Farmington is the place to be to enjoy gorgeous weather! There is plenty to do in our wonderful outdoors. There are several hiking areas with various kids of terrain. Trails can be followed along rivers, through historical sites and around geologic formations! Then after an early morning hike, come and relax in our indoor pool and spa to complete the perfect weekend. Arise to our Express Start Breakfast to get you ready for the day!
Back in late 2009 at the semi-annual management meeting for the company, the General Managers of the hotels listened to a presentation by Charisse Hilchey about charity options. Many of the employees of the company have requested that the company pick an appropriate charitable organization for the company to support.
In July Lodging Host Hotel Corp entered into a contract with “Clean the World” for a test property, The Holiday Inn Express in Marshall, TX. Clean the World collects used soap, shampoo and lotion products to be reprocessed and distributed at no cost in third world countries to needy people. The managers liked this charity because it accomplished a number of goals at one time:
- It allowed the employees to reach out to those in need
- It allowed the hotel to be more “Green” as it will take hundreds of pounds, per hotel, of hazardous materials out of landfills
- It was a program that all of the employees in the hotel could participate in
- There was little to no operational cost to the hotel outside of a small amount of time actually used in the recycling effort
Louis C. Christian III, General Manager of the Holiday Inn Express in Marshall, TX, discussed the charity with his employees and volunteered to be the test hotel for the program. The test program will run until Fall of 2010 when the General Managers will be able to, at their Fall meeting, review the results of the test and determine if this is the charitable program company would like to adopt.
Join the Holiday Inn Express to an inviting family fun weekend. During the day relax in our indoor pool and spa, have a family cookout in our spacious patio area, then go out for music entertainment where The Sandstone Production will be presenting their Outdoor Theatre from June 17th-August 7th every Thursday through Saturday evening at the Lions Wilderness Park Amphitheatre, featuring Rodger Hammerstein in presentation “OKLAHOMA”, based on the play “Green Grow the Lilacs”, joined by The Heather McGaughey, ”Children’s Theatre”. For ticket information call 1-877-599-3331 or 505-599-1148.
After a fun filled day and night come home to relax in spacious comfortable rooms where you will feel right at home. Wake up to our Express Start* Breakfast Bar to start the beginning of a new day.
Lodging Host, seven years ago, was one of the first hotel management companies to adapt to on-line access for clients’ records. This technology, while challenging at first to some, quickly became very popular with clients.
Through a secure server, clients are able to access all of their hotels up to date and sometimes up to the minute information. Revenues, deposits, contracts, property tax information, financial reports, franchise reports and inspections are just some of the information available to Lodging Host’s clients and their CPAs. But as with any technology, as it becomes more popular and more flexible, more and more demands are put on it. This requires additional storage space, ever larger programs requiring more memory and greater speeds.
So recently Lodging Host installed a complete new computer server system. Don’t worry though, it all still works the same. Just as easy as before.
But lets not forget to be green! We did not dispose of the old system but reconfigured it to be the back up system for the new one!
We survived Memorial Day weekend by visiting the Berg park Riverfest. The weenie dog races were a lot of fun and I cannot wait until next year when I may enter my little dog, Tootsie. We had wonderful weather for the Memorial Day celebrations and the river was beautiful as always. Many of the hotel guest came back from the park at the end of the day and relaxed in the spa while others rested then headed to our fitness center and tried to work off all the Navajo Tacos they ate.
The Holiday Inn Express & Suites of Farmington, NM donated $300 to the 5th grade art class at McCormick Elementary School. On December 4, 2009, 51 of the
5th graders from McCormick Elementary School helped to decorate the Holiday Inn Express & Suites’ Christmas tree. The 5th graders worked so hard to make our guests’ Christmas one to remember! Our hotel couldn’t have done it without there help.
Lodging Host Hotel Corp President, Kevin P. Hilchey announced today that effective December 11th 2009 Lodging Host had assumed the management of the Staybridge Suites at the Austin Airport in Austin, Texas. The hotel opened for business earlier in 2009 and houses 161 guest suites.
The Staybridge is the newest hotel at the Austin Airport and offers studio, one bedroom and two bedroom/two bathroom suites, all with full cooking facilities. It also offers complementary breakfast 7 days a week,the brand’s “Sundowner” dinner 3 nights a week, free high speed Internet access, the Bridgemart, meeting space, outdoor pool, exercise facilities, complementary guest use laundry facilities and a sports court.
According to Denise Arnold, Director of Marketing for Lodging Host, “We are proud to add this sixth IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group, parent company of Holiday Inns) product to our portfolio of managed hotels. Lodging Host Hotel Corp has been in business for over 25 years, providing quality property management services to lenders, federal agencies and private owners. This hotel is a superb addition to 14 hotels and we look to provide the Austin Airport Market with the same exceptional guest service that has separated our hotels from our competitors.”
I just wanted to say that my family and I stayed in your hotel (Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Farmington, NM) and was very impressed with the people who were working. The first night we were there, a large group of high school aged kids arrived and made a lot of noise. The staff, even with the craziness, bent over backwards to make out stay better. The hotel was clean and the breakfast area was always full of food, even with all the teenagers. We really felt very welcome there and we will stay there again as we visit that area at least two to three times a year. Thanks.
Chris from CO Nov 2009.
After completing a $1.5 million renovation in 2009 and moving the Hotel’s Overall Satisfaction Scores into the “Commendable” range recently, the Holiday Inn Express in Framington, NM recently recieved notification that it will receve it’s new signage on October 26th and officially be “Relaunched” the Holiday Inn Express & Suites. The signage is the confirmation to the traveling public that the hotel has met the new physical and service standards of the Express brand to be recognized as part of one othe most dynamic hotel brands in the Indusrtry.
During the renovation the hotel also converted meeting and public spaces adding a Board Room, Gift Shop, Exercise Room and 17 Suites to the hotel allowing it to add “& Suites” to the Express name. All of the 101rooms were remodeled, flat panel televisions added and the indoor pool completely remodeled.
Intercontinental Hotels Group, Parent company of Holiday Inns and Staybridge Suites, last week honored the Las Cruces location with a request for them to submit information and photographs to be considered for a Brand Design Award for 2008. In 2008 the hotel added 28 additional long term stay suites, an additional guest use laundry area, a communal dining table in the Great Room, a Home Theater Room, “public-private meeting space” and an Internet Cafe.
The Communal dining table is a High top table that seats up to eight persons. It has a granite top and custom pendant lighting. It has become a popular gathering point at almost any time of day for singles or groups.
For those groups that need just a little more privacy, the hotel installed “public-private meeting space” on the 4th floor. It is a public space that was designed so that small groups, not wishing to purchase private meeting space, could meet in a semi-private atmosphere for informal meetings. The space is arranged with flexible seating and in separate pods. Each of the pods has a CRT for displaying laptop presentations and a meeting board is available for brainstorming sessions.
For singles and couples the hotel designed an Internet Cafe on the third floor. The area contains a modern coffee shop atmosphere and decor, a complimentary coffee maker that makes 25 varieties of coffee, teas and cocoas, background music, seating for singles and couples, wired and wireless Internet access and a complementary full body massage chair. The staff even keeps the area stocked with biscotti.
The second floor contains the Home Theater. This area is for public use and can be reserved for private showings. The room contains plush recliner seating with drink holders, a state of the art surround sound system, special sound deadening walls, an extra large Digital High Definition screen, DVD player, Blue Ray player and a popcorn machine.
The winner of the Design award for the Staybridge Brand will be announced at the IHG Annual Investor’s Conference in the Fall of 2009 in Washington DC.
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