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DelSuites Returns to the Global Business Travel Association Conference

April 26, 2022
GBTA 2022

Business travel is picking up across the world, and DelSuites is stepping out to meet it at this spring’s Global Business Travel Association Conference.

We’re pleased to announce our first event of the year: exhibiting at the GBTA 2022 Conference on May 2 and 3, at downtown Toronto’s Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel.

What is the GBTA?

The Global Business Travel Association is the business travel industry’s premier professional association. With operations on six continents and over 9,000 members, the GBTA lets us take the international perspective on business. With members from all corners of the business travel industry, GBTA Canada alone represents more than $23.5 billion in business travel.

The GBTA’s annual Toronto event is the leading business travel & meetings conference in Canada. With over 40 exhibitors, a full schedule of industry education sessions, networking opportunities, and sector-focused lunch sessions, it’s a 360-degree look at where business travel is now, and where it’s going.

Growing our industry savvy to help you

DelSuites has been a member of GBTA Canada for over 5 years. The connections we’ve fostered there are an essential part of meeting our guests needs. As GBTA members, we’re in touch with the cutting-edge research, partnerships, and programs that take your stay from good to incredible.

With this year’s theme of (Re)Connect, (Re)Imagine, and (Re)Create, GBTA 2022 is the place to rebuild the networks that sustain business travel—and look forward to what’s new. We’re looking forward to being a part of the conversation as business travel comes back to life.

Join us at GBTA 2022

Join us at Convention Hall 1, Booth 45 to meet our team and discover how DelSuites makes business travel feel just like home. We’ll be there to talk about how DelSuites fits into the new business travel landscape—and bring back what’s next to our guests.

Announcements, Business Travel

Bringing Work and Life Together with DelSuites and Regus Office Space Rentals

March 1, 2022
DelSuites and Regus Office Space Rentals Partnership

You’ve booked your fully furnished Toronto condo suite with DelSuites. Now, you can pair it with a 10% discount on a fully mobility-accessible, 24-hour serviced office space rental from Regus—and step directly into your complete Toronto lifestyle.

DelSuites has partnered with workspace provider Regus International to complete your Toronto business travel experience. With 30 years’ experience finding you the right space to put the best face on your business, Regus opens a world of high-quality, ready-to-use offices that can be customized to your professional needs. Whether you’re a freelancer looking to travel light or confidently representing your multinational firm to clients at a satellite office, DelSuites and Regus let you live and work in convenience and style—at an all-inclusive, affordable price.

A flexible working solution to go with your flexible home

Regus offers office space with the same emphasis on quality, flexibility, and value that we at DelSuites bring to short-term, fully furnished housing. Whether it’s for a few hours on one particular day or a full-time, months-long stay, Regus provides spaces and plans that scale to your working needs.

From coworking and hotdesking memberships tailor-made for consultants to collaboration-friendly startup spaces or private offices, tailored for professionals whose confidentiality is a must, Regus has a solution that’s built to fit your working life.

Customizable co-working plans let you add or subtract services like printing and scanning facilities, full call handling, mail forwarding, bean-to-cup coffee, customized furniture and equipment, and additional meeting room use as you need them—and only when you need them.

Flexible booking terms allow you to grow—or shrink—your workspace as your needs change, or relocate to another Toronto Regus location for the day, week, or month. And our partnered Regus locations are fully mobility-accessible, in order to properly welcome all our guests.

With central, accessible locations in multiple Toronto business hubs—Downtown, Liberty Village, Midtown, North York, Etobicoke, and Scarborough—no matter what neighbourhood you’re in, you’ll never be far from your DelSuites home and a chance to feel truly part of the neighbourhood.

Finally, Regus offices are accessible to you 24 hours a day to accommodate the demands of business travel. You can take an international meeting at any hour, catch up on work as you ease through jet lag, or keep your own comfortable working hours, knowing you’ll have a comfortable home waiting when you’re off the clock.

A fully modern office space rental created with comfort in mind

Regus’s working environments include the vital touches that make DelSuites furnished condos comfortable, welcoming, and a place to call home. Comfortable, high-quality furniture and décor ensure that both you and your colleagues feel welcome, and that your space always sets the right professional tone.

You can enjoy all the perks that make a permanent office a comfortable home for your working life when you step from your DelSuites luxury condo into your Regus office. Host a meeting in a fully equipped boardroom or breakout area, use the built-in videoconferencing studio to make an afternoon Zoom meeting, have a professional reception team greet your guests or collect your overnight deliveries, and rely on a veteran answering service for important calls.

Regus offers services to help you keep your work-life balance, too. On-site coffee bars, sandwich service, and restaurants take care of lunch or midday snacks, and as well as secure parking, bike storage at select locations means you can stay lean—and green—and bike to work.

Work and travel within your budget

With DelSuites, the everyday costs of living are always included in our rates—WiFi, phone plans, cable TV, and the use of our buildings’ recreational and fitness amenities—so you can budget your Toronto trip without the stress of extra fees.

Regus also makes sure you can count on stable rates, with the cost of everything from business-grade WiFi, utilities, cleaning services, CCTV monitoring and security included clearly in your rental rate.

As official partners, DelSuites guests receive a 10% discount on their first office space rental with Regus, and the option of fully virtual office plans that give you a permanent presence in Toronto year-round.

With everything inclusive—and a competitive rate—you’ll be ready to be your best when you arrive: both at home and in the office.

DelSuites and Regus Office Space Rentals Partnership

Contact us at DelSuites by phone at (647) 370-3504 or email info@delsuites.com to start off your complete Toronto business travel solution: a fully-serviced home and office ready when you arrive.

Announcements

DelSuites Turns 23: Celebrating Our Anniversary

November 26, 2021

The Value of Home

Family, community, and redefining the value of home has driven DelSuites since we opened our doors in October 1998. As part of the Tridel Group of Companies, DelSuites shares Tridel’s belief that a home is more than bricks and mortar; instead, it’s defined by the community that connects us to each other and our surroundings.

After 23 years, we can proudly say that a stay with us always feels like home away from home. Since beginning our journey with a small number of properties and suites in Toronto’s downtown core, we’ve grown into the city’s largest extended stays provider, welcoming clients to suites across all of Toronto’s major neighbourhoods. DelSuites has created countless exceptional furnished rental experiences for our clients and their families, with stays that have stretched from the minimum 30 nights to a record-setting 1,794 nights—almost five full years!

Throughout it all, one thing is certain. We are grateful to be a part of advancing the short-term rental industry. At DelSuites, we have one firm belief: to help anyone who needs accommodation find the perfect place to call home, no matter the reason.

“I needed what I thought was temporary housing that turned into more permanent residency due to a personal situation. The situation was exacerbated because of the pandemic, which really forced me to stay put during that time. I chose DelSuites because of the location of the property and the unit itself. It was fully furnished with all of the amenities that I needed so the move was quite easy.” -DelSuites Client at Republic (Midtown Toronto)

Building Community

Building on Tridel’s mission to create inclusive, cohesive, and sustainable communities has allowed us to play a role in the inspiring stories that make Toronto beautiful.

We have been the first place new Canadian immigrants come to rest their heads before finding their permanent home, or a safe landing for families who have survived floods and house fires. We’ve provided an oasis of calm for film actors and crews working long days on hit movie sets and been a sanctuary for patients and their families travelling to Toronto for life-saving surgery.

Every guest who passes through our doors gives us a fresh appreciation for what a city like Toronto is made of: genuine human interactions and interwoven stories that connect us to one another and to places around the world.

For more than two decades, the love for our communities and surrounding neighbourhoods — and drive to help make them stronger — has taken centre stage at DelSuites. It’s inspired us to give back to our communities by making sure families in our neighbourhoods have much-needed furniture and essentials to build solid, stable lives. Committed to helping develop the next generation of industry talent, we have contributed to scholarships in the trades for young Torontonians through the BOLT Foundation, raised money for the Daily Bread Food Bank, aided in hurricane relief efforts, and even made pets feel more at home at the Toronto Humane Society.

Every day at DelSuites we make choices that positively impact our environment by ensuring that our furnished apartments are more ecologically sustainable. We situate our suites in LEED-certified buildings that use 34% less electricity, 57% less natural gas and 43% less potable water than your average high-rise. Over the past five years, we have adapted our business practices to support our environmental commitment as well. DelSuites has moved to fully paperless booking and adjusted our office supply procurement practices in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint.

Our commitment to help strong, sustainable communities has been recognized with awards from both our guests and our industry colleagues. Our guests have honoured us with seven consecutive TripAdvisor Certificates of Excellence, and we were the proud recipients of the Corporate Housing Providers Association’s Best Green Progress Award, recognizing our commitment to propelling our industry forward. We were also honoured to receive three nominations for the Americas Expatriate Management and Mobility Award. A huge, heartfelt thank you to our guests and industry associations for these recognitions.

Driving The Future of Furnished Rentals

As short-term furnished rentals evolve to welcome travellers from all walks of life, we’re utilizing new technology to elevate our personable, responsive customer service. To be accessible to everyone, we’ve partnered with all major third-party digital channels and evolved our booking process from telephone and email to an online bookings portal with live rates and opportunities for guests to take full virtual tours from anywhere, 24 hours a day.

Additionally, we’re expanding into studio spaces suited to the independent, agile traveller, and partnering with co-working spaces, grocery delivery services, and other local businesses to make staying in Toronto as seamless as possible while the way we work and live become increasingly more mobile and agile.

Part of a Tridel Community

We’re positioned to embrace new challenges and opportunities that arise over the next few years—but our success to date would not have been possible without the people in our community throughout the past 23 years of learning, growth, innovation, and service.

We rely upon the fierce expertise of the other organizations within the Tridel Group—in property management, sales, seniors’ housing, and longer-term rentals—to make the DelSuites experience incomparable. The collective knowledge of our teams encompasses all aspects of a building—the vision behind what it can be, how it’s built, how it runs and operates, and how it can become a community—is essential to giving our guests a memorable stay.

Thank you to our bookers who work to efficiently house and relocate guests within Toronto. We are proud to work with partners who align with our values and help elevate the DelSuites brand.

Behind it all, our dedicated DelSuites team makes everything happen with their passion. Our staff’s diverse knowledge of hospitality and housing is incomparable, and the ways they support one another makes DelSuites a wonderful place to work. Thank you for making our work home just as comfortable, caring, and excellent as the homes we provide.

Rising High on Our Foundations

We’re still pursuing the principles that we began with 23 years ago, in 1998: home is a precious thing, no matter how long we live there; that our families—biological and chosen—can support each other in magnificent ways; and that we can all go much farther together than we can apart.

In the words of the late Angelo DelZotto, “What we know together is limitless”.

We’re thrilled to see where this journey will continue to take us; thank you for joining us along the way. Here’s to Year 24!

Announcements, Customer Service Experience

DelSuites Celebrates 2021 TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Award

October 21, 2021

The DelSuites mission is being there for our guests: bringing you stable, luxurious furnished Toronto short-term rentals to enjoy worry-free.

As travel changed in 2020 in response to COVID-19, we’ve kept up that goal of being there—whether you’re local or international, here for a month or a year—as the world shut down in response to COVID.

DelSuites is pleased and proud that that unprecedented work has been recognized by the TripAdvisor.ca 19th Annual Travellers’ Choice Awards: the guest-voted award for hotels, hospitality providers, and attractions millions of TripAdvisor users agree “consistently deliver fantastic experiences to travellers around the globe.”

TripAdvisor is the world’s largest travel discovery platform, connecting 463 million travellers a month with reviews, accommodations, bookings, reservations, and rates.

DelSuites takes a place among winners from six continents and 83 countries as a standout provider in the top ranks of TripAdvisor’s almost 9 million listed businesses. The award is based on consistently excellent user reviews and high guest ratings across all of our Toronto locations.

The DelSuites team is happy to receive this honour for the seventh year in a row. But we’re especially celebrating because of this year’s challenging circumstances: the first year TripAdvisor’s annual travel industry ratings were collected under the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

As much international travel ground to a halt, our guests booked room nights to help or comfort loved ones, stay close to their essential workplaces, protect family members at higher risk, and navigate a year of uncertainty.

Our dedicated team was called upon to not just provide our guests with a comfortable, friendly welcome, but adjust nimble booking policies, offer stability in unstable times, and create safety precautions they could rely on when a place to call home meant more than ever.

“The hospitality industry has been hit extremely hard, including DelSuites,” said DelSuites Marketing Manager Suelyn Bloye. “We rely on visitors from all over the world, and with Canadian borders closed to all non-essential travel this had a huge impact on our business. Despite these challenges, we have pushed through and supported our guests through uncertain times. We are honoured to be recognized directly by them for excellence in hospitality, service, quality, and customer satisfaction.”

We are incredibly proud that we could rise to this unprecedented challenge and provide our guests with not just comfort, but safety precautions they could rely on and the welcome of a true Toronto community.

DelSuites is excited to continue our record of excellence with TripAdvisor—seven Certificates of Excellence since 2014—and extend the pride we take in consistently creating a welcome for our guests into 2021.

Any day, anytime, we at DelSuites are ready to welcome you to Toronto and be your home away from home in one of the world’s most unique, diverse, and dynamic cities.

Announcements, Giving Back

DelSuites Builds Community With Rapid Rehousing Initiative Donation

September 19, 2021
delsuites furniture donation

DelSuites understands how important it is to have a comfortable, safe place to call home. Every day, we go above and beyond to make sure travellers from around the world can step through our doors and relax, knowing we’ve done the rest.

That’s why we’re deeply proud to have donated ten full and six partial sets of modern, stylish furniture—a gift worth $55,000—to the City of Toronto’s Rapid Rehousing Initiative: the city’s primary program for helping chronically homeless Torontonians find stable, permanent homes.

This contribution builds on our April 2020 donation of almost 25 apartments’ worth of furnishings to City of Toronto housing programs—a partnership that proved DelSuites hospitality can make a difference that lasts.

 

More than bare walls or a bandaid solution

The City of Toronto established its Rapid Rehousing Initiative in April 2020, as part of the response to COVID-19. This coordinated approach to public health and fighting poverty offers help to the people who need it most, by permanently housing people who have experienced chronic homelessness.

Recognizing how disproportionately COVID-19 would affect people without homes, the City of Toronto launched a collaborative effort between 20 city agencies, local non-profits like the Toronto Furniture Bank, and the City’s Follow-Up Supports program in March 2020.

By taking a complex, systemic view of what makes homelessness happen, the Rapid Rehousing Initiative helps Torontonians who have repeatedly been without a home not just find one in their own downtown neighbourhoods, but keep that home—and overcome the greater obstacles they’re facing. Furniture, housewares, and lease assistance are provided to give each participant a stable start—one where they can not just survive, but thrive.

Through the City’s Follow-Up Supports program, neighbourhood-based community agencies provide programs, resources, and social supports tailored to help each participant stabilize their future.

In 2020, the Rapid Rehousing Initiative helped 459 people—singles, couples, and families—move into permanent and fully furnished housing.

Phase two of the initiative started in January 2021, bringing 450 more units into the program. 160 Toronto families have already moved in, keys in hand, since June 1, 2021—and set themselves on the path to a better future.

Making a real impact in our community

Our April 2020 partnership with the City of Toronto showed us how much impact stylish, durable furniture can make when you’re starting fresh. Good dishes mean your favourite home cooking; a comfortable couch means time with friends and family; and modern, attractive ready-made décor means an instant boost to dignity.

Starting with a space that’s not just four walls, but a home doesn’t just let people save for education, family, or their future—it creates the place where we can be at peace, feel proud, and flourish.

Having seen the lasting effects of a comfortable space on our neighbours’ lives, we’ve targeted this newest donation to do the most good: help ten households move from living precariously into homes they can take pride in, with fundamentals that were made to last.

As Toronto’s groundbreaking housing program grows, DelSuites will be there to show we know a welcome is something you build every single day—and a welcome is for everyone.

Learn how you can help

Our cities become communities when we all pull together. Learn how you can help bring every Torontonian a safe and stable home at www.toronto.ca/donateTO.