Hotel Coverage: AFFINIA 50
Having A Bad Day? Affinia Hotels Ought To Cheer You Right Up
Since hotels are in the business of making people feel good, it kind of makes sense that the people working in the hotels should also want to feel good themselves. That's what a new initiative hopes to do for employees at Affinia. Earlier this month, a bartending workshop was led...
June 29, 2012
Pillow Talking With Affinia's New Chief Comfort Officer
Affinia Hotels is still on track to be the hotel leader of all things cute (here's a refresher: cupcakes, toys, and flower-painted walls). Yesterday, the group launched its newest customer service initiative, the Tender Loving Comfort Movement (that's TLC to you), which uses behavioral science to anticipate exactly how guests...
October 18, 2011
September In New York Doesn't Have To Put You In The Poor House
We've gotten a few requests this week for affordable hotels in NYC, and thought we'd take a minute to examine the crazy roller coaster that is September hotel rates. First off, three major overlapping events—a UN conference, two consecutive Jewish holidays (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur), and the NYC WIne...
September 15, 2011
Get Ready For More James And Affinia Hotels, Supposedly
Another day, another dollar. Yesterday, a real estate investment trust called Pebblebrook helped out the Denihan Hospitality Group, (Affinia, James, The Benjamin, The Surrey) by pumping some mega bucks ($910 million to be exact) into six of the Denihan properties. The Benjamin, Affinia Manhattan, , Affinia Shelbourne, , Affinia Dumont,...
June 23, 2011
Where to Spend Some Precious Last Minutes with Flip Cameras
Flip Cameras, we hardly got to spend enough time with you shooting our hotel stays before Cisco decided to shut you down. But if you've never tried a Flip camera before, there's still one place where you can--hotels!At the Affinia 50 Hotel in New York, they are still running...
May 05, 2011
Eat Your Way Through a Cupcake Tour of NYC, Courtesy of Affinia 50
If you love cupcakes so much you want to wear them as a bra like Katy Perry in her "California Gurls" video, head to Affinia 50 for its How Sweet It Is Cupcake Tour. Though you'll likely want to eat the tour cupcakes rather than use them as undergarments....
June 09, 2010
Win Tickets to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (And a Night at The Affinia)
Another day, another Twitter hotel contest. But this is one that could score you major brownie points with the kids. Tomorrow, Affinia Hotels launches a Twitter promotion where the prize is exclusive access to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parde—and an overnight stay at the Affinia Manhattan on Thanksgiving night....
November 17, 2009
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