Originally, Walt had approached Hilton executives and other well-known hotel chains, hoping to convince them to finance the construction of a first-class hotel next to Disneyland. Wrather spent several days with Walt Disney, looking into the area's potential for expansion. Wrather first talked of locating it near the entrance to Disneyland. The best place to build your Hotel is near the Disneyland exit." Wrather agreed with Walt's logic and leased 60 acres of Disney-owned land on West Street directly across from the Disneyland exit. On March 18, 1955, Jack Wrather, Bonita Granville Wrather (his wife), and Anaheim Mayor Charles Pearson, using a three-handled shovel, officiated at the groundbreaking for the Disneyland Hotel.
Boutique Hotel. Even before I dog eared the pages of Herbert Ypma's first Hip Hotels book I was fascinated by the world of boutique hotel properties. "How cool would it be to be the general manager of a cool boutique hotel?" The right General Mangers are working at the wrong hotels. The Boutique Hotel
A boutique hotel is not defined by simply a hot design, as many would argue.
In my opinion, a boutique hotel is a property that is uniquely significant in four ways:
A boutique hotel must be an independent operation. Take W Hotels for example. In my opinion these are not boutique hotels. They look like a boutique hotel, even feel like one. Many boutique hotels would strive to be as great as a W. A boutique hotel must be operated as close to the actual physical operation as possible.
Lap of Luxury in the Alps of Italy
La Perla Corvara, Italy
Situated high in the Dolomites, the South Tyrolean lodge called La Perla is located in Corvara, a friendly Alpine village that's near the Swiss border. The lodge has traditional rooms with rustic wood furniture, decorative headboards and printed fabrics. Vigilius Mountain Resort South Tyrol, Italy
The hotel is modern in design with stone and concrete on lots of plain wood.
