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Ritz-Carlton offers mile-high luxury in Denver, Colorado
Denver is the most recent city to get a Ritz-Carlton, which was to have opened Friday. The downtown Ritz, carved from a former Embassy Suites hotel that was gutted at a cost of $75 million, offers more than 200 rooms, a restaurant named after NFL great John Elway, 400-thread-count Frette linens and Bulgari bath items. There's no gym (guests use a fitness club next door), but a spa is scheduled to open this spring.
Introductory rates, good through March, start at $249 weekends and $349 weekdays; the top-tier suite goes for $3,000 per night. Did we mention that the Ritz maintains a Rolls-Royce Phantom to ferry guests around downtown free of charge (subject to availability)? We would expect no less.
 This hotel, which dates to 1921, has 39 rooms and commanding perch by a big river. |
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