Ever wonder where that leftover bar of soap goes when you check out of a hotel? Many housekeepers simply throw them away. Not so at the Stonewall Resort in Weston, West Virginia. They're pairing up with the local Weston WalMart and having their leftover soap recycled to make them...
April 29, 2013
We've noticed a few major changes in the New York hotel scene over the past year. First off, prices are higher than ever. This is something that became quite obvious in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, with some hotels last week charging upwards of $300/night last week, even though...
November 09, 2012
Nevermind what the bees are up to on hotel rooftops, we're here to remind you that New York has an abundance (literally) of rooftop spaces built for recreational human endeavors like eating, drinking and sunbathing. One of our favorites, perhaps, is the sun terrace on top of the Peninsula New...
April 18, 2012
Well, now you know where to find us this weekend. We'll most likely be chilling out, cherry pie martini in hand, on the roof of one of our (and Demi Moore's) favorite downtown Manhattan hideouts, The Crosby Street Hotel. Starting on Sunday, visitors can head up to the hotel's outdoor...
March 27, 2012
Believe it or not, the Crosby Street Hotel's screening room once in a while gets used for something other than weekly Sunday night film club gatherings. Like on Monday night, when a glitzier-than-thou crowd showed up for the season premiere of Mad Men, which the rest of us won't get...
March 21, 2012
It's just two weeks now until Valentine's Day and if you haven't made plans with your schmoopie, well then you better get started. We've been inundated with a ton of Valentine's Day hotel deals and promotions and we're trying to keep up with them all. Here are a few...
January 31, 2012
It must be true. Your choice of hotel mirrors your station in life. Take for example this celebrity couple on the brink of divorce. Ashton Kutcher most likely ended his marriage to Demi Moore with a groupie sex fling at at the Hard Rock in San Diego, a notorious...
October 10, 2011
This week's special series is for the people who feel guilty about splurging on their hotel room in NYC and are looking for ways to trim other travel costs, like eating out. Thanks to Brian Silverman, the adventurous eater at Fried Neck Bones, and author of the Frommer's New...
September 20, 2011
HotelChatter Questions: In which, the intrepid HotelChatter editors and our hotel maven readers answer hotel questions that pop into our inbox. Have a question for us? Send it along. Think you have a better answer than we gave, or better yet, want to give a vote of confidence to...
July 27, 2011
For a few days this week, New York was actually feeling pretty pleasant. Blue skies, cool breezes, and plenty of sunshine. But this morning's humidity is just a harbinger of the pit-stain-inducing, ninth-circle-of-hell-reminiscent city heat wave that will soon be upon us. Worry not, HotelChatter is here to help! Here...
June 08, 2011
Mother's Day is this weekend and you need to get her something pronto. Instead of giving her another tchotchke she doesn't need or an impersonal gift card, go all out and treat her to a swanky hotel brunch. Let her feast on everything from eggs Benedict and pancakes to...
May 03, 2011
Kelly Ripa had a bizarre day yesterday. Not only did she find out that her beloved soap All My Children, where she met her hubby and got her start, was canceled, but that a rogue chicken from Crosby Street Hotel escaped and hid out near her home. The hotel...
April 15, 2011
One of our favorite parts of The Crosby Street Hotel is the screening room and little bar downstairs, especially when the events held there are open to the public. We also love books, so we're psyched about the new program launching at the hotel soon: Under The Influence: Writers On...
January 14, 2011
For over six years now, we've been chronicling, photographing and filming the best and the worst in hotels around the world. And now it is time to impart our PH.D-like hotel wisdom on you in rankings form. You wanted the best and you got the best, the hottest hotels...
November 03, 2010
The Sunday Night Film Club has been up and running at The Crosby Street Hotel for awhile now, and as luck would have it, Halloween falls on a Sunday this year. You know what that means: a nightmare on Crosby Street! The Film Club's selection for next Sunday, October 31...
October 22, 2010
In need of a good read this Labor Day Weekend? One of our VIP hotel reviewers (and disclosure, a close friend of HotelChatter), Gabe Rotter has just published his second book, The Human Bobby, and we're geeking out because a big hotel makes an appearance. Since writing about books...
September 01, 2010
Back in February we noted that super stylist Rachel Zoe had moved her Fashion Week HQ to The Crosby Street Hotel (after a brief stint at The Standard earlier in the week.) What we didn't know then was that Bravo! was filming the whole thing for the new season...
August 26, 2010
She's the only Golden Girl we have left, bless her soul, and she's everywhere, from Snickers commercials to SNL and now on TV Land every Wednesday night in her new sitcom, Hot In Cleveland. But what we're wondering is: Can Betty White make Cleveland hot enough for a brand...
July 01, 2010
Whatever the status of relationship with hottie hotelier Andre Balazs may be, it's clear that rocker Courtney Love has not lost her love for the The Mercer Hotel. Stalkerazzi caught her smoking and checking her cell on the hotel's bench in front yesterday. And in a twist, we actually...
June 04, 2010
Hows this for movie night: Alice in Wonderland is double-billed with Bjork in 3D (thats Bjork in 3D) at the Crosby Hotel screening room this weekend. Which is more deliciously weird? Well, well get back to you on that
The Crosbys plush screening room has been attracting celebrities, their...
June 01, 2010
The Hudson Hotel's 'Private Park'. It may not feel like it this week, but Hotel Rooftop season is almost upon us here in NYC. In addition to the usual heavy-hitters in the rooftop bar game (A60, Mad46, and Salon de Ning at the Peninsula), there are plenty of new...
May 12, 2010
Now we're less than a week away from kick off, details of the panels and parties for the Tribeca Film Festival are starting to come together. As you'd expect, most of the action is happening downtown. (We often see crowds of bearded, cool-hatted filmmaker types smoking outside the Tribeca Grand...
April 15, 2010
It's almost that time of year againwhen De Niro's "little" film festival hits downtown New York, and locals complain about how they couldn't get tickets. Again. But enough about the actual movies, what about the hotels? Which ones will be the hotspots of the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival? Oh sure,...
April 02, 2010
Still catching up on all the Oscar movies you didnt see before the big day? If youre in New York, theres a rather civilized way to do this now that the Crosby Street Hotels screening room is open to the public. On Sundays, anyway. The hotels Sunday Night Film Club...
March 25, 2010
Last year when we checked into the Crosby Street Hotel we were charmed by the abundance of dog art. The imposing painting in the Drawing Room, the framed collages on the lobby walls, and the paper mâché doggies posed near that big head sculpture in the front window. (Sidenote:...
February 26, 2010
While many people trample all over it without a second thought, we take hotel carpeting pretty seriously around here. Whether its so offensive we need blackout shades for our eyes, or non-fugly enough for us to include in a pretty little gallery, weve devoted significant time to the topic. So...
February 23, 2010
Bravo reality show star and celeb stylist Rachel Zoe is back in New York City for Fashion Week, and for the third straight season in a row, she's hopped to a new new hotel to set up camp for the week. We learned in the first season of her...
February 09, 2010
The lobby of The Best Western President Hotel in New York. Weve covered a lot of Pink Hotels here at HotelChatter, but Barbies favorite color better watch its back. Theres a hot new hotel hue on the riseand Prince is gonna love it. Thats right, purple is the new...
February 03, 2010
So few images of the creative interior design at the new Crosby Street Hotel in Manhattan have hit the internet, and so last Thursday when we sat in their private screening room for a preview of the movie Sherlock Holmes, thanks to VisitBritain, we made sure to snap some...
December 22, 2009
Snowstorm and canceled flights left you stranded in New York City for the holidays? Avoiding your family? A foreigner? Just hate cooking? Look, we know how it is. We were Christmas orphans just a few years ago, but wound up having a lovely gourmet holiday feast at Town in...
December 21, 2009
With a position right in the heart of SoHo, the question is more like Whats Not on the Block? Seriously, if you love shopping you could barely pick a better-positioned place to stay than the Crosby Street Hotel. Just remember that SoHo starts to feel like a mall on...
December 09, 2009
Now that our breathless anticipation of the Crosby Street Hotel opening is behind us, we move into the next phase of our obsessive property coverage: wondering when the next Firmdale hotel will open its doors here in the U.S. (And, of course, tracking anything new and noteworthy at Crosby...
October 23, 2009
*Update* We have since heard back from Crosby Street's head concierge, who tells us that it is not the hotel's policy to not provide more than one room key. He apologized and said he would make the GM aware of our tipster's experience. As one of the first guests...
October 21, 2009
We hit up the Crosby Street Hotel on Monday night, and you know what that means: the celebrities are never far behind! OK, we'd never seriously say something like that but we suspect celeb guests and swanky events have been on the agenda for SoHos new "it" hotel since...
October 09, 2009
They say good things come to those who wait, right? Well, we were hoping that would be the case with the Crosby Street Hotel. We were trying not to tap our feet too loudly as the opening was delayed, and last night, our patience was rewarded and we were one...
October 06, 2009
We are so close, people. We are almost inside: can you feel the excitement? We're talking, of course, about one of the most anticipated New York hotel openings of the year: The Crosby Street Hotel. In case you haven't been following our coverage of the first Firmdale property in the...
October 01, 2009
As we reported earlier this week, The Crosby Street Hotel opening was delayed due to an electrical problem. Which made us sad. We were so close to being in there we could smell it. But in our holding pattern, waiting for the new opening date, we realized that what...
September 30, 2009
UPDATE: The Crosby Street hotel is putting guests who have reservations up at the Gramercy Park Hotel. No new opening date is set. Monday mornings are already rough, but today we got some news that totally bummed us out: The Crosby Street Hotel is not opening tomorrow, as planned....
September 28, 2009
The kids are back at school, everyones back at work, and the weather is already cool in New York City. Yep, fall is here, alright. But in hotel land this is good news. Great news, in fact. Approximately six hotels are set to open before fall is out with a...
September 08, 2009
We're depressed. Yesterday, we were flying high about the pending opening of the Crosby Street Hotel in New York on September 29th. But today we discovered that rooms will start at a whopping $525 a night for a Superior Room. Spending that much gets you 335-sq.ft of space, a...
September 01, 2009
At the start of the month, we checked in on the Crosby Street Hotel and we were overjoyed to discover that finally, Firmdale Hotels had created a website for their first-ever U.S. hotel in Soho, New York.And today, we see that the opening date of September 29 is in...
August 31, 2009
The Crosby Street Hotel has a website! Oh, glorious day! Not like we were checking every single day or anything, but this afternoon we were pleasantly surprised when the www.crosbystreethotel.com URL took us to a lovely and lively Firmdale page that led us to a purple sphere of wonder...
August 05, 2009
This week we received an email from Firmdale Hotels giving us some more info on their Crosby Street Hotel which is now going to open in March of 2009, not at the end of 2008 as we had first thought.CROSBY STREET HOTEL will be situated in SoHo between Prince, Spring...
May 16, 2008
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