8 Jan 2024

Hilton Welcomes First Spark by Hilton

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We celebrated the grand opening of Spark by Hilton Mystic Groton, in September 2023.  This opening solidifying the Hilton’s foray into the premium economy segment. With more than 400 opportunities in various stages of development, the first-ever Spark by Hilton made its debut just eight months after Hilton announced the new, conversion-only brand in January 2023. Spark by Hilton Mystic Groton is managed by Distinctive Hospitality Management. FULL ARTICLE  Learn More about our newest

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30 Jul 2023

12 New England Experiences Barbie Would Love

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The VERVE Hotel featured in Yankee Magazine, July 2023 "When It’s Time for Barbie to Rest Her Head…" She’ll feel right at home at the Verve Hotel in Natick, Massachusetts. This is no ordinary overnight. Everywhere she looks, Barbie will find reminders of her own 20th-century “eras.” It’s like stepping into a museum of American TV and pop culture, complete with video games to play and album cover art to snap. And, yes… there’s even a collection

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29 Jul 2023

The 25 Most Romantic Restaurants in Connecticut

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Delighted to be included in Connecticut Magazine's Most Romantic Restaurants - The Wharf at Madison Beach Hotel. The attribute that anchors the romance quotient of The Wharf can be summed up in one word: location. Tucked away off Route 1, it’s the kind of hidden gem that adds to the allure of seaside towns, where the fire roads and narrow lanes branching off main thoroughfares look private, even forbidding, but typically reveal million-dollar vistas reserved

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view of hotel from the Sound
29 Jul 2023

The Best Private Resort Beaches in the U.S.

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Classic New England vibes are the order of the day at this quintessential Connecticut resort, located right on the shoreline of Long Island Sound. Opened in 2012, the four-story, grey-shingled Madison Beach Hotel occupies the footprint of a hotel that began as a boarding house serving shipbuilders in the 1800s before city people discovered the village of Madison’s seaside charms. Most of the hotel’s 34 spacious rooms have balconies looking out over the estuarial waters, and complimentary

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The Verve Hotel entrance day
27 Sep 2021

Covid hit the hotel industry hard. Data shows it’s still missing a key part of its business.

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Lou Carrier, president of Distinctive Hospitality Group, weighs in on the lack of business travel and its impact on the hotel industry.  “Business travelers use hotels, go to restaurants and retail, engage in sports entertainment and get the economic systems firing on all cylinders,” Lou Carrier, president of the Distinctive Hospitality Group, said. “You may have a leisure traveler engine firing on two or three cylinders, but a business traveler engine is firing on eight.”

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7 Nov 2020

New restaurant restrictions ‘another nail in the coffin’

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[NATICK] - SKYBOKX, an upscale sports bar and grill, closed at the outset of the pandemic and reopened in July with several safety measures in place, including plexiglass dividers between tables and seats at the bar. “In many ways, we’ve gone above and beyond with our sanitation protocols,” said Carrier.

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