Kimpton Buzz Celebrate Pride, Kimpton Style Pride is in our DNA. It drives us all year long, but each June we dial up the festivities during LGBTQ Pride Month to help you celebrate, whether you’re heading out of town and staying with us or keeping it local. Get ready to Let Your Light Shine.
Kimpton Buzz Meet Billy: The Newest Member of Our Social Media Team We're always striving to respond faster and meet our guests’ needs in real-time when they reach out to us on Twitter. So we’ve tapped the latest cutting-edge technology to help us do just that.
Kimpton Buzz Chef’s Cycle and No Kid Hungry: A Chef’s Take Finch & Fork's Executive Chef James Siao has hit the road and clocked in 900 miles to raise awareness and funds for No Kid Hungry’s annual Chef’s Cycle. Here, he shares his personal passion for the cause. SB
Kimpton Buzz Movember: Mo Awareness for Men’s Health Here's why one of the best things you can do for men's health in November has nothing to do with turkey. It's all about the mustache. NYC
Kimpton Buzz The Trevor Project Honors LGBTQ Pioneers We've been supporting LGBTQ rights from the start, so we love helping community advocates like The Trevor Project celebrate incredible individuals.
Kimpton Buzz Riding with Purpose: Kimpton Chefs at Chefs Cycle In June, Kimpton chefs hit the road in partnership with No Kid Hungry to raise awareness and money for ending child hunger in America. SB
Kimpton Buzz Kudos for Kimpton! Once Again, We’ve Been Voted to Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® List For the 7th time, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants has been named one of Fortune Magazine’s Best Companies to Work For, the top hospitality company!
Kimpton Buzz So Doggone Cool: Adopting a Shelter Dog You will love these tales from Kimpton employees about the shelter dogs that have won their hearts and brought people together in wild, wonderful ways.
Kimpton Buzz Kimpton Pride (And Joy) We take Pride seriously at Kimpton. We kicked off SF Pride with a party to support our philanthropic partner, The Trevor Project. SF
Kimpton Buzz A Dress for Success Spring-Cleaning Giving your closet a spring-cleaning? Dress for Success will take your unwanted, business-appropriate clothing to outfit women trying to better their lives.
Kimpton Buzz Chicago’s Hotel Burnham Renovation Honors the Past A National Historic Landmark, the Reliance Building in Chicago is home to our Hotel Burnham. And we've given it a re-fresh that honors its storied past. Watch Video CHI
Kimpton Buzz Spring into Action: Five Books to Read for Earth Day We offer our suggestions for five great reads in honor of Earth Day — from sci-fi to an urban-farming memoir. And of course anything by healthy-eating activist Michael Pollan.
Kimpton Buzz Meet Portland’s RiverPlace Hotel Bedtime Butler Turndown service gets the local treatment with the RiverPlace Hotel Bedtime Butler, offering Oregon-sourced chocolates and other treats, as well as storybooks for the kids and nightcaps for the grown-ups. PDX
Kimpton Buzz It’s Kimpton’s Birthday — Celebrate #KimptonLove Thirty-four years ago today, Bill Kimpton opened his first hotel in our hometown of San Francisco. Let's blow out some candles and celebrate Kimpton's birthday.
Kimpton Buzz Women Making Kimpton History: Shirley King It's Women's History Month and we're highlighting some of the women who make Kimpton history, like Shirley King, who has been with the company for 25 years.
Kimpton Buzz Survey Says: We’re One of the Best Companies to Work For FORTUNE's Best Companies to Work For list is out and we came in at no. 11! Here's a great big "thank you" to all our employees who keep Kimpton special.
Kimpton Buzz #AdoreThySelfie: Celebrating Solo on Valentine’s Day Don't have a date this weekend? No worries. Here are a few tips on celebrating solo on Valentine's Day. Hint: There's wine involved. Watch Video
Kimpton Buzz Animal Attraction: Our Kimpton Pet Photo Contest Winner With more than 1,500 entries and thousands of votes cast, we have a winner for our 4th annual Kimpton pet photo contest. Prepare to be charmed, people.
Kimpton Buzz #AdoreThySelfie: Kimpton Photo Contest is in Your Hands We now have selfie sticks available at all of our hotels, so check one out, shoot some awesome travel pics, and enter our Kimpton photo contest.
Kimpton Buzz Celebs Turn Out for The Trevor ProjectLIVE in L.A. The stars shined brightly for The Trevor Project gala in Los Angeles. Check out the video of actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson covering Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off." Watch Video LA
Kimpton Buzz Sleeping with the Artist (Again) at Palomar Chicago Hotel Palomar Chicago's Sleeping With the Artist program showcases work created by the city's hottest young artists, taking over three floors of the hotel. Watch Video CHI
Kimpton Buzz Walk the Red Carpet at TrevorLIVE Walk the red carpet or participate online in the silent auction at TrevorLIVE 2014, an evening of music and comedy in support of The Trevor Project. LA
Kimpton Buzz Fourth Annual Kimpton Pet Photo Contest Dog, cat, bunny, lizard, hamster, chicken ... whatever kind of critter you have, enter the Kimpton Pet Photo Contest for a chance at some great prizes.
Kimpton Buzz Global Business Program — Getting Down to Business Looking for perks and discounts on biz travel like the big companies get? Check out our Global Business Program, designed with small businesses in mind.
Kimpton Buzz Giving Back on #GivingTuesday Be a part of the global philanthropic movement, #GivingTuesday, on Tuesday, Dec. 2. It's the perfect antidote to Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Kimpton Buzz An LGBT Wedding Giveaway From our Arizona Hotels Kimpton’s Arizona hotels are breaking out the bubbly and rolling out the red carpet for an amazing LGBT wedding giveaway. PHX SED
Kimpton Buzz We’ve Uncorked a Kimpton Scholarship A somm is born: We've teamed up with the Golden Gate Restaurant Association to help send a budding sommelier to the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone.
Kimpton Buzz Chew on This: Aug. 26 is National Dog Day Chew on This: Aug. 26 is National Dog Day. Have you hugged your pooch today? Watch Video ALX
Kimpton Buzz We’re on Boards: Kimpton is Now on Pinterest Kimpton is now on Pinterest. And we really want to pin with you.
Kimpton Buzz Check Out the New Kimpton Hotels Website An all new, thoroughly improved, 100 percent gluten-free Kimpton Hotels website has been unveiled.
Kimpton Buzz Kimpton Karma Rewards Program Unveiled Our Kimpton Karma Rewards program offers you perks in new and innovative ways. Watch Video
Kimpton Buzz The Case of the Onyx Hotel’s Excellent Enhancements What do Sherlock Holmes and a Bostonian have in common? Wicked smarts? Check. Astute logic? Yup. The ability to sport a deerstalker hat outside of deer stalking? Well, not quite yet. Watch Video BOS
Kimpton Buzz Kimpton Partners With The Trevor Project Here at Kimpton, everyone has an invitation to the party. We enthusiastically celebrate diversity, and we live and breathe inclusion. Watch Video
Kimpton Buzz Kimpton Celebrates Earth Day, Every Day Why toast the planet only once every trip around the sun? Perhaps an alternate celebration is a collection of everyday actions like our EarthCare program.
Kimpton Buzz 33 is a Magic Number When a former investment banker by the name of Bill Kimpton decided to go against the grain and pioneer the boutique hotel concept in the United States.
Kimpton Buzz Q&A With Barry Pollard, SVP of Hotel Operations Barry Pollard is a hospitality lifer who started his career as an underage busboy and now oversees more than 60 properties as Kimpton’s Senior Vice President of Hotel Operations.
Kimpton Buzz FORTUNE Smiles on Us (Again) For the fifth year, Kimpton has been named to the FORTUNE Best Places to Work For list.
Kimpton Buzz The Votes are In Nearly 80,000 discerning travelers voted in Condé Nast Traveler’s 2013 Readers’ Poll and we’re thrilled to let you know that a bunch of our properties made the cut. ALX BOS CHI MIA PHL SB SEA DC
Kimpton Buzz Aced It! We’re so grateful and humbled to say we’ve received a perfect “100” in the 2014 Corporate Equality Index
Kimpton Buzz Hot Winter Perks The weather outside may be frightful but Kimpton lobbies from coast to coast will be delightful this holiday season.
Kimpton Buzz Perks on Parade Here’s a friendly heads up: If you’re not already a member of Kimpton’s InTouch loyalty program, right now would be a very good time to join the family because we are rolling out the year’s biggest, bestest perks.
Kimpton Buzz Q&A With Heather Richer, VP Revenue and Distribution When you’re growing as fast as Kimpton is, it’s nice to know there’s someone like Heather Richer on your team.
Kimpton Buzz The Sporting Life If you can’t get enough of batting, base running, tackling, passing, swishing, swooshing and checking, this is truly the most wonderful time of the year. BALT SD SB SEA
Kimpton Buzz Back to the Future Have you ever walked into one our hotels and thought, “There’s more than meets the eye here”? And perhaps wondered what it might have been before? BALT MIA NYC PHL PDX SD SF DC
Kimpton Buzz Get InTouch With Bar Stars We’re expanding our “Raid the Mini-Bar” initiative — which offers InTouch members a $10 credit ($15 in NYC) toward mini-bar goodies — to include our actual bars and lounges. PHL
Kimpton Buzz Vote Kimpton: Best Bars and Best Pet-Friendly Hotels There’s not much we love more than a skillfully crafted cocktail and a cuddly critter, which is why we here at Kimpton give both such a high priority. ALX CHI MIA PHL
Kimpton Buzz Keeping it Real: SVP Christine Lawson You have to love someone who is enamored by the grace and elegance of Venice, Italy, while also being drawn to the gritty rap of Eminem.
Kimpton Buzz Kimpton 3.O: Q&A With Kathleen Reidenbach Fearlessly leading us into a new era of “marketeamwork” (not to be confused with “mouseketeer” work), she’s no stranger to leadership in marketing.
Kimpton Buzz Kimpton COO Goes PUBLIC: Q&A With Mike DeFrino Drumroll please … Introducing our new Chief Operating Officer, Mike DeFrino.
Kimpton Buzz Kimpton Rolls Out the Bikes We’re pumped … and so are the tires on our brand-new fleet of super-sweet PUBLIC bikes.
Kimpton Buzz One Step Closer to Equality: Supreme Court Decision The world was righted a bit today… at least in our book.
Kimpton Buzz Steve Pinetti: Kimpton’s Creative Spirit Kimpton has a secret sauce for keeping guests happy — and Steve Pinetti, Senior VP of Inspiration & Creativity, is a main ingredient.
Kimpton Buzz Batter Up! Spring Training Hotel Packages are Here We can taste the peanuts and Cracker Jacks already. Can't help it — baseball season is around the corner. PHX
Kimpton Buzz The Best Lincoln-Themed Hotel Package in D.C. "Lincoln" is up for Best Picture at the Oscars. What's better than seeing the movie? Getting a real-deal presidential experience at Hotel Monaco Washington D.C. DC
Kimpton Buzz Kimpton Named to FORTUNE’s Top 100 Places to Work! If you’ve stayed at a Kimpton hotel or dined in one of our restaurants, you’ve probably noticed we’re not your everyday company.
Kimpton Buzz Eventi Hotel’s LIVE Suite We have a sweet spot for suites. And there’s a special place in our hearts for this contemporary charmer in the heart of Manhattan. NYC
Kimpton Buzz A Look Back at 2012 It was a great year to bring in the new. Kimpton welcomed seven hotels in 2012 in all parts of the country. Each one has something different to offer, from rich history to rooftop lounges. LA PHL PHX PDX SD SB DC
Kimpton Buzz Winter Perks are on Their Way! This winter, Kimpton is keeping you cozy with special perks that make your stay with us more relaxing and enjoyable.
Kimpton Buzz SeaWorld Animals Stay at Hotel Monaco Denver Because our hotels are pet friendly, we welcome a lot of cats and dogs. But occasionally, webbed feet strut through our doors too. Some of them are even celebrity-status. DEN
Kimpton Buzz Washington D.C. Hotel Deals: The Cure for Election Fever It’s Nike Women’s Marathon time and more than 25,000 runners, men and women alike, will tear through the streets of San Francisco this Sunday. DC
Kimpton Buzz Get to Know Our “Wave of the Future,” Ave Bradley Congrats, Ave Bradley! Kimpton’s Vice President of Design was just awarded a Wave of the Future honor from Hospitality Design magazine.
Kimpton Buzz The Pasture at Surfcomber Hotel in Miami Relaxed, swimsuit-clad travelers aren’t the only ones grazing around the pool at Surfcomber, Kimpton’s hot new hotel in Miami. There are cows and sheep, too! MIA
Kimpton Buzz Enjoy Wine on “The Perch” A little birdie told us that Canary Hotel in Santa Barbara is the place to be this summer. Why? It’s simple. Because of wine. SB
Kimpton Buzz Swing Into Summer With “Baseball for All” Baseball season is here. We know how much you love America’s Favorite Pastime, so we came up with a hotel deal that really hits it out of the park.
Kimpton Buzz Let’s Celebrate Earth Week! During Earth Week – which starts today! – our hotels and restaurants show the environment even more affection with everything from eco-focused events to sustainable-minded menus. ALX MIA NYC PHL PHX SEA DC
Kimpton Buzz Cruise Concierges Debut in Seattle When Disney Cruise Line announced it would begin sailing from Seattle to Alaska, we decided to step in and do a little cruise control. SEA
Kimpton Buzz Our Paw-parazzi Photo Contest is Back! Our Paw-parazzi Pet Photo Contest is back, which means we’re once again searching for the nation’s cutest, most lovable, most aww-inducing furry friends.
Kimpton Buzz Our Salt Lake City Manager Has Skateboarding Skills We love uncovering our employees’ hidden talents. Even more fun is sharing them with you here on Life is Suite. SLC
Kimpton Buzz Minneapolis Housekeeper Wins Hospitality Award When our heartstrings are tugged, we have to share it. This time, it’s because The Grand Hotel in Minneapolis came into the spotlight in a very special way.
Kimpton Buzz An Artful Package at Seattle’s Alexis Hotel When it comes to matters of the art, Alexis Hotel in Seattle could go on and on. SEA
Kimpton Buzz Leap Year Hotel & Restaurant Promotions We’re glad February decided to stick around a little longer this year. That extra day gives us a reason to offer you some fun Leap Year promotions. ALX NYC PDX
Kimpton Buzz An Ode to 2011 This past year stirred up so many great things, From shiny new hotels to restaurant openings...
Kimpton Buzz Pull-ups at Work? You Bet. We like making work fun for our employees. But one regional office really raises the bar. LA
Kimpton Buzz It’s Password Time! Today's the day! We're announcing our new password. Let’s get right down to it.
Kimpton Buzz A Week in the Life of a VP of Design People sometimes ask what my typical day is like. My answer might not come as a surprise: There is no typical day!
Kimpton Buzz We’re Rocking the Robe Sometimes when a big event rolls around, we go a little animal. That’s definitely the case on the cusp of the 10th anniversary of our signature guest room robes in giraffe, cheetah and zebra prints.
Kimpton Buzz Tattoo Spy: Jennifer Hayes’ Flower Power As you’ve seen on our blog, a lot of our employees have awesome tattoos. Some, however, have a real leg up on the competition.
Kimpton Buzz Steve Pinetti Shares How to Harness Creativity Creativity is one of those big words. It means so many things to so many people.
Kimpton Buzz Eventi Hotel’s Eventi Suite Check out this photo. If somebody told us it’s an art collector’s second home on the Left Bank of Paris, we’d believe it. NYC
Kimpton Buzz Our Blog Turns One! Does everyone have walking shoes on? We’re going for a stroll down memory lane. Life is Suite is turning one, and so much has happened in the last year. SF
Kimpton Buzz Portland’s Hotel Vintage Plaza Fun and unfussy, urban yet intimate, it’s a destination where it’s fun to kick back and people-watch or actively explore. PDX
Kimpton Buzz July’s Secret Password is Here! Last month, we brought you the secret password “sunshine.” Did it leave you feeling all warm and sparkly?
Kimpton Buzz 10 Ways to Spend a Kimpton Gift Card Oh me, oh my! Did somebody really give you a Kimpton Gift Card? Aw, shucks. They shouldn’t have. ALX ASP BOS CHI DEN MIN SF SEA
Kimpton Buzz Kids Camp Out at Lorien Hotel & Spa Summer’s here! Did somebody say “family road trip”? (We’re looking at you, Griswolds.) ALX
Kimpton Buzz Tom Sweeney, Sir Francis Drake Hotel Chief Doorman Hey, haven’t we seen this guy in the beefeater suit somewhere before? That’s right ... must have been at the royal wedding. Wait. No. SF
Kimpton Buzz Hotel Monaco Portland Gets a Hypoallergenic Floor It’s sniffle-y, sneeze-y season. Right, allergy sufferers? Luckily, we have more to offer you than just a hearty “Gesundheit.” PDX
Kimpton Buzz Randall Reese, Jsix Waiter We’re all about spreading smiles here at Life Is Suite. That’s why we’d like you to meet Randall Reese. He’s been a waiter at San Diego’s Jsix restaurant for nearly three years and quickly became a guest favorite. SD
Kimpton Buzz Hotel Allegro’s Stardust Suite Last time we checked, stardust referred to the dust found in meteorites. (We pulled out our 11th grade astronomy textbook for that one.) CHI
Kimpton Buzz Kimpton EarthCare Week Kicks Off We consider ourselves pretty grounded people – meaning we do our best to take care of Mother Earth.
Kimpton Buzz John Angelson, Grand Hotel Doorman Does this dapper fellow look familiar? If so, you’ve probably stayed at Grand Hotel in Minneapolis. MIN
Kimpton Buzz It’s Kimpton’s 30th Birthday! Wow – has Kimpton really been around for 30 years? 1,560 weeks? 10,920 days? 262,080 hours?
Kimpton Buzz Paw-Parazzi Pet Photo Contest Launches Do you think your pet is so cute that he should be on the cover of Paws Illustrated? (Yes, we made that up. Can you imagine the swimsuit issue?)
Kimpton Buzz Seattle and Portland General Managers Like to Bike Vroooom. That’s the sound of two of our Pacific Northwest hotel General Managers taking off on their Harleys. And if you’re a biker, you can motor along with them. PDX SEA
Kimpton Buzz Alexis Hotel’s Canlis Glass Suite Quietly, with a show of hands, tell us: Do you take notice of the art that hangs in your hotel room? SEA
Kimpton Buzz A Couple Embarks on a “Kimpton Crawl” We hear feedback from our guests in all types of ways. E-mail, Twitter, Facebook, snail mail, smoke signals – you write it, we read it. Recently, one traveling couple caught our eye in a whole new way. ASP DEN PHX SD
Kimpton Buzz Hotel Monaco SLC Raises $33,000 for AIDS Awareness We can’t resist a party – especially when it’s for a good cause. So imagine the excitement when Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City threw a rock star-themed bash last month to raise money for Utah AIDS Foundation. SLC
Kimpton Buzz The Muse Hotel Celebrates The Pajama Program ‘Tis the day before Christmas! In hope of making spirits bright, we’re posting photos of a particularly special event. NYC
Kimpton Buzz Choreographer Suites at Hotel Solamar Sun, sea, and surf make San Diego’s coastline special. But its bustling downtown also harbors a piece of paradise that feels as beachy as sand between the toes. SD
Kimpton Buzz The Muse Hotel Bathrooms Pop Quiz - The bathrooms at The Muse Hotel in New York City are... NYC
Kimpton Buzz Boston’s Cloud Nine Penthouse On our journey through hotel suites, we find some that feel quite special -- and those that feel quite special-agent. BOS
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