie-making and hotel creation, it’s this: they take years to plan, scout and develop, and require so many logistical challenges along the way that simply to finish one, to say nothing of a whole trilogy, is possibly enough achievement for a lifetime. The trilogy here comes from Francis Ford Coppola whose movie-making accolades now include the new roles of vintner and hotelier.

And a very specific hotelier at that, creating exquisite eco resorts. Coppola is now on his third and last of trilogy of eco resorts in Central America, with La Lancha, on Lake Peten Itzá, near Tikal, in Guatemala.

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By Dian Hasan | October 5, 2009

Her treetop accommodation may be getting all the attention, but there’s more to the chic Hapuku Lodge and Tree Houses. It takes its eco-responsibility very seriously, in interesting eco-friendly activities such as having every guest plant a tree while staying at Hapuku.

First it’s the beautiful setting, nestled between Kaikoura Seaward Mountain Range and the famed Mangamaunu Bay, on New Zealand’s South Island.

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By Dian Hasan | October 2, 2009

Relax in the lap of nature in the heart of a tropical green forest. Hear birdsongs from 80 feet above ground.

Green Magic Nature Resort is located in Vythiri in Kerala, 65 kms away from Calicut, enroute Bangalore Ooty Mysore at an altitude between 3,750 feet & 4,500 feet.

Part of the Jungle Park Resort group, the resort features Tree Houses, Eco Lodges and Ethnic Houses for a truly unforgettable stay experience. The Tree Houses can be reached by a unique indigenous cane lift. A hanging rope bridge connects the tree houses.

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By Dian Hasan | October 1, 2009

If you thought that Tree House hotels are all about roughing it, in back-to-basic accommodation that is more akin to Tarzan’s dwelling than Jane’s (we’re assuming hers is slightly better appointed!), then this tree house has raised the bar in ushering in luxury.

The Tsala Treetop Lodge, in South Africa is a tree house hotel like no other. Tsala Treetop Lodge features commendable architecture, and takes its design credentials to a new height of luxury, combining stone, wood and glass.

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By Dian Hasan | October 1, 2009

It’s pretty obvious that while travel destinations around the world were busy concocting new attractions, bearing in mind that “Green” is the new “Black”, and therefore anything labelled “Green” is considered “In”, South Africa already was enjoying success with a new breed of green hotels, including what is probably the coolest of the genre – Tree House Hotels!

Jaci’s Tree Lodge features eight “Tree Houses”, each encompassing a giant Tambotie or Leadwood Tree.

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By Dian Hasan | October 1, 2009

If you fancy re-living your childhood fantasy of staying in a treehouse, here’s your chance to regress back into childhood in a fun way in the land of intoxicating beauty, India.

Wild Canopy Reserve is located within the Mudumalai National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary in Masinagudi, a haven for any wildlife enthusiast. There is a choice of two deluxe Tree Houses, and two deluxe rooms, if staying in a tree is not your calling.

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By Dian Hasan | October 1, 2009

A tree house hotel on an island called Mafia must be the epitome of exotica! Here’s a look at a tree house eco-lodge in Tanzania that’s been practicing Responsible Tourism long before it was considered “in”. Off the tourist trail on a stunningly beautiful island within Tanzania’s Mafia Archipelago, Chole Mjini Lodge was an eco-lodge way before the term had been coined.

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By Dian Hasan | September 26, 2009

It used to be that experiencing the Amazon, or most other nature parks, was all about “roughing it” with accommodation that always bordered on the rustic, quaint, and heavily ethnic. One important element always seemed to be absent from this equation: “Style”.

Fast forward to today, when travelers are more inclined towards eco-friendly, where “Green” is the new “Black”, style has pervaded into the design vocabulary of eco hotels across the globe. From Ecuador to Ethiopia.

Regardless of what we call them: Resort, Lodge, Cabin, Retreat, or Escape… being both green and chic is possible. And it’s here to stay. Introducing the new crop of stylish abodes: Hamadryade Eco Lodge, in Amazonian Ecuador (you probably weren’t aware of this fact either!).

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