{"id":19257,"date":"2011-04-14T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=19257"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:12:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:12:18","slug":"spacing-satellite-aerial-accomodation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/04\/14\/spacing-satellite-aerial-accomodation\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Satellite: Aerial Accomodation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spacng Satellite\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/toronto\/feature-SATELLITE-600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Satellite challenge looks into Toronto&#8217;s tourism industry from the top down.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19266\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/04\/14\/spacing-satellite-aerial-accomodation\/hotel\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19266\" title=\"Which Toronto Hotel is This?\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/04\/hotel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/04\/hotel.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/04\/hotel-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Ready to see how well you know your hotels?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/4915820.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/4915820\/\">Which Toronto hotel is this?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">customer surveys<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Sure enough, the popular vote didn&#8217;t have any trouble identifying this as <\/span>The Fairmont\u00a0Royal York<\/strong>, shown here facing Front Street. In the comments below, readers raised the peaked roof at the edge of the photo, the reflection of WZMH Architects&#8217; Royal Bank Plaza building to the right, and Front Street&#8217;s trees as identifying features.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, for the <em>real <\/em>challenge: spotting the six very unique &#8220;suites&#8221; that can be viewed from this hotel&#8217;s rooftop, one of which I mentioned as playing host to the current Queen. Indeed, the Queen in question is not the lovely Elizabeth II, but rather a queen bee: the rooftop form is especially relevant to The Royal York because it&#8217;s the site of the hotel&#8217;s bee hives. Special credit goes to Jon, for picking up on this trick in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>With clever names like The Honeymoon Suite, The Royal Sweet, Comb Suite Comb, and the Stayin-A-Hive Suite, clearly someone at the Royal York has a great appreciation for puns. Thanks to executive chef David Garcelon, the hotel also has a great appreciation for honey: Garcelon reached out to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontobees.ca\/\">Toronto Beekeepers Cooperative<\/a> in 2003 as a means to bolster his use of local ingredients.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/437506\">Begun in 2004<\/a> with three hives, the operation was an instant success: the bees produced 380 pounds of honey in their first year. In 2009, the number of hives <a href=\"http:\/\/foodgirl.squarespace.com\/book\/2010\/6\/27\/more-rooftop-bees-300000-honey-bees-14-storeys-up-at-the-fai.html\">was expanded to six<\/a>, now home to over 300,000 bees at peak production times. For an inside view into The Royal York&#8217;s beehive program, the hotel&#8217;s website offers\u00a0some <a href=\"http:\/\/radioroyalyork.ca\/nggallery\/page-352\/album-12\/gallery-13\/images\/\">terrific snapshots<\/a> of last year&#8217;s first honey harvest of the season. Meanwhile, other downtown venues like the Four Seasons Centre For the Performing Arts have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coc.ca\/aboutthecoc\/FourSeasonsCentre\/HoneybeesAtTheFourSeasonsCentre.aspx?EntryID=10700\">also come to adopt rooftop apiaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from using the resulting honey as a daily ingredient in its recipes, The Royal York also draws on its hives for special themed fare, such as this Christmas&#8217; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/radioroyalyork.ca\/2010\/hotel-news\/fairmont-royal-yorks-12-drinks-of-christmas-royal-stinger\/\">Royal Stinger<\/a>&#8221; beer, produced in partnership with Mill Street Brewery.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for voting, and tune in next week for another Satellite challenge!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Satellite challenge looks into Toronto&#8217;s tourism industry from the top down. UPDATE: Ready to see how well you know your hotels? Which Toronto hotel is this?customer surveys Sure enough, the popular vote didn&#8217;t have any trouble identifying this as The Fairmont\u00a0Royal York, shown here facing Front Street. In the comments below, readers raised<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/04\/14\/spacing-satellite-aerial-accomodation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Spacing Satellite: Aerial Accomodation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21759],"tags":[1158,9813,17430,2728,17432,11515,316,183,19,17431,496],"class_list":["post-19257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-christmas","tag-elizabeth-ii","tag-executive-chef","tag-four-seasons-centre-for-the-performing-arts","tag-garcelon","tag-mill-street-brewery","tag-queen","tag-spacing-satellite","tag-toronto","tag-wzmh-architects-royal-bank-plaza-building","tag-york"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spacing Satellite: Aerial Accomodation - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/04\/14\/spacing-satellite-aerial-accomodation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spacing Satellite: Aerial Accomodation - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This week&#8217;s Satellite challenge looks into Toronto&#8217;s tourism industry from the top down. 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