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Month: August 2020

Ocean House in Watch Hill RI

Posted on August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 by admin

Spending time with your family and your loved ones is essential. But to make your holiday more memorable and unique, you need to choose the right ambiance. Ocean House is one of the options that comes to the top of the list. It is a historical Rhode Island hotel that provides you all sorts of luxury. You will not find any lack of hospitality in New England’s Ocean House hotel. Let us look at the amenities and things you can do here.

Best Accommodations and Facilities

When it comes to the accommodations, all 49 guestrooms and 20 Signature Suites offer you comfortable, soothing, and spacious spaces to relax. The rooms are decorated with 20th-century decor with custom wooden furnishings. Of course, the interior artwork will amaze you, but don’t think it lacks any modern touch. You will get all modern amenities, including high-speed internet. You will get different types of rooms; they are as follows. 

  • Standard guestrooms
  • Deluxe guest rooms
  • Grand Deluxe Guest Rooms
  • Signature Suites
  • Suites 
  • Cottage collections and 
  • Resort Amenities 

Culinary

The fun of the holiday is incomplete without the delicious food. If you check the availability of options you can get, the Ocean House will make you believe that it houses an ocean of food varieties. You will get foods ranging from sophisticated dining to casual beach fare food to entertain your taste buds. They offer you fresh local ingredients because of their farm to table policy—the professionals of culinary delights welcome you and your companions to choose from a unique selection of intimate epicurean things. 

OH! Spa

There is no better place in the entire state of Rhode Island to enjoy a relaxing experience than Ocean House’s OH Spa. It is the only Forbes five star rated spa in Rhode Island. The spacious spa provides the best treatment to make your body feel relaxed. Don’t think that only the body will get all the pleasure in this place. The spa is situated on the bluffs of Watch Hill. Consequently, there are always fantastic views of the Atlantic Ocean. 

Experiences

Everyone who visits this place agrees that there is no better alternative to enjoy and have fun than the Ocean House. Enjoy New England’s chill winter nights with the roaring fire. The hotel overlooks a spectacular beach, sand dunes and Block Island Sound. The beach is only open to hotel guests and is very popular in the summer. The outdoor activities, including the resort activities, Mercedes Benz Program, and many more recreation facilities go on all seasons. If you have kids, for them there are also separate activities available to keep them engaged with a lot of fun and learning. Also, the hotel is on the edge of the village of Watch Hill which is quaint and has a lot of cute shops.

Celebrate Special Occasions

Unique places will always make your special days more memorable. If you are planning to celebrate your love, there is no better and luxurious place in New England. You will make your guests happy with the delicious food and the stunning views of this place, including the fantastic waterfront. 

Weddings are not the only thing you can schedule and book here. If you want to have a meeting in a luxurious and comfortable place, Ocean House will assist you with that. The calm and world-class hotel is the perfect place to design strategies for your business. 

Ocean House History

The original house was built in 1868 and was one of the grand hotels along the New England coast that people came to in the summer to get away from the heat of the city, especially New York. In 2003, it finally closed. It was showing its age. The number of guests had decreased over the years and with the lower revenue, not enough repairs were done to maintain the grand old hotel. When we stayed there in 1987, even then we wondered how safe the building was. It had great bones but had obviously seen better days. In 2004 a new structure was planned to replace the old hotel. The rooms are larger and more luxurious but from the outside, the hotel looks like a refurbished of the original grand hotel. It is now more popular than ever. Given all we have told you about the Ocean House, when are you planning on visiting? At the very least, drop by to have a drink and check it out.…

The Greenbrier, America’s Resort

Posted on August 14, 2020August 17, 2020 by admin

The Greenbrier is a luxurious resort in the United States. It is located in the well known Allegheny Mountains in the Greenbrier County of West Virginia, next to White Sulphur Springs. The Greenbrier covers a land of eleven thousand acres (approximately 4,500 ha) with 710 hotel quarters, over 55 outdoor and indoor parks and facilities, 20 restaurants and lounges, as well as 36 retail outlets.

The Greenbrier Hotel, as it stands now

The present Greenbrier, which was constructed in 1913, is a famous five-star hotel & resort. The Hotel Corporation of Greenbrier now operates as a member of Jim Justice’s industries. A Total of 26 US presidents have stayed at this resort, the last one being Dwight Eisenhower. The resort is also the site of an enormous underground bunker, which was built to provide shelter in an emergency for the US Congress at the time of the crucial cold war.

History

The resort property has a sulphur water spring at its center. Based on “taking the waters”, which was a popular tradition among local Americans, the property was called “White Sulphur Springs” for the first hundred and twenty five years after it was built. The asset changed several hands among forces between Confederate and Union Armies during the civil war.

After the civil war had finished, the resort was reopened and soon became a spot for vacationing. The resort was rebuilt multiple times, adding more and more attractive features to it. During World War II, the hotel served as a diplomatic detention center until July 1942. Later during the war, it was converted to a 2000-bed hospital and served as the same till June 1946. After that, the resort was completely redecorated and restored again.

Highlights

The Casino Club

A permanent casino, named ‘The Casino Club’ was established in its premises on July 2, 2010. As per the state’s terms & conditions, only Greenbrier’s guests can visit this casino. However, the concept of ‘guest’ has often varied between the hotel and state governors.

Presidents’ Cottage Museum

It’s a two-storied building with displays of the twenty-six presidents’ visits and the Greenbrier’s history.

Features

Golf

The Greenbrier has four magnificent golf courses that have a special place in the game’s history. The Greenbrier resort course hosted the Ryder Cup in 1979. From 2010 until 2019, a PGA Tour event named ‘The Greenbrier Classic’ also took place here.

Tennis

The resort contains a tennis stadium of 2,500 seats, five outdoor courts which are Har-Tru clay, and five more indoor ones which are Deco-Turf.

The Bunker

The US government approached the Greenbrier to assist in creating a secret emergency location center to house the Congress after the nuclear holocaust in the late 1950s. The feature is now an attraction to the visitors, who can tour the present declassified facilities, named The Bunker. The resort has been a major influence in history since the late 1900s till now. It even had parts in video games (e.g. Fallout 76), novels (e.g. Entombed), etc. It was the center of one of the most memorable moments on the US game show named Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.…

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