While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads, we are hard at work giving our Executive Lounge an extreme makeover! The project started on Sunday and is anticipated to end shortly after Christmas – fear not, the executive lounge has been relocated with the same amenities for anyone staying over the holidays but for all you folks that start off 2010 with a trip to downtown Omaha you’ll experience our enhanced Executive Lounge.
So what is an Executive Lounge? I’m the perfect person to ask! You know how you feel when you get to walk through a restaurant and are seated at the best table in a private area – it’s kind of like that. Almost every luxury hotel offers an enhanced experience to guests seeking more than just a place to lay their head and is often located in a key access only area of the hotel so guests are not interupted.
What are the amentities of an Executive Lounge? At Hilton Omaha we have an entire dedicated floor, called the Executive Level and these rooms showcase amenities such as cozy, plush robes and luxury linens. Each guest on our Executive Level receives access to the Executive Lounge, there they can sit and read, watch television, utilize our complimentary computer services, or grab a bit to eat – but the best secret of the Executive Lounge? Conceriege services! Hilton Omaha provides Conceriege services with a smile that know all of the best places to go in Omaha.
Okay, I’m sold! How do I gain access? If you want exclusive amenities, we offer upgraded rooms – browse hilton.com to see the different features of each room. Stay with Hilton often, then join Hilton Hhonors. The Hilton Hhonors program allows our guests to earn points and miles each stay and after a guest moves into Gold or Diamond member status they are rewarded with complimentary upgrades to our Executive Level. Whether you are staying with us at Hilton Omaha or at another hotel chain, the smartest investment is to become a member of the loyalty club for the brand – you’ll receive perks and know about events before anyone else.
I love the holidays in Omaha. The twinkling lights sparkling against the whitest snow, window shopping on a cold winters night, and sipping hot chocolate while waiting for the Christmas trees to glow. What’s your favorite thing about the holidays in Omaha? Are you a photographer {or just love to take pictures?} We’d love to see what the holidays in Omaha mean to you so we started a Flickr group – A Very Merry Omaha Holiday 2009 Share the spirit of the holidays with everyone!
Looking for holiday activities this weekend? Click on the icons below (or click view larger map) to see a full range. Have an event that you would like to see on the map for this weekend or anytime in December? Comment below and I’ll get it on the map! Get out and experience Omaha under the twinkling of lights!
Hilton Omaha is a proud supporter of Liberty Elementary and our Green Team loves to see their smiling faces each month! Once a year they bring their smiles to our hotel! We invite the entire kindergarten class to decorate trees (on display on our second floor) and sing Christmas carols – all we have to do is provide them with cookies and milk – not a tough gig!
We love the enthusiasm they bring to Hilton Omaha and always look forward to seeing their beautiful trees!
If you’re traveling or living in Omaha, the city offers a vibrant selection of festivities to welcome the Christmas holiday this week. There is nothing quite as stunning as hundreds of lights twinkling in the winter night’s sky. Consider this your invite to the best of the season!
10th Annual Holiday Lights Festival
Thursday, November 26 @ 6pm
Gene Leahy Mall, 14th and Farnam
One million lights bring the Christmas spirit to downtown Omaha. Take a stroll by the water for a romantic look or bring the kids and create memories racing down the slides or spend the evening visiting Old Market shops and restaurants. A special treat, Making Spirits Bright Concert will begin at 7pm at Holland Performing Arts Center featuring the Nebraska Wind Symphony.
Village Pointe Holiday Lighting Event
Friday, November 27th @ 6pm Village Pointe, 168th and Dodge Street
Sparks will fly when Village Point lights up the night. Start the evening with a family concert, refreshments, holiday parade and that jingle, jangle of Santa! Friday is just the kick-off to the month long list of fabulous festivities – check out Village Pointe Events for a full listing! (PS includes information on how you can pick up a custom hand-blown ornament globe from our North Downtown neighbor, Crystal Forge at the Hot Shops!)
Christmas at Union Station Tree Lighting Ceremony
Friday, November 27th @ 4pm
Durham Museum, 801 S 10th Street
See the region’s largest indoor Christmas tree sparkle while listening to the sounds of the season and enjoying Santa time, cookie decorating, crafts, and story time. Durham Museum continues the Christmas spirit with programs throughout December, including Ethnic Holiday Festival, The Durham Museum Concert Series and Family Night with Santa – find out more here.
Laurtizen Gardens’ Holiday Poinsettia Show
Friday, November 27th – January 10, 9am – 5pm daily
100 Bancroft Street
Experience more than 5,600 poinsettia plants, including a 20 foot poinsettia tree, holiday decorated trees, model trains, and more.
Sounds of the Season
Every Saturday November 28 – December 19 @ 7pm
Gene Leah Mall, 14th and Farnam as well as 11th and Howard Street in the Old Market
Enjoy the Sounds of the Season with local choirs, carolers and musicians performing throughout downtown Omaha.
In case you missed it Silicon Prairie News was kind enough to run a video on their 5 in 5 about our Hilton Omaha blog! As a follower of Silicon Prairie News I was super excited to contribute!
The video kicked off our 3 days of 1st Annual BIG O! Trick-or-Tweet, a BIG THANK YOU to our sponsors and to our Twitter followers for making it so successful AND marks the beginning of our new series beginning on Monday.
We also have some new and exciting feature for this second leg of our journey – video! I will be documenting my trips out and about with video and more pictures, telling the whole story! But before I sign off until Monday I wanted to give a “write out”? (shout out) to a couple of folks that have inspired the way we are presenting our second round. (And somewhere, in the distance a bell rings)
Over the past 9 months I have been afforded awesome opportunities to meet people through Twitter. Most often these organic experiences begin with a simple phrase: Looking for a hotel in Omaha.
As we began talking about how Hilton Omaha has utilized social media, Stephen pulled out his film camera and started recording our conversation. It then hit me, to get the greatest exposure of Omaha we need to allow folks to really see what we see! From that conversation the idea of Hilton Omaha blog video was conceived. But it doesn’t stop there…. As luck would have it that very same day I met Joe Frost and after giving him my “I’m not a tech person” speech he told me how to add video to our blog! Perfect – and now here we are beginning the second session of the Hilton Omaha blog with our new enhancements! (PS Joe is a social media concierge, social enterpreneur enthusiast, and he can be found at ELIFY.)
I hope y’all enjoy the blog as much as I do writing it. If you have any suggestions for fun winter things to do in Omaha send them to me! I love to hear from you! brooke.ossenkop@hilton.com or comment on the blog.
Have a great {SUNNY!} weekend and I’ll see you right here on Monday!
Congratulations to our last winners in the 1st Annual BIG O! Trick-or-Tweet Tweetaway! I hope everyone had a great Halloween weekend and enjoyed tweeting for prizes!
@LozaFina – 4 drink tokens from The Slowdown!
@danelle – $20 Gift Certificate to a Bike Shop of your choice from @OmahaCyclist!
@autumn398 – Michael Buble and Pink CD from The Big O 101.9FM!
@kwortmann – ½ hour massage at Massage Envy – The Shops of Legacy!
@nllarson – $20 gift card to Urban Outfitters!
@skarin – Family Pass to The Durham Museum!
@jphogan – One Night stay @HiltonOmaha!
To collect your prizes email me the address you would like the prize sent to (along with your full name) brooke.ossenkop@hilton.com. I’m out of the office today, but will get everything going tomorrow.
Congratulations to our Thursday winners in the 1st Annual BIG O! Trick-or-Tweet goodie bag drawing.
*@Funkcaroline – $25 Gift Certificate to Village Pointe!
*@gabek – $20 Gift Certificate to Garbos!
*@Chadjcox – One night stay @DoubletreeOmaha!
*@Danholke – 4 tickets to UNO Football game!
*@FandagoChica – $20 Gift Certificate to Hilton Omaha Health Club and Spa!
*@Amyaolson – One Free Yoga Class at Omaha Yoga Path!
Congratulations to all of our winners. Please email me at brooke.ossenkop@hilton.com to claim your prize! Enjoy!
@nateknox thanks for the suggestion - with guests safety in mind, stairs are only avail from hotel rm level. How is your stay going with us? 2 days ago
