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Kimberly Pierceall
Kim grew up in tourist-haven Palm Springs back when then-Mayor Sonny Bono stopped raucous Spring Break revelers and launched the annual film festival. She also remembers when the Aerial Tramway’s cars didn’t spin. Reporting for The Press-Enterprise business section since February 2005, she regularly covers tourism-related news.
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Is Your Favorite Hotel Red or Blue?
Which party has won the hearts and minds of the lodging and tourism industry in the election so far? For the first time since 1994, the industry and its employees have spent more supporting the Democratic Party ($1.68 million) than…
Hotel Suites for John and Paul — but no Ringo or George??
What would be an appropriate name for any hotel, especially in Liverpool, England is now a lodging ode to The Beatles — The Hard Days Night Hotel. The Lennon suite goes for $1,300 a night and features a white baby…
Mondrian Stole Your Sexiness, Palm Springs – Want it Back?
A promo for the proposed Mondrian Hotel that’s expected to be built near the Palm Springs Convention Center is online on YouTube.com. I saw it for the first time during a Palm Springs Economic Development Corp. meeting a couple weeks…
Heck of a Hotel in La Quinta
(Homewood Suites La Quinta) Out of 26 new Homewood Suites that opened in 2007, the Homewood Suites in La Quinta is king among customers according to the company that manages it. Windsor Hospitality Group claims they had the highest…
Things that Don’t Fit In a Suitcase? 5-gallon Punch Bowl
Admittedly, I’ve taken my fair share of shampoos, conditioners and stationary sets from hotels, but a 5-gallon punch bowl?? Or banquet chairs?? That takes a special breed of person – particularly a Copperfield or MacGyver with suspect morals or prankster…
Destination Seattle: Rock Like Pearl Jam in your Hotel Lobby
As if I needed another reason to visit Seattle — the Hotel Monaco is now offering Guitar Hero III nights in its lobby every Friday from 5 to 6 p.m. during its usual wine hour, according to a story from…
Reservations for Recession
What’s the first thing to line-item veto in corporate budgets when the economy starts to sour? Travel. And what can you or I do without? You guessed it — travel. That’s what happened during the last recession go around. One…
Free Food Alert! Hotel Restaurant Re-Opening
The Agua Caliente Casino Resort and Spa is a few months away from opening its $300 million hotel but before it does, the tribe is re-opening its Steakhouse restaurant this Friday at 5 p.m. It’s inside the hotel, so chances…
Possible Hotel Touchdown in Temecula
Temecula is being eyed for a new hotel. The Staubach Company which was founded by former Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback Roger Staubach, was in town Nov. 14 to scope out possible locations for a hotel, according to a report from the…
Inland Hotels are Reality Show Stars
There’s always a chance that while watching reality shows, typically any of the many on VH1 or MTV, you’ll catch a glimpse of our Inland Empire’s hotel offerings. The Miramonte Resort & Spa Starred in the first season of Flavor…
First aLoft Hotel in Nation in Rancho Cucamonga?
The developers of an aLoft hotel in Rancho Cucamonga are still aiming to be the first in the nation to open their aLoft hotel. The much ballyhooed offshoot from Starwood Hotels aims to be a hip, trendy business hotel for…
Only in Dubai …
(Nakheel) Leave it to Dubai to let a developer build a donut-shaped hotel on a man-made island. According to other hotel blogs Dubai developer Nakheel, which has been working on making a series of island that are shaped like…
Hotel Chooses Bob Hope, Shelves Plan for Indian Wells
Indian Wells has lost a second luxury hotel brand that had plans to build a resort near the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Today, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts announced it will be the luxury brand for a new resort to sit…
Pillow Talk
(Your choice of pillows at the Holiday Inn) My philosophy: the more pillows the better. Holiday Inn has answered my call. Resting on the beds at the new Holiday Inn City Center in Palm Springs are “Pillow Menus” that…
I Wonder if Splashtopia is a Democracy
(KSL Resorts) Splashtopia at the Rancho Las Palmas Resort and Spa in Rancho Mirage I wasn’t a big swimmer as a kid but I certainly couldn’t pass up the chance to go to a water park (favorite ride then…