W hotel opens in Bellevue
Marriott’s W Hotels brand has opened its first new US hotel in seven years.
The W Bellevue, across Lake Washington from Seattle, has 220 guest rooms and 25 suites built in a lakeside cabin style
"As a city known for its lake houses, W Bellevue embraces this tradition while reinterpreting the design in a fresh and innovative way," said Matt Van Der Peet, general manager of the hotel.
"From being welcomed by bold street art, surprised by a library of pulp fiction, and quenched by craft cocktails at the Living Room Bar, W Bellevue is sure to become a destination in its own right for both guests and locals alike."
A 2,300-sqaure-foot, two-bedroom Extreme WOW Suite is a ‘decked-out party palace’ with hanging porch swings which give guests the chance to feel as if they’re floating over Bellevue.
The hotel also has a Lakehouse restaurant run by James Beard Award-winning chef Jason Wilson and a speakeasy-style bar called Civility & Unrest.
Other US W hotels in the pipeline include downtown Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Aspen, Colorado.
Marriott took over the W brand when it acquired Starwood Hotels last year.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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