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A New Era in Bretton Woods

Monday, January 10, 2011

Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods debuted in January a new full-service spa and conference center that can accommodate up to 1,000 people, adding to the amenities that define the historic Grande Dame’s reputation as a four-season resort destination.

The new President Wing’s 20,000-square-foot meeting facility offers not only premium meeting space within a 2-1/2-half-hour drive of Boston, said Pat Corso, the resort’s president and chief executive, but it also is defined by its location, historic atmosphere and comprehensive range of amenities and services from which guests may choose.

The newest of those amenities is The Spa at Mount Washington Resort, which features sumptuous lounges, breathtaking views, new year-round outdoor pool complex and customized products using local alpine botanicals for signature treatments.

The spa “adds another reason to come to the resort regardless of the season, and it will continue to round out our midweek, off-season and shoulder season business,” said Corso.

The landmark resort is undergoing a billion-dollar renaissance as part of a long-term master-planned community planned over the next decade. The initial phase, a $50 million investment, is nearing completion with the opening of the new Presidential Wing -- the first new construction at the hotel in over 100 years.

“As we have done with the interior refurbishment of The Mount Washington Hotel, the new Presidential Wing has been designed to celebrate this grand hotel, its grand surroundings and the culture of this region of New Hampshire in every way possible.”

For more information, call 877-873-0626 or visit www.MountWashingtonResort.com.

Gold Standard

The historic Wentworth By the Sea hotel can add to its list of accolades another: It was recently named to the annual Conde Nast Traveler Gold List of the World's Best Places to Stay.

The hotel is one of two in New Hampshire – the other is The Inn at Thorn Hill in Jackson – featured in the January 2009 issue. The hotels named were chosen based on a survey of more than 32,000 of the magazine's readers who were asked to pick “the cream of the crop” among the world’s places to stay.

Wentworth By the Sea, which received a “Newcomer” designation in the 2008 Gold List, is one of 156 Gold List properties in the United States for 2009.

The hotel received an overall score of 86.4, which is up from 85.6 last year, out of 100, with a score of 89.9 for location, 88.4 for rooms and 84.7 for food.

Last January, National Geographic Traveler magazine named the Wentworth to its first-ever “Stay List,” a collection of hotels that maintain an “authentic sense of place” and then followed up the theme in October by naming Portsmouth as one of six of the “world's most historic places” in the United States with that same distinctive ambience.

‘Off The Wall’ for inauguration

A Bedford-based company that specializes in providing tchotchkes and other knickknacks for businesses and events received yet another vote of confidence from the MSNBC cable channel, which hired the firm to promote its coverage of the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

Val Wilson and husband Mike Liston, owners of Off The Wall Promotions, were picked to create over 30,000 “swag bags” filled with Obama memorabilia. The bags were given to audience members who viewed MSNBC’s coverage from specially designated theaters in 50 markets across the country.

“MSNBC was so pleased with the work that we did for them for the presidential conventions and election that they came to us exclusively to provide promotions for their coverage of President Barack Obama’s inauguration,” said Wilson. “It’s pretty nice to have them rely on us like that.”

The goodie bags contained a magnetic calendar, buttons with Obama and MSNBC media personalities, and vintage-looking playing cards featuring Obama on the ace of all four suits and a likeness of the original White House.

But the collectable-of-the-moment was the life-size cutout of the new president himself, which was placed at locations around Washington, D.C., for the public to have a “photo op” with Obama.

“It was so real-looking, it even startled us,” said Wilson.

And with a turnaround time of less than two weeks, Wilson was quick to acknowledge the vendors across the country with whom they work with to pull off the promotions.

“They were working through the holidays, and with special crews,” said Wilson.
Off The Wall is now setting its sights westward and to the big screen. It was recently named an official vendor of NBC Universal Inc., parent corporation of the NBC Universal television group, Universal Pictures and associated theme parks.

“A goal of ours is to get into film, and to provide promotions and swag bags for the industry,” said Wilson.

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