Business Amenities
The hotel will offer a 24/7 business center, meeting, banquet and catering facilities. There will be a 24-hour business kiosk in the lobby with two PCs and two printers. In addition, the hotel is entirely wireless so a laptop becomes an office anywhere from the lobby lounge to the guest rooms. The hotel also will offer on-demand copies, faxing and secretarial services, arranged from the front desk.
Other Amenities
• Check-in carts for saddlebag contents
• Fitness center, pool and spa treatment rooms
• Overnight shoeshine and laundry.
• Other amenities for riders include rag bins, an on-site bike wash, packed saddlebag lunches, and road trip maps, with suggestions for biker-friendly stops. And finally, there are maintenance kits with standard tools available on demand. Upon check-in, guests also receive a special bag complete with an Iron Horse skullcap, sunscreen and lip balm.
Parking
Parking is valet for automobiles. For motorcycles, there’s secure covered parking with a special elevator for motorcycles only.
General Information
Distance to the Harley-Davidson Musuem is about a quarter-mile, just across the river. There are twenty million bikers in the US. Motorcycle sales have increased for fourteen consecutive years, and now amount to sales of $23 billion per year. Their median age is 41, more than 50% are married and college graduates with above average income.
Rooms
Standard rooms average 450 square feet. Suites are 1,000 square feet and two bedrooms. All rooms are well-appointed, oversized loft rooms, with 42-inch LG® LCD wall-mounted flat-screen television, well-lighted concrete desktop and a comfortable swivel chair, with wireless and hard-wired Internet, IPod docking, and cordless dual-line speaker phones with voicemail, and in-room universal connectivity panels to interface with the TVs for operating and charging laptops, iPods®, mobile phones and PDAs. Printing can be done from anywhere in the hotel to the business center’s printers.
The rooms all contain Perlick™ beverage centers, capable of holding full size, 750-milliliter wine bottles. These applicances use 98% green materials and feature dual-pane glass doors, two-inch thick walls with eco-friendly foam, cold-conducting metal interiors, and forced air cooling for maximum efficiency.
Each room has original artwork, storage areas for boots and helmets along with industrial-strength hooks for leathers; and sustainable ceramic tiled floor and walls in room entrances, with a heavy bench [made from 300-year-old Hemlock wood, reclaimed from the building] to plop down and shuck your boots.
All beds within the hotel are queen or king-size, and feature luxury linens. Rooms that include a couch will feature a pullout bed in the couch. Heat and air conditioning are controlled within the room, and Peerless windows are used throughout to reduce energy consumption.
Bathrooms
Baths are oversized and fully tiled with the same sustainable ceramic tile used in the entrance, and sinks have extra-large counter areas. All bathrooms use Kohler™ waterless urinals, Kohler™ low-flow toilets and efficient bath fixtures, which will result in approximately 25% less water consumption.
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