Trilogy of Style: Fairmont Presents The Savoy, The Plaza & The Peace Hotel (United States)
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Trilogy of Style: Fairmont Presents The Savoy, The Plaza & The Peace Hotel (United States)
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Category: North America & West Indies / Carribean islands - United States
This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2010-11-17
Experience Some of the World’s Most Famous Addresses, With Special Trilogy Travel Offers
Three of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts’ storied collection have been the preferred spot of celebrities, politicos and artists for more than a century and are still home to history in the making as they turn the pages on new chapters following complete floor-to-roof restorations. London’s The Savoy, A Fairmont Managed Hotel (1889) known as “The palace by the Thames”; New York’s The Plaza, A Fairmont Managed Hotel (1907) and “New York’s most celebrated address”; and, Shanghai’s Fairmont Peace Hotel (1929), the “Number-one mansion in the Far East” were known as playgrounds for early 20th Century glitterati. Today, to celebrate the recent restorations of all three, Fairmont is launching new special offers and a multimedia platform to celebrate this trilogy of landmark properties.
Each hotel is a place where local elites have gathered for decades, whether it’s at Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball at The Plaza, Winston Churchill and members of his “dining society” meeting at The Savoy to smoke cigars and discuss current affairs, or The Peace Hotel’s flamboyant founder, British real-estate magnate Victor Sassoon, holding rollicking themed costume parties in the Cathay Hotel, the former moniker of Fairmont Peace Hotel. These properties have been at the centre of their city’s society set for many years, and have undergone transformational restorations that honor their past glory while updating them for a new generation of trendsetters.
To celebrate their legacy, each hotel has created a special promotion honoring their unique heritage with 2010: History Begins packages. At The Savoy, the offer includes one night of accommodation in a beautifully restored Savoy Room, a welcome cocktail for two in the legendary American or Beaufort Bar, daily breakfast for two in the River Restaurant overlooking the Thames, complimentary access to the fitness gallery and dinner for two in the elegant River Restaurant, with rates from £899 ($1439 USD). At Fairmont Peace Hotel, guests will receive overnight accommodation in an Art Deco-inspired room, breakfast for two, a welcome cocktail for two in the famed Jazz Bar, High Tea for two in the historic Jasmine Lounge, complimentary access to the fitness centre and a complimentary guided tour of the hotel with one of the property’s Heritage guides, with rates from CNY 1929 ($289 USD). The Plaza’s offer includes two-nights in a luxurious Plaza Room, daily continental breakfast for two in The Palm Court and a $100 USD Plaza Boutique Gift Card to choose a Plaza keepsake, with rates from $1907 USD.
Online, guests can get a taste of these historic properties at http://fairmont.com/promo/trilogy or check out Fairmont’s video introduction on YouTube. They can also keep up with the hotels on the brand’s Trilogy blog, where links to the hotels’ histories, stories from current guests and upcoming events will be highlighted over the coming year. The blog is hosted on www.everyonesanoriginal.com, a virtual gathering place where fans of the brand post photos or videos from memorable trips, find recipes from Fairmont chefs and mixologists, and access exclusive hotel and destination content.
Located in the heart of their communities (The Thames in London, Central Park in New York and The Bund in Shanghai), the three properties have managed to blend their historic legacies with modern accents that keep guests coming back. The Plaza, the first of the three properties to reopen in March of 2008, underwent a two-year, USD $400 million lobby-to-roof renovation that brought back the iconic Palm Court and recently debuted a popular new food hall by Todd English. Fairmont Peace Hotel reopened in July 2010, after a three-year, USD $65 million restoration, which recreated the grandeur and majesty of the landmark property in its restaurants, lounges and the famed Peace Hall, home to many parties and cabarets in the hotel’s heyday. The Savoy reopened in October 2010 after a three-year GBP £220 million restoration, the work of more than 1,000 craftspeople, artists and artisans who created interiors in keeping with the hotel’s original and much-loved spirit.
So whether guests want to visit in person, share old stories or learn what’s new, there are many opportunities to be part of history in the making at these legendary hotels.
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