New York is a fast-moving place. People are on the go. Neighborhoods get gentrified. And hotels don't just sit around either. This month, the 210-room Stay Hotel in Times Square got bored and decided to reinvent itself with a new name: Night Hotel Times Square. This makes it the second...
March 18, 2013
The other week we checked out, CheckYourRoom.com which allows you to pick your hotel based on a personality quiz. It was a novel idea, perfect for people who know they want to get away but don't know to where. But if you're already bored of personality quizes, we've now...
May 12, 2011
Some rather surprising news came across the wire yesterday afternoon---Wyndham Hotels announced that they would now be managing and franchising the Dream Hotels and the Night Hotels brands from Chatwal Hotels and Resorts. That's right, Vikram Chatwal's boutique hotel brands now belong to Wyndham. Vik is nowhere to be...
January 21, 2011
Vikram Chatwal lives! The WSJ has an in-depth look at the hotel business of Vik and his father, Sant Singh Chatwal, who just opened his Chatwal Hotel the other week. You can see our tours of the hotel here and here. From the article, we learn some rather interesting...
August 30, 2010
First came the Alice in Wonderland tea parties, now come the Alice in Wonderland hotel packages. The Night and The Dream hotels in New York are the perfect sort of hotels for an Alice package--one hotel makes you sleepy (Dream), one hotel wakes you up (Night.) Or as the...
March 04, 2010
As regular HotelChatter readers know, weve been salivating for newsany scrap of detail we can geton the upcoming opening of The Chatwal New York. Weve seen glimpses of whats to come on the hotels website, but now the propertys PR folks have some more bite-sized hints to feed us....
October 08, 2009
A couple approaches the concierge of Night Hotel looking for Broadway tickets for the following night. The conversation went something like this: Couple Guy: We want to see Billy Elliott tomorrow night. Concierge: That show is sold out. I can get you tickets, but they will be over $200...
August 20, 2009
· The Gramercy Park Hotel: Ian Schrager's baby opened its game-changing doors almost three years ago and back then we stayed at the hotel for an introductory rate of $250 a night. That shortly went up to $500+ a night during the boomtime of the hospitality and travel industry. But...
March 05, 2009
"Lucky You," Manhattanites. During September 5-10 you may just find your cab fare paid if your taxi has these words emblazoned on the side. Cole Haan, an American brand known for their quality leather shoes and bags, celebrates their 80th Anniversary on September 5, coinciding with Fashion Week in New...
August 28, 2008
If you find yourself in New York City this summer with a need to stay near Times Square and without any desire to bask in the glow of the city lights (or you're just a hip and trendy jet-setting vampire), take a look at Vikram Chatwal's Night Hotel. Situated...
June 03, 2008
Women's Wear Daily, the daily fashion industry staple, reports that Fall Our Boy bassist/lyricist and Ashlee Simpson fiancee/baby daddy was in New York last week to show off his latest Clandestine Industries clothing collection.Yep, this rocker has a fashion line of junior and men's apparel. Wentz apparently previewed the clothes...
April 25, 2008
The winter season of hotel deals is completely over in Manhattan and from now on through next year, prices are going to climb tremendously. If you wanna see NYC, you better hurry and book quick before the summer tourist onslaught.Quikbook is currently having a 72-hour sale that started yesterday and...
April 09, 2008
A 21-year-old woman from Minnesota committed suicide by jumping from a fire escape at the Night Hotel in Manhattan the other night. Typically, we like to stay away from such sad stories because we think that job is best done by newspaper reporters and the like, especially when it involves...
December 17, 2007
Since getting married and having a baby last year, hotelier Vikram Chatwal has been keeping quiet lately. With the exception of Dream Bangkok, we hardly heard anything from this playboy-turned-actor-turned hotelier.That is, until now. New York mag reports that Vik will be opening two hotels in the next few years....
June 18, 2007
We have often found much to dislike about Vikram Chatwal's Night Hotel just off Times Square. From the Big Gothic N to the dark depressing lobby and the dizzying black and white decor, we just aren't big fans.Yet we are digging the hotel's service of giving guests five of their...
November 21, 2006
We are little miffed we weren't invited to the official opening of Vikram Chatwal's Night Hotel but we're sure the invite just got lost in the mail, right Vik? Vikram however did deliver some model friends at the party. According to Page Six, the party started with a "a sexy...
June 30, 2006
Finally, the NY Times has gone into Vikram Chatwal's lair, the former Best Western-turned-Night Hotel in Manhattan. One traveler describes the hotel's...simplicity as "black, black, black..oh yes..and black" and the Grey Lady found it...black, as well. Not black in a dark, cool and mysterious way, but rather dark, uneventful, and...
June 26, 2006
Last month we took a quick tour through Night Hotel but the unfriendly staff and dark hallways had us paranoid that we were being watched at all times. Thus we couldn't take the kind of pictures we hoped.Luckily, a recent guest took plenty of photos and has a suspicously candy-coated...
May 12, 2006
We finally headed to midtown New York yesterday to catch a glimpse of the "Gothic N" that we had heard so much about. Located across the street from QT, and smack dab in the middle of all that is touristy in Times Square, sits the Night Hotel--Vikram Chatwal's trilogy-completing "masterpiece."The...
April 05, 2006
The NY Sun goes inside Vikram Chatwal's Night Hotel, a "hautel" phenomenon (hautel=Haute couture + hotel) and comes out loving every bit of it. Night is probably the best of Mr. Chatwal's New York establishments....[I]t presents to the world a Victorian facade covered in charnel black paint so intense and...
March 22, 2006
We hate it when good stuff comes in around 5 p.m. on a Friday, much less on a holiday but we figure this is an important alert. One of our spies has step foot into the recently opened Night Hotel. Here is the uncensored reaction: It's like if a very...
March 17, 2006
The New York Post reports that Vikram Chatwal had to skip his honeymoon in the Maldives because of an arm injuryChatwal told pals the injury was from "too much partying," explaining that he pinched a nerve after falling asleep on the appendage. [He] skipped his island honeymoon to fly...
March 09, 2006
Remember Vikram's trilogy? Vik's nocturnal revenge was scheduled to open back in December. However, the hotel still isn't open, and with Vikram scheduled to get married in India on February 18th, and then go on a "long honeymoon", our guess of a May 1, 2006 open isn't looking bulletproof....
February 06, 2006
Vikram Chatwal the Hotelier Chapter III: Vik's In Space Supposedly, "Heir Vikram" will turn the former Ambassador into a 72-room black and white homage to the nocturnal life. Very tricky Vik, looks like you have a built-in excuse if your new hotel smells like ass and fails to remember...
August 15, 2005
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