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Hey! My Ritz Bedroom Was on KXAS!

I love you guys over at DFW Around Town, KXAS-TV, but really, aren’t you a little late coming to the Ritz party? Been there, done that, and need to tell you how much I wish I were at the Ritz Spa all week today. Or, actually, anywhere near the hotel that was awarded AAA Five Diamond hotel ratings for 2010. We had Supper Club chez nous this weekend, and I have been vacuuming floors, filling and emptying the dishwasher, etc. (I’ve missed my keyboard.) Oh Roberto Van Geenan, where is your wonderful staff when I need you? If you buy one of the last 30 units available at the new Ritz-Carlton Tower Residences, you pick up the phone and order a party and the Ritz even does a white glove clean up. This is interesting to me because — I will probably be kicked out for saying this — but our Supper Club is getting old. Really, not old,  just weary of entertaining so many people. A few members have dropped out and the majority voted to keep the membership down to 18 or 20, only nine dinners per year, not eleven or twelve, because members say it is way hard to entertain so many people. The fact is, many will be downsizing their homes and want more ease and help in party preparation. May I suggest we all buy at the Ritz?

And then you can go to the spa instead of vacuum.I don’t know if I ever relayed the grand finale of our superb September stay at The Ritz-Carlton Tower Residences. We were offered spa treatments at the amazing, 12,000 square foot, award-winning  Ritz Spa. Only a few steps away from your Tower residence, located in the hotel complex, you walk into the beautiful, fragrant Ritz spa, slip into a soft robe, and place yourself in the hands of some very capable, talented masseurs and masseuses. I don’t know if I liked the heated, ergonomically perfect massage tables better than the precise, experienced hands that kneaded out every post-wedding kink, but it was pure heaven and I have already made Ritz Spa gift certificates my holiday gift of the year for very special friends.

By the way, our  Ritz-Carlton, Dallas hotel has received the coveted 2010 Five Diamond award, after just two years of operation, one of only 113 hotels in North America to receive AAA Five Diamonds for 2010.

“The AAA Five Diamond award is a truly worthy tribute to the ladies and gentlemen of The Ritz-Carlton, Dallas,” said Roberto van Geenen, general manager for the hotel.  “To be granted this rating within the first two years of operation is a particularly special honor, and it inspires all of us to continue raising the bar for this vibrant region.” Dallas is the only city in Texas to have been awarded AAA Five Diamond hotel ratings for 2010.