The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes is set to reveal its renovated guestrooms, luxury pool and Club Lounge. The $30-million renovation features cohesive, layered and refined accommodations, a new luxury pool and cabanas and updated Club Lounge.
Due to be complete this month, the 582 guestrooms feature design inspired by the natural beauty of the property’s lushly landscaped grounds, wildlife-filled water and surrounding habitats. Each room offers guests a sanctuary to relax and unwind with added technology touchpoints for the modern traveler including higher quality internet speed and more user-friendly outlet placements. This new design brings in soft colors, plush textures and distinctive architectural elements that combine elegant lines and modern details for a cosmopolitan ambiance that excites, pleases and comforts.
“The design was extremely influenced by the location and local culture,” said Cristian Rubio, partner, HBA Miami. “Boating, fishing, birds watching and picnicking by the lake are memories brought into the rooms. This new design is supported by the surroundings and the surroundings are perfectly complemented with the guestrooms. We just captured what was in sight and converted into a guest experience.”
Guests are welcomed into the room with a marine-inspired courtesy ledge dotted with nautical details and curated artwork alluding to the gentle, more refined and unexpected slices of local life. Inspired design elements continue throughout the guestroom with upholstered wall panels, cozy bedside lighting delicately diffused through linen lampshades and globe-shaped cut-glass pendants dangling from the ceiling.
“Our inspiration came from the sights and surroundings, mostly about the lakes and their lifestyle. It’s not only the nature, but also the architecture you usually find around and the social aspect, how we socialize around these bodies of water,” Rubio said.
Echoing The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes’ grounds and 500 acres of natural beauty, carefully considered artwork is arranged throughout the room, inspiring feelings of motion and repose through framed photographic images of natural movement and stillness on water, sand and the wide-open skies above Florida.
Continuing with this nature-driven theme, the layered stone countertop minibar has a distinctive cabinet design resembling a fishing basket stocked for a day of adventure. The room’s custom furniture, including upholstered and wooden chairs, stuffed couch and chaise lounge, is detailed for attractiveness and comfort, with rich and opulent finishes and warm tones that invite guests to kick back, relax and linger. Wall-to-wall carpeting is soft and textured, with a custom pattern carefully considered to complement other elements of the room. Meanwhile, guest bathrooms are sleek and richly detailed with a double vanity sink, marble flooring and splashguards, roomy tub with shower and separate water closet.
“Because business travelers are an important part of the equation, we wanted to create a sunny, Sunday morning mood,” Rubio explained. “It’s not a homey feel anymore but beyond. The light, the comfort, the warmth and the colors will give you the best rest and make you feel relaxed and refreshed.”
Following the completion of the guestrooms, The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes will also be renovating its beautiful sprawling pool and cabanas and the luxe Ritz-Carton Club Lounge, allowing guests to get together, relax and dine in a new modern space. The pool and lounge will be completed by March.
“It’s not just another hotel design, if [guests] observe carefully the multiple details implemented in the new design they will feel transported to the lakes,” Rubio said.
