The Spa Anjali at the Westin Riverfront Resort in Beaver Creek, Colorado announced that it has been inducted into the prestigious Starwood Spa Collection, which is one of the largest collections in the world featuring premiere spas. The Starwood Spa Collection is comprised of a total of 52 different hotels and resorts scattered across 20 different countries. The Starwood Spa Collection’s members are all renowned for offering incomparable levels of service, luxury level treatments and an unwavering level of excellence. This year, only ten spas have joined the Starwood Spa Collection, and Spa Anjali is one of them.
Spa Anjali is one of the first eco-friendly spas in Colorado, and it offers a number of signature treatments that have been inspired by the mountains and their healing traditions. Spa Anjali comprises a grand total of 23,000 square feet and offers a complete fitness and wellness center. At Spa Anjali you will find 14 different treatment rooms as well as a full service salon, an extensive collection of fitness equipment, a lap pool filled with saline water, a grand cycle studio and a studio for group fitness that was designed to accommodate yoga, pilates and more.
The Westin Riverfront resort and spa was opened in September of 2008, and is located at the base of the Beaver Creek Mountain. This resort and spa is well on its way to becoming the first high end resort in Colorado to have received LEED certification on the behalf of the United States Green Building Council. This resort makes use of all environmentally friendly products as well as spa linens that are organic. There is a unique green type of check in that allows guests to have a discount on their spa services if they use the same robe for the spa as in their guest residences so that two robes do not have to be laundered.
The Starwood Spa Collection is featuring some of the most renowned spas in the world, and representatives of the Spa Anjali say that they are proud and honored to be a part of the collection. They are all looking forward to growing the spa while showcasing the eco friendly practices that have become commonplace among them.
Over this past spring, the Spa Anjali launched their own signature line of body mists, body butters, bath teas and salts. Each of the products is made on a local basis in the magnificent Vail Valley in Colorado, and only the highest quality of ingredients are used in order to purify, revive and relax naturally. One of the foundational cures used in their signature line of body products is hydration.
The addition of the Spa Anjali to the Starwood Spa Collection is reaffirming the position of this collection as one of the most prestigious in the world.
Cocktails and Clues begin at 6:45pm
The Crime Scene begins at 7:00pm
Guests can check out the buffet at 7:30pm
For $64 dollars per person, each guest will receive dinner, the show, a drink, tax, the dinner gratuity and complimentary valet parking. There are also overnight accommodations that are available, ranging in price from $259 for Murder Mystery for 2 with a traditional queen bed to $379 for the Murder Mystery for 2 with a Presidential suite.
Upcoming Murder 1936 is titled “It’s my Party, I can Die if I want to”
This is our birthday celebration murder, where we will be exploring some truly thorny question involving youth, maturity as well as mortality. The guests will be invited to the fiftieth birthday party for the mayor, where they will be given an opportunity to meet some of the most portentous and most influential people in the town. The gifts and the guests will be more than enough to make this a fascinating murder mystery all the way to the very end.
Our Menu will consist of:
Appetizers -
* Crispy Chicken with Ricotta Cheese Rounds and Marinara Sauce
* Mini Sweet Peppers with Goat Cheese Stuffing
Buffet Items -
* Boulderado Mixed Green salad accented with Radish Sprouts and Pickled Beets and Served with an Orange and Basil Dressing
* Fresh Baked Brioche Bread Rolls with Butter
* Golden Crusted Potatoes Au Gratin with Caramelized Onions
* Fresh Julienne Butternut Squash and Broccoli with Roasted Shallot Butter
* Grilled Roasted Squash Portobello Mushrooms with Ricotta Cheese and Tomato Provencal Sauce
* Catfish Crusted with Cornmeal with Seared Spinach, Fried Green Tomatoes and Saffron Buerre Blanc
* Beef Tenderloin Medallions Glazed with Maple, Red Wine and Cremini Mushrooms Sauce
Dessert -
* French Apple and Cranberry Tarts Accented with Chantilly Cream
For Reservations, Please Call 303-440-2880 or visit the Hotel Hotel Boulderado Online
Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association’s new promotion, the Free for All, is a way to show visitors to this premier Colorado area how many fun and interesting things there are to do that are no-cost. With lodging in the area starting at only $89 per night and tons of free things to do, there’s no reason vacationers can’t enjoy the great outdoors and Colorado without breaking the bank.
The Free for All promotion is designed to point out only those activities that are free. These include things like enjoying activities on the Roaring Fork River and the Colorado River, other outdoor activities, free jazz concerts and activities designed to teach about the Western heritage of the area. Adventure, history and music are just some of the things visitors to this mountain resort area can enjoy gratis this summer.
Some of the free things to enjoy in Glenwood Springs include hiking through the White River National Forest, floating down the Colorado River, kayaking at the Glenwood Whitewater Park and bicycling on the 16-mile bike trail that runs along the river through Glenwood Canyon. For those with more endurance, a 40-mile trail, the Rio Grande, runs through Woody Creek all the way to Aspen.
For those who want to interact with wildlife this summer, you can observe them from the Glenwood Canyon Recreation Trail. Fly-fishing is a popular summer activity on the Roaring Fork River, and for those who don’t want to fish but want to observe them instead, you can visit the Mitchell Creek fish hatchery and feed the trout.
Wednesday nights feature free jazz concerts outdoors, and Friday nights feature Friday Night Flicks that run through August where you can lounge on the lawn and watch movies outdoors. For history buffs, Doc Holliday’s memorial rests in the Linwood Cemetery, and self-guided walking tours through the history-rich area are popular.
For free scheduled events, things like free train rides that teach train safety will be offered on June 12th. An annual vintage car show at the MG Rallye is scheduled June 13th and 14th. And the Strawberry Days, Colorado’s oldest festival, takes place June 19th through 21st where free strawberries with ice cream is available, as well as a craft show, a parade, and more.
On July 4th you can enjoy fireworks, and in August a classic car show is held on the August 1st and 2nd. On the 15th and 16th, you can enjoy Devereux cup polo matches and even meet the Hotel Colorado Polo Team.
Free buses transport guests throughout Glenwood Springs, which is located 165 miles from Denver, through the scenic Rocky Mountains. To find out more about the Free for All promotion, call 970-945-6589 or visit the website at www.glenwoodchamber.com. Toll free for reservations: 888 4 GLENWOOD (445 3696).
The Hotel Boulderado is offering a number of different incentives to anyone that books a meeting after June 1st to be held before August 31st of 2009. For example, the Hotel Boulderado is going to be offering a 25 percent discount on all rentals of meeting rooms during this period of time. There are a number of different incentives that can be chosen. One of the following incentives can be chosen by groups of up to 20 persons, and groups larger than 20 can choose two of the following incentives.
$5 discount per person on any of the 2009 Hotel Boulderado meeting packages,
Afternoon break upgrade, up to a $12 per person value on any of the 2009 Hotel Boulderado meeting packages,
Free upgrade to a suite for one of the group’s overnight guests,
Free upgrade to a gourmet coffee service on any of the 2009 Hotel Boulderado meeting packages, which is a $5.50 value per person,
25 percent discount on all rentals of all 2009 Hotel Boulderado meeting packages,
Complimentary hotel room certificates which can be used within the period of one year.
The Culinary teams at the Grand Hyatt Denver, the Hyatt Hotels of Denver Downtown and the Hyatt Regency Denver are coming together to sponsor Tiri’s Garden Herb Garden on California and 15th in the downtown area of Denver. The garden is both grown and maintained by students attending a non profit organization Urban Peak, which serves the needs of homeless youth.
A cool cuisine summer menu has been created, incorporating herbs that are grown and produced in Colorado. The menu will also include cool cocktails that use these ingredients in order to flavor and garnish them. The menu is going to be offered in June and July for both lunch and dinner, and 20 percent of the proceeds are going to be donated to Concerts for Kids by the Hyatt resort group.
Some of the menu items offered during this period of time include Thai Basil Cucumber Soup, Rice Salad with Mint Yogurt Dressing, Oven Roasted Chicken Breast marinated with Soy Ginger, Red Endive, Mango, Spinach and Mozzarella with Sweet Basil, and Orange Lavender Sorbet. More information about this special event can be found by contacting the Hyatt resort group in Denver.
Stan Brown, President of Rock Resorts and Vail Resorts Lodging Company, has recently announced that he is going to be stepping down from his position as president, effective on the 19th of June. He is moving on to become the COO of Holiday Retirement Corporation, which is a provider of senior housing that has more than 300 different independent retirement communities located all across North America.
Stan Brown was originally appointed as the chief operating officer and executive vice president of Rock Resorts and Vail Resorts in June of 2007, and in October of 2008 he stepped up to become the president of the company. The company has not yet filled his position, but they have immediately begun a search to find a new president for the hospitality division of the company. A Chief Executive Officer by the name of Rob Katz is going to oversee operations in the interim.
After two years running the hospitality operations, Stan Brown has managed to help drive the growth and success of the Vail Resorts company. Although he is moving on to something new, Rob Katz and the rest of the Vail Resorts staff wish him well.
