Don't skip the homemade pasta at Ai Fiori. Carbs be damned. We always find it amusing New York Restaurant Week falls just a few weeks after the new year, when those plum hotel restaurants we've been dying to try, drop their prices for 20 whole days of diet-busting deliciousness....
January 14, 2013
Listen, we dodged that whole Doomsday thang (though we are Girl and Boy Scouts of preparedness, nonetheless), so lets try and celebrate some good times, shall we?) Weve clued you in on some Choice New Years Eve parties being held at hotels across the world. So, we hope you've...
December 27, 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
Less than a year after the hotel opened and just a week after the ball dropped in Times Square, a horrifying and bizarre murder took place in one of the guest rooms at the InterContinental Times Square on Friday night.Portuguese fashion journalist, Carlos Castro, 65, was beaten to death...
January 10, 2011
Last week, we took a peek at The Chatwal New York's Stanford White Studio and today we head west along 44th Street to the also-still-pretty-new InterContinental Times Square to daydream about swanning about in the Presidential Suite. After seeing this shot of the master bath's freestanding tub, we think we...
September 21, 2010
All summer long, we trekked the streets of Manhattan, checking out the never-ending parade of new hotels. Now we want to hear from you. Which of New York's newest hotels do you most want to check into? We'll provide a little refresher course (y'know, in case you've missed the latest...
September 08, 2010
Don't look now, but it's your nutritionist-recommended weekly dose of Todd English! Last week we told you that Todd's newest hotel restaurant, Ça Va at the InterContinental Times Square was not quite ready to open along with the rooms upstairs. But it now looks like you can get a taste...
July 21, 2010
Oh, what people will do for a burger. This was the scene yesterday outside the brand spankin' new InterContinental Times Square. But these folks weren't waiting on line to book a room at the hotelthey were hungry for a Shake Shack burger. The latest outpost of the cult burger chain...
July 13, 2010
Today's the day! InterContinental Times Square is flinging its doors open to all the curiosity seekers in Times Square. But if you were willing to pony up $300 for a room, you will have to wait a while. The hotel is apparently booked for the rest of the month,...
July 12, 2010
The world's gone iPad mad, kids can't stop sexting, and no one answers their phone anymore. Welcome to the geeked-out world of 2010. Of course, we love our hotels to be just as techy as the rest of our lives, and lots of them now offer iPads and other...
June 30, 2010
We're just over two weeks away from the opening of the first hotel in our Sexy Six Listand we were getting curious about how things were lookin'. So yesterday we had a peek inside the InterContinental Times Square to bring you this first look at the guest rooms. The lobby,...
June 24, 2010
We've been keeping tabs on Hotel Openings all year long but there's no denying that all the heat this summer is coming out of New York. Six sexy new boutique hotels will open before Labor Day and they are all fighting for your affection. Well, some are playing hard...
June 22, 2010
This summer is chockablock with New York Hotel Openings and one of the biggest is fast approaching. As we told you recently, the InterContinental Times Square opens on July 12, and we've since learned that the deadline for booking the Opening Rate Special25% off the best available ratehas been extended...
June 21, 2010
Ladies and Gentlemen, we now have a grand opening date for the InterContinental New York Times Square--JULY 12.According to this press release, the hotel is offering a special grand opening rate of 25 percent off stays from July 12-September 8. When we hit up the website, we were stoked...
June 01, 2010
When it comes to the TV in your hotel room, does size matter? While we're much more interested in how fast (and how free!) our in-room WiFi is, we bet there are plenty of travelers who prize a huge TV screen. (And during football season, at least, we'd be...
May 03, 2010
Hip, downtown boutique hotels get us all sorts of excited, especially when they're brand new. But sometimes all we want is a little reliability. So when we first saw this preview of the InterContinental Times Square lobby, were we blown away? No. Were we happy that it looks kinda like...
April 21, 2010
Youll have to forgive us for not talking about this before, but can you blame us? What with his newest Vegas restaurant, the food court at The Plaza, his Great Jones Hotel project, and that ill-fated wedding last fall, we thought ubiquito-chef Todd English must have his hands full. Silly...
March 31, 2010
Isn't it nice when your voices are heard by hotels? Not long ago we told you about the Facebook poll the new InterContinental New York Times Square was running to find out which brand would earn the privilege of lathering up their guests. As it turns out, the majority...
March 16, 2010
The envelope, please! As we prepare for the Oscars this Sunday, another race is underway in hotel land. That for the coveted spot as the chosen bath amenity brand for the new InterContinental New York Times Square. Earlier this week, we noticed that the hotel had turned to the...
March 05, 2010
Times Square is always a hive of activity, but lately there's been a whole lotta work going on high above the neon and the tourists, too. Case in point, the construction on the InterContinental Times Square. The hotel is still hammering and drilling and sanding away its new home...
February 15, 2010
Often in New York City hotels, views are non-existent, or theyre of the poor suckers in the apartment building across the street. So when we get a chance to gaze out across the cityor even New Jersey!we are much happier campers. Which is why we were thrilled to see...
November 17, 2009
Oh, good. Another big-brand hotel is opening up as a tourist HQ in Times Square (do we sound like real New Yorkers yet? No? Okay.) A sharp tipster was cruising around the IHG site recently and came across this: some specs on the upcoming InterContinental Times Square, opening up...
July 13, 2009