Published July 14. 2026 01:12PM<\/p>\n
For the 8th year in a row the Historic Hotel Bethlehem has been nominated in USA Today\u2019s \u2018Best Historic Hotel\/Resort\u2019 contest. At a July 6 announcement at the hotel Managing Partner Bruce Haines said he expects the Road to #6 in \u201926 campaign to continue to garner the kind of community support that has made the iconic Main Street facility the #1 Historic Hotel for the last five years. \u201cHow do we keep winning, because we\u2019re a community hotel,\u201d says Haines.<\/p>\n
Haines noted that partnerships with the Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites, St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network and Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the first a driving force behind the World Heritage designation of two years ago, and the later two #1 winners in a both a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ranking and the other a USA Today contest.<\/p>\n
Donna Sabol, senior vice-president and chief quality officer at St. Luke\u2019s said, \u201cThe community partnerships do help with the #1 campaign and the Historic Hotel Bethlehem offers high quality service and food.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lehigh Valley IronPigs President and General Manager Kurt Landes noted his own organization\u2019s success with the Coca-Cola Park named the \u2018Best Minor League Baseball Park in America\u2019 by USA Today. \u201cWe\u2019re also community facility,\u201d says Landis. The IronPigshad partnered with the hotel during the grand slam campaign that brought the 4th #1 ranking to the Historic Hotel Bethlehem<\/p>\n
Historic Bethlehem President and CEO LoriAnn Wukitsch, said, \u201cYou\u2019re known by the company you keep.\u201d The Colonial Industrial Quarter located along the Monocacy Creek abuts the hotel\u2019s property at the rear making them neighbors as well. \u201cWe\u2019re excited for this partnership which will continue for many years,\u201d she added. Hand crafted scale models of buildings in the Historic Industrial Quarter, created by Jim Wilden, are on exhibit in the hotel\u2019s lobby during summer and fall.<\/p>\n
Looking out at a large number of Hotel Bethlehem associates also in attendance, Hotel Bethlehem general manager Kelly Reynolds called them \u201cthe best people to work with.\u201d And then she announced the Historic Hotel Bethlehem\u2019s 8th consecutive nomination to a round of applause.<\/p>\n
IronPigs mascot Ferrous was given the honor of casting the first vote.<\/p>\n
Also in attendance was Lehigh University world champion wrestler Luke Stanich, who is a regional community ambassador for the hotel. National ambassador Audrey Jimenez, is a Lehigh University women\u2019s wrestler.<\/p>\n
Haines encouraged Historic Hotel Bethlehem\u2019s supporters to vote once a day every day. Voting continues through Aug. 3 at votehotelb.com.<\/p>\n
Voting is easy, either at VoteHotelB.com or by using this QR Code.<\/p>\n
Historic Hotel Bethlehem General Manager Kelly Ronalds confirms the Hotel\u2019s 8th consecutive nomination by USA Today, bringing a smile from managing partner Bruce Haines.<\/p>\n
PRESS PHOTOS BY DANA GRUBBIronPigs mascot Ferrous casts the first vote for the Historic Hotel Bethlehem as general manager Kelly Ronalds and Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs president and general manager Kurt Landes provide encouragement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published July 14. 2026 01:12PM For the 8th year in a row the Historic Hotel Bethlehem has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-243245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}