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The W Hollywood After Dark
The W Hollywood has been officially open for a week now and it looks like the place is already bumpin'. Our tipster stopped in one night this week and took a few snaps of the lobby and the Delphine restaurant.
Yes, these pictures are dark but according to our spy the entire lobby gets that dark at night. Or as our tipster says, "They keep it DIM in there."
Room rates this weekend start at $289 a night for a Wonderful room. That's a full prepaid, non-refundable rate. If you need something more flexible, the Best Available Rate listed is $299, also for a Wonderful room.
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Inside the W Hollywood Hotel and Residences
As promised yesterday, we have a huge gallery of snapshots from the just-opened W Hollywood Hotel and Residences. Since we toured the place last week as the hotel was still undergoing some finishing touches, we weren't able to shoot any of the public spaces, just the model rooms.
But sit tight and enjoy these pictures from a Fabulous Room (the starting room category) and the Marvelous Suite. We'll have pictures from the public spaces for you next week.
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W Kicks Up 'The Glam Factor' at W Hollywood, Opening Today
Today's the day! W Hollywood Hotel and Residences has opened! And despite what we had previously thought, rooms are actually open tonight for $489 a night for a king bed.
We've been waiting for this W for a long time and it's a bit surreal that this day is finally here. We were able to tour the hotel last week and while traipsing through as the hotel put on its finishing touches, we chatted with the general manager, Jim McPartlin, in a Marvelous Suite which has views of downtown Los Angeles, the Hollywood Hills and the Griffith Observatory. (Note: the Marvelous adjective is W's room category name, not ours.)
McPartlin has worked for both W and Kimpton Hotels in the past and he was also the general manager at the Gramercy Park Hotel when it first opened in 2006. Now he's back with the W family, and back in Los Angeles, to welcome the W Hollywood into the mix.
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The W Hollywood Will Provide 'Sanctuary' For Your All Your Gadgets
After touring the W Hollywood yesterday (sorry, no photos allowed just yet) we learned that the hotel will be using Sanctuary Chargers in-room. Awesome! But wait, what are Sanctuary chargers you ask?
Sanctuary is a product from Bluelounge that enables you to charge all of your gadgets in one box, by offering a multitude of charging cords from cellphones to iPods, iPhones, PDAs and other gadgets that use a USB or mini-USB port to charge up. In fact, The Sanctuary is capable of charging over 1,500 different types of gadgets. Here's how MacWorld describes using the product:
Using The Sanctuary couldn’t get much simpler: remove the tray, plug in its AC adapter, find the correct cord for your device, thread it through one of the notches, replace the tray, and voilà. A green LED light on the power brick will tell you that your devices are receiving power—if it starts to blink or dim, it’s a sign that you may have too many things connected, and that The Sanctuary has had to reduce its power intake.
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W Hollywood is Currently Finessing Its Whatever-Whenever Technique
For a hotel brand that prides itself on having "talent shows" to hire its employees, it was only fitting that the new employees for the W Hollywood got the red carpet treatment when they entered the hotel to begin their intense training period. The hotel is set to open January 28th.
Last Thursday, the event to welcome the new W employees kicked off at 9am when the employees registered at the Pantages Theater to receive their official W Hollywood IDs. Then the general manager, Jim McPartlin, gave the troops a pep talk in front of the theater before leading them across Hollywood Boulevard and into the hotel for their first day of work.
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The Always Classy Seminole Hard Rock Hotel to Throw Trashtastic Super Bowl Parties
Snooki pole-danced here, Steven Tyler fought here, and Anna Nicole died here. Is it any wonder the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood is getting trashtastic for the Super Bowl?
Last year, Entourage star Johnny Drama—sorry, Kevin Dillon—hosted the big-game weekend festivities at the sister property in Tampa. This year, while there'll be celebs and players galore, the focus is on the flesh. The week leading up to the game on February 7 is awash with bikini babes—there's a pool party featuring a fashion show by the Kardashians' boutique Dash, the Lingerie Bowl, and Penthouse Magazine's Super Party. Oh, and ladies, we almost forgot! For you—Jamie Foxx.
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Another Reason to Stay at Chateau Marmont: Personalized Stationery
There's a lot to love at Chateau Marmont, where the starlets are plentiful and the security practically fortress-like: a hotel bar you actually want to visit, and elaborate dishware for lattes that we once saw Gael Garcia Bernal ogling in person, for instance.
When you're shelling out the kind of cash that le Chateau requires for its doting service (and, oh, how they dote on their famous friends), unsolicited perks are common—more than your simple chocolate on the pillow at turndown, that's certain.
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The W Hollywood Gets Ready for Its Close-Up
The W Hollywood is still on track to open in just a few short weeks and while we have plenty of shots of the hotel's exterior, we finally got our hands on some renderings for the hotel's interior, including a guestroom shot.
We're getting more and more excited for this hotel to open. Los Angeles has been in need of a proper W Hotel--in the middle of the action, not tucked away in Westwood--for a looong time.
Sooo...what do you think? We are happy to see that the guestrooms here have gone the way of W South Beach, which has some of our favorite new hotel rooms on the planet, as opposed to W Boston, which was a disappointment. But of course, we have to reserve our final judgment for when we see the place in person.
Still, we think things are looking very good here.
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Snooki Takes it to The Pole at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel
While some clubs in NYC and even Hoboken have denied the cast of 'Jersey Shore' for paid club appearances, it seems that in Hollywood, Fla., there is no shame in hiring Snooki to do some pole-dancing for a night.
Snickers, aka Snooki, aka Nicole Polizzi was partying at the Seminole Hard Rock and Casino on Saturday night where the Opium Nightclub held its first-ever Saturdays Love the 'Jersey Shore'" night complete with a fist pumping competition.
According to Snook's Twitter feed, she was chillin at the hotel in a room before heading out to the nightclub. But unfortch, she Twittered that "i forgot my clips! no poof tonight!" Still she managed to have fun getting on the pole for the evening.
And to think, it only took her getting punched in the face for everyone to realize that yo, she's a cool girl.
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The W Hollywood Gets a Touch Delayed, Again
The last time we checked in with the W Hollywood, the opening date was set for January 15 but that has been pushed back yet again. Fortunately, it's only by two weeks.
The hotel's website now says Thursday, January 28. But will it open that day? We can't be sure as we were unable to make a reservation for that date.
We sincerely hoped that this hotel would be open in time for the all-important awards season. But with the Golden Globes to be held on January 17, it looks like the W will only be able to party for The Grammys (January 31) and The Oscars (March 7).
We never thought we would say this but thank God for the Oscars as you can actually book a room then. Rates the weekend of the awards show start at $359 a night for a king bedroom.
Check out some of our nighttime snaps of the W Hollywood below.
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The W Hollywood Gets Pushed Back To January 15th; Will Still Be Paparazzi Central
On our way back home from Los Feliz last night, we were cruising down Hollywood Boulevard and noticed a giant gleaming W sign in the distance. It could only mean one thing--W Hollywood Hotel and Residences is getting close to opening.
The official opening date is not until January 15, 2010 (pushed back from December 3 and reservations don't start until January 28) but the hotel is nearing completion, at least on the exterior.
We took some late-night shots for you which you can peruse in our gallery here. The place is going to be massive, especially since there are residences attached to the building and a Red Line metro stop that runs through the building.
The location is proper Hollywood on Hollywood Boulevard, between Vine and Argyle with the Pantages Theater directly across the street with plenty of nightclubs as well as the Hollywood and Highland complex within walking distance.
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Construction Has Begun on Drai's Nightclub at The W Hollywood
Don't worry. This is just a construction shot of Drai's. It's not the finished product.
As we eagerly await the opening of The W Hollywood on December 3, we've got word that construction on the hotel's nightclub, Drai's Hollywood--a spin-off of the legendary Las Vegas club--has begun. The club's construction firm, R.D. Olson sent us this press release with some detes:
Drai’s Hollywood will include an intimate 2,331-square-foot VIP lounge on ground level with a private VIP entrance separate from the hotel’s public lobby entry; a 21,552-square-foot penthouse glassed-in bar on the 11th floor with a 1,000-square-foot open air balcony; and an adjacent 2,131-square-foot rooftop pool deck and bar. The total capacity of Drai’s Hollywood will be 792 occupants.
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