The St. Regis Toronto [Master Thread]
Apr 1, 2019, 9:16 am
#152
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That's not a compliant breakfast. You're suppose to get breakfast for you and one person.
$30 Canadian (approximately $22) is nothing with inflated, big city hotel food-and-beverage prices, especially when the flagship St. Regis in New York City has a breakfast benefit that equates to $135 per room.
For example, at the St. Regis Toronto, the "Canadian breakfast" consisting of two eggs, breakfast potato, sausage or bacon, toast, juice, and tea or coffee is $32 before tax and tip. Meanwhile, a continental breakfast consisting of pastries, food, juice and tea or coffee is $22 before tip and tax. If I remember correctly, Ontario's tax is 13%.
So, the St. Regis Toronto should be reported and reviewed on Trip Advisor as a noncompliant property.
$30 Canadian (approximately $22) is nothing with inflated, big city hotel food-and-beverage prices, especially when the flagship St. Regis in New York City has a breakfast benefit that equates to $135 per room.
For example, at the St. Regis Toronto, the "Canadian breakfast" consisting of two eggs, breakfast potato, sausage or bacon, toast, juice, and tea or coffee is $32 before tax and tip. Meanwhile, a continental breakfast consisting of pastries, food, juice and tea or coffee is $22 before tip and tax. If I remember correctly, Ontario's tax is 13%.
So, the St. Regis Toronto should be reported and reviewed on Trip Advisor as a noncompliant property.
Apr 1, 2019, 9:57 am
#153
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That's not a compliant breakfast. You're suppose to get breakfast for you and one person.
$30 Canadian (approximately $22) is nothing with inflated, big city hotel food-and-beverage prices, especially when the flagship St. Regis in New York City has a breakfast benefit that equates to $135 per room.
For example, at the St. Regis Toronto, the "Canadian breakfast" consisting of two eggs, breakfast potato, sausage or bacon, toast, juice, and tea or coffee is $32 before tax and tip. Meanwhile, a continental breakfast consisting of pastries, food, juice and tea or coffee is $22 before tip and tax. If I remember correctly, Ontario's tax is 13%.
So, the St. Regis Toronto should be reported and reviewed on Trip Advisor as a noncompliant property.
$30 Canadian (approximately $22) is nothing with inflated, big city hotel food-and-beverage prices, especially when the flagship St. Regis in New York City has a breakfast benefit that equates to $135 per room.
For example, at the St. Regis Toronto, the "Canadian breakfast" consisting of two eggs, breakfast potato, sausage or bacon, toast, juice, and tea or coffee is $32 before tax and tip. Meanwhile, a continental breakfast consisting of pastries, food, juice and tea or coffee is $22 before tip and tax. If I remember correctly, Ontario's tax is 13%.
So, the St. Regis Toronto should be reported and reviewed on Trip Advisor as a noncompliant property.
Apr 1, 2019, 12:43 pm
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Always good to learn new ways of doing things ^I do plan to pass on my views to management when I’m back at home. Realistically, there is nothing that the hotel could/would have done to change the majority of my complaints. To do so would have required a minor refurbishment (well, except perhaps vacuuming away the stray hairs.). They certainly would not have relaid carpet or installed normal light bulbs, or fixed the lighting designs of the rooms during my stay.
Apr 20, 2019, 9:39 am
#155
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Breakfast Amenity for Plats is $56.32 credit towards breakfast at the restaurant on the top floor with $6.60 going towards a service charge (tip) to the restaurant. So in essence, the Breakfast amenity is $50 total (for two people).
I noticed similar issues as London Elite with the lumps in carpet and sink not draining but the evening turndown service took care of that.
Received room upgrade as well.
I noticed similar issues as London Elite with the lumps in carpet and sink not draining but the evening turndown service took care of that.
Received room upgrade as well.
Apr 20, 2019, 7:25 pm
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Breakfast Amenity for Plats is $56.32 credit towards breakfast at the restaurant on the top floor with $6.60 going towards a service charge (tip) to the restaurant. So in essence, the Breakfast amenity is $50 total (for two people).
I noticed similar issues as London Elite with the lumps in carpet and sink not draining but the evening turndown service took care of that.
Received room upgrade as well.
I noticed similar issues as London Elite with the lumps in carpet and sink not draining but the evening turndown service took care of that.
Received room upgrade as well.
Apr 20, 2019, 10:53 pm
#157
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You can get an app, entree, and drink with that for one person.
For two people, we got two entrees and two coffees and it cost us near $70, total with tips.
Food and service were great so wouldn't say it wasn't worth it but would agree that it's not what's considered in line for a typical plat breakfast amenity especially since there's no lounge.
For two people, we got two entrees and two coffees and it cost us near $70, total with tips.
Food and service were great so wouldn't say it wasn't worth it but would agree that it's not what's considered in line for a typical plat breakfast amenity especially since there's no lounge.
May 29, 2019, 5:15 pm
#158
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There was a crowd in front of the St Regis this afternoon to watch the Golden State Warriors bus pull up and the team unload and check in. One night’s rest before Game One against the Raptors in the NBA finals tomorrow!
Jun 27, 2019, 3:21 pm
#159
Join Date: Jan 2011
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I’m going to roll the dice on a 5-night award stay for my better-half (I will be there the 1’st night).
i was able to apply a suite award, which the Tor Ritz won’t allow.
Getting breakfast instead of unlikely lounge access at the Ritz is another factor.
Talk me out of it...
LTT, AMB (12 nights needed to renew to-date).
i was able to apply a suite award, which the Tor Ritz won’t allow.
Getting breakfast instead of unlikely lounge access at the Ritz is another factor.
Talk me out of it...
LTT, AMB (12 nights needed to renew to-date).
Last edited by johnston21; Jun 27, 2019 at 4:51 pm
Jun 27, 2019, 5:12 pm
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For the uninformed the SR was formerly the Trump .
A bit of history...https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2...ns-anyway.html...
Let’s say you’re Donald Trump.
It’s 2002 and you’ve agreed to have your name emblazoned across the top of the tallest residential tower in Canada, a $500-million, five-star condo-hotel in downtown Toronto.
Here’s the thing: Only months into the project, your lead developer is publicly exposed in the pages of the Toronto Star as a fugitive fraudster on the run from U.S. justice. Your major institutional partner — the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company — bails shortly after.
Your remaining partners in the deal — a group of investors assembled by the criminal who was just outed — include a New York camera store owner, a former Chicago nursing-home administrator, two small-time landlords in Britain and a little-known Toronto billionaire who earned a fortune in the former Soviet Union.
The one thing they all have in common — no experience in condo tower development.
Do you pull out? For Trump, the answer was no. The billionaire dug in, repeatedly told the world he was investing his own money in the project — claims that would prove false — and gushed about its spectacular promise, knowing his profits were guaranteed...
A bit of history...https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2...ns-anyway.html...
Let’s say you’re Donald Trump.
It’s 2002 and you’ve agreed to have your name emblazoned across the top of the tallest residential tower in Canada, a $500-million, five-star condo-hotel in downtown Toronto.
Here’s the thing: Only months into the project, your lead developer is publicly exposed in the pages of the Toronto Star as a fugitive fraudster on the run from U.S. justice. Your major institutional partner — the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company — bails shortly after.
Your remaining partners in the deal — a group of investors assembled by the criminal who was just outed — include a New York camera store owner, a former Chicago nursing-home administrator, two small-time landlords in Britain and a little-known Toronto billionaire who earned a fortune in the former Soviet Union.
The one thing they all have in common — no experience in condo tower development.
Do you pull out? For Trump, the answer was no. The billionaire dug in, repeatedly told the world he was investing his own money in the project — claims that would prove false — and gushed about its spectacular promise, knowing his profits were guaranteed...
Jun 30, 2019, 9:17 pm
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Jun 30, 2019, 10:01 pm
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Oct 6, 2019, 6:12 pm
#164
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Anyone have more recent service/upgrade reports from this property? Looks like I'll be staying here for two nights end of month on 350 CAD corp rate, plus some amex offer for 100 USD back. I'm hoping I can get a suite upgrade because I constantly see unbooked suites at this property when checking what's available for same-day booking.
Nov 26, 2019, 5:44 pm
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There's an article on StR Toronto (former Trump hotel) in the November (print) issue of the KE inflight entertainment magazine. Pretty pictures. Hotel has 258 rooms of which 124 are suites (minimum 750 sq ft). They also make the odd comment that "the majority of the suites are larger than an average guest room."