Resort Butlers Offer Over-the-Top Services
From choosing tunes to drawing your bath, hotels offer new luxury attention.
Aug. 14, 2008— -- In the competitive world of luxury travel, top hotels and resorts are pulling out all the stops to entice and impress guests. It's no longer good enough to just offer a butler service where someone in a snappy suit unpacks your bags or pours you a drink. A new class of butlers is entering the international scene, and these impeccable professionals are creating quite the buzz. This new generation of butlers is giving the term "at your service" a whole new meaning.
Sorbet Butler
Music Butler
Bath Butler
The bath butler for Halekulani Hotel's Vera Wang Suite in Hawaii knows just what it takes to send you off on a blissful experience. A stay in this stunning designer suite includes a choice of three different signature baths. If you've spent too much time in the sun you can try the "Soothing the Sun" bath. For this, the butler will draw you a milk bath infused with papaya and pineapple enzymes. If you're looking to relax ask for the "Drift into Tranquility" bath that's laced with lavender and orchids. Or you can sample the "Bathe like Royalty" where your butler artfully combines Maile bath salts with green color therapy to help you find peace, harmony and renewal. For more: www.halekulani.com
Family Butler
Catering to the growing trend of discriminating guests traveling with their children, the elegant Le Meurice in Paris, France, now offers a special family butler. It's the family butler's job to make sure even the youngest guests feel at home and that everyone enjoys their stay at this first-class property. At Le Meurice, the butler is full of all kinds of fun surprises that delight children and their parents, including magical games and treasure hunts. The butler can also keep children busy with different activities around the property and can even provide a special dining menu aimed at pleasing even the youngest palates. For more: www.meuricehotel.com
Beach Butler
You can find a new level of Beach Butler service at The Tides Zihuatanejo, a luxury resort hidden away on Mexico's Pacific coast. The butlers at this chic property don't just toss you a towel and find you a place to sit, au contraire, the Beach Butlers at Tides go all out. The spoiling starts with the butlers offering you tanning products to help make sure you protect your skin. Then you're offered comfy neck cushions. If you want to tune out the rest of the beach your butler can provide you with a pre-loaded iPod and if you're hungry or thirsty you don't have to move, your Beach Butler will make sure you're taken care of right down to your last umbrella drink! For more: www.tideszihuatanejo.com.
E-Butler
It's important to note that all seven butler services mentioned are complimentary when you're staying at those properties. The hotel managers say the idea is to make their guests feel at home and to make vacations as relaxing as possible. What will they think of next?For more on unique luxury destinations check out Karen Schaler's TRAVEL THERAPY website at www.traveltherapytrips.com.