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Posts Tagged ‘Green Lodging’

SunStream Beach Team is on location with the Kids Can Cook TV show at DiamondHead Beach Resort & Spa

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

SunStream Beach Team is on location at the DiamondHead Beach Resort & Spa while Sylvia Garson shoots her NYC based cable television show, Kids Can Cook TV. She works with the local community to gather children to teach a healthy recipe and then pairs it with an environmental lesson. In this episode she taught the children how to make fruit smoothies and then paired it with a lesson from Marilyn and Joanne from the Ostego Bay Foundation.

Check it out!

SunStream Beach Team Vists The Resort at MarinaVillage – a pet-friendly resort in Cape Coral, FL

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

SunStream Beach Team visits The Resort at MarinaVillage, a luxurious and pet-friendly resort located in Cape Coral, Florida. This week we featured the resort from a dogs perspective, while also talking to some of the guests who brought their pets along with them. We touched a little on the Oil Spill, however, since Southwest Florida has been very fortunate we want to continue our outings and talked to our guests while also letting others get acquainted with our resorts. The weather is warm, the sun is shining and the beaches are as beautiful as ever!

SunStream Hotels & Resorts Expands Its Marketing Team, Hiring A Full-time Communications Specialist

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For information, contact:

Michelle Moran

SunStream Hotels & Resorts

239-765-4111(office)

@Sunstreampr (Twitter)

Michelle.Moran@sunstream.com

SunStream.com

SUNSTREAM HOTELS & RESORTS EXPANDS ITS MARKETING TEAM, HIRING A FULL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

(FORT MYERS BEACH, FL)  – SunStream Hotels & Resorts is proud to announce Michelle Moran as Communications Specialist and the newest member of their in-house Marketing Team.  Michelle brings over 8 years of hospitality and marketing experience to SunStream.

A die-hard Seminoles fan, Michelle received both her Bachelors and Masters degrees at Florida State University in Integrated Marketing & Management Communications while working full-time as a restaurant manager and an advertising intern.

Her years after college were spent as an Event Planner for a company based out of Orlando, working closely with General Managers, Directors of Sales and Corporate clients, arranging banquets, trade shows and conferences at many of the large convention hotels and convention centers within the area.

Michelle recently worked for VIZERGY (formerly Secure-Res), based out of Jacksonville, FL for over 3 years as a Senior E-Marketing/Project Manager. In this position, she partnered with over 50 hospitality clients to create strategic marketing initiatives to help increase their revenue.  It is this experience that Michelle is most excited to bring to SunStream and is looking forward to many years of contributing to the success of SunStream.

In her spare time, Michelle enjoys sitting poolside with friends at her new home in Cape Coral, visiting family & friends in Wellington, FL and most recently is spending a lot of time planning for her upcoming wedding.

Headquartered in Fort Myers Beach, SunStream Hotels & Resorts has become a name synonymous with luxury hotels and condominium resorts throughout Southwest Florida, having specialized in property development and hospitality management since 1986. SunStream’s distinctive collection of properties in Southwest Florida now includes the DiamondHead Beach Resort & Spa, GullWing Beach Resort, Pointe Estero Beach Resort, Bellasera Hotel, Park Shore Resort, Port of the Islands Resort & Marina and Cape Coral’s first luxury resort, The Resort at MarinaVillage – a luxurious full-service condominium resort located at Tarpon Point Marina with 19 stories of sweeping views of the Caloosahatchee River, San Carlos Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

For more information on SunStream Hotels & Resorts or to book a reservation, please call 800-625-4111 or visit www.sunstream.com.

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SunStream Hotels & Resorts Appoints Its Newest Regional Sales Manager

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For information, contact:

Michelle Moran

SunStream Hotels & Resorts

239-765-4111(office)

@Sunstreampr (Twitter)

Michelle.Moran@sunstream.com

SunStream.com

SUNSTREAM HOTELS & RESORTS APPOINTS ITS NEWEST REGIONAL SALES MANAGER

(FORT MYERS BEACH, FL)  – SunStream Hotels & Resorts is proud to announce our newest Regional Sales Manager, Kristin Marshall. She will be representing all the fine hotels and resorts within the SunStream portfolio. Kristin joins our team with over 22 years experience in the hospitality industry and most recently, the past 10 years in Southwest Florida.

At the young age of 19, Kristin began her career in her home state of Connecticut.  Shortly after, she felt the need to get out of the cold Northeast to take her chance in paradise.  Residing in the beautiful U.S. Virgin Islands for over 3 years, she was the Sales & Marketing Manager at The Windward Passage Hotel, a full-service waterfront property in St. Thomas.

Moving from one tropical paradise to another, Kristin spent 7 years as a Sales Manager at the Radisson Suite Beach Resort in Marco Island.  The next 4 years were spent as the Director of Sales at the Marco Beach Ocean Resort, a AAA-4 Diamond, Preferred Hotel & Resort.

“I will bring the relationships that I have made over the last 10 years to SunStream and introduce them to all the fine hotels & resorts that SunStream has to offer in Southwest Florida,” Kristin says.

In her spare time, Kristin enjoys spending afternoons at the beach, diving in the Keys and taking long bike rides, as well as giving back to the community by volunteering & supporting Multiple Sclerosis, MDA and Big Brothers and Big Sisters. She was matched with her “little sister” when she was only 8 years old and continues to mentor her and has watched her blossom into a 20 year-old Nursing Student.

Headquartered in Fort Myers Beach, SunStream Hotels & Resorts has become a name synonymous with luxury hotels and condominium resorts throughout Southwest Florida, having specialized in property development and hospitality management since 1986. SunStream’s distinctive collection of properties in Southwest Florida now includes the DiamondHead Beach Resort, GullWing Beach Resort, Pointe Estero Beach Resort, Bellasera Hotel, Park Shore Resort, Port of the Islands Resort & Marina and Cape Coral’s first luxury resort, The Resort at MarinaVillage – a luxurious full-service condominium resort located at Tarpon Point Marina with 19 stories of sweeping views of the Caloosahatchee River, San Carlos Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

For more information about bringing your group to Southwest Florida, contact Kristin at KristinM@sunstream.com. For reservations or general information, call 800-625-4111, or visit www.SunStream.com.

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Bellasera Hotel: “Home Sweet Home” Italian-Style

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For information, contact:
Treva J. Marshall, TJM Communications, Inc.
(407) 977-5004; treva@tjmcommunications.com

Dipika Joshi, TJM Communications, Inc.
(407) 977-5004; dipika@tjmcommunications.com

Carolyn Masten
SunStream Hotels & Resorts
(239) 765-4111; CarolynM@SunStream.com

BELLASERA HOTEL:
“Home Sweet Home” Italian-Style

NAPLES, FL – At Bellasera Hotel, guests bask in all the comforts of home and all the exotic elegance of an Italian villa. It’s only fitting for Naples, Florida, a genteel beach town acclaimed for its first-class shopping, dining, golf, arts and water sports.

Bellasera transplants the spirit and style of Tuscany to Naples’ fashionable and lively Fifth Avenue South district. The hotel’s name means “beautiful evening” in Italian, but beauty stretches daylong, property-wide at Bellasera. The intimate Four-Diamond property romances couples the minute they enter the polished wood lobby with its sweeping staircase and rich Tuscan inspiration, immediately giving guests a sense of arrival to a place beyond precious.

Sunflower yellows and earthy rust-reds color its three-story buildings in shades of Tuscany. Expressive arches and balconies open onto a lush courtyard where stone fountains and rock cascades gurgle around the ornately tiled swimming pool and whirlpool. Umbrella-topped tables, webbed chaises, and private sultan cabanas surround the deck, where food and beverage service is available upon request.

Stately royal palm trees and vine-swathed pergolas shade Zizi restaurant’s al fresco tables. Meals served on the terrace poolside or inside the sleek ristorante are robust with pure and sunny Mediterranean flavors. Room service is also available. For happy hour and after dinner, couples cozy up in the convivial lounge. On Thursday evenings, live jazz and soft vocals soundtrack a bella sera.

Visitors rave about the AAA Four-Diamond resort’s better-than-home comfort, appointments and amenities they find in Bellasera’s 100 studio and one- to three-bedroom suites with screened porches and balconies which overlook the flowery courtyard – a picture-perfect wedding setting.

Whirlpool tubs in the studios feature plantation shutters that open onto the master bedroom so guests can watch TV from their bubble bath. The studios also come with an under-counter refrigerator and coffeemaker. Alluring Mediterranean style holds through the living areas: rich woods, plush furnishings and earth-toned tiling.

Cable TVs with DVDs, free high-speed Internet access, a washer-dryer, bathrobes, and a king-sized bed in the master suite ensure the final measure of convenience and pampering. Free wireless “hot spots” throughout the resort, a state-of-the-art fitness center and a complimentary shuttle to Naples platinum-white beach – minutes away and recently named “America’s Best All-Around Beach” by The Travel Channel – complete this picture of fantasy fulfillment.

Guests can easily stroll to famed Fifth Avenue South and its fashionable sidewalk cafes, clubs, boutiques, art galleries, and theater.

The flexibility of Bellasera’s design makes it a popular choice for wedding parties. Its 4,000 square feet of exquisite function space seats up to 200 in a classic Italian setting, ensuring an event graced with elegance and style.

Bellasera Hotel, one in SunStream Hotels & Resorts collection of distinctive properties in Southwest Florida, is located at 221 Ninth Street South in Naples. For reservations or more information on vacationing Italian-style without leaving American soil, call 888-612-1115 or 239-649-7333. Or visit BellaseraNaples.com.

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