Sunday, July 26, 2009
Santa Rosa Beach, FL (July 23, 2008) - The WaterColor Inn and Resort was choosed by the readers of Travel + Leisure as one of the "Top 100 Hotels in the Continental U.S. and Canada" in the magazine's 2008 World's Best Awards survey.This is the third successive year the 60-room, luxury beachfront hotel on Northwest Florida's Gulf Coast has been named to this high - status list.
To meet the criteria for the World's Best Awards, readers of Travel + Leisure and TravelandLeisure.com judged hotels on five criteria:
- rooms/facilities
- location
- services
- restaurants/food and
- value
This peculiarity adds to WaterColor's mounting collection of awards and accolades.Forbes.com freshly listed the belongings as one of its 2008 "Ultimate U.S. Vacation Spots," and the Inn was named to Condé Nast Traveler's popular 2008 Gold List, which exposed its reader's choices for "The World's Best Places to Stay."
As Northwest Florida's only AAA Four Diamond hotel, WaterColor has again and again maintained the maximum values of service, providing an matchless number of facilities for guests of all ages and tastes. The 499-acre resort's white sand beach, coastal dune lake, lush parks and woodland trails are a attractive playground for all sorts of vacation activities, from biking, kayaking and canoeing to body boarding and fishing.
WaterColor also boasts a state-of-the-art fitness center, full-service spa, gourmet dining at its much-admired Fish Out of Water restaurant, and a host of kid-gracious activities at its popular Camp WaterColor. In addition, guests enjoy fortunate access to three fashionable golf courses - Camp Creek Golf Club (by Tom Fazio), Shark's Tooth Golf Club (by Greg Norman) and Origins (by Davis Love III).
The resort also offers several pragmatic programs that highlight the natural beauty of Northwest Florida, as well as eco-tours and unique culinary programs like the Foraging the Forgotten Coast Tour, where guests escort a chef to learn how food gets from the farm and sea to their plate by meeting local purveyors and working alongside them to forage for their own meals.
WaterColor also holds special demand for art enthusiasts thanks to the July 2008 opportunity of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art @ WaterColor in the resort's Town Center. This first satellite branch of the famed Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans showcases altering exhibitions of noted Southern and local artists' works.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Walt Disney World has already begun construction of its 18th resort, a 1,307-room safari lodge close to the Animal Kingdom theme park.
The Animal Kingdom Lodge, an upscale hotel set to open in spring 2001, will be modeled on an African village and will overlook three savannas with more than 200 birds and a variety of grazing animals.
The savannas will total nearly 35 acres, about one quarter the size of the savanna at Animal Kingdom.







