KING PACIFIC LODGE LANDS ON CONDE NAST TRAVLER'S GOLD LIST 2009

01-07-2009

PRINCESS ROYAL ISLAND, GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST, BC, CANADA (January 7, 2009) – The readers of Condé Nast Traveler named King Pacific Lodge, A Rosewood Resort, to the magazine's Gold List 2009.  The 15th annual list is considered by many to be the ultimate annotated guide to the world's finest properties and cruise lines as selected by more than 32,000 Condé Nast Traveler readers.  King Pacific Lodge received top recognition in four of the six award categories: food, location, design and activities; with an overall score of 97.4. 

 

•     Rooms: 96.9

•     Service: 96.9

•     Food: 96.9

•     Location: 100

•     Design: 96.9

•     Activities: 96.9

 

The lodge was also recently named a winner as Best Resort in Canada and the Fourth Best of the Best among all resorts, hotels and cruise lines in the world in Conde Nast Traveler's 21st Annual Readers' Choice Awards.

 

"This recognition by affluent global travelers is undeniable evidence of the success of a triple bottom line approach to tourism – one that recognizes that economic success is attainable because of an attention to social equity and conservation, not despite it,” commented Michael Uehara, president, King Pacific Lodge.

 

King Pacific Lodge Gold List 2009 entry: "Everything is pure luxury and quality" at the top-scoring property in the Americas, an ecolodge on a floating former U.S. Navy barge off the Great Bear Rainforest, a perfect-scoring location. Its remoteness—the resort is accessible only by boat or floatplane—allows guests to "watch humpback whales feeding" from their bedroom window. Interiors have red cedar paneling, pine columns, and floor-to-ceiling windows; rooms, with driftwood furniture, are "luxurious but with a natural, rustic feel." Organic fare such as seaweed-crusted albacore tuna is "truly excellent." "Staff enhance the experience from check-in to checkout." The property offsets all its carbon emissions. www.concierge.com.

 

About King Pacific Lodge

King Pacific Lodge is anchored in Barnard Harbor along the shores of Princess Royal Island in British Columbia, Canada; about 680 miles north of Vancouver. The island has no permanent inhabitants or structures and this highly sensitive environment is in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest, the world's largest remaining tract of temperate rainforest.  The floating luxury wilderness lodge is built of native pine, fir, cedar and stone and offers only 17 guest-rooms and suites, a wrap-around deck with spectacular views along with award winning cuisine and spa. www.kingpacificlodge.com

 

About Condé Nast Traveler

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