Boston’s Lenox Hotel named one of the ‘Top 500 Hotels InThe World’

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For eight years now, Travel + Leisure has been listing the top 500 “World’s Best Hotels” as according to its most discerning set of criteria. Making the list for the first time this year (and recently added to TerraCurve’s hotel profiles) is The Lenox Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The hotel, which  is one of only eight luxury hotels in Massachusetts to be included in the elite compilation, as well as the greenest.

Travel + Leisure profiled the 110-year-old Lenox Hotel as being a “historic Back Bay hotel lauded for its numerous environmental initiatives (carbon offsetting; hybrid-car service; state-of-the-art insulated windows).” It even stresses Lenox’s “cleaner indoor air quality” for its use of low-VOC paints and recent unveiling of its signature “Heaven on Eleven” all-hypo-allergenic floor.

“On behalf of the entire Lenox team, I am delighted to receive this prestigious honor,” said Daniel Donahue, General Manager of The Lenox. “We strive to preserve Lenox’s legendary service for an unparalled guest experience in our historic hotel, while continuing to blaze trails in green initiatives in the hospitality industry. Though we are humbled to be recognized for our efforts, we will work even harder to maintain Travel + Leisure’s gold standard and our own of genuine hospitality.”

Profile in urban ecotourism

Built in 1900, The Lenox Hotel in Boston is steeped in tradition, but it’s the Saunders Family’s long-standing commitment to exemplary service that keeps The Lenox in fashion…a quality appreciated by its loyal guests, clients and employees.

For two decades, The Saunders Group has trailblazed an “eco-friendly” strategy at its hotels, making The Lenox Hotel in Boston’s historic Back Bay a global pioneer in luxury, urban ecotourism with many green features including earth-friendly housekeeping, re-usable service items, non-toxic cleaning agents, conserving water, giving to non-profits, low-flow showers/toilets, and compact flourescent lighting.

The hotel is a twelve-time recipient of the AAA Four-Diamond Award and a member property of the Historic Hotels of America, a subsidiary of Preferred Hotel Group. Saunders Hotel Group recently invested in renovations to restore the historic icon to its earlier grandeur. Updates range from the restoration of the hotel’s exterior, lobby, meeting halls and guestrooms, including the opulent Judy Garland Suite (where the singer lived in 1965) which boasts a 24-karat gold-guilded fireplace.

The hotel is also retrofitted with the latest technologies without compromising historic elements, like its still-functioning Cutler U.S. Mail Chute which graces each floor at the elevator bank. Additionally it has just launched a digital brand campaign dubbed LENOX1900 in an effort to edutain younger audiences in the social mediasphere of the rich and storied past of Boston’s “original boutique hotel.”

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