Dream South Beach
Vikram Chatwal's long-awaited Miami hotel. In fact, we're still awaiting it. Supposedly it will debut in Fall 2010.
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Hotel Coverage: Dream South Beach
Dream South Beach's Serafina Has a Secret Ingredient
We already told you about the arrival of Serafina, the new Italian restaurant at the Dream South Beach. But what we've since learned is that Serafina has something pretty special going for it something few Miami hotel restaurants get right, including the two chefs who struggled to get...
January 02, 2013
New Serafina Restaurant Is A "Dream" For South Beach
When restaurateurs and founders of Serafina Restaurant Group Vittorio Assaf and Fabio Granato were lost at sea, the friends made a promise to one another that if they eventually saw land they would open the best pizza and pasta restaurant they could think of. Years later, theyve launched close...
December 19, 2012
Last-Minute Art Basel Miami: Using HotelTonight to Score a Dream
If you want to talk about high hotel rates, let's talk Art Basel Miami Beach. The annual contemporary art eventwhich encompasses several art fairs, art installations around the city, and a gajillion partiesbrings in the big spenders and the struggling creatives alike for four days of fun in the...
December 07, 2012
Weeknight Rooms At Dream South Beach Going For $200, Chocolate Covered Strawberries Extra
Starting on June 1, Miami visitors can try out a King room at Dream South Beach, which is now in its second year, for $199/night, which is slightly higher than last year's opening rate of $149/night. But we're going to assume that after a year, they've had time to tidy...
May 04, 2012
HotelTonight Has 'Suite Heart' Hotel Deals for Tonight's Last-Minute Lovers
The window is fast closing on ways to impress your lover today on Valentine's Day but you won't have to settle for downing a love potion at the hotel bar. Thanks to the last-minute hotel booking app, HotelTonight, you can actually stay inside a hotel--in a suite--tonight. And you...
February 14, 2012
How to Stay at The 10 Best Hotels in Miami for Less (Big Hint: Go Offseason)
Everyone loves Miami (except maybe Cleveland Cavaliers fans) but not everyone can do it up J.Lo style paying $1,000 a night without a glance inside their Fendi wallets. So there's only one way to do it--go in the offseason which is conveniently happening now. We found totally doable rates...
August 02, 2011
Pickle Me This: We Try Dinner at Dream SoBe's Tudor House
Now that Dream South Beach is officially open--fire-eaters and Nicky Hilton at the party officially open--we decided to stop in at the hotel's restaurant, Tudor House, to sample Geoffrey Zakarian's menu. The first thing we devoured, though, was the decor. We're big fans of the Art Deco period--which is one...
July 25, 2011
Dream South Beach's Water Feature... Er, Pool Is Now Open
The Dream Downtown may be snagging all the buzz up north, but down in Miami, Dream South Beach continues to roll out new features, too. While its fellow newbie around the corner, Hotel Breakwater, has to wait until the end of August to get guests wet, Dream's rooftop pool is...
July 19, 2011
Dream South Beach is Open and Tudor House is Serving Breakfast
A sneaky snapshot of Tudor House, still in the works in MayHow long have we been waiting to say this: the Dream has come true in South Beach! Yes, Dream South Beach is open and it's already getting some stellar reviews on TripAdvisor. But, this being Hotel Land, the dream...
June 15, 2011
Live The Dream South Beach For Just $149 a Night
No, it's not a dream ... and yet it is. Dream South Beach is almost here! While the official opening date for the looooong-awaited hotel seems to be June 2, we are now seeing signs that we can get our Dream on even earlier. Sign one: over at the Facebook...
May 20, 2011
It Wasn't Just a Dream: The Dream South Beach to Finally Open on June 1
The Dream South Beach, formerly The Tudor, as it looked in March.So that April 1 opening date for the Dream South Beach was definitely a joke but now there's another new date for our dream to come true--June 2.A "hotel girl" tipped us off to the June opening date...
May 02, 2011
Geoffrey Zakarian Will Be Cooking Up a Dream in South Beach After All
Oh, Dream South Beach, you do love to torture us so. While we weren't quite foolish enough to believe that last April 1 target opening date, we were believing those rumors that busy chef Geoffrey Zakarian was no longer part of the project. The man is pretty busy running the...
April 19, 2011
Could the Dream South Beach Be Opening April 1st, or is This a Foolish Thought?
Ooh la la, would you look who's stripping off and unveiling themselves to the world? Well, almost. Yes, this is what the Dream South Beach looks like behind that scaffolding that, until recently, still declared the hotel was opening in 2008. But when is the long-awaited hotel opening its doors?...
March 25, 2011
The Night Now Belongs to Wyndham as Does The Dream
Some rather surprising news came across the wire yesterday afternoon---Wyndham Hotels announced that they would now be managing and franchising the Dream Hotels and the Night Hotels brands from Chatwal Hotels and Resorts. That's right, Vikram Chatwal's boutique hotel brands now belong to Wyndham. Vik is nowhere to be...
January 21, 2011
Dream Analysis Time: What's The Latest On Dream South Beach And Dream Downtown?
It's Monday morning--what better time to try and translate your Dreams into real-life hotel bookability? That's what we're doing today, as we check in on Vikram Chatwal's upcoming hotels, Dream South Beach and Dream Downtown in New York. We've been tracking both properties for awhile now, and were hoping that...
November 15, 2010
Proof That Progress Is Afoot With The Second Half Of Dream South Beach
Yesterday we took you inside one half of what will eventually become Dream South Beach--the Palmer House building, currently operating as its own little hotel. But look, there is work going on over at the Tudor Hotel portion of the Dream! We can also tell you that both days we...
September 24, 2010
We Live Out One Half Of The South Beach Dream At Palmer House
We don't usually skip ahead when we watch DVDs but when it comes to hotels, we're impatient. That's why we couldn't wait for the completion of Dream South Beach and decided to check into Palmer House earlier this week. (Yes, a handful of our readers were on target: this...
September 23, 2010
Liked The Chatwal? You Can Expect More of Them in The Future
Vikram Chatwal lives! The WSJ has an in-depth look at the hotel business of Vik and his father, Sant Singh Chatwal, who just opened his Chatwal Hotel the other week. You can see our tours of the hotel here and here. From the article, we learn some rather interesting...
August 30, 2010
Fans are Keeping The Dream Alive in SoBe
A half-Dream. We've been a bit exasperated by the deferred Dream South Beach and the other week when a Twitter follower sent us a Twitpic of the hotel's seemingly slow-going construction, we were disappointed to say the least. (Remember, this hotel is only half-opened right now as The Palmer House.)...
August 20, 2010
The Dream South Beach Says Late 2010 But That Could Just Be a Dream
A Twitter follower of ours sent us this recent snap of The Dream South Beach and as you can see, it's a looooong ways away from opening.Back in May, we cleared up exactly what was happening with this nightmare, er, Dream. Half of the hotel has reopened as The Palmer...
August 11, 2010
Palmer House South Beach Is Now Open, From $109 a night
It may not be the real Dream South Beach yet'Day Dream South Beach,' perhaps?but the first half of the Vikram Chatwal Hotels project is up and running under the name Palmer Houseand it sounds like a pretty good deal. With the hotel's Grand Opening Special, a standard room with...
June 17, 2010
Dream SoBe Interpretation: Hotel Will Open Rooms Soon, But it's Not a Dream
Yesterday we asked the question: Will Dream South Beach really open in the fall? After all, it's hard to tell with the Tudor Hotel half of the project still covered up and under construction. But those idle thoughts we had about the possibility of the Palmer House section of the...
May 25, 2010
Will Dream South Beach Really Open in the Fall?
If you're sick of talking about the Lost finale, and need another mystery to ponderone also set in a tropical paradisetry this on for size. Look at this photo above and tell us: Do you think the Dream South Beach will open on schedule in the fall? We have a...
May 24, 2010
Vikram's Dream South Beach To Come True in Early 2010
UPDATE: We have some renderings after the jump.The Dream South Beach in late July 2009. We know, we know. The Dream South Beach has said they would be opening several times before. But this time, we think they really mean it. A rep for Chatwal hotels has told us that...
September 15, 2009
Vikram Chatwal's Bad 'Dream' Continues in South Beach
Back in February, we did a drive-by of the South Beach site of Vikram Chatwal's Dream Hotel in Miami. Back then, the signs plastered over the construction said "Coming 2008." We chuckled. Six months laterguess what? Yup, this is what it looks like now.We'd make a joke here about playing...
August 14, 2009
South Beach's 'Dream' Will Become a Reality on Labor Day
Dream SoBe, in February 2009. 'Twas when we were in Miami earlier this year when we first heard news of Vikram Chatwal's plan to take his Dream Hotel to South Beach in fact, we drove past the hotel itself, which is going to be the result of renovations of...
May 26, 2009
Vikram Chatwal Taking His 'Dream' to South Beach
Earlier this week, we did a drive-by of Miami Hotels and in our short report, we had you guess the hotelier and sometime movie actor who was planning a joint for South Beach. And really, you dear readers make us so proud. While a couple of you guessed Trump,...
February 27, 2009
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