W Hotels Takes Own Global Expedition to Santiago de Chile

W Hotels, the world´s fastest-growing luxury hotel brand, announced last week plans to build its first hotel in South America, W Santiago Hotel scheduled to open in 2008.

W Santiago, the brand´s fifth international property scheduled to open in the next three years, following Barcelona, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Dubai, will be ideally located across from Plaza Peru, in Santiago de Chile.

W´s parent company, entered into a joint venture with Territoria Group to develop the 205-room hotel, which will be part of a larger mixed use building with retail space and offices.

W Santiago will feature all of the brand´s celebrated comforts including the signature W Living Room experience and Whatever/Whenever, the hotel´s 24-hour concierge service that can provide with whatever guests want (from a pair of running shoes at 2 a.m. to private jet service), whenever they want it.

The hotel will indulge guests and residents with a nightlife destination and signature restaurant with an outdoor dining terrace and a Bliss Spa. More than 37,000 square-feet of meeting space will make the W Santiago one of the largest meeting facilities in the city, ideal for local meetings and conventions.