The St. Regis Toronto [Master Thread]
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Trump Hotel Toronto May Rebrand as St. Regis
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Apparently Starwood challenged this in 1990 but lost. So we can assume Marriott would aim for a Ritz Carlton in Vancouver since it cannot use St. Regis!
So Marriott does have rights to St. Regis anywhere else in Canada besides Vancouver. Though I'd imagine the only cities Marriott would consider for St. Regis are Toronto and Montreal.
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Hope they manage to make a good run at it. Trump Hotel frequently prices well below anybody else downtown on a $/sqft rate (rooms start at 700sqft) and way below market competitors like Four Seasons. They need to be 2.5x to 3x current Trump rates.
Dividing the Trump rooms into 2 and hitting the same standard as the nearby Sheraton/Hilton would more than double revenue.
Dividing the Trump rooms into 2 and hitting the same standard as the nearby Sheraton/Hilton would more than double revenue.
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Threads merged.
Just a reminder, FT convention is not to discuss politics in a hotel forum, particularly local, domestic politicians which aren't of much interest to most members of our global community ....
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This independent boutique Vancouver St. Regis hotel has rights to the St. Regis name only in the "lower mainland of British Columbia."
https://lma.ca/real-st-regis-stand-up/
Apparently Starwood challenged this in 1990 but lost. So we can assume Marriott would aim for a Ritz Carlton in Vancouver since it cannot use St. Regis!
https://lma.ca/real-st-regis-stand-up/
Apparently Starwood challenged this in 1990 but lost. So we can assume Marriott would aim for a Ritz Carlton in Vancouver since it cannot use St. Regis!
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/trave...arq-vancouver/
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Yes, thank you. I'm all for jokes and light-hearted smears but these things can easily spiral out of hand quickly (seen it happen too many times).
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Anything with the word Marriott makes me queasy; when you say the name "Marriott" I think tacky, conservative, boring, green carpet, grandmas's drapes, Book of Mormon, and "American" food in an international hotel, and an also-ran caliber loyalty program. The OP and the company that bought Starwood would be wise to keep the words St. Regis and Marriott very separate.
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Anything with the word Marriott makes me queasy; when you say the name "Marriott" I think tacky, conservative, boring, green carpet, grandmas's drapes, Book of Mormon, and "American" food in an international hotel, and an also-ran caliber loyalty program. The OP and the company that bought Starwood would be wise to keep the words St. Regis and Marriott very separate.
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Anything with the word Marriott makes me queasy; when you say the name "Marriott" I think tacky, conservative, boring, green carpet, grandmas's drapes, Book of Mormon, and "American" food in an international hotel, and an also-ran caliber loyalty program. The OP and the company that bought Starwood would be wise to keep the words St. Regis and Marriott very separate.
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Anything with the word Marriott makes me queasy; when you say the name "Marriott" I think tacky, conservative, boring, green carpet, grandmas's drapes, Book of Mormon, and "American" food in an international hotel, and an also-ran caliber loyalty program. The OP and the company that bought Starwood would be wise to keep the words St. Regis and Marriott very separate.
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Before any more +1ers pile on, it's worth actually reading the article :
The hotel would be a "St Regis", a brand, as we all know, now owned by Marriott.
@:-)
Originally Posted by the article the OP refers to
The Trump International Hotel & Tower in Toronto may soon have a new name on the door, with Marriott International Inc.’s St. Regis brand seen as the front runner to manage the property, according to people familiar with the matter.
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