Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group held a full service brands conference at the Radisson Blu Aqua in Chicago the last three days of February 2013.

This is my second stay at the hotel courtesy of Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group. I was there for three free nights last month during the Carlson Rezidor Full Service Brands (Radisson Blu, Radisson, Park Plaza brands) hotel conference. In November 2011 I was invited for the media familiarization trip for the hotel opening.

Links to hotel articles from the 2011 trip are at the end of this post.

This post focuses on the Radisson Blu Aqua hotel public spaces and The Lounge on the 17th floor. The room will be covered in a separate post to show the difference in detail between the two room styles and their décor. Read More…

“Experience is the teacher of all things” is a quotation attributed to Julius Caesar.

Caesars Palace Las Vegas has no apostrophe in the name. The idea is that all guests are Caesars.

Well, some guests at Caesars receive a welcome more imperial than others as I learned on a site visit to Caesars Palace on the opening night of the New Media Expo January 2013 conference in Las Vegas.

Caesars invited a few bloggers to tour some suites in their one year old Octavius Tower. The Octavius Tower and Augustus Tower are two of the six hotel towers at Caesars Palace Las Vegas. Together they are referred to as “The Laurel Collection” when booking on the website. Read More…

The last hotel night and activities for the 3-day “post-TBEX Europe 2012 Girona, Spain” Costa Brava Tourism sponsored tour for a van full of eight travel bloggers was at the spa hotel Balneari Prats in Caldes de Malavella.

Balneari Prats Hotel & Spa, Caldes de Malavella

The small town of Caldes de Malavella, population under 5,000 residents today, is prominent for Roman spa ruins and bottled mineral water.

2,000 years ago Romans settled in this location for its thermal springs. Read More…