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Oct 29, 2007 | 9:45 pm
#17
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Programs: AA CK, Amtrk SE, AmEx Plat, Bonvoy Plat, HH Gold, Accor Plat, WOH Glbst
Posts: 206
Searching for Regent in Miami Beach FL returns a non-result. I'm surprised because (a) it's an option on the "Search for Awards" page, and (b) when a Radisson doesn't have award nights available, it says so and offers paid rates. I'd have expected Regent to do the same, or even say "doesn't participate, here are the paid rates".
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Oct 30, 2007 | 8:27 pm
#19
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Programs: AA CK, Amtrk SE, AmEx Plat, Bonvoy Plat, HH Gold, Accor Plat, WOH Glbst
Posts: 206
...another domestic Carlson property one goes bye bye. Good thing they have the European divison!
Oct 30, 2007 | 11:47 pm
#20
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 8,573
Not just South Beach, I notice on the Regent site that the only two properties in North America are Boston and Bal Harbour FL, neither actually open yet. Didn't they have one in Beverly Hills and another in the US? Not any more!
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Oct 31, 2007 | 7:12 am
#21
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: West Michigan
Programs: DL, UA, AA, (airline status-free leisure traveler), Hilton Gold
Posts: 1,971
No trophy hotels
One of my big duffs with the GP program is that there are just not enough really nice US hotels that I am dying to accumulate points to stay at. Where is their representation on Hawaii? Las Vegas?
Oct 31, 2007 | 10:03 am
#22
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 8,573
This is really a problem of losing Radisson properties, I've personally stayed at Radisson Deauville Miami Beach, Radisson Boca Bridge, Radisson Boca Suites, and all have left the chain. Of course the Deauville wasn't great and looks like it hasn't been updated since I was there in 2002, but the two Boca properties were nice. It was frustrating when I went back to FL in 2005 and discovered all the convenient properties from the previous trip were gone (relatives in FLL area so it was nice to get away to Boca or Miami Beach for a few days at a time).
There's a thread here somewhere that tracks the property closures. The idea was apparently to weed out the properties that weren't keeping up, and move the brand up-scale, which I was looking forward to, but the Regent South Beach suggests it's not a great success.
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There's a thread here somewhere that tracks the property closures. The idea was apparently to weed out the properties that weren't keeping up, and move the brand up-scale, which I was looking forward to, but the Regent South Beach suggests it's not a great success.
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Jan 2, 2008 | 7:51 pm
#23
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Programs: AA CK, Amtrk SE, AmEx Plat, Bonvoy Plat, HH Gold, Accor Plat, WOH Glbst
Posts: 206
The only other Regent's in the US are Boston and Bal Harbour. Boston is supposed to open this spring. Bal Harbour still says opening Winter of 2007...guess they missed that deadline and failed to update the website.
On other note, I just read that Carlson has sold the Regent cruise division to Apollo: http://www.travelindustrywire.com/article30436.html Now, that was a well run part of the company!