Eco-friendly packages offering luxury accommodations and use of the 2009
Lexus Hybrid Sedan now available on Luxury Link.
Luxury Link
announces its partnership with Lexus to bring eco-friendly hotel
packages to the sophisticated traveler.
“At Luxury Link we believe in
socially responsible practices. We want to preserve the world’s beauty so
people can enjoy it for years to come,” said Diane
McDavitt, president of Luxury Link. “We are pleased to be
partnering with Lexus and share their commitment to excellence and passion for
creating luxury experience for our consumers.”
We are
currently running packages for Fairmont
San Francisco and Fairmont
Washington DC that focus on the environment and sustainability.
Guests who purchase these packages will stay in the Lexus Hybrid Living
Suitecomposed of organic, recycled or sustainable materials and
furnishings. The eco-friendly packages also include personal use of
the newly-launched 2009 Lexus LS Hybrid. This low-emission hybrid
vehicle is designed to minimize environmental impact without sacrificing luxury
and style.
I just cannot comprehend the "green concept" being applicable here. We travel. We frequently fly airplanes. We rent cars. We go to little boutique properties, large resorts, villas and on safaris. We go to big chain hotels like the Fairmont. Having one room that includes a motorized vehicle included as a perk is so far beyond reason, it doesn't even compute as GREEN or ECO-anything. The hotel chain still operates as status quo for all tens of thousands of other guests--swimming pools, bed linens, restaurants, uniforms, limos ad infinitum.... I think this confuses the real intent of green, eco-friendly and whatever buzz-word you can find today. I'm sure saying this is not making me popular at LL marketing, because I see it it as a gimmick--"full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" [but a lure to someone who might think they're being responsible...] I'm far too cynical to believe that concept is valid.
I'm staying at Fairmont Towers, Heliopolis, Egypt next month-in a one bedroom suite, breakfast, pool, AC...HUGE atrium multi-story tower lobby--hardly "eco-friendly--how responsible are they?
I have an great affinity for LL but this "green" promotion seems very silly.
