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Jammin' with Bon Jovi at JW Marriott Essex House
Last night guests who came to celebrate the official re-opening of Manhattan's legendary Essex House into the JW Marriott Essex House, was treated to another classic treat--the musical stylings of Jon Bon Jovi! The rock legend told the crowd he'd stayed at the hotel "many, many times" (though we...
May 01, 2013
Last-Minute Hotels Along The Thanksgiving Parade's New Route
We hope you remembered back in the Spring when we told you the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade route would change this year and booked your hotel stay accordingly. However, Hurricane Sandy and early snowfall in parts of the country has caused cancelled travel into the city, so some late birds...
November 21, 2012
Essex House And Marriott Are Finally Back In Each Other's Loving Arms
They say history has a way of repeating itself. And apparently, so do hotels, because Jumeirah Essex House is set to become a Marriott once more, after previously flying the Marriott flag between 1969 and 1985. The hotel has been on the market since March, with plenty of people speculating...
August 22, 2012
Golf in the Desert or a Stay By the Bay Are All Options Thanks to These Hotel Deals
Deals: you want 'em, and surprisingly, everyone has 'em. Take a look at some of the latest hotel deals going around the internet today from booking sites, social media sites, flash sale sites and more. Don't forget to scroll down to see the HotelChatter-approved deal either. Who knows? You...
July 10, 2012
Ch-Ch-Changes Abound for NYC-Area Hotels
There's never any shortage of gossip in the hotel world and we do our best to keep up with all of it. Here's the latest odds and ends we've heard recently, all concerning NYC-area hotels. Got your own to add? Send it our way!· Hotel Indigo Takes Over Hotel 718:...
July 09, 2012
What's Inside The Mystery Art Deco Chamber At Jumeirah Essex House?
When we slipped in through the back entrance of the Jumeirah Essex House last week, we hardly were expecting to stumble upon a mini treasure trove of an art collection. In fact, we were actually just looking to use the bathroom. But a pair of heavily gilded double doors proved...
April 05, 2012
Choco-holics, Stay Away From The Jumeirah Essex House This Christmas
This is the kind of Christmas tree that you do not want to have around the house—because if you did, you'd just end up eating it. Luckily, this 10-foot-tall beauty, made entirely of chocolate (white, dark, milk, fondant, you name it, it's on there), is on view inside the Jumeirah...
December 15, 2011
'Golden Voice' Ted Williams Already Shacking Up in Luxury NYC Hotels
If you haven't watched/heard of the story about Ted Williams, the man with the "Golden Voice", you must must must must watch this video here.* Then follow that up with this update on how his life has changed since being "discovered" including an appearance on the Today Show, a...
January 07, 2011
Now That HotelTonight is Live, What Kind of Deals Does it Have?
The other week we speculated about a new mobile booking site to enter the ever-crowded hotel booking market called HotelTonight. Well, just in time for your last-minute panic attacks about getting a hotel room for New Year's Eve, the site has officially launched. (But since it's a mobile booking...
December 21, 2010
Hotel Gingerbread Houses We'd Like To Nom On
Hotels are getting in a holiday mood! You've no doubt noticed that we've already been cataloging some of the best Holiday Hotel Decorations from around the world, including elaborate Hotel Christmas Trees. Now we're onto Hotel Gingerbread Houses! Seen some of these delicious looking structures in a hotel lobby...
December 16, 2010
Have A Holiday Cocktail At Jumeirah Essex House For $10 This Friday
Here's a holiday riddle for you: When do we love a holiday cocktail more than ever before? When it's a mere ten bucks! OK, so that wasn't really a riddle but it is almost unheard of for a fancy hotel to offer specialty cocktails for less than $15. Which...
December 15, 2010
A Shocking Murder at the Jumeirah Essex House
A sad and ugly truth about hotels is that they are often unwilling hosts to murder scenes. But the murder of a woman at the posh Jumeirah Essex House hotel off Central Park over the weekend has us rattled because the hotel's housekeeping chief has been charged with the...
September 21, 2009
Jumeirah Essex House Celebrates The U.S. Open With The Honey Deuce
We've kicked off our Summer Cocktails series where we profile fun new summer drinks that hotels are making. Got one we should know about? Send us the recipe with a photo of the drink. Otherwise, enjoy and @reply us when you're wasted! With the U.S. Open coming up, the...
August 24, 2009
It's OK To Be a Gold Digger at the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel
Apparently, gold is making a comeback during this recession and there are several interesting ways to get your hands, or face, on it. You could spend your summer vacation mining for gold in various wilderness spots in the U.S. or you could buy a brick of gold on your way...
June 26, 2009
Essex House Workers Stage Protest During Sean Penn's Movie Shoot
Well, this is sort of awkward timing for everyone: yesterday, workers at the Jumeirah Essex House on Central Park South (non-front-deskers, that is) staged a protest to call attention to "what they said was the hotel's failure to pay its banquet-room staff nearly $2 million in tips." According to...
May 13, 2009
What Will Be the Next Hot Fashion Week Hotel for NYC?
Oh noes! New York's posh party in the park, better known as Bryant Park Fashion Week, has reached the end of its lease on the and has to pick up and move from the park beginning from fall 2009. The move to a new space was just finalized, and...
February 04, 2009
Jumeirah Invites You to Taste the Gold Life
The Jumeirah Essex House Jumeirah Hotels — the folks behind the ultra-luxe Essex House and over-the-top properties like the Burj Al Arab — have launched a global promo called "The Gold Life," which, naturally, leaves visions of Kanye jamming to "The Good Life" in our heads. Speaking of Kanye, we...
February 03, 2009
Alight at the Jumeriah Essex House for a Classy Affair
If partying with Perez Hilton at the Gansevoort Hotels this New Year's Eve doesn't seem like your cup of tea, nor does staying in a cheap hotel room in Newark (as one press release recently advised New Year's Eve revelers to do) then head uptown to Jumeriah Essex House...
December 23, 2008
NYC's Hottest Hotel Dining Strip?
Just yesterday, we were saying that the restaurant at Six Columbus sits in the middle of a "culinary wasteland." We should've turned our eyes a little east of Columbus Circle. Two hotels along Central Park South have opened fancy new restaurants, and a third, in The Plaza's Oak Room, will...
March 07, 2008
Best Manhattan Hotels For Over $250
We told you about NYC hotel rooms for under $250, so now it is time to check out where the high rollers stay. Michelin's New York City Red Guide lists 7 newly appointed 5-star hotels in NYC: · Essex House · Four Seasons New York · Mandarin Oriental · The Peninsula · Ritz Carlton...
December 13, 2005
TomKat Continues to Annoy NY Hotel Guests
We can't believe it either but yes, people are still writing about how annoying and fake Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are. The latest comes from the New York Post. When the couple hit up NYC for the War of the Worlds premiere, they booked a suite at the...
July 05, 2005
Partner Reviews: JW Marriott Essex House New York
foursquareIDFresh and hip
Essex house has a unique style to it, and at atmosphere that just screams artsy fun. They have a very friendly and professional staff that i...
A little disappointed
If not for the view, I would have been exteremly disappointed in our hotel choice. We had the perfect view of Central Park, but our room wa...
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