First of all Cottonwood, the post was obviously about the new
Downtown, major convention center adjacent Hyatt and Sheraton, which were newly completed in both Denver and Phoenix. There was no statement regarding the metro Denver hotels in general or of a Scottsdale, or Park City/Deer Valley for that matter. Again, the post was dealing entirely with downtown, large, convention specific hotels. Interestingly, my assessment of the large,convention Hyatt/Sheraton was coming from the overwhelmingly critical remarks made by local forumers in Denver and Phoenix itself, who have been very negative, and disappointed in the two hotels design. I have in the past actually been a lot more positive about the Hyatt and Sheraton than their own locals.
Oh, and kudos to you too Cottonwood, you're a great Cheerleader for Boise.
And yes, IMO, particularly with The Grand, neither downtown convention Hyatt Regency or Sheraton is even in the same universe in quality of materials used, both exterior and and interior presentation, luxurious oppulence, and service as The Grand.
Hey, to Hell with your's or my opinion. I would much rather listen to the unbiased opinion of Mobil, which is the world's most highly coveted hotelier critic.
Downtown Denver has one hotel that rates on the same, highly respected Mobil Star level as Downtown Salt Lake City's Grand, the very fine, "Brown Palace." However, the Brown Palace is a much smaller boutique hotel of 241 rooms, and is not considered Denver's convention specific property. As of now, metro Denver has no four to five star hotels. However, I'm sure the Four Seasons will easily qualify as a four or five star boutique hotel. And of course, one of my favorite places on earth, which is Western Colorado, "has two four star and two five star hotels."
Metro Phoenix has four top-ranked hotels, that rate four-stars. None of these are downtown, and for the most part are not any closer to the downtown Phoenix major convention center than Park City/Deer Valley. All metro Phoenix top hotels are smaller to much smaller than Downtown Salt Lake's Grand.
Metro Park City/Deer Valley has not only a top five star hotel,(Stein Erickson) but four uber-posh properties, either newly completed or soon to be completed, which will easily qualify for the four, or even possibly the five star rating, given the properties other world renowned records. The four newby's in metro Park City and Deer Valley include The St. Regis, The Skylodge, The Montage, and The Waldorf Astoria's, Dakota Lodge.
I guess I could go on and on about the four new metro ultra-luxe properties, along with The Grand and Stein's. But that would kind of be rubbing someone's nose in their opinion of Salt Lake's lack of ultra fine, top-ranked hotels, j/k.
Unless you want to consider The Vegas Strip as downtown, Salt Lake, along with it's metro has an abundance of some of the world's finest resort hotels. The Grand, especially considering it's size, blows the door's off not all, but most
downtown convention hotels in opulence and service. This is not my opinion, but the opinion of the industry's foremost critic.
Again, as was pointed out in my previous post. Downtown Salt Lake doesn't need a large, top-ranked convention hotel. It has one of the comparitively finest in the nation with The Grand. What Salt Lake needs is a large convention hotel across the street from, or on top of the Salt Palace, not several blocks away. And again, my hope will be that it will be not just another large commercial-style convention hotel, but something truely unique and eye-popping, say like our library.
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I'm amazed Steven at all of the great projects going up at the U of U.
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