Tag: Hotels
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Inside Denver’s new All Inn Hotel, another restoration of East Colfax’s motel heydays
A new hotel — a restoration of a historic inn built in the 1950s — has opened on East Colfax. The All Inn Hotel, located on 3015 E. Colfax Ave., debuted as a boutique lodging destination inspired by the building’s midcentury modern architecture. The 54-room hotel also includes a restaurant called FiNo and an all-day…
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The Antlers’ 143-year history: 3 incarnations and ghost stories, too
Since 1883 every photo or painting of downtown Colorado Springs seems to focus west along Pikes Peak Avenue to include the mountains. And that view has had one other feature, the Antlers Hotel. And what a history it has had. More than 12 years earlier, Gen. William Jackson Palmer had been pulling together plans for…
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Dallas hotelier buys iconic Manitou Springs hotel, plans renovations
The Cliff House at Pikes Peak, the oldest hotel in Colorado, has a new owner. The Manitou Springs hotel was first known as The Inn when it opened in 1874. Among recent owners was California real estate developer Jim Morley, who bought the property in 1981. The hotel was shut down and sat vacant for…
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AI for hotel pricing? Boulder startup sees room for opportunities in industry
When Matt Schwartz was pitching the idea for a hotel pricing company that uses artificial intelligence to a industry vendor visiting Denver several years ago, he recalled how excited the vendor was at the thought. Many hotels do the math for how much to charge a room by hand or Excel spreadsheets. And most of…
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Hot spring resort set in ghost town of 1800s dubbed best stay in Colorado by Michelin
On October 8, Michelin made their big reveal of their annual ‘Keys’ winners, which is an award meant to highlight the best of the best in lodging, similar to the ‘stars’ that the company hands out to restaurants. Numerous spots in Colorado got a nod. The ‘Keys’ system operates with three tiers – three keys…
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Denver Clarion Hotel to become transitional housing for homeless residents
The horseshoe-shaped Clarion Hotel near the Denver Coliseum in Globeville haunted John Parvensky every time he drove by. It was the perfect place to build the next safe space for Denver’s homeless. “I’d been going up and down I-25 and I-70 and dreaming,” he said. “Wouldn’t it be a nice place to be able to…
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A hotel of horror in an old, remote mining town of Colorado
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VICTOR • The Victorian building sat on the corner vacant for many years, like so many buildings in this ghostly quiet town in the hills like a rolling graveyard, scattered with splintered wood and rusted metal of shafts and A-frames and other mining skeletons. In 2017, that old building caught the eye of a passerby…
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Report: Denver lodging bounces back, but lags behind national recovery
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Metro Denver’s hotels saw a strong first quarter, marching – slowly but surely – to pre-pandemic occupancy levels, according to an industry report from real estate giant CBRE. But the recovery remains behind the national average – largely because of the influx of all the newly-constructed, higher-priced…
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Take a tour of the SpringHill Suites-Element hotel in Colorado Springs
Jim DiBiase, general partner of the SpringHill Suites-Element hotel opening in downtown Colorado Springs, and Linda Greenwell, the hotel’s director of sales, lead a video tour of the 261-room lodging, the largest new hotel to open in Colorado Springs since the 311-room Great Wolf Lodge opened in December 2016. (Video: Wayne Heilman/The Gazette)
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Will the return of international travelers lift Colorado’s tourism industry?
The federal government’s decision to reopen its borders earlier this month to international travelers who’ve been vaccinated should help Colorado’s tourism industry rebound in 2022, the head of the state tourism office told the Denver Gazette. “They are the highest paying travelers and they stay for longer periods of time,” Timothy Wolfe said of international…