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Glen Allen Luxury Hotel Green Tip
Why rent a car when there's often good alternatives?
When visiting major cities you can expect to find substantial transportation alternatives. To make the leading metro areas more pedestrian receptive 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 on top of the cost of the rental, plus add valet tips and public transit becomes a pretty nice alternate. Why not walk when virtually all of what you need is probably near to your Glen Allen hotel. If the distance isn't too great give a bicycle a crack and get some exercise. Take a crack at one of the alternatives above and be a better eco-citizen.
How do Glen Allen Hotels rate for "Green" Lodging?
Glen Allen has 18 hotels listed in the iStayGreen directory and one is shown as environmentaly friendly lodging. Currently 0 hotel has accomplished the online Environmental Audit and been awarded the Green Eco-Leaf Rating.
In Glen Allen there are 17 properties where the eco friendliness unknown and they have not yet provided us information regarding their environmental efforts. In total VA has 1150 lodging properties and a total of 105 properties are represented as environmentally friendly. 21 Properties working hard to improve our environment have been awarded the Green Eco-Leaf Rating. Various accommodations are moving toward a "Green" future in travel including Glen Allen extended stay hotels, bed & breakfasts, luxury hotels, and Glen Allen resorts.
We encourage you to treat the environment with care by checking first to ascertain if there is an environmentally friendly property located near your intended destination.
In many situations we have found eco-friendly Glen Allen VA hotels and resorts to be price competitive with the unrated Glen Allen hotel room rates. You may even save cash and at the same time be accomplishing something good for our environment!
When you visit a property demand that they be transparent about what they are doing to be sensitive to our environment and create a more sustainable future for both our planet and the travel industry.
More Glen Allen Resorts Green Tips
Secure the "Don't Bother Us" sign on the doorknob.
Let housekeeping know that you want your hotel room cleaned once every 3 days. Water - energy - gas - solvents - and more are expended every time your Glen Allen suite is serviced. Electricity, detergents, gas & water are all used up in getting linens clean. Solvents are used to freshen up the bath room counter, shower and toilets. A cleaned floor consumes power. Why have the sample sized bottle of shampoo, conditioner, and lotion replaced when they're only partially used? Do your part to protect your environment by questioning yourself "Does my room truly require cleaning each day?"
Try internet meetings instead of making the trip.
You'll find several diverse online meeting solutions that let video conference and sharing of documents with both presenters and delegates. The online solutions are so good that you can work your business from your office or home instead of traveling. Frequently the in-person meeting in Glen Allen is required. Nonetheless, if every business could switch some flights with an internet meeting things would start looking up for our collective environment.
Look for Greener hotels.
Choosing a low-impact place to stay is not only greener, you'll find it often lower in cost too. You can now find many assessment and certification programs measuring the eco efforts of hotels. In the U.S. numerous cities and states have created certification programs. The same holds true internationally with several countries enabling certification ratings. Look into the place you're visiting and find out if there is a country or state program for "Green" lodging. Research your destination in one of the many first-class Environmental directories on the Internet. As you would expect, when looking for a place to stay in Glen Allen our preference is iStayGreen.org
