Avant-garde room service at Alt Hotel
The Alt Hotel Halifax Airport will ramp up its entertainment factor in November with avant-garde performances that blend dance and theatre.
The innovative Montreal-based dance lab La 2e Porte à Gauche will present a series of brief, intimate pas de deux performances in four guest rooms of the Alt.
The unusual formula is designed to bring together the artists and about 20 spectators in a different way. The dances, featuring Montreal performers who presented this concept at Hôtel Le Germain Montrèal in 2014, will express feelings about relationships with dance movements on the beds and in the baths, moving from one guest room to another.
The Alt brand is defined by its minimalist style, but this airport hotel has several extras:
It is connected by an indoor passage to the Stanfield International Airport.
It has a bar with a pool table and a complimentary guest reception on many Mondays from 6p.m. to 8p.m., so travellers can meet and mingle. Signature cocktails are $4 for two, daily between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
The 24-hour Altcetera cafeteria convenience store stocks juices, soft drinks, sandwiches and salads, snacks and desserts. Everything is pre-packaged, ready to eat, and prepared daily by a local caterer. You can grab-and-go or settle in with your mobile device at the café tables.
The Halifax Alt is environmentally conscious, with energy-saving lighting, green waste and water operations and geo-thermal heating and cooling systems that recycle warm air.
The 24-hour fitness room is bright, colourful and equipped with cardio machines, weights and Swiss balls.
Alt Hotels are part of the Group Germain, the company behind the chic Le Germain boutique establishments, and many amenities even in the lower-priced Alts are deluxe. Every room at Alt Halifax has a Keurig coffee-maker, goosedown duvets, Egyptian cotton sheets, sharp bathrooms with glass showers, and Bella Pella bath products, an aromatherapy-inspired line from Montreal.
DETAILS
Alt Hotel Halifax Airport: 169 rooms at $149, including Wi-Fi, pool, fitness room, lounge; 855-258-5775, 902-334-0136; althotels.ca; 40 Silver Dart Drive, Enfield, N.S. Packages available with long-term airport parking, adjacent to the hotel. Rendezvous à l’Hôtel Alt: Nov. 6 & 7 at 7 p.m.; Nov. 8 at 2 p.m., $30 for adults, with discounts for seniors and students. Tickets at Live Art Dance in Halifax, liveartdance.ca, 902-420-0003 or at Alt Hotel Halifax.