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The
Delafield Hotel gives the feeling of being at home rather than
a hotel.
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Andy Ruggeri started out two years ago
looking to build a high quality banquet facility in Delafield.
He accomplished his goal — and then
some. Ruggeri is one of the owners of the Delafield Hotel, which not
only has a quality banquet facility, but is also a high quality hotel.
Its service and holdings are excellent enough that it received the
coveted rating of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World group, an
organization of 268 high class hotels worldwide. The downtown
Delafield hotel, which opened in March, is the only one in the Midwest
to receive this rating and one of about 47 nationwide.
Ruggeri says the rating means they are
on par with other high quality hotels in terms of accommodations and,
more importantly, exacting attentive service to customers.
"I have always wanted a hotel to
have this feeling, that when you walk into the room you want it to hug
you," Ruggeri says. "I think we have done that."
Designer Tony Chakonas says the hotel
furnishings are high end, but comfortable for the guests.
"I wanted it to be something where
you would walk into a room feeling, ‘This is what I would like my
home to feel like,’" Chakonas says. "You don’t feel like
you are on hotel property — you feel like you are at
home."
He said the room decor is elegant, with
dark wood and antiques throughout the building, but "nothing over
the top."
"When you walk in, you wonder, ‘Is
this 100 years old, or is it new?’" Chakonas says. "It’s
new, but it has an old-time feeling throughout it." The property
offers 38 suites, a restaurant and banquet facilities. Ruggeri says he
hopes it will bring in several wedding parties a year. Some have
already been booked and the hotel has a full-time manager to help
couples with their plans.
Ruggeri says the suites have an in-room
spa feel to them, a nice bed and several bathroom amenities, including
massage tubs and shower heads with special jets. "People are
coming out of the rooms and saying, ‘My God, I took an extra shower
this morning,’" Ruggeri says.
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