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...twelfth floor of the Ramada hotel in Aurora, Colo., is a cut above the rest. Up on the twelfth, Concierge Monika Lidman treats all of her guests like VIPS. "They love to be pampered," she says. In their rooms, guests find refrigerators stocked with smoked oysters, wine, crackers, olives and English tea cookies. Other comforts abound: fresh carnations, soft white bathrobes, wicker baskets filled with toiletries...
...Ramada Inns and many other U.S. hotel companies now build these luxury levels into many of their otherwise standard buildings to lure affluent travelers who shy away from run-of-the-roadside establishments. The extra convenience and prestige of what hoteliers call their club floors appeal particularly to top business managers. Says Consultant Ray Meyers, a guest at New York City's Vista International: "You're with people more in tune with what you're doing. It's comfortable, not loud or raucous." Dallas Manufacturers' Representative Howard Krell and his wife Elise had formerly sought...
Rooms at the top come at a price. A club-level berth at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel near Denver runs $115 a night, compared with $72 for a standard room. At the Hyatt Regency Chicago, club-floor guests pay up to $900 a night for suites decorated with antique furniture, soft salmon colors and fireplaces. The hotel keeps a record of its customers' preferences. Said a concierge: "We can look at his card and know he was born on June 24, drinks Scotch and water, and wants a feather pillow instead of a foam...
...month and, since liquor became legal, he has booked conventions through 1989, nearly all of them thirsty gatherings that never convene in a dry county and thus have never met here. "Without the lounge we would show a small profit," said Gore, "but we make big money now." Ramada Inns and the Hilton chain are talking with Colbert boosters about building in the county, and the boosters themselves are talking about a civic center...
...perched. The final straw came when the prince and princess renovated their house-once the staid Woolworth mansion-in dissonant contemporary style, including a discothèque and a device that simulates thunder. "It looks," a local arbiter says, "as if they just bought the entire lobby of the Ramada...