Around The (Travel) Websites: What Consumers Are Reading …

Wish in Miami Beach was number seven on Trip Advisor’s Top Ten Romantic Restaurants in U.S. List.

Fort Lauderdale’s Lago Mar Resort, the Premier Hotel, and La Quinta Cypress Creek Inn received very good customer reviews in Trip Advisor. Majestic Hotel (Miami/South Beach) listed under negative hotel stories.

Trip Advisor’s “Travelers’ Choice 2010” Awards showed Sanibel as # 6 and Sarasota as #7 in the “Top 10 Beaches and Sun Destinations in the U.S.” category. In the “Top Nightlife Destinations in the U.S.”, Miami Beach placed at number seven.

Trip Advisor launched TripWow whereby travelers can easily put together a free travel slideshow (video) of their vacation photos. These shows can be embedded in blogs, etc. and/or shared via various social networking sites.

Google now offers live hotel rates on its popular map services.

The Fodor’s “Choice Gold Awards 2010” nominated these local hotels in the following categories -- In the “Best Design Hotels”: The Delano (Miami Beach), Fontainebleau (Miami Beach); In “Best Hotels for Kids and Families”: The Acqualina Resort (Miami Beach);
In “Best Hotel Pools”: The National (Miami Beach); in “Best Urban Escapes”: The Four Seasons Hotel (Miami).

Conde Nast Traveler’s Concierge.com World Beat featured an article (from men.style.com) on the “Worlds Best Hotel Design Details in Design and Architecture”. The article mentioned the Raleigh in South Beach for its coral pink stag filament motif light bulbs and featured the 12-foot steel black staircase at the Mondrian Hotel in South Beach.

Conde Nast’s “2010 World’s Sexiest Beach Hotels” category featured the W Fort Lauderdale. Considering most of the other nominees were in exotic locations, this was quite an honor.

Conde Nast’s “Hot List Hotels 2010” included 134 hotels worldwide that debuted in the last year and showed hotel “innovation, stylish service, technology and transporting aura.” Of the 134, 3 were in South Florida: The Betsey (Miami Beach), The Seagate (Delray Beach), and the W South Beach (Miami Beach).

Best, Julie Wernick, HSMAInsider. (June, 2010)
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