Hotel Felix’s Green Efforts

Hotel Felix strives to offer a relaxing, fun boutique hotel experience while still being mindful of the environment.  Some of this was inherent in the hotel’s design, for example, Hotel Felix is a preserved building structure (the ultimate recycle!), and has a natural northern exposure that reduces energy usage.

Here are a few other things we do and are working on to ensure the eco-friendliness of the hotel:

Our Lobby

• Hotel Felix is a 100% smoke free building.
• The front desk is paperless to reduce waste.
• We offer organic, local Metropolis coffee and tea for our visitors.
• Newspapers offered in lobby daily with limited supply to reduce waste.
• Trash cans pending that contain a place for recyclables.

Our Rooms

• The carpets in each guest room are made of recycled material.
• Motion-sensored heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems cut down on waste.
• Water waste reduction valves in the guest bathrooms save about 1 million gallons of water/year.
• Our linen reuse program is slightly different than other hotels in that we only change linens by guest request, which saves about 45K gallons of water and 325 gallons detergent a year.
• All of the chemicals used for cleaning rooms and linens are eco-friendly; there is no bleach used.

Our Spa/Fitness Center

• Eco-friendly products are used for spa services.
• The spa features decorative walls made of recycled material and bamboo flooring.
• Our fitness room has recycled flooring.
• The cups and wipes of the fitness room are recyclable.

Other Stuff

• The hotel utilizes low energy-use lighting throughout the building.
• The meeting rooms and business center have eco-friendly cork floors.

The overall cost of maintaining the hotel about 3-4% higher because of these environmentally-friendly initiatives, but it is well worth making sure we are doing what we can to help our planet stay good and healthy for a long, long time!