CRSHotels.com Offers Miami International Boat Show Web Site with Tips for Enjoying the "World’s Greatest Boat Show"

Thursday, December 28, 2006

CRSHotels.com launched a special web site on the Miami International Boat Show, for hotel room reservations, parking and transportation, and tips for having fun in Miami and South Beach. Hotels will be packed up and down the Florida east coast for the 2007 Miami Boat Show at the Miami Beach Convention Center. CRSHotels.com gives boating enthusiasts an easy way to find a great deal on a Miami Boat Show hotel room at www.miamiboatshowhotels.com

The CRSHotels.com Miami Boat Show hotel room site includes essential information on parking and transportation, dates and hours, and admission prices, as well as highlights of both the Boat Show and Strictly Sail exhibitions.

The CRSHotels.com special Miami Boat Show hotel room site also offers information on Miami area tours, including South Beach tours and Everglades tours, top attractions such as Parrot Jungle, the Miami Seaqaurium, and Everglades National Park, South Beach shopping, and Miami South Beach clubs and nightlife. In addition, the special Miami Boat Show hotel room site has location information for several of Miami’s famous beaches with public access.

CRSHotels.com special Miami International Boat Show hotel room site: www.miamiboatshowhotels.com

CRSHotels.com launched a special web site on Super Bowl XLI in Miami

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

CRSHotels.com Offers Miami Super Bowl XLI (41) Hotel Room Site with Essential Tips for Game Day and Super Bowl Week

CRSHotels.com launched a special web site on Super Bowl XLI in Miami, for hotel room reservations, game day information, and tips for having fun in Miami and South Beach. Hotels will be packed up and down the Florida east coast and even on the Florida southwest coast for the 2007 Super Bowl at Dolphin Stadium in Miami. CRSHotels.com gives sports fans an easy way to find a great deal on a Super Bowl hotel room at http://www.super-bowl-hotel-rooms.com/.

The CRSHotels.com Miami Super Bowl hotel room site includes essential information on transportation, security, and parking for game day, as well as a Super Bowl XLI seating chart for Dolphin Stadium.

The CRSHotels.com special Miami Super Bowl hotel room site also offers information on Miami area tours, including South Beach tours and Everglades tours, top attractions such as Parrot Jungle, the Miami Seaqaurium, and Everglades National Park, South Beach shopping, and Miami South Beach clubs and nightlife. In addition, the special Miami Super Bowl hotel room site has location information for several of Miami’s famous beaches with public acces.

CRSHotels.com special Miami Super Bowl XLI (41) hotel room site: http://www.super-bowl-hotel-rooms.com/.

CRSHotels.com launches "Treasure Hunt"

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Join the CRSHotels.com Treasure Hunt for exciting prizes, including iPods, gift certificates, and a Caribbean cruise (no treasure hunting experience required).

The Treasure Hunt is open to all residents of the USA who are eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time of their registration. Winners must be able to verify their eligibility to receive a prize.

Ready to join the Treasure Hunt? Let’s get started...

Hotel & Motel Management: CRSHotels.com launches marketing program for Miami and South Beach, Fla.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

CRSHotels.com launches marketing program for Miami and South Beach, Fla.

The Florida Mall Hotel Undergoes a $23 Million Renovation

Sunday, January 15, 2006

The new management team, Edinburgh Management LLC, is repositioning The Florida Mall Hotel, formerly known as the Adams Mark, into a first-class meeting destination. The renovation has included a total property upgrade and will continue with the addition of new meeting space scheduled for completion mid-2006. This twenty-three million dollar renovation is in response to changing market conditions in Orlando. The Orlando Convention and Visitors Bureau reported over ten million visitors came to Orlando for business purposes in 2004. This was also the year that several new luxury hotels were introduced to the market. In a recent article published by U.S. News & World Report entitled, Opulent Orlando; move over motels, the magic city is going deluxe; writer Christopher Elliot stated, “In a town where cheap motels have been the standard, the arrival of new luxury hotels and services is perhaps as significant as the opening of another major theme park. The goal is to lure more convention business to the city.”

Frank Couzo, director of sales and marketing for The Florida Mall Hotel states, “Over the last year, Orlando has seen a 19% increase* in convention and meeting business. This, combined with the addition of several new luxury hotels, has motivated us to focus on providing superior service and amenities, and become more meetings oriented. We know that meeting planners who are looking at Orlando have more choices, and now expect greater luxury in their amenities.”

Scheduled for expansion are the conference and meeting facilities, which will grow by 100% percent while being completely modernized. Upon completion, the hotel will be able to accommodate conferences of 1,200 or intimate meetings of 20 or less. Total meeting space will increase by 20,000 square feet, to be comprised of 23 meeting rooms, including three ballrooms and four executive boardrooms. Pre-function areas will total 4,500 square feet.

Both meeting planners and their attendees will enjoy superior guest amenities including; custom wood furniture, 32’ LCD wall-mounted flat screen televisions, granite bath countertops edged in deep black rod iron, and granite floors. The overall guestroom ambiance is one of casual sophistication, featuring soft earth tone colors of yellow and green that give-way to fluffy, pillow-top beds adorned with over-stuffed feather comforters.

Technology upgrades are a major part of the renovation. For the convenience of meeting or conference attendees, complimentary hi-speed Internet access is now available in the comfort of all 510 guestrooms. Guests that opt not to travel with a laptop can make use of Wi-Fi hot spots or Internet kiosks located throughout the property.

Another unique amenity found only at The Florida Mall Hotel is Orlando’s largest retail shopping mall. The Florida Mall, which is connected to the hotel, provides business and leisure travelers alike with over two million square feet of extraordinary shopping. Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, 250 specialty stores, and dozens of restaurants are just steps away. Opening later this year are the new M&M and Apple Computer stores.

The Florida Mall Hotel is centrally located ten minutes from Orlando International Airport, and fifteen minutes from downtown Orlando and the major attractions. It is privately owned and operated by Edinburgh Management LLC, a subsidiary of one of the world’s largest banks, The Bank of Scotland.

CRSHotels.com Develops Online Presentation for Hotels

Monday, January 02, 2006

CRSHotels.com has made their hotel reservation service even more attractive to hotels by developing an online presentation to enable hotel representatives to learn the simple steps involved in using their services to increase the individual hotel’s market share.

A pioneer in online hotel reservation services, CRSHotels.com acts as a marketing extension to its partner hotels, targeting leisure and small business travelers.  The company has developed a system that makes finding hotel accommodations in destination cities across the USA easy for travelers. It also makes the process of booking and confirming simple for partner hotels.  Hotels desiring to learn how to become a CRSHotels.com partner may view the interactive sales presentation at the company’s website, www.crshotels.com and receive a quick overview of the benefits and the process.

The online presentation helps hotels to understand how they can drive occupancy during low periods and downtimes using the CRSHotels.com secure website, which receives over 75,000 online visitors per month.  After reviewing the presentation, hotel representatives are offered a ten-minute on-the-phone training, and then they are able to enjoy all the benefits that other hotels across the USA are receiving.

CRSHotels.com markets every partner hotel on their own website, and each hotel receives a dedicated site, providing potential guests with information on the hotel as well as room availability and rates.  Packages and deals being offered by each hotel are also marketed on the CRS website.  When making the decision to become a CRSHotels.com partner, the hotel may opt to receive their reservations via e-mail or fax.  The hotel sites are marketed on all the major search engines, including Google, Yahoo, and MSN. 

Many hotels have found the CRS e-mail survey that guests receive a day after they leave their hotel to be very useful.  Individual hotels are able to view their rating in several areas including service and accommodation.  They are able to compare results over different periods, as well as compare their ratings against other hotels.  This provides a true gauge of how guests are viewing their hotel.

Clayton Channing, Reservations /Revenue Manager at the Flatotel Hotel, New York says, “I enjoy working with CRSHotels.com.  There is always great communication and flexibility.  My reservation staff are able to enter confirmations directly into the system and the lack of paper is definitely a great bonus.”   Speaking on behalf of the Buena Vista Suites, Reservations /Revenue Manager, Lora Marler states that “managing rates and inventory online via the CRS extranet is simple and time saving.”  She affirms, “it is definitely one of the most user friendly extranet sites that I use.”

The attractive interactive online sales presentation was designed by Yard Media (www.yardmedia.com) and developed by InterMedia Solutions (www.intermedia4web.com).

CRSHotels.com invites potential hotel partners to view the online presentation at http://www.crshotels.com/salesvideo to learn about the quick and easy process that will have a positive impact on the hotel’s bottom line.

CRSHotels.com Joins Better Business Bureau of Central Florida

Monday, December 05, 2005

CRSHotels.com has backed up its commitment to provide top quality hotel reservation services to consumers by becoming a member of the Better Business Bureau of Central Florida. President of CRSHotels.com, Mr. Carlos Giraldo, made this announcement from the company’s Maitland, Florida headquarters in December 2005.

“When CRSHotels.com started in 1987 we held ourselves to high standards”, said Mr. Giraldo, “and today we are proud to report that our customers keep coming back because we have been successful in upholding these standards.” He explained that the Better Business Bureau promotes ethical business standards and voluntary self-regulation of business practices. He further stated that the move towards membership would help discerning consumers who need to know that the companies that they do business with are upholding high ethical standards. In order to give consumers this assurance, Mr. Giraldo stated that the Better Business Bureau logo would appear on the company’s website and future promotional material.

For years, CRSHotels.com has been conducting client surveys on its services as well as the service provided by its partner hotels. This has enabled the company and the hotels to continually improve, resulting in high customer satisfaction and an excellent return rate.

Members of the Better Business Bureau must have a good business reputation in the community, and be properly licensed. The Central Florida Better Business Bureau provides consumers with an avenue to research reports on companies that they are seeking to do business with, and to resolve consumer disputes with businesses.

Companies seeking membership with the Better Business Bureau of Central Florida must abide by the organization’s standards of advertising and selling, including the Code of Online Business Practices, the Fair Trade Practices Act, and local, state and federal statutes. Adhering to these strict guidelines was not an issue for CRSHotels.com, the company President noted; expounding on the fact the company’s reputation has been built on its best business practices philosophy.

CRSHotels.com partner hotels in cities across the United States have seen the benefits of working with a company that holds itself to such high standards. The invaluable feedback that they receive from the company’s communications with its clients has stood the hotels in good stead. They have been able to assess their own performance, as well as that of competitor hotels. This provides for healthy competition, with the ultimate beneficiary being the consumer. Many CRSHotels.com clients have enjoyed benefits such as deeper discounts and improved customer service at these hotels. Consumers give top rating to the accommodation and service at the boutique hotels offered by CRSHotels.com.

CRSHotels.com is proud to commence its relationship with the Better Business Bureau of Central Florida, welcoming this new partnership that underscores its corporate values.

CRSHotels Offers San Francisco, California Packages

Thursday, September 22, 2005

CRSHotels is providing visitors the opportunity to discover one of America’s most picturesque and culturally diverse cities, San Francisco, California.

With its world-famous icon, the Golden Gate Bridge beckoning visitors, San Francisco is a travelers delight for those wishing to experience this California city. CRSHotel’s partnership with several boutique hotels offers visitors exceptional value with great locations in downtown San Francisco. These hotels have consistently received rave reviews from visitors for comfort and reasonable rates. Union Square, the hub of culture and commerce is located nearby, and is a haven for visitors and locals alike with its many attractions, restaurants and shops.

One of San Francisco’s most popular attractions is the infamous Alcatraz Island, and there are several tours available for those wishing to take a closer look. First used as a military fort and later home to a Federal Prison, the beautiful island is the site of many books, movies and television shows, and is home to one of the largest western gull colonies.

There is something for everyone to do in this city – from exquisite art galleries to renowned museums. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is one of the world’s leading museums of modern and contemporary art, featuring paintings, sculptures, photographs and multimedia work. The Asian Art Museum is home to over 15,000 art treasures spanning 6,000 years of history. A California landmark since 1924, the Legion of Honor is home to a collection of ancient and European art.

The Exploratorium is one of the San Francisco area’s finest centers of learning for children of all ages, offering an experimental, hands-on museum designed to spark curiosity. The California Academy of Sciences is home of the Steinhart Aquarium, which also offers many interactive experiences. The Chabot Space and Science Center opens up the universe to visitors with its planetarium, telescopes, astronomy and space science exhibits.

The Yerba Buena Center for Arts celebrates San Francisco’s cultural diversity with exhibitions highlighting the merging of fine art and popular art. This is located in the Yerba Buena Gardens, an urban oasis spanning two city blocks and featuring attractions, restaurants, museums, public art and formal gardens.

San Francisco boasts an original in its historic cable cars. Today they are one of only two National Landmarks that move. The cable cars provide a unique way to tour the city. California is home of wine country, and yet another unique offering is tours of the premier wine making district including winery tours and wine tastings.

CRSHotels added San Francisco to its list of destinations because this is truly a city that has something for everyone. For baseball enthusiasts, SBC Park, home of the San Francisco Giants is within arms reach.

With its breathtaking views of the San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge and the cityscape, Fisherman’s Wharf is yet another popular destination in the city. It is well known for its historic waterfront, unique shopping and delicious seafood. Located in downtown, San Francisco, Metreon is Sony Entertainment’s prototype offering 350,000 square feet of multifaceted entertainment options including movie theaters, retail, interactive family venues, virtual reality and restaurants. This brings to California the first true urban entertainment center in the United States. For meeting planners, the Moscone Center covers more than two million square feet of building area, and is the venue of many major conventions and events each year.

San Francisco truly offers an unparalleled experience to travelers and CRSHotels is proud to open the door of some of the area’s best-reviewed hotels to visitors who wish to encounter California at its best.

CRSHotels Offers Best of New York with Times Square Hotel Deals

Thursday, September 08, 2005

CRSHotels is taking travelers to the heart of New York’s social scene with great deals to hotels located in and around Times Square . Times Square is a cultural melting pot of people from all over the world eager to encounter the best that New York has to offer.

CRSHotels offers travelers a choice of some 15 hotels in the area, each with unique characteristics, each with its own history, and each catering to the different needs of visitors. The Times Square area partner hotels can be found at the website

The art and architecture of the Times Square area have been a source of fascination worldwide, and some of the CRSHotels partner hotels are themselves architectural landmarks. Among the hotels with a rich history are: the Washington Jefferson Hotel, located in a pleasant, leafy low rise brownstone neighborhood; the elegantly appointed Wellington Hotel; and the Belvedere Hotel with its marble lobby and distinctive art-deco fixtures.

The bright lights, seductive signs and larger than life billboards that are the trademarks of Times Square beckons every traveler that seeks to experience the excitement of the Big Apple (New York City). Millions travel from around to world to experience Broadway theatrical performances, and millions of others dream about the experience. Broadway is an avenue that spans the length of Manhattan Island, passing through Times Square, the heart of the theater district. Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, Chicago and The Lion King are just a few of the shows that have kept theater lovers returning to the area.

Nearby Restaurant Row is located on a three-block stretch where visitors can star gaze at their favorite Broadway stars while experiencing cuisine from around the world. Times Square is a magnet for musicians and music lovers with a myriad of live music venues. It is also home to major music entertainment companies such as MTV and BMG Music.

Each year hundreds of thousands descend upon Times Square on New Years Eve, waiting for the famous ball drop atop One Times Square. This is a tradition dating back to 1906 and this year will be no different.

The Times Square experience offered by CRSHotels is a must for those desiring to encounter the best of hotel deals, in the city that never sleeps.

CRSHotels.com site now tested daily and secured with "ScanAlert"

Monday, June 20, 2005

From now on, the www.crshotels.com web site will be tested and certified daily to pass the FBI/SANS Internet Security Test. The "live" HACKER SAFE mark appears on our web site when its current security status meets the highest security scanning standards of the U.S. government, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover and JCB.

Research conducted at the federally funded research and development center operated by Carnegie Mellon University indicates that sites free of all known vulnerabilities that can be remotely scanned for, such as those earning HACKER SAFE certification, will prevent over 99.99% of hacker crime.

ScanAlert’s HACKER SAFE certification is the only security scanning technology recognized to meet both the U.S. government’s benchmark FBI/SANS security test and the security standards of all major credit card companies - including Visa^TM CISP and AIS, MasterCard^TM SDP, American Express^TM CID, and Discover Card^TM DISC security audits. ScanAlert’s security technology has been chosen to protect Marines.com, currently one of the most attacked web sites in the world, as well as over 60,000 e-commerce web sites in more than 30 countries. ScanAlert’s unique patent pending security auditing technology allows the HACKER SAFE mark to appear only when a web site’s current security status meets the highest published government standards.

CRS Hotels Highly Rated on Epinions.com

Monday, September 27, 2004

CRSHotels.com was recently reviewed and praised by a customer on Epinions.com. Below is an exercpt. To read the entire review, go to http://www.epinions.com/content_156307525252.

I did a google search for travel, and after trying about 5 different sites, I was getting discouraged when suddenly I found one called CRS Central Reservation Services. I typed in New York at the designated place and a page came up with quite a few options, one caught my eye, since I knew the hotel chain, and was amazed at the rate that was showing...After I glanced over the site and payment methods I booked it immediately in case the availability changed. There was no service charge by CRS and the hotel had a 48-hour cancellation policy, which was fine with me.

Overall, I’m very happy with my experience using CRS Central Reservation Services. It was easy, fast and very efficient offering fair prices, a varied selection of properties, though limited destination cities, along with friendly service and I would recommend them very highly to anyone who seeks a hotel in the 5 cities they represent.

Central Reservation Service Debuts New Web Site

Tuesday, May 04, 2004

Maitland, FL - Central Reservation Service Corp. (CRS), a hotel reservation service, has launched a new state of the art web site - http://www.CRSHotels.com today. The new web site brings CRS to the forefront of Internet technology as it integrates hotels directly with customers using the web to make reservations.

Since 1995, CRS has had a presence on the Internet. Although not in the same league as Expedia.com or Hotels.com, CRS continues to provide an exceptional experience both to the hotels that provide inventory in the system as well as the customers who choose to book with CRS.

Carlos H. Giraldo, President of CRS, states "the success of the company is that we work with a small number of hotels in limited destinations. We focus on learning as much as we can about the hotels we represent which we can do because we represent less than 100 hotels in four major cities - Miami, Orlando, New York and Boston. At the same time, the philosophy of the company is to provide exceptional service. We do this by making each caller feel like he or she is our only client and we look at each reservation which comes through the web site before we deliver it to the hotel - thus ensuring accuracy."

The company has taken their philosophy an extra step. Each client receives a "Welcome home" email the day after checking out from a hotel. The email asks the client to complete a survey online about their experience with CRS and the hotel. Every day CRS receives a minimum of 10 responses with many comments which are then forwarded to the hotels. "We’ve been able to spot problematic hotels which we eventually drop from our program", said Rochelle Koren who handles day to day activities at CRS. In the near future, this feature will be integrated to a program which will compile survey feedback on a real time basis. Visitors to the web site will be able to read summary reports from past clients on the CRS hotels via a link on the front page to "What our customers are saying" page.

CRS has been serving the travelers since 1987 when it first opened in Miami, Florida. Since then, over half-a-million reservations have been confirmed. CRS continues to staff 7 days a week, year round and provide customer service in both English and Spanish.

For more information about the company, contact Carlos H. Giraldo at (407) 740-6442 or by email at Carlos@CRSHotels.com.