Green Hotels in Hawaii: Fairmont Orchid
Where: The Big Island || Grouped in: The Big Island Hotels || Tagged:
You've all run into those little pamphlets in a hotel bathroom urging you to hang up your towel and use it another day. That's not enough for the Fairmont Orchid (pictured to the left), a luxe resort on the Big Island that has long been in the environmental vanguard. The Orchid has made serious investments in solar power to reduce its drag on the island's already stretched electrical grid (brown-outs are not uncommon). Even more surprising, the Orchid has managed to eliminate toxic synthetic cleaning chemicals, fertilizers and herbicides from daily use and replaced them with Green Seal - certified cleaning products. Book a room there and breathe easier.
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Comments
Elaine said:
That’s a pretty old article. I spoke to the hotel recently and was told that it no longer uses those products because of the cost.
—08/22/06
Alex Salkever said:
That’s odd. I spoke to the hotels PR person and they didn’t say the hotel had stopped using those products. Are you sure? Also, keep in mind, what’s old to someone in Hawaii media is probably not old to the rest of the world and even to people in Hawaii. If you do a Google search for this, it doesn’t come up very much. None of the local dailies bothered to report it, it looks like. Please keep reading and thanks for the comment.
—09/04/06
Alex Salkever said:
That’s odd. I spoke to the hotel’s PR person and they didn’t say the hotel had stopped using those products. Are you sure? Also, keep in mind, what’s old to someone in Hawaii media is probably not old to the rest of the world and even to people in Hawaii. If you do a Google search for this, it doesn’t come up very much. None of the local dailies bothered to report it, it looks like. Please keep reading and thanks for the comment.
—09/04/06