SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — With San Antonio’s Tricentennial anniversary celebration in 2018, visitors have more to discover this Spring Break than ever before. New rides, slides and shows will provide seemingly endless entertainment at San Antonio’s theme parks, while special exhibits and events at cultural institutions will disguise learning as fun. Families will want to see for themselves why “National Geographic Traveler” named San Antonio one of the “Best of the World” for 2018.

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THEME PARK THRILLS:

The world’s first single-rail coaster will premiere at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in early March, as the park completes its DC Super Hero Trilogy of Rides with the first-ever Wonder Woman-themed coaster. WONDER WOMAN™ Golden Lasso will operate on a one-of-a-kind single rail coaster giving riders unobstructed views as they twist and turn above the 100-foot quarry walls. Riders will experience a thrilling 90-degree drop, overbanked wave turn, zero-g roll and a steep uphill spiral.

Aquatica San Antonio, SeaWorld’s Waterpark™, will debut its high-speed racing water slide, Taumata Racer^®March 10. Named for a famous hill in New Zealand, Taumata Racer allows riders to zoom downhill head first on foam bodysurfing mats in one of six side-by-side lanes. Spring Break at SeaWorld also means Wild Days – an action-packed month of events, shows and up-close animal encounters.

Morgan’s Wonderland, the world’s first theme park designed with special-needs individuals in mind and built for everyone’s enjoyment, will be open daily March 9-18. Experience fun shows including “Music, Mutts, Magic and More,” in addition to more than 25 wheelchair-accessible rides and playscapes.

CULTURAL FUN FOR ALL AGES:

Make memories and take family selfies while discovering San Antonio’s famous River Walk aboard one of Go Rio River Cruises’ new electric river boats.

Get moving at The DoSeum’s special exhibit “Run! Jump! Fly! Adventures in Action.” Kids will build skills in balance, strength and coordination as they master poses in the Yoga Station, navigate their boards through mountains and oceans in Surf Snow and maneuver across a rocky wall in Climbing Canyon. Exhibit open through April 8.

Beginning March 1, experience history like never before with the Alamo Reality app. Using a careful blending of technology and scholarship, this new smartphone app invites users to travel back in time to explore the legendary siege of the Alamo. Through augmented reality, visitors to the Shrine of Texas Liberty can inspect the mission grounds, walls, gates and barracks and learn more about the stories behind the legend.

Celebrate San Antonio’s Tricentennial at The Witte Museum with “Confluence and Culture: 300 Years of San Antonio History,” a multi-faceted exhibit that portrays San Antonio as the hub of the frontier over three centuries. Opening March 3, the exhibit illustrates how early Spanish settlement in San Antonio influenced the economic and cultural development of the city through modern times.

Explore nature at the San Antonio Botanical Garden’s Spring Break events March 12-23, including a plant sale, native plant walks, bird walks, dog days, butterfly walks and Starlight Movies in the Garden.

Experience Texas as it was in the 1880’s with “Spring Break on the Back 40” at the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures. Learn about life on the frontier while seeing buildings and artifacts from the period up close.

ACTIVITIES FOR THE BUDDING ARTIST:

The Briscoe Western Art Museum will host its Lil Partners Spring Break Film Series March 13-15, featuring kid-friendly westerns including “Back to the Future Part III,” “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” and “Rango.”

The McNay Art Museum will host family-friendly hours on March 13-14, 2-4 p.m. featuring art activities, tours, lawn games and special performances inside and outside the museum, all inspired by work featured as a part of its “100 Years of African American Art” exhibition.

The San Antonio Museum of Art will host a free Spring Break family day on March 13. Enjoy family art activities inspired by San Antonio’s Tricentennial and the “San Antonio 1718: Art from Viceregal Mexico” exhibit.

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TOMS RIVER, N.J., Feb. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — As the Text-The-Desk™ hotel guest amenity rolls out across affiliated hotels & resorts in the United States, Hammock Worldwide® has responded to a GALLUP® survey on more guest-focused, responsive employees – a problem illustrated by the fact that the findings of the survey showing guests indicated that Responsive Employees are a top factor when booking a repeat hotel visit. This combined with the increasing trend of personal cell phones (especially smartphones) in society make it essential for hotels to shape how they respond to guest requests.  To commemorate the U.S. launch of Text-The-Desk™ program, Hammock Worldwide® Hotels & Resorts is challenging customers to utilize their phone’s text messaging feature to contact the front desk using the Text-The-Desk™ program card when staying in their hotels in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, & Virginia.

Although consumers love their phone, there is a growing disconnect between how customers prefer to interact with people around them and how hotel employees respond to requests.  Most U.S. adults indicate they have a cell phone as their primary phone and spend most of their day with them.  Yet relatively few have found hotels that have the ability to directly text the hotel front desk agent using their personal smartphone’s text messaging (aka Texting) feature. Key Findings from the GALLUP® study show the following from surveyed adults:

In the Economy hotel segment, about 25% of guests are disengaged when staying at a hotel, while it is the fourth most important factor in how a repeat stay is determined.

In the Luxury and Upscale hotel segment, the overall tone of the hotel is more impactful on how enjoyable a customer’s visit was.

In Economy, Mid-Scale, Luxury and Upscale segments, customers state that good internet connectivity, comfortable beds, and more Responsive Employees would be worth paying more during their stay.

While other amenities – such as an in-room bar, valet parking, and guest room radios – are hotel amenities customers are easily willing to live without to lower costs.

The new Text-The-Desk™ program offers a different kind of hotel experience designed to get customers requested information, local recommendations, and better staff responsiveness; Amazingly, with no specific app download, membership, or website access needed.  With Text-The-Desk™, Hammock Worldwide® Hotels & Resorts set out to design a better guest experience that would bring the hotel features people care about right to their personal phone, in most of their affiliated hotels.  In doing so, Text-The-Desk™ connects the dots between customers and their most important hotel features – allowing for the ability for a hotel employee to easily Respond to the needs of the customer – so people can do it right from their own cell phone.  No special App, Membership, or downloads (as well as actually walking to the front desk) required.

To find Hammock Worldwide® affiliated hotel locations, please visit http://hammockworldwide.com/portfolio/.

About Hammock Worldwide® Hotels & Resorts
Hammock Worldwide® is a leading provider of hotel accommodations, including sports travel accommodations, business travel accommodations, and family travel accommodations, which now includes more than 16 individually owned and operated hotel properties in United States locations throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Connecticut.  They recently completed renovations at the Howard Johnson® Wildwood NJ. Hammock Worldwide’s network of hotels are franchised by a number of the industry’s most well-regarded brand families including Hilton Worldwide®, Choice Hotels®, and Wyndham Hotels Group®, as well as boutique hotels & resort brands.  Franchised hotel brands include Hampton by Hilton®, Best Western Plus®, Comfort Suites®, Ramada®, Howard Johnson®, Days Inn®, Days Inn & Suites® and more.  Providing hotel rooms in the United States, Hammock Worldwide has established strong relationships with sports travel companies and business clients, as well as individual family travelers. For more information or to make a hotel reservation, visit www.hammockworldwide.com.

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