Sleep Week continues!Yesterday, we looked at some of the things you hotel guests do to send yourself off to dreamland in a strange new hotel bed. And not surprisingly, a lot of you said the most crucial part of your sleep routine was the comfiness of the bed--in that...
July 06, 2011
Pacific Edge Hotel Break out your best Lauren Alaina voice and you could win something big at several Joie de Vivre hotels. Okay, so you won't be crowned the next American Idol and have the satisfaction of beating shoulda-been-eliminated-long-ago Scotty McCreery in the battle of the teenage country crooners,...
May 25, 2011
Now that the boring Grammys are over, it means the mother of all award shows is coming, the Oscars. If you film and fashion buffs plan on attending the 83rd annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre to see the stars in person, you better reserve a hotel now,...
February 14, 2011
If you're starting to do some Southern California dreaming as the chilly weather settles in, JDV Hotels is offering a deal that could get you up to 40 percent off of a stay at one of its properties. The Southern California Dreamin' Passport gives you incremental savings for each...
October 29, 2010
But don't worry, it was just for a music video. American Idol runner-up, Glambert, and friends hit up a room at the Hotel Angeleno to film a promotional spot for Vevo, a new music video website that launched last month. The video intersperses shots of the hotel with Glambert and...
January 18, 2010
Thompson Beverly Hills rooftop pool and lounge: Still just a rendering.Los Angeles doesn't need rooftop bars as much as Manhattan does because well duh! It's the land of the sprawl out here. Also, it's warmer most of the year (double duh!) and pools are about as de rigueur as nose...
May 21, 2008
After a successful opening of Hotel Angeleno in Los Angeles, JDV Hospitality is in talks to open up two more Southern California properties.[T]he new properties are the Strand, in Huntington Beach (Orange County), a 149-room four-star hotel scheduled to open in early 2008; and the Redondo Beach, in Redondo Beach...
July 27, 2006
HotelChatter Hollywood Star MapWe've added the Hotel Angeleno to our Hollywood Star Map as stop #14, thanks to the celeb attendees like Justine Bateman, Gabrielle Carteris, Jenny McCarthy and Allison Janney. Of course we would have preferred some more scandalous personalities like Lohan, Simpson, or Hilton but beggars can't be...
June 13, 2006
With all the tequila tasting that went on the other night at the Hotel Angeleno opening party, it's amazing that we remembered to actually check-out the rooms in this joint.We already got a sneak peek at the place the other month, and we were pretty impressed. This time, we took...
June 09, 2006
HotelChatter Exclusive :: Opening Party Coverage Last night was the official opening for the Hotel Angeleno and HotelChatter has the official Party Dispatch on what happened, who was there and what tequila tastes the best. The hotel has been taking guests since March but the finishing touches like the...
June 08, 2006
Hotel Angeleno is open! We headed over there to check on the status of construction and instead of men on scaffolding, we saw actual business travelers walking through front doors held by doormen. The valet men were busy taking and parking cars and when we peeked beyond the doors we...
March 09, 2006
Joie de Vivre's Chip Conley has been snooping around Sacramento for a place to give birth to another hotel and he may have found it with the historic 926 J Street in California's capital.The Sacramento Bee reported that Conley is trying to work out a sale with the city for...
February 17, 2006
The Kimpton Hotels Group has just announced that they will be opening up a new boutique hotel in Los Angeles by renovating the existing Doubletree Hotel in Westwood, along the Wilshire corridor.Spinning off the company's San Fran Hotel Palomar, the new addition to the family shall be called Hotel Palomar...
February 15, 2006
Yesterday, we took these photos of the new Joie De Vivre property, Hotel Angeleno, which was scheduled to open early this month. Though we didn't check out the inside, our guess would be that Angeleno saw its shadow yesterday and may not be open for another six weeks or so.The...
February 03, 2006
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