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...shakers who retire to the understated salons of the Lowell. "Our guests are from the worlds of film, fashion, finance and publishing," says sales-and-marketing director Lynne Davis. "They stay here because it feels like a home away from home." Translation: it has great security. So does XV Beacon, where you need a coded key card to work the elevator...
...small luxury hotels are not necessarily new, and even if they are, the management would rather you thought they had been around forever. XV Beacon in Boston, for example, opened for New Year's 2000, yet because it is nestled among the cobblestones and brick Federal architecture of Beacon Hill, it would never occur to you before entering that each of its bathrooms sports a flat-screen Bloomberg News display. The 61-room hotel's only exterior signature is its gold nameplate: xv beacon. By contrast, the Soniat House in New Orleans is draped in its history: it was created...
...Peter McKillop, director of corporate communications for J.P. Morgan in Asia, was enthralled when he heard that the hotel operator at the Lowell had intercepted an unwanted early wake-up by graciously asking a caller in Tokyo whether she realized it was 4:30 a.m. in New York City. XV Beacon supplied an interior decorator for a guest's new home in Boston. And in addition to room service from Wolfgang Puck, the Hotel Oceana in Santa Monica, Calif., offers a triweekly jump on the day with a 6 a.m. "run" with hotel general manager Seth Horowitz...
...surprisingly, guests tend to stay a while. Not long after it opened this year, Boston's XV Beacon happily set aside more than a floor of suites for visiting members of a royal family from the Middle East--for six weeks. Red Adams, chairman of Oil & Gas Rental Services in Morgan City, La., stays at the Colombe d'Or on average 18 times a year. The staff is accustomed to providing Adams with ties, socks and whatever else he has neglected to pack himself. "I feel like it's my own home," says Adams...
Anyone who watched Wrestlemania XV on Sunday would have had to admit that the Padres' prized poultry was in an uncharacteristically feisty mood that night...