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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Four Seasons Hotel opens in East Palo Alto

We've watched the new Four Seasons Silicon Valley luxury hotel slowly being built over the past three years. Now, as of yesterday, it's finally open:
East Palo Alto never has been what travel agents call a destination spot. For years, the Peninsula town didn't even have a hotel. Not that anyone was looking for rooms in a place once known more as the nation's murder capital than for its hospitality.

But as of Monday, East Palo Alto is home to some of the Bay Area's priciest hotel rooms.

The swanky Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley at East Palo Alto -- where standard rooms start at $325 a night -- opened its doors for business, giving the town a taste of the gilded prosperity that enriched its wealthier Silicon Valley neighbors during the Internet boom.
We drove through the plaza and porte-cochère on Sunday just to see what was going on and saw that the place was already staffed up. At $325/night for a standard room, I don't know that we'll be staying there any time soon, but we'll likely check out the restaurant (and review it, of course).
|| Andrew, 9:28 AM || ||

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