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|May 22, 2007
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|David Girouard, Bradley Horowitz, Richard Humphrey, Charles Fuller
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|Virage, Inc.
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This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/195,667, filed Apr. 7, 2000 and titled "INTERACTIVE VIDEO APPLICATION HOSTING," which is hereby incorporated by reference. This application is related to U.S. Application No. 09/828,618, filed Apr. 6, 2001 and titled "VIDEO-ENABLED COMMUNITY BUILDING," U.S. Application No. 09/828,507, filed Apr. 6, 2001 and titled "VIDEO-ENABLED E-COMMERCE," and U.S. Application No. 09/828,506, filed Apr. 6, 2001 and titled "NETWORK VIDEO GUIDE AND SPIDERING," which are all hereby incorporated by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to the field of accessing and processing digital video on a network such as the Internet. More particularly, the invention relates to providing media content owners the capability to deliver media content to end users as an interactive experience.
2. Description of the Related Technology
A number of techniques have evolved in recent years as the Internet has grown in size and sophistication, including:
In addition to the technologies described above, video indexing technology has also emerged, herein referred to as 'video logging'. Video logging is a process that incorporates both automated indexing and manual annotation facilities to create a rich, fine-grained (in a temporal sense) index into a body of video content. The index typically consists of a combination of visual and textual indices that permit time-based searching of video content. The index may incorporate spoken text, speaker identifications, facial identifications, on-screen text, and additional annotations, keywords, and descriptions that may be applied by a human user executing the video logging application. The Virage VideoLogger is one example of this type of video logging technology that is commercially available.
The delivery of streaming media on the Internet requires the encoding of video content into one or more streaming video formats and efficient delivery of that content to the end users. Common streaming formats presently in use include RealVideo, Microsoft Windows Media, QuickTime, and MPEG. The video logging technology may coordinate the encoding of one or more of these formats while the video is being indexed to ensure that the video index is time-synchronized with the encoded content. The final delivery of media content to an end user is typically accomplished with a wide variety of video serving mechanisms and infrastructure. These mechanisms may include basic video servers (such as those from Real, Microsoft, and Apple), caching appliances (such as those from CacheFlow, Network Appliance, Inktomi, and Cicso), and content delivery networks (herein "CDN's", such as those from Akamai, Digital Island, iBeam, and Adero). These types of video serving mechanisms deliver media content to the end user.
Media content owners often wish to offer their content on the Internet for a variety of purposes, including commerce, community building, and to generate revenue through advertising and syndication mechanisms. The delivery of interactive, searchable, and personalized video content (for example video, Flash™, Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language or SMIL, and similar formats, herein collectively referred to as 'video') on the Internet is a difficult task to accomplish for a majority of content owners. It would require significant time and monetary investments in technical infrastructure as well as the expertise of Information Technology ("IT") professionals within the content owner's organization to achieve the desired business goals.
Among the important business criteria for success in this area is that the content owner retains total control over their content. It is beneficial for the content owners to have control over the presentation, delivery, access controls, and editorial-indexing aspects of their content at all times. Therefore, what is needed in the technology is a system whereby a service provider can offer a hosted application and associated services for encoding and indexing video media that achieves the content owner's business goals without requiring the existence of technical infrastructure and expertise within the content owner's own organization.
By using dynamically generated HTML and branded, embedded video player windows, the hosted interactive video application service can deliver the content owner's content to the end users in a seamless fashion, such that the end user does not perceive that they have ever 'left' the content owner's website. These features greatly enhance the content owner's purposes related to website commerce, community building, and generation of revenue through advertising and syndication mechanisms. All of these beneficial criteria are realized by the video application hosting techniques disclosed in the present invention.
In one embodiment, the invention provides a system for hosting of video content over a network, comprising a content owner facility, comprising a content owner network server, and a service facility comprising a video encoding module configured to receive the video content, a video logging module configured to receive the video content and generate an index of the video content, a video application server module configured to receive the index of the video content, and a service facility network server configured to receive the index of the video content and produce electronic templates for use by the content owner network server. The system further comprises a content distribution network configured to receive encoded video from the video encoding module and provide encoded video to a user.
In another embodiment, the invention provides a system for delivering media content services over a network, comprising media content to which a content owner has rights, a content owner facility comprising a content owner network server, and a service facility comprising a video processing module configured to extract metadata from the media content and encode the media content and a hosted video application module configured to provide video elements for display on the content owner facility network site. The system further comprises a content distribution network providing media content to a user.
In another embodiment, the invention provides a method for hosting of video content over a network, comprising providing video content for video processing, encoding the video content, indexing the video content to generate a video index, providing video elements for incorporation in a content owner network site, and delivering the encoded video to a user via a network.
The above and other aspects, features and advantages of the invention will be better understood by referring to the following detailed description, which should be read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. These drawings and the associated description are provided to illustrate various embodiments of the invention, and not to limit the scope of the invention.
The following detailed description of certain embodiments presents various descriptions of specific embodiments of the present invention. However, the present invention can be embodied in a multitude of different ways as defined and covered by the claims. In this description, reference is made to the drawings wherein like parts are designated with like numerals throughout.
The following provides a number of useful possible definitions of terms used in describing certain embodiments of the disclosed invention.
A network may refer to a network or combination of networks spanning any geographical area, such as a local area network, wide area network, regional network, national network, and/or global network. The Internet is an example of a current global computer network. Those terms may refer to hardwire networks, wireless networks, or a combination of hardwire and wireless networks. Hardwire networks may include, for example, fiber optic lines, cable lines, ISDN lines, copper lines, etc. Wireless networks may include, for example, cellular systems, personal communications service (PCS) systems, satellite communication systems, packet radio systems, and mobile broadband systems. A cellular system may use, for example, code division multiple access (CDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), personal digital phone (PDC), Global System Mobile (GSM), or frequency division multiple access (FDMA), among others.
A website may refer to one or more interrelated web page files and other files and programs on one or more web servers. The files and programs are accessible over a computer network, such as the Internet, by sending a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request specifying a uniform resource locator (URL) that identifies the location of one of said web page files, wherein the files and programs are owned, managed or authorized by a single business entity. Such files and programs can include, for example, hypertext markup language (HTML) files, common gateway interface (CGI) files, and Java applications. The web page files preferably include a home page file that corresponds to a home page of the website. The home page can serve as a gateway or access point to the remaining files and programs contained within the website. In one embodiment, all of the files and programs are located under, and accessible within, the same network domain as the home page file. Alternatively, the files and programs can be located and accessible through several different network domains.
A web page or electronic page may comprise that which is presented by a standard web browser in response to an HTTP request specifying the URL by which the web page file is identified. A web page can include, for example, text, images, sound, video, and animation.
Content, media content and streaming media content may refer to the delivery of electronic materials such as music, videos, software, books, multimedia presentations, images, and other electronic data, for example over a network to one or more users. Content data will typically be in the form of computer files for video, audio, program, data and other multimedia type content as well as actual physical copies of valuable content, for example CD-ROM, DVD, VCR, audio, TV or radio broadcast signals, streaming audio and video over networks, or other forms of conveying such information. The terms content, media content and streaming media content may be used interchangeably herein.
A computer or computing device may be any processor controlled device that permits access to the Internet, including terminal devices, such as personal computers, workstations, servers, clients, mini-computers, main-frame computers, laptop computers, a network of individual computers, mobile computers, palm-top computers, hand-held computers, set top boxes for a television, other types of web-enabled televisions, interactive kiosks, personal digital assistants, interactive or web-enabled wireless communications devices, mobile web browsers, or a combination thereof. The computers may further possess one or more input devices such as a keyboard, mouse, touch pad, joystick, pen-input-pad, and the like. The computers may also possess an output device, such as a visual display and an audio output. One or more of these computing devices may form a computing environment.
These computers may be uni-processor or multi-processor machines. Additionally, these computers may include an addressable storage medium or computer accessible medium, such as random access memory (RAM), an electronically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), hard disks, floppy disks, laser disk players, digital video devices, compact disks, video tapes, audio tapes, magnetic recording tracks, electronic networks, and other techniques to transmit or store electronic content such as, by way of example, programs and data. In one embodiment, the computers are equipped with a network communication device such as a network interface card, a modem, or other network connection device suitable for connecting to the communication network. Furthermore, the computers execute an appropriate operating system such as Linux, Unix, any of the versions of Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS, IBM OS/2 or other operating system. The appropriate operating system may include a communications protocol implementation that handles all incoming and outgoing message traffic passed over the Internet. In other embodiments, while the operating system may differ depending on the type of computer, the operating system will continue to provide the appropriate communications protocols to establish communication links with the Internet.
The computers may contain program logic, or other substrate configuration representing data and instructions, which cause the computer to operate in a specific and predefined manner, as described herein. In one embodiment, the program logic may be implemented as one or more object frameworks or modules. These modules may be configured to reside on the addressable storage medium and configured to execute on one or more processors. The modules include, but are not limited to, software or hardware components that perform certain tasks. Thus, a module may include, by way of example, components, such as, software components, object-oriented software components, class components and task components, processes, functions, attributes, procedures, subroutines, segments of program code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuitry, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables.
The various components of the system may communicate with each other and other components comprising the respective computers through mechanisms such as, by way of example, interprocess communication, remote procedure call, distributed object interfaces, and other various program interfaces. Furthermore, the functionality provided for in the components, modules, and databases may be combined into fewer components, modules, or databases or further separated into additional components, modules, or databases. Additionally, the components, modules, and databases may be implemented to execute on one or more computers. In another embodiment, some of the components, modules, and databases may be implemented to execute on one or more computers external to the website. In this instance, the website includes program logic, which enables the website to communicate with the externally implemented components, modules, and databases to perform the functions as disclosed herein.
Certain Innovative Aspects
One embodiment of the present system and method includes techniques whereby indexing, encoding, publishing, and searching of video is provided as a service to content owners on the Internet. A search application allows the user interface to be customized and injected into the content-owner's website using dynamic HTML and template-based presentation mechanisms. In this way, the video content and search/retrieval interface appears to be a seamless part of the content owner's website. The content owner may thereby integrate easily publishable and searchable video with opportunities to tie advertising and e-commerce transactions to the video content, thereby enhancing the value of their website. In addition, by allowing the user access to the video services described herein without having to leave the content owner's website, the time on the website is increased, also enhancing the website's value.
The content owner may provide content to the service facility for processing via many media sources, including, but not limited to, tape, cable, satellite, or digital files. The content may be encoded or transcoded into various video formats, for example, Real, Windows Media, or QuickTime, and indexed. Indexing may be performed using a video logging application, such as the Virage VideoLogger, that analyzes the video signal to extract metadata. Metadata is not the video data itself, but instead is data that is derived by processing performed on the video, audio, or closed caption inputs using advanced media analysis algorithms. Human operators may add additional editorial information through a process commonly referred to as 'clip marking'. The result is an index of the visual, audio, and textual elements of the video content, synchronized with the corresponding streaming video.
In one embodiment, the video index is loaded into a video index database by a video application server, where it becomes part of a database of video content. The encoded video is similarly loaded onto a video server, where the video application injects interactive video elements into the content owner's website through the use of templates and web page component URLs. Interactive video elements typically include the simple clip publishing elements, search forms, results pages, video player windows, or other potential features, for example a 'favorites' window or personalization capabilities. The final web page that an end user sees may therefore be a composite of graphical and text elements being served by various servers, and may include the content owner's web server. This interaction of various servers is not noticeable to an end user. The video search application hosting is therefore nearly indiscernible to the end user, appearing to be part of the content owner's website.
In one embodiment, the interactive video becomes part of the content owner's website, not a separate web destination. This enhances website value in the form of branding, community building, and e-commerce within the content owner's site. The content owner does not incur the significant costs of developing information technology infrastructure or building in-house video processing expertise. Instead, they are able to purchase this capability as a service at a lower cost and in a shorter amount of time. Additionally, the content owner is able to retain complete control over the presentation, delivery, and access to their content, paramount for the ultimate business success of such an endeavor. Content owners are typically highly reluctant to delegate any of this type of control to a third party. One innovative aspect of the present system and method is therefore the ability to provide remote, web-based interfaces that allow content owners to access and modify the template mechanism for the presentation of their content, and the ability to define guidelines and remotely edit the video index metadata according to their own editorial policies.
In certain embodiments, the interactive video application hosting aspect of the present system and method is delivered via a persistent application server (herein referred to as the Video Application Server, or "VAS"). The VAS may share many common features with standard web-based application servers, namely, interfacing with an off-the-shelf web server, for example Apache, Netscape, or Microsoft Internet Information Server, and providing application logic that delivers the desired experience and end-user interface through a standard HTML web browser.
One innovative aspect of the VAS as it relates to the present system and method is the ability to interface with video logging applications to receive and process video metadata and manage a video index on behalf of the content owner. A single VAS server can organize, manage, and administer multiple video indices for multiple content owners using a multi-level 'account' and 'view' structure, which separates the actual content from the presentation of that content. This innovation of separation and account management enables the hosting of the video application for multiple content owners from a single network operating facility, and enhances the overall scalability of the hosted-application framework and delivery model. Separation of content and presentation is also a desirable aspect for syndication business models that allow the same content to be delivered through a wide variety of user interfaces, each one specific to a given website and containing unique layout, advertising, commerce, and personalization capabilities.
Another innovative aspect of this embodiment of the VAS is its ability to publish, search, and provide an interactive video experience for the end user through the use of a specialized template language that is designed specifically for the needs of web-based video. While template languages have been widely used for dynamic HTML presentation, the VAS template language contains novel capabilities that specifically allow video content to be published, searched, and rendered in a manner that is customized for a particular site or use of the content. This includes, but is not limited to, advertising opportunities, integration with traditional web content presentations, e-commerce features tied directly to the video content, and personalization of video content. As an example, an end user who is a Chicago Bulls fan may be presented with Bulls video highlights, along with advertising for an upcoming game and an opportunity to purchase a team poster. These capabilities emerge from the combined mechanisms of a rich video index, content-based targeting of advertising and commerce, and traditional web-based delivery and streaming techniques.
The server computers 108, 110, and the user device 115 may each have any conventional general purpose single- or multi-chip microprocessor, for example a Pentium processor, a Pentium Pro processor, a MIPS processor, a Power PC processor, an ALPHA processor, or other general purpose processors. In addition, the microprocessor may be any conventional special purpose microprocessor such as a digital signal processor or a graphics processor. Additionally, the server computers 108, 110 and the user device 115 may be desktop, server, portable, hand-held, set-top, or other desired type of computing device. Furthermore, the server computers 108, 110 and the user device 115 each may be used in connection with various operating systems, including, for example, UNIX, LINUX, Disk Operating System (DOS), VxWorks, PalmOS, OS/2, Mac OS, a version of Microsoft Windows, or other operating system.
The server computers 108, 110 and the user device 115 may each include a network terminal equipped with a video display, keyboard and pointing device. In one embodiment of the network configuration 100, the user device 115 includes a network browser 120 used to access the server computers 108, 110. The network browser 120 may be, for example, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. The user 102 at the user device 115 may utilize the browser 120 to remotely access the server program using a keyboard and/or pointing device and a visual display, such as a monitor 118. Although
The network 116 may be any type of electronic transmission medium, for example, including but not limited to the following networks: a virtual private network, a public Internet, a private Internet, a secure Internet, a private network, a public network, a value-added network, an intranet, or a wireless gateway. The term "virtual private network" refers to a secure and encrypted communications link between nodes on the Internet, a Wide Area Network (WAN), Intranet, or any other network transmission means.
In addition, the connectivity to the network 116 may be via, for example, a modem, Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), Token Ring (IEEE 802.5), Fiber Distributed Datalink Interface (FDDI), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), or other form of network connectivity. The user device 115 may connect to the network 116 by use of a modem or by use of a network interface card that resides in the user device 115. The server computers 108 may be connected via a wide area network 106 to a network gateway 104, which provides access to the wide area network 106 via a high-speed, dedicated data circuit.
As would be understood by one skilled in the technology, devices other than the hardware configurations described above may be used to communicate with the server computers 108, 110. If the server computers 108, 110 are equipped with voice recognition or Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) hardware, the user 102 may communicate with the server computers by use of a telephone 124. The telephone may optionally be equipped with a browser 120 and display screen. Other examples of connection devices for communicating with the server computers 108, 110 include a portable personal computer (PC) 126 or a personal digital assistant (PDA) device with a modem or wireless connection interface, a cable interface device 128 connected to a visual display 130, or a satellite dish 132 connected to a satellite receiver 134 and a television 136. Still other methods of allowing communication between the user 102 and the server computers 108, 110 are additionally contemplated by this application.
Additionally, the server computers 108, 110 and the user device 115 may be located in different rooms, buildings or complexes. Moreover, the server computers 108, 110 and the user device 115 could be located in different geographical locations, for example in different cities, states or countries. This geographic flexibility which networked communications allows is additionally within the contemplation of this application.
The system architecture 200 additionally includes a content owner facility 220. The content owner facility 220 may include media content 224 for transferring to the video processing module 214 as shown in
The following paragraphs provide a description of the operation of an embodiment of the system architecture 200 of
In one embodiment, content 224 that is originally in analog form is encoded into a digital format in such a way that the time synchronization between the metadata and the encoded video is accurate, as is described in U.S. application Ser. No. 09/134,497, filed Aug. 14, 1998 and titled "VIDEO CATALOGER SYSTEM WITH SYNCHRONIZED ENCODERS," which is hereby incorporated by reference. Content 224 that is originally in digital form, typically a high-resolution format, is transcoded into an appropriate format for delivery. Typically, video content 224 is encoded in multiple formats (for example RealVideo, Microsoft Windows Media, Quicktime, or MPEG) and bit rates (for example modem speed or broadband speed) to offer end users 102 a choice, often depending on individual preferences or Internet connection bandwidth. The resulting digital video files from either encoding or transcoding are uploaded to the content distribution network 240, which delivers the actual encoded video for display to the end user 102. Once the end user 102 selects an actual segment of video content 224 to view, the appropriate video is transferred from the content distribution network 240 to the end user's browser for display via the Internet 116.
In one embodiment, the content owner facility 220 includes the media content 224 as described above. The content owner facility 220 additionally includes a server administration module 326 communicating with the service facility web server 314. The content owner facility 220 further includes the content owner web server 228, which accesses web pages 332 and a search form 334 via the Internet 116. Each web page 332 may depict a plurality of pages rendered by various web servers. The search form 334 allows user selection of arbitrary search criteria of video content on the content owner website, and the search criteria are communicated to the service facility web server 314. Further provided via the Internet 116 are results data 338, which are generated by the service facility web server 314. Also accessible via the Internet 116 is a video player 336, which receives encoded video from the content distribution network 240.
The following paragraphs provide a description of the operation of one embodiment of the architecture 300 shown in
In a further embodiment, regardless of its original form, the content 224 is processed by the video logging module 306 to extract index data, for example keyframes, closed-caption text, speaker identifications, facial identifications, or other index data. The content 224 may additionally undergo processing by the video editorial module 308, whereby humans may elect to label the content 224 by providing annotations, descriptions, keywords, or other labeling or marking information. The index and annotation information is transferred to the video application server 312, which hosts publishing, search, retrieve, browse, or other related video services. The video application server 312 may maintain the metadata in the video index 316. The video application server 312 provides the above-described video services to the content owner web server 228 for incorporation in the content owner's web pages 332 via the template mechanism described above.
The architecture 400 additionally includes an administration editing module 430, which generates and manages display pages 318, typically web pages, for server administration, metadata editing, template manipulation, and batch processing. Batch processing may be accomplished for insertion processes, deletion or 'aging' processes, metadata editing, or for automated performance of other tasks as well. The administration editing module 430 communicates with the video application server 312 and web server 314, and updates various template 424 configurations. The administration editing module 430 further allows system administrators to manage the video application server 312, including, for example, index management, asset management, editing, and startup and shutdown control. The architecture 400 additionally includes a search results rendering module 420, which communicates with the video application server 312 and the web server 314, as well as receiving template 424 configurations for dynamically-generating search results data 338.
At the completion of either the analog processing at block 530 or the digital processing at block 540, process 500 advances to a video editorial stage 550, which provides content owners the capability to direct or perform editorial functions on the processed video. At this stage 550, the content owner at the content owner facility 220 may provide guidelines to further annotate, describe, and clip mark the video by accessing and augmenting the baseline video index. Such annotation may by added by an automated tool such as the video logging module 306, a human operator using an editorial tool such as a metadata editor software module, or other annotation mechanism. The guidelines provided will typically vary among different content owners, but may include, for example, assigning keywords from a controlled vocabulary, creating clip summaries, providing categories or classifications from a list provided by the content owner, or any number of other marks or text that might be added. An upload metadata stage 560 uploads video indexes in final form via a network connection to the video application server 312 for access by end users 102. In a further embodiment, the application server 312 is located in a hosting facility providing robust and redundant power and network connections to the Internet 116. At block 570, an upload digital files to CDN stage uploads digital video files to the content distribution network 240 for efficient access by end users 102.
In the case where the user 102 is navigating on the website to published video, at block 640 the video is manifested by displaying any of the video metadata available about that piece of video, for example, keyframes, transcript, title, description, or other metadata. Advancing to block 646, the end user 102 accesses published video by selecting the desired video metadata displayed at block 640.
In the alternate case where the end user 102 accesses a page containing a search form 334, at block 650 the search interface is served by the video application server 312, and other page elements are served as described below. Continuing at block 652, the user 102 may then issue a query to search for video by typing in keywords to the search form 334, or by selecting options from pull-down menus or category selections. At block 654, the query is issued to the application server 312, which processes the query to identify video clips that match the query. The end user 102 is presented with the query results 338 on a portion of a new web page 332 (as will be shown in
At block 656, the user 102 may select to access a specific video by selecting a desired HTML link in the search results web page 332. At block 660, the accessed video information is served by the video application server 312 using dynamic HTML injection into the web page 332. All other elements forming the web page 332 are served by the content owner's own web server 228, or other sources such as ad servers or caching edge-network servers. The resulting web pages 332 seen by the end user 102 are complete HTML web pages containing information from all of these sources, and in particular, the video metadata elements that describe the published video and which provide links to actually access the video.
The end user 102 ultimately makes a video clip selection, whether published video or video search results, that they wish to actually view. Video clip selection may be invoked in a number of ways, for example clicking on a keyframe, a title, or part of a transcript, as will be shown in reference to
As described herein, the invention fills the longstanding need in the technology of a system whereby a service provider can offer a hosted application and associated services for encoding and indexing video media that achieve the content owner's business goals without requiring the existence of technical infrastructure and expertise within the content owner's own organization. While the above detailed description has shown, described, and pointed out novel features of the invention as applied to various embodiments, it will be understood that various omissions, substitutions, and changes in the form and details of the device or process illustrated may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the invention. The scope of the invention is indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description. All changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are to be embraced within their scope.
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Owner name: VIRAGE, INC., CALIFORNIA
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Hotel information
Hotel facilities
- Number of single rooms: 25
- Number of double rooms: 128
- Number of suites (separate rooms): 1
- No-smoking room: 154
- WLAN with Internet access in lobby
Room facilities
- WLAN with Internet access in rooms
- Satellite TV
- Pay-TV
- Telephone on the desk
- Fax connection
In-house services
- Restaurant(s) 1, Closed
- Hotel bar
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Style of hotel and ambience
The eye-catching hotel building houses bright and wood furnished rooms, in whose warm atmosphere you can unwind after an eventful day outside. Find the restaurant in the elegant glass-ceilinged atrium and order dishes of international style and taste. Of course, a sauna can also be found at this Finnish hotel.
Special features of the hotel
Up to 2 children under the age of 18 stay for free when sharing their parents' room. Children under the age of 13 are offered breakfast and meals from the children's menu free of charge when eating together with their family.
Hotel details
Hotel built in: 2005, Number of floors: 6, Number of single rooms: 25, Number of double rooms: 128, Number of suites (separate rooms): 1, No-smoking room: 154,
Service times
Earliest check-in:
Latest check-out:
Accepted payment methods
Diners Club
American Express
Japan Credit Bureau (JCB Intl.)

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It's been a journey of 16 years.. started with touching upon the most ignored rather non issue of clothing to use the old material as a currency for development. Many people still think that Goonj is about collection and distribution of clothes .. but how your old material has come up as a new resource for village development across the country, how the old material has been able to lay pipelines in the country for channelizing tonnes of need based material to how it has become a genesis of a parallel economy which is not Cash based but Trash based !! From creating large mangroves to bridges in remote India, the old material and Goonj has a lot to share through 100 Stories of Change!! Thank you all for becoming a part of this journey and showing so much of love and faith.. Happy feet and the daily puddles of life !!
"Like cloth, shoe is a basic we hardly ever think about…you don't have to walk barefoot to know that no one likes it… So if you see a child walking around without shoes, its not a choice, simply a compulsion, an inability to provide for this basic.. that creates an unmistakable chasm for many in village India. " A row of shoes outside a village classroom.. is an enduring image of hope and learning.. and when you see broken slippers, broken shoes strewn all around.. That's another enduring image of what's missing…This story is about how shoes have helped many a happy feet jump across the little puddles of everyday life.. Over the last decade Goonj has consistently talked about shoes as an important need in village India.. It's an apt metaphor of a needle in the times of machines.. The little needs in times of big challenges.. While we have been channelizing shoes from the cities to the villages, for people like me and you, it's also a learning in mindful giving…the tying together of laces of a pair to ensure they remain useful.. Ensuring there are laces and sole etc… Basically giving wearable, usable shoes.. with dignity. Each child's story is unique but what's common is the excitement of showing their new shoes to the parents when they get back home. Both feel encouraged and relieved (from an expense) by this little addition in their lives.… Our faith is further affirmed by the addition in attendance at school afterwards. An after effect is the disparity of haves and have not's, taken away in one stroke. Tens of thousands of shoes have reached out as part of our disaster relief work over the years. The outcome is millions of smiles, joy and happy feet …
Under the School to School (S2S) initiative of Goonj.. one of the main activities undertaken is channelizing of School Kits to children in different parts of the country. A School Kit comprises of a school bag, seating mat, bottle cover, vegetable bag, pencil pouch, belt, towel, skipping rope, cap and scarf. The entire kit is made out of waste material.
Initially the schools that are selected are those with limited infrastructure and facilities for the students. Here children come from families of weaker economic background and communities living in abject poverty. These students can't afford educational resources necessary for a good education and their regular attendance in schools considerably drop as a result. They lack even the basics like school bag or stationary. Wearing most shabby clothes, with bare minimum books and stationary, instead of a school bag many carry a polythene bag. As a result a feeling of inferiority is predominant among these kids. Their interest in attending school is minimal due to scarcity of these small but important resources.
Goonj's School Kits work like a motivation for these children, to continue schooling in a meaningful way. Receiving these 'gifts', gives them an occasion to be happy and a reason to look forward to another day at school. The Kit supports the families of these children, surviving on meager resources, which they can now direct to an urgent basic need like food or healthcare.
These Kits are distributed as a reward for positive behavioral changes like personal cleanliness, better attendance in school, hard work in class, activities like cleanliness drive, watering the plants and trees etc. These kinds of activities are conducted by the schools at regular intervals to ensure that kids imbibe these aspects in the long term.
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Recommendedby Johan from Martinique
Accueil exemplairePosted Aug 17, 2013 on Hotels
Satisfait à tout point de vue, chambre de grand confort, grands espaces, petite cour privée à deux pas d'une très grande piscine. Plage très peu fréquentée, on est à cinq minutes de Pigeon Island ou de gros Ilet.
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Lots of privacy and a lovely private beach awaitsPosted Aug 13, 2013
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full honey moonPosted Jul 16, 2013 on Hotels
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for Getaway With Friendsby Dean/Charles from St. Lucia
Posted Jul 15, 2013 on Hotels
Disappointing. Booked a villa with a pool but the pool was unusable. Hotel was far away from restaurants and groceries. Quite isolated. Very limited food choices but the staff was very helpful.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler
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for Everyoneby Elaine
Great stayPosted May 5, 2013
Pros: The location is very private and villas are beautiful. We did not overlook the ocean, but were close to the little store.
Cons: I would recommend keeping a list of spa services in the room not just at the main counter. Or perhaps have a list to give to customers at check in.
Location: Remote, but good. Reduit Beach is beautiful. The rainforest canopy ride is magical. Snorkeling at Pigeon Point is fun and free with your own equip.
We had a great time at Cotton Bay Village. The villas are amazing. We booked a one bedroom villa, but I don't know that there is a one bedroom, we had three bedrooms, a private pool and patio with teak furniture. A hot tub on the the roof. The staff attended to our every need. This resort is out of the way, which is what we wanted. We rented a car which I would recommend if you want to leave the resort and explore the island. We don't like tours, we like to get off the beaten path and figure out things for ourselves. Driving in St. Lucia is not for the faint of heart. I believe the resort has shuttle service for groceries. We cooked in about half the time. Everything we needed in the kitchen except a coffee pot. I am sure if we had asked, they would have brought us one. There is a spa, we did not take advantage, because we were on the go alot. The restaurant is good, and we had it to our selves the two times we ate there, as this was a slow week for the island. We loved this. The beach is on the Atlantic side, it is not as beautiful as the Carribean side. We did not spend much time on beach. There are stray dogs, but they seem to be family and were very friendly and not a problem. Horses on beach were also fun to watch. Rodney Bay Reduit Beach is beautiful and only about 10 minutes from villa. It was nice to come back after a full day of exploring to have such a nice place to relax. There are American converters for plug ins on the main floor. So no need to bring converters.
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not on my list for a returnPosted Apr 25, 2013
hotel is older and needs some updating. Beach is almost non-existant and would not feel safe going into the ocean from this beach. water running from hotel site to ocean smelled like sewage. Food was only so so at the beach restaurant. The piano piano restaurant was excellent, but not open every day The villas were essentially empty Crickets chirped all night very loudly would not repeat this experience
for Business Travelersby W from US
Great hotel for a relaxing getawayPosted Apr 21, 2013 on Hotels
Friendly staff who remembered me from a previous visit.
for Everyoneby Grace from CT
Tranquility FoundPosted Apr 13, 2013
Pros: We loved spending time on the beach.
Cons: It is a two hour drive from the airport.
Location: On the northern tip of the island, there is always a cooling breeze, especially nice on hot days. It is only a ten minute drive from Rodney Bay.
My husband and I have just returned from the most relaxing vacation we've had in many years and we have the hospitality and ambience of Cotton Bay Village to thank for that. Our villa was lovely, freshly painted and beautifully decorated. We loved having a small private pool to take an early morning or late afternoon dip in. We took advantage of the beach nearly every day; it was groomed daily and never crowded. There was always a breeze which made sunbathing extremely pleasant! We ate most of our meals at the beachside restaurant. Some visitors on this site have complained of the limited dinner choices; while this is true, we found enough of a selection to satisfy us and our meals were always delicious. The lunch menu actually seemed more extensive and I highly recommend the Salad Nicoise with tuna! My compliments to the chef. Cotton Bay Village is the ideal place to stay if you are looking for an escape from the hustle and bustle of your daily life. It is especially nice for couples who are looking for a romantic getaway, although we saw many happy children at play on the beach as well!
by TD from North Carolina, USA
Mosquitos and MaintenancePosted Apr 2, 2013
Pros: Quiet
Cons: Mosquitos
Location: It was too far out of the way.
Your Review Cotton Bay Village Stayed in a 3 bedroom villa with private plunge pool in courtyard and hot tub on 3rd floor. Mosquitoes are a problem. There were no windows or screens, just louvered shutters and no usable mosquito netting on beds. The toilet in the master bedroom made a terrible noise with each flush. The baseboards on first floor are rotted through. The In-room safes didn't work. The Splash pool was covered in black grime below water-line. Shower next to splash pool was broken. The fridge ice maker made a terrible noise but didn't work. The Hot tub was falling apart (intake and jet nozzles). The Towel rods in the master bath falling out of the walls. There are no locks on interior doors... no "do not disturb" signs to put on the front door. The maid walked in on the wife and I. The Beach restaraunt was OK... but selection was limited, drinks werent hood and hostess most nights we visited wasn't interested in helping us. The other restaraunt, piano-piano, had better service and quality. The Fitness center had several pieces of broken equipment.


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