We've already told you about the new gluten-free menus at Casa del Mar in Santa Monica, Calif. but we nearly forgot the most important part--gluten-free cocktails!Regardless of where you stand on the gluten-free trend (silly or imperative), these gluten-free drinks are delicious. Even better, they are wheeled around on...
August 29, 2011
Hotel restaurants are getting savvy about catering to their diners palates. Several spots started offering vegan fare and now the Hotel Casa del Mar is going gluten-free on one of its menus. (But they aren't the first. Fairmont Hotels also made a similar move back in January and Vegas...
June 23, 2011
Let's not call this an accident waiting to happen Another day, another hotel finding another way to make use of its iPads. This time its the Hotel Casa del Mar in Santa Monica, which has been trumpeting its tech-savvy over the past week. First, it was its display of...
February 10, 2011
If you're walking through the Hotel Casa del Mar in Santa Monica, you may do a double take when you see canvases of screen shots from websites like Google and Facebook. Artist Ken Solomon uses social media and other websites as inspiration for his paintings, drawings and videos. He...
February 04, 2011
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
These days we've been noticing that hotels are trying to make our stays feel more like home. That's why we rarely see a hotel room without a flat-screen TV, an iPod dock, a stack of pillows on the bed and "home-like" decor. But doesn't that seem kind of crazy? Who...
August 24, 2010
What kind of car a hotel drives really shouldn't influence your stay (after all, this isn't a high school boyfriend you're deciding on) but when that hotel ride is a new 2011 Jaguar XJ, it's very hard not to be tempted by superficial desires. ETC Hotels, which include Casa...
August 17, 2010
How close you are to the beach at Casa del Mar.Looks like The Standard NYC isn't the only hotel interested in going "private." The Hotel Casa del Mar, a luxury beachfront hotel in Santa Monica, has just announced their own private club membership that gives guests year-round access to...
July 15, 2010
It had to be Katie Price aka Jordan, the British version of Pamela Anderson with a bit of Britney in her crazy phase thrown in. The celebrity whose famous for being famous showed up at the esteemed Chateau Marmont last night to have dinner with some friends. We must...
March 05, 2010
We often forget about Casa Del Mar, located on the beach in Santa Monica. That's probably because we're too busy focusing on the celebrity sightings at the valet at Shutters on the Beach or the tequila tasting that goes on at the party-centric Viceroy Hotel.However last Saturday, we remembered...
July 31, 2009
This is for a good cause 100% of the proceeds from this package are going to Musicians On Call ("a nonprofit organization that brings the healing power of music to patients in healthcare facilities") so we're not going to hate on this despite the way some of...
December 10, 2008
Page Six has the scoop on a new article from Rolling Stone about a high-end call girl service that once sent pretty girls to allegedly "work with" Charlie Sheen at a hotel in Santa Monica last year.Sheen's rep told the gossip column, "This is an old, old, old story."...
May 01, 2008
Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica just got a whole lot swankier. The luxury beach hotel is now offering Ballroom Dancing by the Sea every third Sunday of the month, starting June 4. Best of all, it's free. From 6pm to 10pm, dancers can twirl about the 1920's era ballroom...
May 16, 2006
Shutters on the Beach has jumped on the Willy Wonka PR train by hiding five blue tickets in its new Sunset Chocolate Bar. If you find one of these blue tickets you will win one free weekend stay at the participating hotel of your choice. The chocolate bars are...
August 08, 2005
Just found out Hotel Casa Del Mar offers some sort of <a href="http://www.hotelcasadelmar.com/specials.cfm#romance ">Segway package. Yup, that's right for ~$520! a night you get a room, spa treatment, a complimentary in-room movies, AND a Segway. Hmm. Looks like you only get to use the Segway for two hours. Doesn't...
February 22, 2005
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