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Fairfax Luxury Hotel Green Tip
Plan your stay in a "Green" hotel, motel, resort, or bed & breakfast.
Locating an environmentally-friendly accommodation is not only better for our environment, but a majority of the time you'll be dollars ahead. Green efforts of hotel properties are measured by a large number of organizations. In the U.S. many states and municipalities have designed certification guidelines. The same holds true internationally with several countries enabling certification ratings. Check out where you'll be staying and determine if there is a state or country program for eco-friendly lodging. You will also find many first-class online listings of environmentally friendly accommodations. Patently, when searching for hotels in Fairfax our front-runner is iStayGreen.org
Fairfax VA Hotels & Motels and other Fairfax Accommodations and their status towards being "Green".
At this time, iStayGreen.org has not yet ascertained the green friendliness of 16 of the hotels in Fairfax and have requested that these hotels in Fairfax disclose to us their eco-friendliness status. Of the 1150 VA lodging properties listed in the iStayGreen.org directory 105 are shown as being "Green". Currently there are 21 hotels that have achieved the Green Eco-Leaf Rating. There are a number of properties working toward a more sustainable travel future including Fairfax extended stay accommodations, Fairfax bed & breakfasts, Fairfax hotels, and Fairfax resorts.
With no Fairfax hotel properties presently reporting as environmentally friendly it would be helpful if you would ask the property you stay with to contact us and get the Green Eco-leaf Rating for their lodging property.
If you're planning to stay in Fairfax, or take a Fairfax vacation, consider doing the environment a favor and check first for the availability of environmentally friendly rated hotels and lodging.
Require transparency from the properties you visit and don't allow them to get away with "Greenwashing". Make sure you know what they're doing to protect the environment.
More Fairfax Resorts Green Tips
Keep room service away with the "Do Not Disturb" sign.
Or simply phone housekeeping and tell them you won't require their services during your visit. A lot of resources are expended when a Fairfax hotel suite is cleaned. To have clean linens it uses up lots of water, soap, electricity, and gas. Countertops are sprayed with solvents. Sweeping not only sucks up dirt, it sucks up power too. Minimally used shampoo, conditioner, and lotions ultimately add tons of plastic to our non-biodegradable waste. Cleaning your suite every day is most likely not a necessity and you will be doing your piece to economize natural resources when you don't take room service every day.
Try online teleconferencing as an alternate to taking the trip.
You'll find several diverse internet meeting solutions that enable video conference and sharing of documents with both presenters and delegates. The online solutions are so good that you can do business from your office rather than traveling. Now and then you will need to make the trip as an in-person meeting to Fairfax is mandatory. However, if every business could exchange some flights with an internet meeting things would begin looking up for our common environment.
Only rent a car when it's honestly necessary.
In most major cities public transportation is moderately good, especially if you're near the key population centers. To make the key metro areas more pedestrian favorable most have developed a good quality grid of light rail, elevated rail, shuttle, bus, train, trolley, subway and taxi services. When downtown parking can be $25 a day and more in addition to the cost of the rental, plus add valet tips and public transit becomes a pretty nice alternative. Most Fairfax hotels are within minimal walking distance of restaurants, fast food, shops, and other services visited by Fairfax travelers. Pedal power is a much better choice than fossil fuel if the length is not very far afield. Treat yourself to a novel way of getting around, you possibly could just find you like it!
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