For the second year in a row, King Pacific Lodge Wins Condé Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Award for Best Resort in Canada and Fourth Best in the World
PRINCESS ROYAL ISLAND, GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST, BC, CANADA - Condé Nast Traveler announced today the results of its 2009 Readers' Choice Awards, ranking the best cities, islands, cruise lines, airlines, hotels, resorts and car rental agencies worldwide. For the second year in a row, King Pacific Lodge, A Rosewood Resort was named the best Canadian resort and the fourth Best of the Best among all resorts, hotels and cruise lines in the world with a score of 97.8. The awards appear in the November issue (on newsstands October 20) and are derived from the Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice survey. This year, 25,008 readers voted on more than 10,000 properties and destinations.
"King Pacific Lodge has long been noted for its luxury and quality. But, we have paid particular attention to our role in creating social equity and conservation in this new era where travelers of today want more knowledge, more connection to the places they visit, more authenticity and more opportunities to see a world they could have easily missed," said Michael Uehara, president of King Pacific Lodge.
King Pacific Lodge is anchored in Barnard Harbor along the shores of Princess Royal Island in British Columbia, Canada; a 2.5-hour transfer by private charter from 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.
King Pacific, A Rosewood Resort is a 17-room floating, luxury, wilderness lodge located in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest in Gitga'at territory along the central coast of British Columbia.
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts manages properties worldwide including Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek and Rosewood Crescent Hotel in Dallas, The Carlyle in New York, The Mansion on Peachtree in Atlanta, Rosewood Sand Hill, CordeValle and San Ysidro Ranch in California, Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi in Santa Fe, Las Ventanas al Paraíso and Rosewood Mayakobá in Mexico, and a triumvirate of world-class Caribbean properties - Rosewood Little Dix Bay on Virgin Gorda, Caneel Bay on St. John and Jumby Bay on Antigua. Rosewood recently launched a new spa brand - Sense, A Rosewood Spa® - featuring treatments reflective of the brand's signature philosophy A Sense of Place®. For more information on Rosewood Hotels & Resorts or Sense, A Rosewood Spa®, please call 888.ROSEWOOD or visit rosewoodhotels.com.
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