HARMONY/SERENITY/TRANQUILITY are Japanese traditions Nikko Hotels combines with American standards of luxury at its seven North American properties in Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Mexico City, Honolulu and New York (Essex House). More than 40 hotels in 17 countries. 1-800-NIKKO-US.
CONVENTION KIDS: At Marriott’s Bay Point Resort in Panama City Beach, Fla., the Alligator Point Gang is a supervised program for children, age 4 to 12. The gang has its own headquarters for planning pizza parties, crab catching, fishing, softball and kite flying. 1-800-228-9290.
THE LUXURY COLLECTION of ITT Sheraton is the exclusive hotel sponsor of “Picasso and Portraiture, Representation and Transformation” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, April 28-Sept. 17. Gold-level frequent guests can book a hotel package that includes a private showing of the exhibition and a cocktail reception at the museum on June 22. Available at the St. Regis and Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers/Sheraton Manhattan Hotel complex, two blocks from the museum. 1-800-325-3535.
EXPRESS ARRIVAL service awaits returning guests whose credit card number is on file and who have reserved limo transport to the Four Seasons Washington. A doorman greets them with the room key packet before they’re escorted to their room. (202) 342-0444.
$9M TRANSFORMATION: A renovated Crowne Plaza Hotel has taken the place of the former Sheraton Hasbrouck Heights. In Northern New Jersey, at the crossroads of I-80, Rtes. 17 and 46, the hotel has 23,000 square feet of meeting space, the Crown Ballroom overlooking the Manhattan skyline, a 15-room conference wing and a Grand Ballroom. (201) 288-6100.
