How does it feel like staying in Loren in Lady Bird Lake

Stepping through the front door at Loren Hotel in Lady Bird Lake in Austin It is like walking into a comfortable living room with your slow interior designer -a gallery of art as you explore more. The sweeping lobby, which smells fresh flowers, is established with a mix of greenery and reflective surfaces that add a wide and natural flavor. Despite modernity, the space has invited and comfortable details, such as luxury throwing pillows, deep armchairs, and many coffee table books, allowing guests to kick and admire their surroundings.

Strengthening this feeling as a guest at home amazing friends is that there are many events to attend the lobby and the first floor cafe. When my husband and I visited, Loren seemed to be Austin’s party life. It organized a crowded music show on Friday night and a busy wine on Saturday evening. With friends’ pockets gather around the room, it’s hard to tell who is the local and the visitors. But nothing is important because we’re all together for a great time.

During a real estate visit, Martin Wormull, the General Manager of the Hotel, told me that many hotel events were targeted at Austin residents, adding that “99% of the business at the cafe are local.” All of this made me feel like an inner person, though it was my first time in Austin in about two decades and my husband’s first visit to an eclectic destination.

There is a clear emphasis on the design of the hotel, with the artwork operated in the same space and lanes, and different pieces in each room, so there are no two. While you may feel like you’re in a boutique museum, there’s an art gallery in place, Paggi’s housethat guests can visit when they want. It was housed in a small stone building that preceded the civil war and was a historic landmark of Austin. For visitors worn with visitors (read: me), a new milk + honey spa Attached, allowing guests to relax and recharge with treatment from massage and face to laser and chemical skin. Even the waiting area is quiet, with walls and crystal spreaders and spreading steam into the air.

Although there is no shortage Fun things to do in the capital of TexasLoren at Lady Bird Lake made hard sales to stay. When you succeed in peeling yourself, though, you are in an easy place to mark some good eating and outdoor adventures from your itinerary. The hotel is located across the Colorado River, where you will see paddleboarders, and swimmers on warmer days. Cross the pedestrian bridge ahead, and you are immediately in the city center of Austin. Next to the hotel is Butler Park, a popular place for runners, dog pedestrians, golfers, and family. Barton Springs, a popular swimming place at Zilker Park, is just a mile away. However, these are just some of the highlights of a Lived in Austin’s the Loren in Lady Bird Lake. Read the full review of the hotel below.

Room

Each room and suite 108 hotels have a king bed. They have elegant simplicity; As Wormull stated in our visit, “The rooms are not too complicated.” From the first stage, the City View King 427 square feet, to the top, a 1,446-square-foot Loren bedroom suite with a balcony, each room with windows from floor to ceiling with electric curtains so guests can enjoy the main features of the hotel: scenery. The bathroom also has a uniform element; Each one is covered with natural stone and large bathtub housing.

“The hotel theme is green,” Wormull explained. “There is a type of green color anywhere, even a curtain [in the guest rooms] reflect it. “He emphasized that various plants were sprinkled in every room that supported this color scheme and helped create more residential atmosphere. Homes like this, together with cafes, restaurants, and local events (and the fact that there were residential buildings attached), making Loren more like a community that was capable of HUB.

Food and drink

The main restaurant, NidoDescribed as “Oasis on the roof,” which is certain to live up to the evidence. It is open all day for modern American food and snacks, with a menu that takes seasonal signals. Large Windows showcases the major views of the city and the garden, and there are wrap terraces if you want to eat Al Fresco. When we went to dinner on Thursday at 7:30 pm, the whole floor was packed, so definitely booked. Because Theater zach On the other side of Loren, there are some very well -dressed visitors, but you should also feel comfortable going to the hotspot in more casual clothing.

CafeYou will find sticking to the lobby, open from 7am to 7pm daily for light fare and pick-me-up drinks. In the evening, you will also find wine cocktails and crafts. And if you are a dog lover, you will get treatment as you will also see a lot of millers here. The cafe looks very focused on society; In addition to welcoming dogs, it has a sign when we are there offering any free Austin Marathon participants, and, as it is Valentine’s Day, they have heart-shaped paper and pens for people to write love notes. The hotel also hosts a monthly series, bringing food from bakery across the country -we are in line with the goods roasted from NYC bread, including famous babka.

Eating in a room from Nido Kitchen is available from 7am to 10pm daily.

Activity and experience

Host the hotel various Monthly events, from the taste of wine and cocktail making sessions to the monthly market showing local craftsmen and rotating exhibitions at Paggi House. The guest chef has a pop -up The quarterly dining experience, and periodic is also on the menu. Thursday to Sunday from 3pm to 6pm, you can enjoy live music from bass, guitar, and keyboard players in the lobby, and on Friday night, the coffee shop turns into a hearing room with a show from local musicians, drinks, and light bite.

For your well -being, there is a 24 -hour gym and an outdoor pool heated above the deck that is easy to place in the sun all day long (if the weather allows). It is located on the same floor as a restaurant, so get a simple pool bite, and you can see the second view of the sky and the nearby hill country. (There is a daily hotel fee of $ 35 that supports services and facilities.)

Spa

New milk & honey are attached to the hotel, and guests receive a 15%discount. Here, you will find everything you need from the spa of the day: bird bites, tea, planted water, soothing atmosphere, and a variety of treatments.

Peace begins in the waiting area, where soft skin ottomans, suede and fake fur chairs, animal skin rugs, and long curtains miss you in relaxation. Inside the dressing room, you will find Osea’s luxury skin care brand and spa proprietary line. I have a prenatal massage and an express face and are impressed by both, even as a spa lover who has been declared himself. Both of my practitioners take extra time to address my individual needs and to explain any idiosyncration they see.

Despite its name, the express face is not at all and includes arms and head massages while the face mask set; He also cleaned my ears and put SPF on my eyelids in the end. My aesthetic expert The tools used such as face referee and pore extract, and give me personal suggestions for my skin. As a fan of skin care, I definitely see a variety of high quality products it uses from brands such as Skinceuticals and Cosmetix in addition to Osea and Milk + honey.

My humiliation is very experienced in the prenatal space (has a complementary work experience in the birth clinic), which I am not always found in a reputable and expensive spa. As a result, I was really able to close my brain and trust his knowledge. In the end, he offered me personal personalized person to continue working on my body.

A family -friendly performance

The hotel offers nothing specific to children, but there are children-friendly activities nearby, such as mini golf, kayaking, pedal boats, and paddle. There is also a large children’s playground at Butler Park.

Accessibility and sustainability

Wormull shares that the hotel has a variety of rooms that adhere to the shower and lift the arrogance to fit the wheelchair, as well as the lower level.

Sustainability is a priority for the Loren Hotel, and the Austin location aims to maintain its environmental impact with local source materials as possible and add a 2% optional charge to the bills leading to non-profit brands, root initiatives. The organization bought land across the country to regenerate hardwood trees. They bought more than 2,500 acres, with the goal of earning more than 50,000.

Loren at Lady Bird Lake also gave back to the community by sponsoring a mural in the city’s contemporary art city center. You can see portraits of murals on the top floor of the hotel near the pool deck.

Location

Almost every side of the hotel is placed in the corner of something to do. The hotel is across the street from Zach Theater with musical and drama, next to Butler Park with playgrounds, nature routes, golf courses, and fast walking across the PFluger pedestrian bridge to the city center. When the weather is good, you may want to visit the nearby Barton Springs pool, and when the SXSW is turned on, Loren is within walking distance.

You can rent a car (and have a valet parking lot at the hotel), but also easy to get Uber Throughout Austin. We were able to walk to several restaurants from Loren, such as Terry Black’s for the famous BBQ and Veracruz At Hotel Line for breakfast taco -both of our friends who live here are really like. There is an e-bike that you can use to explore as well, and, as part of Lexus’ destination sharing With the hotel, overnight guests can book free cars to get around.

How to get the most value from your stay

Lexus owners can Receive $ 100 credit to the hotel, and anyone can Package This includes breakfast or discounted room price.