Top Hotels In America

Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida isn’t your usual definition of a hotel. For one, it’s underwater. Nevertheless, it’s a unique concept that everybody should try at least once. The lodge originally began as the La Chalupa research laboratory. The lodge is located in a protected mangrove [...]

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Enjoy in the resort atmosphere experience of the Renaissance Westchester Hotel in White Plains, NY bounded on 30 acres of scenic countryside in Westchester County. Sited only 35 minutes from New York City, this deluxe White Plains, Westchester County Airport, historic Hudson Valley attractions, world-class shopping, and challenging golf courses. Enjoy newly renovated [...]

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The Los Manos Bed and Breakfast, Buena Vista, Colorado, has suites made from already dead trees that have dies naturally, Pine floors are taken from beetle infested dead trees as well as the adobe used for the walls which comes from local quarries, the resort boasts all natural and local products. Using solar and wind [...]

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The Asheville Green Cottage is green but the name goes deeper than the color of the moss and trees that decorate the rustic looking cottage as it blends in with it’s natural surroundings. They use organic mattresses from natural latex; eat organic fruit which is grown locally, organically produced wool and cotton used for their [...]

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Next we have one of the pioneers in the drive to promote green hotels in the US, the Kimpton Hotel chain. The Hotel Triton, features an extensive recycling program with most paper products coming from recycled materials. With water saving faucets, filtration systems and air purifiers which lessen the need for extensive environment control measures [...]

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Next on the list is the Sadie Cove Wilderness Lodge, Alaska, which runs totally of the grid by generating their own power with the use of wind and hydro electric generating units. The rustic ambiance gives a new meaning to the word relaxing in a true sense. Want a weekend away from the hassles and [...]

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We begin with, The Fairmont in Washington DC, which is part of a chain of hotels whose aim is to lessen their carbon footprint as they aim to help the environment as they do about their business. They offer free parking for all hybrid vehicles (also available in all the company’s sister properties in the [...]

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There is however another side to the hotel business which capitalizes more on lessening the impact they pose on the environment by shifting to greener technology and making the business fit in with the natural landscape as much as possible to lessen the impact it has on natural resources. Everything is re-used whenever possible lessening [...]

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The Hotel industry is considered to one of the most disruptive businesses on the planet in terms of the impact and pressure they place on natural resources. Imagine putting up a block of concrete in the middle of nowhere and the amount of resources that will be needed to lure people from all over to [...]

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