Intercontinental La Torre Golf Resort and Spa - Hotel Designs Review

Hotel Designs


Looking into the Bar through the lounge from the reception lobby. Click the image to see the bar in more detail
Entrance lobby to a bedroom. Click to see a waiter station in the restaurant	Planning is good throughout the building but it is the finishes and attention to detail that are the main strengths here. However, this is undermined by less than effective maintenance and by the low occupancy causing the management to leave off areas of lighting, thereby robbing the interiors of some of their sparkle. Missing lamps in corridors are difficult to avoid seeing and create an unnecessary blemish in an hotel of this quality. Much of the hotel is finished in traditional tiling. Many hotel dsesigners ignore local building traditions but here the use of hard surfaces, cool in the summer months, have been exploited well. The use of balconies and natural ventilation through opening windows is also successful, although the newness of the balconies made them harsher than they needed to be - or maybe they just needed a few decorator touches such as cushions on the balcony furniture, which could have added colour and soften an otherwise austere environment. The scale of the hotel is masked by the architecture but inside the rooms are generously sized. Inside the door is a full length mirror and beside it a fabric hangar that drops behind the luggage rack. This actually serves to conceal the access to the rooms electrical service box whilst adding a decorative touch that softens the space. The luggage rack is fixed but is immediately adjacent to the wardrobe and so sensibly placed for luggage to be out of the way of the bedroom area.
The bathroom opens off the lobby and has sliding doors allowing the bath to be open to the bedroom, giving the guest flexibility.It leaves a choice of allowing those who like to bathe and contemplate their navel the privacy they may wish for, or for the extrovert to converse with a partner or watch the flat screen television. Personally I dislike sharing a bedroom with a bath, nor do I like the damp floor etc. that comes with bathing in the bed space, so this neat arrangement works well for me. It also allows a guest to have daylight in the bathroom if they wish, through borrowed light from the bedroom windows. Bathrooms are of course well fitted out with a double wash hand basin, separate rainfall shower and separate toilet cubicle that is becoming standard in new hotels - a rarity is the One& Only offering of separate his'n'her bathrooms as yet. Bathroom design and specification have been honed by IHG over the years, and whilst these bathrooms do not match the beautiful bathrooms designed for the London Park Lane property, they are still very well thought through and fitted out.	Bathroom with the sliding doors to the bedroom. Click to see the bathroom in more detail

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