We've just discovered May is National Burger Month, which apparently is different than National Cheeseburger Day, go figure. However, we won't quibble because anything that gives us a chance to sink our teeth into a juicy beefy sandwich (or turkey, or veggie if our pants feel a bit tight)...
May 02, 2013
We've said it many a time, we're a dreamy lot here at HotelChatter, and part of our job is to help you escape daily life with a bit of travel fantasy. Today's enticing entry might be a bit do-able, though, something you could re-create at home! Ok, that's a...
March 15, 2013
In honor of St Patrick's Day coming up this Sunday, we thought we'd take a look back at a few hotels that just can't seem to catch a break. If any leprechauns are reading this right now, take note. You've got your work cut out for you! #7: Le Parker...
March 14, 2013
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
It's beginning to feel a lot like...a tropical Christmas? Hotel delays exasperate us. Booking last-minute hotels sometimes stresses us out. So excuse us while we take a minute and just focus on the one thing that's guaranteed to bring us some joy: big, bright, colorful, and unnecessarily elaborate hotel Christmas...
December 13, 2012
There's tons of New York hotel news flying around this week and we don't have time to give each and every story the love and attention it may deserve, so you will have to settle for some news briefs. · Follow The Rainbow to the Standard Hotel: On Tuesday,...
November 29, 2012
If you had friends or family staying at Le Parker Meridien last night, you may want to give them a call and make sure they didn't end up sleeping in a cave in Central Park. As we predicted yesterday, the hotel was one of the buildings that had to be...
October 30, 2012
Guests dining at the Knave Cafe at the Le Parker Meridien this morning were given quite a show when liquid concrete began pouring into the cafe. Witnesses told The NY Post that the mixture was a foot deep and that it even moved chairs and tables. Apparently, a construction site...
April 18, 2012
There is seemingly no end to wave of Hotel Fitness news these days! Today, we've got word of a cool complex, The Underground, at Le Parker Meridien in New York which encompasses a spa, fitness center, two salons and a healthy cafe. Long known for its delicious Norma's restaurant, secret...
March 20, 2012
Our hot chocolate at Stumptown Despite all the weird weather of late, it's finally cold enough in New York City to warrant sitting down and ordering a hot chocolate. Luckily for you, we're kind of pros at this, as we frequently turn the cafes of NYC hotels into our makeshift...
December 13, 2011
Next time we need help achieving that state of zen, we'll be turning to Le Parker Meridien. No one is apparently more mellowed out than Fitness and Sales Director Craig Rogers, who has recently been learning meditation techniques from his psychic, Linda Lauren. Lauren (whose clairvoyant hands are pictured above)...
November 11, 2011
You probably won't be watching Laurel and Hardy It's the grossest hotel promo of the monthor so we hope! In a collab with Urban Daddy, Midtown Manhattan's Le Parker Meridien is offering an "afternoon tryst" package for adulterers, office Casanovas, and assorted other bros who don't find the idea...
February 08, 2011
Hotels are getting in a holiday mood! Usually around this time, we spotlight all the delicious holiday cocktails that hotels concoct for the season. Don't worry, we're not giving up the booze but we are keeping tabs on all the wonderful, wild, and in some cases, weird Holiday Hotel...
November 18, 2010
We were just about to leave last Friday for the holiday weekend when one of our Twitter followers @MychaelS alerted us to a tweet from @DavidFaustino aka Bud Bundy from "Married with Children" who was extremely upset with the service at the Le Parker Meridien in New York. His...
April 05, 2010
Here we go again: the owners of the Hotel Pennsylvania have the wrecking ball poised and ready to fly. Yes, weve heard this song before (you can catch up here and here), but the folks at Curbed wonder if this time they might actually mean it, since the proposed office...
February 11, 2010
Yes, once again it's time for our annual list of Best Hotels For Watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This is our fourth installment and while last year's choices and anything in the vicinity of Times Square still holds true, we decided to do away with the old and...
November 02, 2009
We have some news: Le Parker Meridien in New York home of the fabulous cheeseburgers and a lovely shaving shop has gotten some renovations. They're not, like, epic or anything, but the property has gotten some necessary tweakage. Here's what we're looking at: custom-designed bed wraps (they...
July 28, 2009
Hey! For once, we have a report of some positive(ish) happenings at The Jane! Well, kinda: there was a party there full of celebs that seems to have concluded without incident. The movie Away We Go (a promising-looking Garden State-esque film starring the can-do-no-wrong John Krasinski) had its premiere...
June 05, 2009
Possibly nothing is sweeter than checking into a fancy-schmancy hotel and finding out its secrets. Hopefully these secrets include at least one of three things: a guests-only roof deck, access to a glassed-in lap pool, and/or a hidden restaurant. Figuring that it's been a while since we last waxed...
April 03, 2009
Our personal-image-savvy friends over at Racked NY have announced the arrival of a new face onto the swanky hotel barbershop scene: Le Parker Meridien. New York Shaving Company has put its second outpost in the lobby of the midtown hotel, offering men's services and upscale shaving gear to purchase....
January 14, 2009
New Yorkers (or New York tourists): Winter Restaurant Week is upon us. During this magical time which runs January 18-23 and 25-30 over 250 NYC restaurants offer fixed-price lunches for $24.07 and dinners for $35.00. Reservations opened up today, and for the first time ever, some participating...
January 05, 2009
Welcome to Room Rate Drop Watch where we chronicle the plummeting prices at hotels that once commanded top dollar rates. These are often found in big cities with seemingly more hotel rooms than visitors like Las Vegas. But sometimes you can get lucky in the city of your choice. Seen...
November 26, 2008
There's tons of hotel news flying around this week and we don't have time to give each and every story the love and attention it may deserve, so you will have to settle for some news briefs. · Oops, LHW! Can We Try Again?: After the Leading Hotels of the...
October 01, 2008
[Photo: Slice]BLT Burger has just opened inside of the Mirage in Las Vegas and we're already drooling. The all-burger dining experience comes from Chef Laurent Tourondel, he of the BLT Steak and BLT Market fame and here's a taste of what you can expect: Specialty burgers include the Tex-Mex, a...
July 17, 2008
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face,...
May 22, 2008
We're starting to think there is very little that the Nintendo Wii gaming system can't do. Recently, the Le Parker Meridien in New York introduced the Wii Workout at their gravity fitness and spa. The workout takes place inside the center's racquetball courts where the Wii workout is projected off...
March 31, 2008
HotelChatter's newest contributing editor NatalieWW knows a thing or two (or more) about kids and traveling with 'em. Here she lists her fave fam-friendly spots for New York City.Last September I found myself in the Big Apple with my 13-year-old daughter (see avatar), and lemme tell you -- the place...
January 15, 2008
· Hotel Animals: We know that the Hilton Waikoloa has a yet-to-be-named baby dolphin in its care but let's not forget the little Sgt. Pepper, born in July, in the Mirage's dolphin habitat.· Jock Jam Hotels: A shooting goes down outside the Conrad Hotel in Indianapolis. Word is Pacers b-baller...
December 10, 2007
By the end of this month, Le Parker Meridien will give up its monopoly on cult-favorite burgers. Manhattan's first Five Guys is set to open just down the block from The Shoreham, giving guests who don't want to sit in the hotel's frou-frou bar a convenient down-home dining option. While...
October 25, 2007
NY Mag did an article the other week about pool crashing in New York. There aren't many hotel pools in Manhattan, but the mag's Elizabeth Cline investigated what was available including the Hotel Gansevoort, The Mandarin Oriental, Hotel QT and even the Holiday Inn on 57th Street.Since the story was...
July 16, 2007
A few years back, the big NYC hotel secret was the Burger Place in the Le Parker Meridien Hotel in Midtown. Back then, we gave you a little map to help you navigate your way to this little hamburger heaven.Well, folks it's 2007 and the place still seems to be...
February 27, 2007
[via Curbed] Blogger Manhattan transfer points us to a top-secret greasy burger joint deep inside the swank Parker Meridian. Sounds like a classic juxtaposition. Here is the map: The Burger Place is hidden in the lobby of New York's Parker Meridien. To get there you enter through the...
December 01, 2004
Looking for a stylish retreat in NY while traveling on business or pleasure? This is it... ...
October 30, 2003