{"id":319671,"date":"2026-11-02T19:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319671\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T19:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:00:40","slug":"hotel-bethlehem-nominated-as-nations-best-hotel-for-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319671\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel Bethlehem nominated as nation’s best hotel for holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hotel Bethlehem, which sits in the heart of Christmas City, has been nominated for yet another national award.<\/p>\n

The hotel is in the running for USA Today\u2019s Best Hotel for the Holidays. It\u2019s the first year it has been nominated in this category, according to the hotel. A panel of travel journalists and editors made the nomination.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was something quite special for our team to hear because they work incredibly hard to make the holidays magical,\u201d Hotel Bethlehem General Manager Kelly Ronalds said. \u201cIt takes over 1,000 personnel hours to decorate the hotel for Christmas. Plus, thousands more hours crafting special holiday menus and hosting events.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s worth every second because we know Hotel B is such an important part of so many Lehigh Valley families\u2019 holiday traditions. It\u2019s a real labor of love for our beloved community,\u201d Ronalds said.<\/p>\n

In August, Hotel Bethlehem won the top spot in USA Today\u2019s 10Best Historic Hotel\/Resort contest<\/a> for a sixth consecutive time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s likely the hotel was already on the radar of the panel that selected it for the Best Hotel for the Holidays contest. That panel consisted of nine travel journalists and USA Today 10Best editors who considered hotels based on how special they make the holidays feel.<\/p>\n

The nomination site notes that the selected hotels \u201care renowned for decking their halls, cranking up the holiday cheer to a whole new level, and making your visit memorable. Plus, you don\u2019t have to clean up the wrapping paper and cookie crumbs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visitors to downtown Bethlehem during the holiday season are familiar with the decorated hotel lobby as they duck inside to get warm, get a bite to eat or shop.<\/p>\n

The Best Hotel for the Holidays category debuted in 2019. Last year, Big Cedar Lodge in Missouri took first place followed by the Oglebay Park Resort in West Virginia, French Lick Resort in Indiana and The Greenbrier in West Virginia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is great company to be associated with,\u201d hotel Managing Partner Bruce Haines said. \u201cThis award recognizes more than just historic hotels. It puts us in another league of all great hotels in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

To vote, which can be done online daily, go to VoteHotelB.com<\/a>. Voting ends Nov. 30 and winners will be announced at noon Dec. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hotel Bethlehem, which sits in the heart of Christmas City, has been nominated for yet another national award.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1391,60,3487,157,182,139,434,28,432],"class_list":["post-319671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-business","tag-hotel-bethlehem","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319671","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=319671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}