Starwood Hotels & Resorts opened The Westin Xi’an in China. The hotel is the first Westin in the world to have its own museum, paying tribute to the ancient history of China with a collection of more than 2,000 artifacts. The Westin Xi’an features 329 guestrooms and 32 one- to two bedroom suites. Accommodations feature flat-screen LCD televisions, rainforest showers, refreshment centers and feature Westin’s signature “Heavenly Bed”. Designed by Neri & Hu Design, The property covers nearly 60 acres and is comprised of the Westin hotel, adjacent museum, and shopping centre. Harmoniously fusing the indigenous culture with modern design, Westin Xi’an showcases a Tang dynasty architectural style. Measuring approximately 80,000 square meters, the main building features a covered porch and garden courtyard. Guests access cafes, restaurants, and other auxiliary facilities via this interior landscape.

Hotel Indigo, InterContinental Hotel Group’s upscale boutique brand announces opening of a second Hotel Indigo in San Diego at Del Mar. Following a multimillion-dollar renovation and rebranding, the 94-room hotel in downtown Del Mar offers guests sophisticated lodging with modern furnishings and a contemporary style, exuding the charm of the Del Mar community. The property boasts a full-service day-spa, two pools, hot tub, sauna and bistro-style restaurant with a full bar, among other amenities. Upgraded guest rooms feature a fresh look with new furniture, luxurious linens, warm colors, tiled bathrooms, granite countertops and spa showers. Guests will feel in harmony with the Del Mar surroundings as each room features indigenous murals depicting elements from the Del Mar Racetrack and local beaches. Additionally, two ocean-view terraces, created by local design firm Design Line Interiors, allow guests to enjoy the temperate Southern California weather, with fire pits available for cooler evenings.

InterContinental Hotel Group also unveiled its largest Holiday Inn to date in Macau, China. Last month Starwood Hotels & Resorts announced its largest Sheraton to date with 4000 rooms, also in Macau. The Holiday Inn “only” has 1,224 guestrooms, including 65 suites. All rooms and suites are decorated in a contemporary style with custom-designed furniture, feature floor-to-ceiling windows and offer a range of facilities, amenities and services. The deluxe rooms and suites overlook the city, providing inspiring views. Holiday Inn Macao Cotai Central features 11 restaurants and lounges, 24-hour room service and access to additional 24-hour dining options only a short walk away. Guests also have convenient access to the ample pool deck and to the Health Club, featuring a fully-equipped gymnasium, jacuzzi, and sauna.

We learned that the Bulgari Hotel London, which was planned to open this month, will be opening on June 1. Well, that is in time for the Summer Olympics…

Louisville, Kentucky philanthropists and art collectors Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown announced plans to buy the old First National Building in downtown Lexington and

convert it to a 21c Museum Hotel — a combination boutique hotel and contemporary art museum. They opened Louisville’s 21c hotel in 2006, and Lexington’s will be the fourth in the 21c group of hotels, after Cincinnati (opening later this year) and Bentonville (opening early 2013). The hotel will have a restaurant, a bar, meeting rooms, a ballroom and approximately 80 guest rooms. The museum will be open free of charge, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. The 21c Museum is the only museum in the country dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art by living artists. Architect Deborah Berke, whose New York firm Deborah Berke & Partners Architects has done design work on the other 21c hotels, said she hopes construction can begin on the First National Building before the end of the year, and that the hotel would be ready to open in 2014.

Viceroy Hotel for San Francisco: Pepplebrook (a hotel trust) has aquired the Hotel Milano in the SoMa district of San Francisco. Pepplebrook plans to invest between $8.0 and $10.0 million over the next 12 months in a complete renovation and repositioning of the hotel, including all guestrooms, public areas and the restaurant. The hotel’s comprehensive guest room and public area improvements are expected to commence in the second half of 2012 and Pepplebrook plans to rename the property upon completion of the renovation. Pepplebrook has selected Viceroy Hotel Group as manager for the Hotel Milano. Viceroy also manages two of the company’s other hotels: the Sheraton Delfina Santa Monica and the Viceroy Miami.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts announced that it has completed the sale of the 275-room Atlanta Perimeter Hotel & Suites (the former W Hotel Atlanta-Perimeter) to RockBridge Partners, a division of RockBridge. The property, which will be franchised, is located just north of Atlanta’s city center and will be managed by Wischermann Partners, Inc. The hotel will continue to be affiliated with Starwood Hotels & Resorts. The hotel is to undergo an 18 month multi-million dollar renovation and will afterwards will fly the Le Meridien flag.

Pod 39 to Offer Centrally Located Affordability and Function-Focused Style.

New York City will welcome a second Pod Hotel, Pod 39, opening June 2012 near Grand Central Terminal. Following the model of NYC”s successful original Pod Hotel, Pod 39 features streamlined, well-appointed guest rooms and vibrant communal spaces where travelers can socialize and connect. Pod 39 will feature a lively restaurant and bar scene in the lobby and a stunning rooftop lounge for cocktails and views of Manhattan. Affordable rates start at just $119 per night.

“We expect Pod 39 will have similar appeal and are excited to open another great Pod hotel with the same culture and community.”

Pod 39″s 367 guest rooms range from 60 – 120 square feet in double, queen and bunk bed configurations. The guest rooms are small but custom-designed to offer a comfortable stay with maximized space and functionality. Unlike the original Pod Hotel, each guestroom at Pod 39 features an en-suite bathroom. Additionally, media hubs in each room allow tech-savvy guests to connect their portable electronic devices to the room and view personal photos, videos and entertainment on wall-mounted flat-screen TVs.

“The first Pod Hotel continues to attract travelers from all over Europe, Asia and South America, ranging in age from 18-85, and sharing similar passions,” said Pod Hotel founder, Richard Born. “We expect Pod 39 will have similar appeal and are excited to open another great Pod hotel with the same culture and community.”

The lobby of Pod 39 features two distinct spaces: the restaurant and the Great Room. The restaurant will feature a taco stand with resident “tortilla lady” offering casual fare focused on exploring unique new taco flavors and styles in an upbeat environment. The Great Room will serve as the main communal center of Pod 39″s social experience. Game tables, a fireplace, bar, and comfortable seating all encourage interaction and socialization.

17 floors above the street, Pod 39 will offer a seasonal rooftop lounge where guests will enjoy cocktails and the stellar city-skyline with vistas from the East River to the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building to the West.

The Pod 39 is conveniently situated in the Murray Hill neighborhood of New York City, just a short walk to Grand Central Station, the Empire State Building, major shopping areas, bars, restaurants, and public transportation.

High street clothing and home furnishings chain Laura Ashley has acquired the 49-room Edgwarebury Hotel in the village of Elstree, north of London, for £5.8 million from Corus Hotels, whose parent company, Malayan United Industries, is a major shareholder in Laura Ashley. The Tudor-style property is to be relaunched later this year as a boutique hotel showcasing Laura Ashley’s furnishings and design service. The sale reduces Corus Hotels’ UK portfolio to nine properties.

A little more than three weeks since it acquired three hotels in Germany, HPI Hotelbesitz GmbH has purchased the freehold of the Ibis Prague Karlin in the Czech Republic. HPI intends to renovate the 226-room hotel to bring it in line with the brand standards of its sister company, Pentahotels. The hotel will be rebranded later this year when the work is complete but in the meantime Accor’s Ibis brand will continue to manage the property. Several Pentahotels are featured on stylehotelsweb, a property in Beijing opened recently.

Of the Von Essen Hotels, which went into administration last year, only two out of 27 hotels remain unsold, the Ston Easton Park near Bath and the Sharrow Bay in the Lake District of northern England. This week three Von Essen’s were sold: The Royal Crescent in Bath, the Congham Hall in Norfolk and the Seaham Hall in Durham. The latter was featured on stylehotelsweb for some time, but was getting some bad reviews. Hopefully it will pick up again under new ownership and welcome it back on stylehotelsweb.

InterContinental Hotels Group has opened its second Hotel Indigo property in Scotland. The Hotel Indigo Edinburgh is housed in an 18th-century listed building (previously the Osbourne Hotel and originally five residential properties) at the heart of Edinburgh’s “New” Town. The 60-room hotel, owned by Sojourn Hotels, joins its sister property the 94-room Hotel Indigo Glasgow.

Marriott International is considering selling its three Edition hotels (New York, London, Miami Beach) to fund an expansion of the lifestyle brand created with Ian Schrager. “We already have interested buyers,” said Arne Sorensen in a recent interview. “We’re willing to put in more money to expand Edition,” added Mr Sorenson, who is set to replace Bill Marriott as chief executive officer at the end of the month. Marriott would continue to operate the properties after the sale. Besides those three locations, Marriott has announced Editions for Bangkok and Abu Dhabi. Marriott has a stated commitment of US$800 million to develop the Edition brand, an atypical move for the company that is primarily focused on managing hotels. The Edition brand has had a rocky start with only two Edition-branded hotels opened so far in Istanbul and Honolulu, and the Honolulu hotel has since rebranded amid legal acrimony between the hotel’s owner and Marriott.

Africa’s first easyHotel is to open later this year in Johannesburg, South Africa. Work is due to start next month on the 120-room easyHotel Rissik Street, which is being developed over three floors of the city’s former Stuttafords department store, and it is expected to open in November 2012. The budget hotel will be the first fruit of a 20-year master franchise agreement between easyHotel and African conglomerate Lonrho, which will see a total of 50 easyHotels open across the African continent by 2016.

Aloft Tucson University, a former Four Points by Sheraton property, will undergo a complete renovation before opening in the first half of 2013. The 150-room hotel is owned by Starwood, demonstrating the company’s commitment to the fast-

growing, three-year-old Aloft brand. In September, Aloft announced its first conversion project, Aloft San Francisco Airport (a former Clarion Hotel) set to open this fall. Additionally, Aloft’s “green” adaptive reuse of Dallas’ historic Santa Fe Railroad terminal won multiple awards from a local preservation group in 2010.“We continue to see two types of opportunities as ideal candidates for an Aloft conversion: Hotels built in the ‘70s or ‘80s in need of renovation, and unique independent boutique hotels seeking a stronger brand point of view and the ability to utilize Starwood systems,” said Allison Reid, Senior Vice President of North American Development for Starwood.

The Mövenpick Hotel Lausanne, Switzerland, has unveiled three new conference rooms and 72 stylish new business rooms following the completion of a major six-floor extension project. The business rooms in the newly built North wing are designed to satisfy a new generation of business travellers who not only need fast Wi-Fi and a safe place to store their laptops, but also a room that is contemporary as well as comfortable. New elements include a cutting edge ‘open space’ bathrooms with individual walk-in Italian style rain showers and separate toilet; a pillow menu with six different options; a 32-inch, 135-channel LED television; a Nespresso coffee machine; private balcony and an inviting interior design featuring soothing tones of dark purple offset by beige headboards, wooden motifs, bold carpets and historic images of the Ouchy area from Lausanne Museum.

KOP Group, Singapore, announced on Wednesday that its proposal to turn London’s historic 10 Trinity Square building into a hotel has been approved by municipal authorities.

The building, jointly bought in 2010 by subsidiary KOP Properties and Reignwood Group, Beijing, will be converted into a 120-room hotel operated by KOP Hotels and Resorts, another subsidiary, that will also feature 41 residences.

“We are delighted to confirm our exciting plans to transform 10 Trinity Square into a destination address within London. Our vision is for 10 Trinity Square to become a new global destination in of the City of London, with a very British DNA and a timeless, classic appeal,” said Leny Suparman, KOP Properties CEO.

The 10 Trinity Square building, located adjacent to the Tower of London, first opened in 1922 as the Port of London Authority headquarters. Its purchase marked KOP Group’s first property in Europe. Architectural firm Woods Bagot has been appointed to helm the renovation of the building, set for completion in 2014.

“The original design was approved in 1912 and exactly 100 years later we have embarked on securing its next century as one of the capital’s finest hotels and residence developments,” said Rob Steul, principal at Woods Bagot. “The scheme restores the original plan form which was lost in The Blitz, and creates a dynamic courtyard space which serves as the public heart of the hotel.”

Belgraves, a Thompson Hotel, is now open in London’s upmarket Belgravia neighborhood. The property is the company’s first outside North America and is a joint venture with The Harilela Group.

The hotel, a former Sheraton Hotel, has 85 stylish guestrooms and suites with interiors designed by Tara Bernerd. The bedrooms feature silver grey wooden floors and a palette of natural greys and textures with aubergine accent walls. The bathrooms are finished with marble, smoked glass and brass beaded curtains.

The lobby includes a large fireplace for to give guests a cozy greeting, along with library and hideaway spaces.

Food and beverage options include the 80-seat Hix Belgravia and Mark’s Bar, both by UK celebrity chef Mark Hix. The bar also features a unique cigar garden.

More than a year after signing an agreement with Quays Hotels Ltd, Wyndham Worldwide has now opened its first managed Ramada hotel in the UK. Construction of the 200-room Ramada Encore Newcastle-Gateshead in the city of Newcastle, northeast England, started in February 2011 and cost £15 million to complete.

Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced that a Hyatt affiliate has signed a management agreement with an affiliate of Island Hospitality Partners, LLC for Hyatt Place Bayamón and El Tropical Casino. It will be the first Hyatt-branded select service hotel in Puerto Rico and, upon opening, will mark the return of Hyatt-branded hotels to Puerto Rico after a nine year absence. Hyatt Place Bayamón and El Tropical Casino, expected to open in the first quarter of 2014, will be a seven story building offering 156 guestrooms with an adjoining casino, free-standing restaurant and bar, and a multi-level parking garage. The hotel will be located next to the 42-acre Luis A. Ferré Science Park and will also be close to the city’s largest shopping mall. Bayamón is the island’s second most populous city and is located 15 miles southwest of San Juan.

The cutting-edge W Hotel Istanbul unveils a new Restaurant, OKKA. OKKA serves bold Turkish classics, created by master chef Tolga Atalay in a contemporary bistro setting. These include pomegranate marinated chicken, rose petal crème brûleé, fried semolina stuffed with lamb, as well as mezze specialties and 25 variations of kebab. OKKA also offers the widest collection of locally produced wines in Istanbul, and Turkey’s only self-pour Raki service for guests to enjoy the popular Turkish anise-flavoured liquor. In a typical W take on tradition fused with technology, OKKA features the world’s first three-dimensional holographic belly dancer – a futuristic image that contrasts with the restaurant’s burnished leather wallpaper, alabaster marble bar, etched smoked mirror inlays and azure columns.

Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced that an affiliate has signed a management agreement with Hotel De La Paix, Co., Ltd. for the first Hyatt-branded hotel in Cambodia. Under the agreement, Hotel De La Paix Siem Reap, one of the country’s top-rated hotels, will be rebranded as Park Hyatt Siem Reap. The hotel will close on June 30, 2012 for a complete renovation and is expected to open as Park Hyatt Siem Reap in the first quarter of 2013. The property, designed by award-winning Bangkok-based interior designer Bill Bensley, was voted as Cambodia’s No. 1 hotel by Travel + Leisure and ranked No. 29 on its World’s Best Hotels 2010 list. Bensley will oversee the upcoming renovation. Park Hyatt Siem Reap will include 107 guest rooms and suites and features two restaurants, a bar and a retail bakery. The hotel will also feature meeting facilities, a spa, fitness center, and two swimming pools.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts announced its Aloft® brand will open a new property in Cupertino, California in early 2013. Aloft Cupertino will be the third Aloft to open in California and its second in Silicon Valley, following the opening of Aloft San Francisco Airport in July 2012. Aloft Cupertino will deliver style at a steal with 123 spacious, loft-like rooms, forward-thinking technology and a vibrant, social atmosphere. Located in the heart of Cupertino’s business district, the new Aloft will be convenient to numerous high-tech businesses such as Apple, Hewlett Packard and IBM. Also nearby are Santa Clara University, HP Pavilion, Winchester Mystery House, and a selection of wineries and world-class golf courses. Amenities will include an indoor pool, w xyz sm bar, 24-hour fitness center and 2,000 square feet of flexible meeting space, ideal for both business meetings and social gatherings.

The Rezidor Hotel Group is to operate the Okoume Palace Hotel in Libreville, Gabon. Rezidor recently took over the management of the property. Rezidor will operate the property as an unbranded hotel for an interim period while the Okoume Palace Hotel (a former InterContinental Hotel) will undergo an extensive renovation. In September 2013, the hotel will be dual branded – offering a 330 rooms Radisson Blu hotel and a 140 rooms Park Inn by Radisson hotel tower. In addition, the complex will provide 5 restaurants & bars, extensive meeting facilities, a business class lounge, a gym, and an outdoor swimming pool.

De-Thompsonized and Re-Kimptonized 1: Hotel Sax in Chicago, which has been a Thompson for just over two years will turn into a Kimpton Hotel on April 27th. A Thompson source says the Sax was just “not up to brand standards” hence the reason why they took over Sutton Place, which will turn into Thompson Chicago after some renovations. This switch now means Thompson’s standing in the Windy City drops from two back down to one while Kimpton bumps up to five hotels in Chi-town. Meanwhile in Toronto, the Sutton Place Toronto Hotel has closed to be turned into condos.

De-Thompsonized and Re-Kimptonized 2: The Donovan House in Washington, DC will turn into a Kimpton Hotel on April 10. Previously it was managed by Thompson Hotels and apparently is leaving Thompson Hotels for the same reason as the Hotel Sax in Chicago. That’s down to 0 for Thompson in the capital, and up to 8 for Kimpton, not counting another 3 in Alexandria, just over the Virginia border.

“Business as usual” is assured as trendsetting boutique hotel JIA Hong Kong, which marked French design guru Philippe Starck’s hospitality design debut in Asia, is being re-launched under a new name J Plus Boutique Hotel from early May.

New owner CSI Properties Ltd, the parent company of the luxury lifestyle residential developer Couture Homes, maintains J Plus Boutique Hotel will continue the acclaimed, multi-award winning concept of its predecessor in buzzing Causeway Bay. Vivian Chau, General Manager, says: “The property continues to retain the sophistication, cutting edge design and sleek service for which it is renowned. Our vision is to embrace the concept on which it was founded and build a new brand that recognizes the integrity with which the hotel holds.”

With 56 ‘homely’ guest rooms and suites designed to more closely resemble trendy apartments than hotel rooms, the hotel is famed for Philippe Starck’s signature, sleek interior design twinned with ultra-modern amenities for fast-living professionals and style-conscious travelers. Studios of 380 sq ft and one-bedroom suites of 780 sq ft featuring designer fixtures are clearly defined into living, dining and working areas with the use of sheer curtains. Fully equipped kitchens and ultra-sleek bathrooms with luxury toiletries are in Arabescato cor marble. High-tech features include flat screen TVs that revolve 180 degrees, surround sound, home theatres and free broadband. Guests can entertain or just enjoy the outdoors on a second floor sundeck and podium.

Among minor changes to the new-look hotel, the top floor penthouse has been converted into conference and fitness facilities.

J Plus enjoys a stellar fine dining reputation headlined by Italian restaurant, The Drawing Room. With Master Chef, Roland Schuller, at the helm, The Drawing Room catapulted into the top of Hong Kong’s fine dining league when it opened in 2009. It continues as the signature standard-bearer of fine dining, in a homely ambience showcasing contemporary artworks, a unique ‘Home Delivery’ room service concept reflects the hotel’s relaxed atmosphere – allowing guests to enjoy local specialties delivered to their room as if they were ordering takeaways from home.

The hotel collected a host of awards in its ‘previous life’, including one of the five best boutique hotels in Greater China (The Independent, London). Other awards include: Leading Boutique Hotel by World Travel Awards 2007, Best Design Boutique Hotel in China by Starlight Awards 2007, Nominated as Best Design & Citywide/Regional Awards by International Restaurant and Hotel Awards 2008, 1st Runner-up of Best Brand Experience (Boutique Hotel category) by AdAsia Readership Travel Survey 2008 and Fodor’s 100 Hotel Awards – Design Category in November 2011. The hotel was also voted by Tripadvisor readers as one of the trendiest hotels in Hong Kong/ China in January 2012.

“Neighbourhood lifestyle” pentahotel Beijing debuts in Dong Cheng district.

pentahotel Beijing‘s “neighbourhood lifestyle hotel” concept combining fuss-free contemporary comfort with style, debuts in Beijing’s Dong Cheng District, providing a hub of casual relaxation and fun for guests, local residents and area visitors. The 307-room hotel joins pentahotel Shanghai as the latest Asia addition to the pentahotels group, whose popular concept includes 13 properties in Europe. Eighty properties are targeted to open by 2020.

A multi-purpose lounge, not lobby, is at the heart of every pentahotel and Beijing’s pentalounge is no exception. Designed as a lively bistro-style gathering place for meeting friends, it’s also an extension of the hotel’s guestrooms – a living room where guests can hang out and chill out, connect or disconnect. With WiFi throughout the hotel, guests can bring their own laptops or use the complimentary Internet corner.

The hotel’s New York loft-style rooms, designed to be sleek yet warm, clutter-free and streamlined, feature dark timber floors, a white and deep blue colour palette, a work desk area and high-speed broadband Internet access.

The new lobby, pentalounge and guestroom design was created by Shanghai’s Neri & Hu architectural design practice. The contemporary rustic décor in the public areas includes hardwoods and earth tones, wrought-iron pendant lights, charcoal granite flooring, brick walls, deep leather club chairs and wool rugs.

Pentalounge is anchored by the centre bar. Here, guests can order up affordable set lunches; sandwiches and snacks from the deli counter; and Western and Chinese “comfort foods” all day such as soups, burgers, pasta, salads, and congee, dumplings, barbecued pork and fried rice.

Or, guests can visit the Noodle Bar, a quirky contemporary take on a traditional noodle shop, featuring hand-pulled thin or thick noodles in rich broth with traditional fixings. On offer are Laksa, Beijing Noodles, Fishball Noodles, Sichuan Dan Dan Noodles and more.

The games room features Wii and videogames as well as an old-school pool table, darts and board games. It can double up as a non-conventional space for corporate brainstorming sessions and relaxed celebrations.

In addition to the games/meeting room on the pentalounge level, there are four meeting rooms on the sixteenth floor which combined can accommodate up to 100 people.

The neighbourhood lifestyle, 307-room pentahotel Beijing combines comfort, efficiency and style in a contemporary environment. Nestled in the heart of Beijing, pentahotel is conveniently located two minutes from Chongwenmen Metro Station. Wangfujing and the Pearl Market are a stone’s throw away for local cuisine and shopping opportunities

The InterCityHotel Group has joined forces with colleges of art to launch a special and unique project in which art students create tailored photographic works for InterCityHotels. Since 2008, all new InterCityHotels have featured specially produced photo art designed to match in with the respective hotel and its surrounding environment. In 2011, this successful project was extended to include existing InterCityHotels and hotels which have recently been renovated.

The Frankfurt-based InterCityHotel Group has been busy turning its city hotels into art galleries since 2008, when it implemented a concept unique in Germany. Under a special arrangement entered into with colleges, art students are producing photographic works for new and newly renovated InterCityHotels. The hotel group’s initial cooperation partner was the Academy of Fine Arts in Braun¬schweig, the project later being continued in conjunction with the Faculty of Design at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. The young artists involved undertake extensive preparatory work by carefully researching the past and present of the location in question. They then create photographic works of art which interpret the environment in which the hotel stands. The works themselves may be viewed both in the public areas of the hotel and in the guest rooms.

The newly constructed InterCityHotel in Dresden served as a pilot for the project in 2008. It was followed in the same year by establishments in Essen and Mainz and then by the InterCityHotels in Hannover, at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport and in Mannheim. The first newly renovated hotel to display specially created photo art was the InterCityHotel in Kiel in 2011. Art galleries have also been in place in Ulm and Vienna since last year.

A US$65 million property-wide renovation is set to complete next month.

The Hyatt Regency Atlanta opened as the Regency Hyatt House in 1967. It was designed by John C. Portman, Jr. and the first of many iconic “atrium” hotels designed by Portman such as Atlanta’s Peachtree Plaza, Los Angeles Bonaventure Hotel, Detroit’s Renaissance Center and the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. The revolving, rooftop Polaris Restaurant on top of the 22 story building was also a first of many designed by Portman. However, the restaurant was closed in 2004 as taller buildings were erected on all sides of the Hyatt Regency.

In 1971 the Ivy (now Radius) Tower was added and in 1982 the International Tower bringing the room count to 1,260.

Among the changes is a refresh of the hotel’s 22-story Atrium Lobby. Custom art created from brass key fob replicas from the original Regency Hyatt House embellish the reception area.

The hotel is introducing three food and beverage options for the lobby: Sway, a breakfast, lunch and dinner restaurant featuring Southern U.S. cuisine, Twenty Two Storys, featuring beer-influenced cuisine and Market offers 24-hour self-service including snacks, quick meals and bottles of wine.

Each of the hotel’s 1,260 guestrooms features new design elements and modern technology including a signature carpet design inspired by the Flora Raris sculpture located in the Atrium Lobby, wall coverings, drapes, artwork, 37-inch, LCD flat-panel televisions with HDTV channels, and iHome Dual alarm clock radios.

The renovations included a significant refresh of 180,000 sq ft (16,722 sq m) of meeting, boardroom, and exhibit space, including modernizing the 29,000 sq ft (2,694 sq m) Centennial Ballroom, the largest hotel ballroom in Georgia.

The renovations included the installation of energy-efficient LED lighting and Energy Star appliances.