Showing posts with label accommodation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accommodation. Show all posts

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Happy Father's Day Weekend to Dads Everywhere!

Lot's of families spending the weekend in Taos.  The river is still providing some pretyy exciting white water for the rafters and kayakers.  Fishing varies around the area.

For an awesome vista during dinner for Father's Day, Stakeout Restaurant  is about as good as it gets.  If possible, we recommend arriving about 30 minutes before sunset.  If it's to be a great sunset as often happends in Taos, Stakeout offers one of Taos' most spectacular views of that daily event.  Their Facebook page includes menue, wine lists, etc.  http://www.facebook.com/StakeoutRestaurant.  Enjoy!

Another choice right in the heart of downtown is Graham's Grill.  They're now doing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  Their claim: "Great prices. Friendly service. A hip, fun place".  They'll even customize any of their offerings to your specific tastes.  http://www.grahamstaos.com/dining/restaurant.php  Cheers!

Our third featured restaurant for this post is Byzantium.  They are only about 2 blocks North of Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza at 112 Camino de la Placitas.  This for that date that you want a small intimate
 made from scratch open kitchen dining experience.  Achieving 3 diamonds by AAA you'll enjoy and delight at your meal at Byzantium.  Menu at their photo tab at facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Taos-NM/Byzantium/238768118530.

Taos offers visitors so many fine dining opportunities, this short post does NOT do them justice.  Spend a few days with us.  We'll find things to keep you entertained, enjoying, learning, experirncing, and well satisfied.  Want to make it even more special?  Order flowers from Enchanted Florist right here at the Inn.  Visit Smith's across the street for any of your liqour needs.  Spend the evening out under our grandma willow tree.  Solar heated pool is mid 80's and crystal clear.

We really appreciate your visiting our blog/twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn pages.  Hope you'll come back again.  Thanks for following us on any or all of those sites.  Hope you can visit soon and for more than just a night.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Goodbye Ogelvies Grill & Bar Taos Plaza

After 30 years Ogelview Frill & Bar on Taos Plaza has closed it's doors.  After some weeks of remodeling, The Gorge Bar & Grill will open a bew era of dining and entertainment on Taos Plaza.  They'll be just two blocks North of Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza.  Most Guests will visit historic Taos Plaza while staying with us.  Combine your shopping and museum hopping with food and a beverage.

Lamberts' is closed but only temporarily.  Reopening April 30, 2010.  http://www.lambertsoftaos.com/  Lamberts' is just a few hundred feet South of Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza.  Another convenient service provider close to your hotel lodging.

Grahams Grill serves breakfast beginning May 1, 2010.  http://grahamstaos.com/  Grahams is just a few feet North of Ogelvies, now The Gorge, or about 3 blocks North of Indian Hills Inn.  They'll improve your Taos Experience quality since they've been well ranked by the Best of Taos voters at The Taos News.

Just ask at the desk of Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza for suggestions and guidance for your dining preferences.  The above listed businesses are just a short list of convenient choices to Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza.  Taos offers the tourist and business traveller a wide variety of dining choices.  We'll also gladly call and make reservations for you.  Just ask for that extra bit of service from our Guest Service Associates.  Remember the official New Mexico state question relates to food...Red or Green?

http://www.newmex.com/indianhillsinn     800-444-2346     It's a great time to visit Taos!

Monday, February 22, 2010

Hotel Linens, Towels, Beds

We've just taken a short trip. The hotel where we're staying has perhaps the worst towels of any trip we've experienced. So bad that we went to the local Walmart and bought towels for the stay.

The reason I'm mentioning that experience is that at Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza, you'll love our towels, linens, and beds. According to some of our suppliers, our towels are at least 3 Star or Diamond level. We buy a good quality, fair sized set of towels. Our standards are likely similar to the towels you'd find at a high end of mid range such as Marriott. You won't need to visit a local retailer to find better towels.

Beds are not always top quality in smaller or independent properties. I've heard of folks in this business spending the lowest amount possible for beds. We take the approach that you'll spend as much time in the bed as anywhere else at Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza. Hence, we buy good quality relatively firm beds. Then, we top them with 2" memory foam mattress toppers. Then use a quality mattress pad. We triple sheet our beds for cleanliness and Guest comfort. We even use some color coordinated decorater pattern sheets, pillow cases, and comfortors.

Our housekeeping team takes pride in providing Guests with clean, comfortable, professionally done rooms. I hope you'll choose us for your next Taos visit whether for skiing, rafting, sight seeing, visiting family, or business. You'll find our web site at: www.newmex.com/indianhillsinn. We also ask that you book direct to save us both money. 800-444-2346.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Attention Families with Children! Cinder Bear Christmas Express!

Here's a treat the kids (young and old alike) will love for years to come. What? Take a ride on the Cumbres. Cumbres & Toltec narrow guage 1880's steam train. When? Saturday December 5 departing from Chama and Sauturday, December 12 departing from Antonito. Two trips daily, one at 11 AM, the second at 1:30 PM.

Enjoy a visit from Santa Claus and Cinder Bear. Listen to storytelling, christmas carols. Feel the excitment of Chrismtmas cheer. Smell the aroma of historical travel by steam train. This is an event the family will talk about for years to com.

Cost is $30 for adults and $20 for children. Those under 2 ride for free! Reserve NOW! 888-286-2737 or online at www.cumbrestoltec.com.

Make a weekend in Northern New Mexico. Stay in Taos. The family will love the Yuletide in Taos displays and farolitos. Show us your ticket stub for Cumbres Cinder Bear Express, we'll discount our already reasonable rates another 25%. No other discounts or specials apply. Reserver today! 800-444-2346. Visit us online at www.newmex.com/indianhillsinn.

Friday, November 6, 2009

Natural & Manmade Snows Blanket Northern NM

The Taos area ski resorts are blessed with several inches of natural snow already and most began their manmade snow ops the last week of October. As long as the nightime temps remain under 30F (better yet 25F), they should be able to build a great bse to begin skiing at Thanksgiving. Sipapu may pull the trigger a week early (they try to be NM's first open).

Taos Ski Valley will open Thanksgiving Day unless they can't due to a lack of natural powder. Taos also announced the Soloman Extreme Freeride Championships March 10-13, 2010. That is a premier event with the main show offering a $12,000 purse. It is part of a series with events in Russia, France, Switzerland, and the USA.

Angel Fire gained the most snow from the early season dumps and begin snowmaking early december. Their openning is set for mid December. Night skiing will be offered at Angel Fire this year from 4 to 9 PM Thursday thru Saturday with a seperate ticket for the night time adventure.

Red River is testing there new triple that replaced the red chair. They plan to open the day before Thanksgiving.

No news from Ski Rio. It was supposedly purchased by Russian investors with grand development plans. We used to sell tickets for them but that's many moon back. Don't know about you but I'm working out, lifting, and biking in preparation fo working the quads. Pray for snow! Links to most local areas on our winter page on the web site.

Enchanted Forest is also getting ready for you cross country fans. Plus the Llama adventure folks are doing show shoe treks this winter in varied Taos area mountianous locations.

The best value in ski lodging is always Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza. If you travel with a non skier (perish the thought, but it does happen), Indian Hills Inn is simply the best location to stay. We are walking distance to virtually all the downtown Taos galleries, museums, libraries, shops, dining, and entertainment places. For most dates, we offer prices competitive with the outlying motels but with the convenience and quality you prefer. Take a look: www.newmex.com/indianhillsinn then call for reservations 800-444-2346.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Hello Snow! Taos Mountains Blanketed!

Woke up today with snow falling. Courtyard at hotel grass covered with maybe an inch of white stuff. Kind of gets the blood flowing for the skier in us.

Guess that means that it's time (if you haven't already started your conditioning regimine) to get on the bike for a few minutes daily, push the weight bench out from under that stack of boxes and use it for it's intended purpose, train on that skiers edge for a few minutes every day. IF (big word) you do that, you WILL enjoy your ski or riding days more than if you don't. It's that simple!

Guess you can also visit Taos between now and ski / ride snow season start and make a few hikes along the Rio Grande Gorge to enhnace your aclimation to our 9,000 foot plus ski terrain. Probably late for mountian trail hikes but doing anything rigorous at 7 to 8000 feet will help build your endurance. So many of our winter ski visitors arrive with little or no physical preparation that I simply want to encourage highly that you invest that time now to vastly imporve the fun quotient then.

Traditional Taos Ski Valley openning is Wednesday before Thanksgiving Pray for snow to make that happen. I don't know the exact percentages but they hit that about 75% of the time. Check out their website for the Taos Card. It's a great deal and eases the ski day.

Sipapu usually opens as soon as they have adequate snow, sometimes as much as a few weeks earlier. Their lift tickets are always the best value anywhere in the West PLUS we usually have discount coupons or packages at Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza.

Angel Fire's scheduled openning is mid December. Snow conditions always set the final open date at all the areas.

Keep your eye on the ski shop fall sales in your area. The more recent equipment is really amazing at what it can do for your skiing. If you're skiing on 10 year old skis, I seriously recommend either buying a sale package or renting when you get here. Boots are more warm and comfy, skis are awesome, etc. Begin to make those decisions a earlier rather than the day before you depart. Most of us make better decsions with a bit of extra time instead of rush rush rush.

It's kind of exciting the talk about skiing. Hope your first run this year is as good and fun as your last run last season. Ski safely. Read the resonsibility code. Costco has great deals on helmets.

NO ONE SELLS ROOMS FOR A BETTER VALUE! Conveniently located in downtown Taos, your after ski choices are much wider than anywhere else on the Enchanted Circle or nearby : environs. Email me any questions or special needs: indianhills@newmex.com. Remember our Pay 3, the 4th is FREE package, good most dates other than Christmas and holiday. www.newmex.com/indianhillsinn then call direct for best values 800-444-2346 (please don't complain when you book elsewhere and find out you could have done better direct - :-( ).

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Upcoming Taos Area Activities at TCA

Talking with Guests this week I'm told the fall color show is high on the list of awesome Taos area activities. The high mountian colors are declining, mid mountian are just past the peak, and valley leaves are nearing their peak. The scattered aspens amongst the evergreens offer some dramatic pictures to take home.

TCA is a busy place. Their recently new lobby offers visitors a warm welcome and great place to mingle and meet folks. The Lula Washington Dance Theater will make a 1 show appearance at Taos Community Auditorium next Wednesday, October 21 at 8 PM. You can view the TCA website or call for ticket purchase here: (575) 758-2052 http://www.tcataos.org/.

The SOMOS Taos Storytelling Festival starts Friday, October 16, also at the TCA. We've had a couple Guests who are part of the festival staying with us this week. They've told me that they are excited about the upcoming festival and they're really enjoying the Taos area. Visit them at http://www.somos.org/.

TCA does movies for much of the year. Their fall season is about to commence. The September Issue is the feature this month with shows Sunday, October 18 at 2:00 PM and again Monday & Tuesday at 7:30 PM. Thanks for supporting this community facility. Hope you enjoy their many creative endeavors.

Also talked to the folks at the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial State Park this week. Although that building is undergoing major remodeling and improvements, they do want to invite visitors to the memorial. Displays are a bit smaller with the project but the chapel, gift shop, lobby, and exterior displays are still welcoming folks. Had a retired Air Force family with us Tuesday night and they hadn't heard of this first in USA Vietnam Memorial. Off they went!

One added idea for your Taos visit is the attend a cooking school. Taos Cooking School offers classes most days year round and will do private classes on request. Check out their class schedule, you might want to plan your trip around learning more about our fiesty new mexico cusine. http://www.taosschoolofcooking.com/ or 575-770-5226.

Hoping to entice you into staying for an extra day or so, don't forget only Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza offers our popular Pay 3 nights, the 4th is FREE package. From our already reasonable rates, that 25% discount makes us THE place to headqaurter while you explore North central NM. www.newmex.com/indianhillsinn or call 800-444-2346.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

SOMOS 10th Annual Storytelling Festival

Wow! Wool Festival weekend has been a busy time for Taos, the Wool Festival folks, and Indian Hills Inn. In this down economy, our Guest family managed to keep us full both nights. Thanks for your confidence in our team of "tour guides".

Let's start planning upcoming weekend travel ideas. SOMOS, Society of the Muse of the Southwest, supports and nurtures the literary arts, in both written and oral traditionm honoring the cultural diversity of the Southwest. Part of their endeavors is the Storytelling Festival held every October, this year Friday the 16th and Saturday the 17th.

They have planned and booked an amazing list of storytellers from kids to experienced elders. The show occurs at the Taos center for the Arts, just 4 blocks North of Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza. More details are available at SOMOS website: http://www.somostaos.org/ .

SOMOS has been one of our tenants at the shops at Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza for several years. We've supported them by a significant reduction in their rent cost and by donated rooms for their performers and visitors when needed. I encourage you to consider making a generous donation of money or books for their fund raising efforts.

One of their fund raising projects is the Book Store. Open most days around mid day they offer a wide variety of titles in numerous categories and all for low cost. SOMOS Book Store is located just North of Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza lobby at 233 B Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos. Donated books in non saleable condition are available for free on the front porch.

Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza is always the affordable choice in downtown lodging hotels. We invite you to enjoy at least a session or two of this years storytelling program at SOMOS. Singles start at a low of $69 per night and includes complimentary continental breakfst and WIFI. Check us out at www.newmex.com/indianhillsinn or call 800-444-2346.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Taos Labor Day Ideas

Labor Day Weekend Activities Start your Labor Day weekend at a Robert Mirabal Concert at KTAO Solar Center. Friday, September 4, 2009. Visit KTAO.com for more information. Charge tickets by phone at 575-758-5826.

Enjoy the high mountain valley of Angel Fire on Saturday, September 5, 2009 at the Bikes, Blues, & Brews. Call 800-633-7463 for details. Angel Fire chairlift also ends it's summer season Sunday the 6th.

Experience a moonlight train ride on the Cumbres, Saturday, September 5, 2009. Departs and returns from/to Chama only. http://www.cumbrestoltec.com/ .

Visit the Taos Farmers Sunday Market fro 10 to 2 PM in the KTAO parking lot. Fresh local fruits and begetables, tasty locally prepared foods, agricultural crafts for souvenirs and gifts.

Drive up to Taos Ski Valley, Saturday, September 5, 2009, for Octoberfest and a ride on the chairlift. Great time to buy your 2009-2010 Mellenium Pass. Music, food, fun, more!

Music from Angel Fire, Saturday, September 5, 2009, 7 PM at Taos Community Auditorium. Visit http://www.musicfromangelfire.org/. 575-758-9354 .

The Summer of Love Taos continues for another month and a half or more. This weekend there are more activities than listed here. Many shops are having great sales events. Want a great dinner value? Try Doc Martins from 5 to 6:30 PM for their early bird specials.

And what kind of post would this be if I didn't invite you to Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza. Located conveniently 2 blocks South of historic Taos Plaza. Possibly Taos best sleep with our memory foam mattress toppers and plush mattress pads plus SW design comforters. Nobody beats our value. Early booking for Labor Day weekend start at $99 per night (that's about $50 less than any other downtown property). 800-444-2346. www.newmex.com/indianhillsinn .