Tumon Bay, Guam, 19 December – The Hilton Guam Resort & Spa has added an additional service to better accommodate their guests – the Biba Biba Shuttle Express.   

“We wanted to provide a more convenient and hassle-free stay for our guests,” says Glenda Villa, Director of Guest Relations at the Hilton Guam Resort & Spa. This service is offered at many hotels worldwide; the Hilton Guam is the first to introduce this drop-off service on island.

The shuttle bus transports in-house guests to the most popular shopping areas on Guam for just $2 per person, per trip, and is free for children 5 years and below. Tickets for the Hilton’s Biba Biba Shuttle Express are on sale at the front desk of the Hilton Guam, or can be received from a guests’ tour agent.

The drop-off only shuttle bus operates daily, with drop off times beginning at 9:30am and the latest at 7:30pm. Shopping destinations include Guam Premier Outlets, K-Mart, Micronesia Mall, Duty Free Shoppers, and Tumon Sands Plaza. It seats 22 people. The Biba Biba shuttle bus is one of many additions to the Hilton Guam’s guest services.

Fisherman’s Cove, the Hilton Guam’s seafood restaurant, boasts the island’s freshest seafood. Being just a year old, the restaurant has been introducing new concepts of dining to the island. Fisherman’s Cove bears a market- style concept, with a beautiful seafood display that allows guests to select to choose the seafood to be used in their meals. The seafood display flaunts a large variety of the treasures of the sea, like scallops, oysters, spanner crabs, fish, lobsters and shrimp. The restaurant also has a glass-walled kitchen, enabling guests to watch as the chefs prepare their dinners to perfection.

With new and innovative restaurant practices, Fisherman’s Cove can only add to its appeal by serving its clientele with a family-friendly atmosphere. Upon entering Fisherman’s Cove, guests are greeted with the feeling of a fun, themed restaurant style. Brightly painted walls and fun, bold murals of under the sea embellish a guests surroundings. Fun décor like fish models and life-saving devices adorn the walls of the restaurant, capturing the sea theme. Clever names for menu items like Pika Pika Chili Shrimp and Going Coconut Shrimp are just a few of the traits that add to the restaurant’s excitingly casual atmosphere.

With the restaurant’s innovation and personality, Fisherman’s Cove took home the win for 2011’s Most Outstanding Local Tourism Facility. The freshest and most delicious seafood, fun and innovative concepts and a family-friendly ambiance make Fisherman’s Cove Guam’s 2011’Most Outstanding Local Tourism Facility.

The dinner themes will be as follows: Steak & Lobster (Monday), Asian Night (Tuesday), Mexican Night (Wednesday), Pacific Rim (Thursdays, starting February 29th), Seafood (Friday), Texas Barbecue (Saturday) and French Bistro (Sunday). Guests can enjoy the diversity of the authentic flavors, all from specific parts of the globe.

Diners will be able to experience a great variety of worldly foods from Malaysian satays (Asian Tuesdays), Hawaiian-style barbecues (Pacific Rim Wednesdays) to a Taco-building station (Mexican Wednesdays). The new dinners will be able to capture the genuine flavors of their respective nights.

These nights will also have alcohol on special as follows: Heineken (Monday), Dos Equis Amber for Mexican Night (Wednesday), Sake (Pacific Rim Wednesdays), Budweiser (Seafood Friday), and Amber Bock (Texas BBQ Night).

As the dinner menu will undergo changes, so will the décor and ambiance of the restaurant. Workers will be in costume; wall and standing decorations will help enhance the night-appropriate restaurant theme. With the addition of the new theme nights and the theme décor, hotel guests and locals can ensure they have an authentic, ethnic dining experience.

Dinners are from 6pm – 9pm. Prices vary, depending on the theme night. Military and membership discounts are applicable. For more information, call 646-DINE.

Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, a group that recognizes companies that provide outstanding support their military employees, gives the Pro Patria Award annually. This year, Nicolaus Priesnitz, the General Manager of the Hilton Guam Resort & Spa, accepted the award on behalf of the company.

The Hilton Guam Resort & Spa employs over 500 employees, 12 of which are military servicemen, working in various departments. Though the hospitality industry is a demanding one, the company strives to be as accommodating as possible when it comes to the needs of their servicemen, their dependents, and our country.

The Hilton Guam Resort & Spa is proud to announce the completion of their new boardroom, equipped with the futuristic tools needed to conduct business in this technology-savvy era. The many features and innovations that the boardroom provides will be available for use in the New Year.

The Hilton Guam has served the island for many years, and still continues to enhance, renew, and create new amenities for its guests. The conference room is the newest addition to the hotel’s many features; it provides a practical and aesthetic environment for any important business meeting.

The boardroom features an abundance of technological features, giving users a variety of capabilities that would boost the activities of typical business meetings. The room houses two 60” Samsung High Definition LCD Display monitors, enabling boardroom users to view presentations, such as those on PowerPoint, on a larger scale. With a large, crisp display, businesspeople can assure they can examine every detail of their business meetings.

The audio equipment accompanying the display monitors includes surround sound and PolyCom Voice Conferencing. With the high quality of audio, these display monitors can also be used for video calls. The room is supplied with high speed Internet, with Internet connection as fast as 7mbps. Businessmen can be certain that the provided resources can prove to be reliable and efficient. These interactive capabilities serve useful as business moves to become more technologically dependent.

The boardroom also hosts a large, custom-designed conference table, able to seat as many as 22 people. Each seat at the table is supplied with individual data and power points, so that each person utilizing the boardroom is able to use resources to their full, personal advantage.

The spacious boardroom sports high ceilings and natural lighting, completing the room’s perfect ambiance for professional matters. The Hilton’s new conference room boasts a sleek and professional environment for the conducting of business.

To add to the perks of the boardroom, the Hilton can provide services to aid the planning of business meetings. Boardroom users can take advantage of the meeting coordination services that the hotel offers; the Hilton Guam also makes available guest room accommodations for those who have traveled to Guam for business. Another service that the Hilton can provide is the gourmet food and beverage packages; the hotel can provide breakfast, lunch, dinner or coffee breaks for those utilizing the boardroom. The ease of access, services, and technological resources that the Hilton Guam provides creates the perfect place for every important business meeting in this era.

For more information on this or other Hilton Guam amenities, call 646-1835

A food revolution is coming to Guam and it’s all at Hilton Guam Resort & Spa, headed by new Executive Chef, Christopher House.

“Our menus will be all about versatility – you won’t be able to really categorize it,” House says. “We’ll be featuring new and exciting cuisine and foods.

“I’m interested to see how far I can push the bar. Really - it’s all going to be versatile, new and exciting,” House adds.

House was named Executive Chef on September 27, following the departure of former Executive Chef Christophe Durliat. House comes to Hilton Guam with 23 years of culinary experience. He has worked in many restaurant kitchens including those in Las Vegas’ Bellagio Hotel and Resort, Luxor Hotel, and MGM Grand Hotel, with his most recent stint at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona before making the trip to Guam. House received honors from different culinary competitions including the 2006 Scottsdale Copper Chef Competition and the 2002 Bite of Las Vegas Iron Chef Competition.

Prior to graduating from the California Culinary Academy to start his culinary profession, House earned an undergraduate degree in business and spent time with the U.S. Marine Corps as an avionics technician. House’s hobbies include working out, hiking, traveling, and of course, enjoying new dining experiences. Although he has spent minimal time outside of the kitchen and the hotel in the short month he has been in Guam, House is interested in learning all he can about the island’s culture, and of course, cuisine.

“I want to understand the island’s history and it’s people,” House says. “When I go to a new place, I don’t just use cookbooks and put out food just from them. I want to know why the people in the new place cook a certain dish the way they do and I want to know where they get their ingredients.”

House’s exuberance and passion for culinary arts go hand in hand with his upbeat personality. Right away, House has directed his culinary team in taking small steps to transform the kitchen and to adopt various new cooking methods and food presentations. House has started to include more locally grown fresh produce in the food selection. Visible results include more color and vibrancy in dishes, but new tastes win the crowds.

“Food never lies – you know when a chef is really passionate about what he does and makes,” House says.

House is quick to mention the hard work of his culinary team that puts in countless hours to present perfection on each day’s menus – food that is visually appetizing, as well as gastronomically palatable. Whether a guest wants to dine simply or upscale, the food will reflect both extremes.

Overall, House hopes to use his cooking and food as a vehicle in making each guest’s dining experience memorable. Part of this will be achieved by infusing new, bolder tastes in a lighter, healthier fare.

“I’ve seen the impact food and beverage can have on hotels – it can help make or break a guest’s experience,” House says. “What we want to do here is make each guest’s dining experience memorable. Coming to the restaurant is not just about eating, but about the experience. I want guests to remember their dining experience with food that took them over the top – that’s my objective.”

Check presentation: At center, Victor Camacho, Executive Director of the Guam Chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation accepts a $500 check from Hilton Guam Resort & Spa's holiday fundraising project at Islander Terrace and Roy's restaurants. Pictured at front from left to right are Hayato "Jack" Yoshino president of P.H.R. Ken Asset Management, Camacho, First Lady Joann Camacho and Crystal Sablan, Hilton Guam Resort & Spa's Marketing Communications Manager. At back is Nicolaus Priesnitz, Hilton Guam Resort & Spa General Manager.

The money was raised in a special holiday fundraising project at Islander Terrace and Roy's restaurants. At Islander Terrace, guests made a donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation by purchasing ornaments to display on a special tree at Islander Terrace during the months of November and December. At Roy's, a percentage of all sales of a special Wish Set Menu and a Wish Chocolate Souffle was donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation

A bounty of shrimp has arrived at Fisherman’s Cove Seafood Restaurant and Grill.

For a limited time, Fisherman’s Cove will satisfy your shrimp cravings during Shrimpfest, which features special lunch and dinner options for the shrimp and seafood aficionado. The special Shrimpfest lunch menu – with entrees starting at just $9.99 – includes items such as Shrimp Pasta Alfredo, Garlic Butter Shrimp, Karaage Shrimp, Thai Shrimp Curry, Popcorn Shrimp, Coconut-Crusted Shrimp and more.

For dinner, large appetites are welcome with platters and combos. Featured entrees include the Steak and Shrimp Combo, Asian Shrimp Trio and the Mega Shrimp Platter – a generous platter of blackened shrimp, coconut-crusted shrimp, popcorn shrimp and garlic butter shrimp.

New to the Hilton Guam Resort & Spa restaurant is an open sushi counter, where Hawaiian fusion sushi is prepared and sent to your table fresh. On the new menu is the Hawaiian Sushi Sampler, which includes tuna, hamachi, shake, shiromi, red snapper, unagi and a spicy tuna roll. Other Hawaiian sushi menu items include Auntie Lei’s Aloha Roll, which is a fine combination of spicy tuna, kaiware, cucumber, yellowtail, salmon, avocado and garlic ponzu. Other items include Sunrise at Haleakala – a mix of tuna, yellowtail, salmon, avocado, asparagus crispy foll and spicy butter sauce, and the Spider Maki, a sushi dish created with tempura soft shell crab, kaiware, avocado, tobiko, and tangy ume aioli. Many other sushi and sashimi selections are available at the restaurant nightly. In addition to the new Yamaguchi Sushi and Sashimi menu are some menu items for your discerning palate. New menu items include Scallops topped with Melted Foie Gras, Taro-Leaf Infused Spicy Escargot, and Blue Cheese and Porcini Buttered 8 oz. Filet Mignon, among others.

Make a date to experience the newly updated Roy’s restaurant at Hilton Guam Resort & Spa. For reservations, call 646-DINE (3463) or visit hiltonguamresort.com.

Children and parents will be treated to a magical experience during Hilton’s Champagne Sunday Brunch at Islander Terrace.

Watch and participate as Lord Jim levitates tables, makes random items magically appear and disappear, and other magical tricks that both you and your children will enjoy. For a limited time, all children who participate in magic show activities receive a coupon for a free Sunday Brunch on their next visit to Islander Terrace. Lord Jim begins the magic at 12:30 each Sunday. Additionally, your family will enjoy award-winning Sunday Brunch fare including hot entrees, soups, bread, breakfast favorites, meat from carving stations, a crepe station, salad bar and dessert buffet including ice cream. Live entertainment is featured every Sunday before and after the magic show. To reserve your table at Islander Terrace, call 646-DINE (3463) or visit hiltonguamresort.com