{"id":194,"date":"2008-12-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/new-renovated-hotels-open-in-beverly-hills-miami\/"},"modified":"2016-12-17T14:43:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T20:43:25","slug":"new-renovated-hotels-open-in-beverly-hills-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/new-renovated-hotels-open-in-beverly-hills-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"New, renovated hotels open in Beverly Hills, Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Beverly<\/a>
\nBy Joe Brancatelli<\/em><\/p>\n

HOTEL HOT SHEET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Montage<\/strong><\/a>, a luxury resort in Laguna Beach, California, has opened a second property in Beverly Hills<\/strong>. The 201-room hotel is the first newly built property in Beverly Hills in more than a decade. \u2026 The Fontainebleau<\/strong> has reopened in Miami Beach<\/strong> after a $500 million renovation. The 22-acre resort, famous for its curvy, Morris Lapidus design and as one of the locations of Goldfinger, now has 1,500 rooms and a dozen restaurants and bars. \u2026 Among the baker’s dozen of new properties that Hampton Inn<\/strong> has opened in the last few weeks, the most notable are the 146-room property near the Empire State Building in Manhattan and a 119-room branch in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. \u2026Holiday Inn Express<\/strong> has opened branches in Taichung City and Taoyuan, Taiwan. \u2026 Aloft<\/strong>, the newest brand from Starwood<\/strong><\/a>, has opened a 186-room outpost in the Haidain district of Beijing<\/strong><\/a>. \u2026 The Hotel Des Indes<\/strong> in The Hague, Netherlands, is now part of the Luxury Collection. \u2026 The once-prestigious Hotel Ambassador on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris<\/strong><\/a>‘ 9th arrondissement, most recently known as the Millennium Opera, is switching to the Radisson flag. It becomesthe Radisson Ambassador Hotel<\/strong> on December 31. … Hilton Garden Inn continues to grow in Italy<\/strong><\/a>. Its two newest properties are at Malpensa Airport in Milan<\/strong><\/a> and in the San Lazzaro di Savena district on the outskirts of Bologna<\/strong>. That makes five Garden Inns now open in Italy, with three more on the way in the next year<\/p>\n

AIRPORT REPORT<\/strong><\/p>\n

New Runways, New Hotels, New Dining Options<\/strong>: Alaska Airlines<\/strong> says it will add a Portland<\/strong><\/a> (Oregon)-Long Beach<\/strong> route on February 8. \u2026 Mexican food fans take note: La Casita, the much-admired tamale house in Denver<\/strong><\/a>, has opened a branch in the Concourse C Food Court at Denver International<\/strong><\/a>. \u2026 Free, advertising-supported WiFi service is now available at Oakland Airport<\/strong><\/a>. \u2026 Just in time for the plunge in traffic, new runways opened at Seattle-Tacoma<\/strong><\/a>, Chicago\/O’Hare<\/strong><\/a> and Washington\/Dulles<\/strong><\/a> airports. \u2026 Meanwhile, a $10 million renovation has converted the former Four Points at Newark Airport into the Crowne Plaza Newark Airport<\/strong><\/a>. \u2026 American Airlines<\/strong><\/a> now offers boarding passes on mobile devices. The paperless trial begins at its Chicago\/O’Hare<\/strong><\/a> hub as well as Los Angeles<\/strong><\/a> and John Wayne\/Orange County<\/strong> airports.<\/p>\n

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