On the environmental sensitivity front, the Lenox Hotel has long been ahead of the curve. The Lenox and other hotels in the Saunders Hotel Group have been using earth-friendly cleaning products and pursuing resource efficiency since 1989.
But with their Pure rooms, the hotel has taken sensitivity to another level - the 11th level to be precise. The 23 rooms on the hotel's top floor constitute the first hypoallergenic floor in Boston hostelry.
"It's a continuation of the green program we've been working on," said Elaine Strunk, the hotel's director of green, "but there's been a need for something like this for a while. A lot of people suffer from allergies or asthma, especially in Boston, and no one's really catered to them like this before."
The first hint of a difference comes fresh off the hotel's elevator, when a slight, pleasant scent presents itself, emanating from tea tree oil cartridges placed in each room's air ducts. The oil, distilled from the leaves of the Australian melaleuca tree, is said to have antibiotic and antifungal properties and is considered hypoallergenic.
But the changes are more than scent deep. All the rooms have undergone a seven-step treatment provided by Pure Solutions NA of Cheektowaga, N.Y. That process has two chief aims, according to Pure Solutions CEO Brian Brault: to get each room to a high state of cleanliness, and then to keep them there.
In the first phase, the mechanical parts of the rooms' air-handling system are cleaned and disinfected, and a treatment is applied to prevent moisture buildup. The rooms are then sanitized and sealed for a several-hour "shock" treatment of concentrated ozone, Brault says, which kills bacteria.
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