Hotel Coverage: Renaissance Mayflower Hotel
Town & Country Bar at the Renaissance Mayflower Re-Opens with New Look, Menu
If you’re a political power broker in D.C. you already know that the Town & Country Bar inside The Renaissance Mayflower Hotel is an integral part of the city’s wheeling and dealing. You may even consider it as an extension of your office. But given the hotel’s history, the...
December 08, 2009
Travel + Leisure Picks Out the 'Most Notorious' Hotel Rooms
Before we stayed at the Hollywood Roosevelt last week, we jotted down the property's few haunted room numbers in the hopes of avoiding them (Marilyn Monroe in 246 and Montgomery Clift in 928). Still, infamous hotel rooms aren't restricted to the ghosts of Hollywood; they're to be found all...
June 22, 2009
The Inauguration Hotel Scene Celeb Tracker
While Jaunted is doing its best to keep us updated on the inauguration in real-time, we're still hunting down celebs attending the big parties. The always-reliable Page Six has been all up in the D.C. Hotel Scene during all this inauguration hoopla to make sure that, even on the...
January 20, 2009
Where Are the Hotel Inauguration Parties At?
It's time, people: the frenzy of parties, celebrations and drink specials surrounding Barack Obama's inauguration have kicked off, and D.C. — though a bit congested at the moment — has turned into patriotic party central over the weekend. Naturally, hotels in the area are doing more than just playing...
January 19, 2009
Best Celebrity Performance at a Hotel :: Eliot Spitzer
Best Celebrity Performance: Eliot SpitzerShutting out reigning champ Britney Spears, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer comes in (ha) at number one for our Best Celebrity Performance at a Hotel in 2008. 'Twas just this past spring that our Luv Gov was outed as having made arrangements for a little...
December 30, 2008
The Best Hotels in DC to Celebrate Election Night
Say what you will about Washington, D.C.’s image (you know the drill: too many overachieving government drones, not enough girls and guys who just wanna have fun). But make no mistake about it: Nobody parties quite like Washington when it comes to an election night. And considering the enchanting...
November 04, 2008
Mayflower Hotel is Literally on the Road to the White House
Defying all reasonable odds, it looks like that election everyone keeps talking about might actually happen (finally!). And now that that fateful day is almost upon us, we can think of no better way to spend Nov. 4 then living it up at a fancy hotel in the heart...
October 29, 2008
Hotel News Briefs :: Spitzer Charged Mayflower Room To His Campaign
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.· Spitzer and the Mayflower Return: As if it weren't bad enough that...
July 16, 2008
The Spitz Tryst Hotel Evacuates Guests
Whew, the Renaissance Mayflower is having a bang-up year. First former NY governor Eliot Spitzer was revealed to have paid for a pricey session with a call girl in room 871 under the guise of Client No. 9.Now, the hotel has suffered from a minor fire. A generator on the...
April 30, 2008
Mayflower Hotel Gift Shop Doing Record Biz, Thanks to Client No. 9
There's a silver lining in the Eliot Spitzer-HookerGate after all.The hotel which was the scene of the tryst with call girl Ashley Dupree, The Mayflower Hotel, is doing amazing business with its gift shop wares. The Daily News reports:Everything from teddy bears ($18.99) to terry-cloth bathrobes ($69.99) marked with the...
April 04, 2008
Do Politicos' Rendezvous Hotels Mirror Their Personalities?
Eliot Spitzer was widely known for his overly aggressive personality during his tenure as governor of New York--who can forget his "I'm a f***ing steamroller" comment, uttered when he wasn't getting what he wanted out of the New York State Legislature during his first few months as governor? So...
March 24, 2008
Infidelity in Full Bloom at the Mayflower Hotel
Following revelations that high-priced call girl "Kristen," a.k.a. Ashley Alexandra Dupré, met Client No. 9, alias Eliot Spitzer, at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, The New York Times has written a story that paints the property as an upscale bordello. The article details the various dalliances and scandals that have gone...
March 20, 2008
HotelChatter Reader Deals: Rooms at the Spitz Tryst Hotel in D.C.
In which, HotelChatter readers are treated to exclusive hotel deals dug up by us. All deals have a limited amount of rooms attached to them and may sell out quickly. Today's Hotel Deals Spitz Tryst Hotel$199 a night Rooms at the Renaissance Mayflower typically start at $400 but Quikbook...
March 13, 2008
Inside the Spitz Tryst Hotel Room
The Examiner's Yeas and Nays political blog scored pictures of room 871 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC which has now become infamous as the tryst location for Gov. Eliot Spitzer and a high-priced prostitute.And we know at least one of you were wondering yesterday if he checked...
March 11, 2008
Eliot Spitzer is a Call Girl's Client 9 at the Mayflower Hotel
Hotels and prostitutes go together like peanut butter and jelly so there's no surprise when you find out some ladies of the evening are hitting up lodging establishments to do business. But when you find out a high-ranking political official like New York's governor Eliot Spitzer, was arranging to meet...
March 10, 2008
D.C. Hotel Scene 'Hopping' With Flips, Upgrade, Royalty
Easy money and lustful entrepreneurs are transforming the D.C. hotel landscape, reports the Washington Post. (Okay, they didn't call the entrepreneurs lustful. We did.)The sale of the Hilton Washington, announced late last month, prompted the obligatory hometown paper roundup that includes many of D.C.'s better known properties. The Post describes...
June 14, 2007
DC's Mayflower Serves As Movie Location
"The Sentinel" stars Michael Douglas, Kim Basinger. Kiefer Sutherland and Eva Longoria, and now, the upscale Mayflower Hotel in DC. DC's mayor, Anthony A. Williams, even has a cameo in the movie. The movie is tentatively scheduled for release in 2006. As for the rest of the hotel, here...
August 01, 2005
