In "news" that will surprise practically no one, Miami topped a recent poll as the country's Vainest City. To prove that the honor is not just a bunch of hot air, the Sagamore hotel is out to show that it, for one, is sexy and it knows it. Yes, that's...
February 20, 2012
Miami's biggest annual event, Art Basel, isn't happening for another two months but preparations are already underway in Miami hotels as the art extravaganza approaches. The Sagamore, which bills itself as the Art Hotel, has just announced that artist Will Ryman's 65th Street installation will be set up on Sunday,...
October 06, 2011
Warren Tricomi at W South BeachBaby, it's hot outside. Summer hasn't even officially begun but the humidity is rising and hair is frizzing all over Miami. If the hairdryer is a girl's best friend in sweaty weather, then these Miami hotels should be on your BFF list. Not every hotel...
May 25, 2011
Hotels that let you play with their iPads are fun. Hotels that will give you one? Why, hello there! Where do we check in? Miami's Sagamore is the sugar daddy in this equation, but of course there is a catch: you have to play CEO for two days. The hotel's...
May 23, 2011
While we haven't heard any rumblings about the rumored sale of Miami Beach's Sagamore lately, we have heard encouraging things about the hotel's bookings. Apparently, business has been good--and to celebrate, the hotel is going to give away a week-long stay on its new Facebook page. Art Basel in December...
January 11, 2011
The JW Marriott Marquis, and Damien Hirst's "Arginine Decarboxylase," 1994. As we mentioned on Monday, Miami hotel rooms are getting harder to find for stays next week, thanks to Art Basel Miami Beach, which hits town Dec. 25. In addition to the main fair, there are scores of satellite fairs,...
November 24, 2010
The last we had heard about the rumors that the Sagamore might become a Playboy Hotel was back in February, when the magazine threw its big Super Bowl party at the South Beach hotel. That bit of synergy fueled the fire that a branding deal could be in the works....
April 22, 2010
Alright people. The Saints vs. The Colts are playing next Sunday in Super Bowl XLIV (that's 44 if you don't speak roman numerals.) You know this much. But do you know where you will be staying? Folks have been leaving Super Bowl hotel options in an open forum sort...
January 27, 2010
With just three weeks until the Super Bowl, party planning becomes priority number one for Miamis hotels. One of the hottest tickets year-in, year-out is the Playboy party, and this year youll find the bunnies, the linebackers and the celebs at The Sagamore. Which is very interesting considering the rumors...
January 11, 2010
While the news for the hotel industry is bleak today, the Sagamore Hotel is hopeful that opening up a Playboy Club inside this so-called "art hotel" could be its saving grace. The Miami Herald reports: Plans call for waitresses dressed in the famously skimpy bunny uniforms to serve drinks...
December 09, 2009
Threadless, for those unfamiliar, is a clothing company that is entirely community-based. Everyone that means you and us and your mom is invited to come up with an original idea for a t-shirt design (like a doodle of a brontosaurus) or a slogan (like "plot: it builds...
January 23, 2009
Lo and Behold, the Sandtastic Sand Sphinx designed by Olaf Bruening. The sandcastle masterpiece/artwork has been fully completed and is now on display on the beach behind the Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach. As we told you the other day, Bruening and his team were being filmed via the hotel...
December 04, 2008
The Sagamore Hotel always knows how to ring in Art Basel. Last year, the hotel courted the nude art lover by unveiling Spencer Tunick's group nude photoshoot which was done at the hotel over the summer. This year, the show is a little more family-friendly. From the Miami Herald:[A] massive...
December 02, 2008
We're hearing all sorts of whispers that the hot Miami Beach restaurant, Social at the Sagamore Hotel is closing down.The Jeffrey Chodorow restaurant opened inside the hotel nearly two years ago and promptly became a hot spot for the young, rich and fabulous in Miami. But the grapevine is rumbling...
June 23, 2008
The Gansevoort South will be getting another boutique hotel competitor soon. Already next door to the under-construction W South Beach, the Gansevoort will have to fight for guests with a planned 7-story development project across the street.The Ankara project was supposed to be a condo development but now its developers...
April 10, 2008
I Love New York is one of our favorite shows ever. How can we not like this reality dating show where Tiffany aka New York describes one of her contestant's ex-girlfriend as "Wesley Snipes when he dressed up as a woman in 'To Wong Foo.'"? We couldn't have said it...
December 13, 2007
Art Basel will kick into full-gear this week. Here is just some of the latest news about the art fair. As always, if you have a hotel room, or are throwing an art party at a hotel or wanna gossip about what happened at what party, then keep us informed....
December 04, 2007
Once the Regent Hotel South Beach, now the Vincci Hotel.In continuing our coverage of Art Basel the upcoming art fair in Miami Beach, we are listing some of the events happening at hotels next week. If you are hosting an art event at a hotel or even better, if you...
November 29, 2007
Remember when artist Spencer Tunick put out a call for naked people at the Sagamore Hotel? Well, the fruits of his naked photography labor will be revealed at Art Basel Miami Beach during the the end-of-the-festival blowout Annual Sagamore Brunch on December 8. This is far from the first site-specific...
November 12, 2007
Desires Hotels is the boutique hotels division of Tecton Hospitality which has 12 hotels, open and pending, in the U.S., mostly in Miami Beach. For instance, this is the company that now manages the Sagamore Hotel (once a Thompson Hotel) and that manages the Hotel Mela in New York.Upcoming hotels...
November 06, 2007
· So that public photo shoot by Spencer Tunick featuring 600 real nude people (as opposed to professional nude models) happened yesterday at the Sagamore Hotel (Wait, sag...more...not good words when talking about nude people.) And fortunately, it looks like everything went off without a hitch.· The Mondrian South Beach...
October 10, 2007
Typically, the first thing that comes to our minds when we think of Miami Beach is the word NAKED. And that's because we often see naked and nearly-naked people prancing up and down the beach and along the restaurants and bars on Ocean Avenue. Also have you ever gone to...
August 21, 2007
Know somewhere with open hotel rooms or kick-ass hotel parties for Super Bowl weekend in Miami? Tip us off.Looks like the Royal Palm Hotel still has some rooms open for this weekend's big game. There's no minimum stay, but if you just want to crash Sunday night, it'll cost you...
February 01, 2007
After taking a break from the South Beach scene, Michael de Zayas is back with more of his Miami Beach Hotels Report. This time, he's fielding a question from a business traveler who's accustomed to staying at hip hotels for work but can't seem to find any that are family-friendly...
January 30, 2007
It's not quite Halloween kiddies but we figure you are going to be celebrating this weekend and if you are short on costume ideas, why not dress up as this?Actually we don't know what this is but we saw it in the lobby of the Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach....
October 27, 2006
A guest at the Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach last month was able to snag this "Do Not Disturb" sign and scan it for us so that we could see for ourselves that the hotel is still using the Thompson Hotels logo.As we found out last spring, there was a...
October 18, 2006
Cocktailing is a very high art--especially on South Beach, where striking poses while double fisting candy colored martinis is considered an America's Got Talent-worthy asset.And while the de rigueur hotel bar scene swept into town over a decade ago when Ian Schrager set up his flowy white curtains and Starck-designs...
September 11, 2006
At last we have some closure on what happened between Jason Pomeranc's sudden drop of The Sagamore Hotel from his roster of properties. The NY Post sheds some light on the situation by comparing Pomeranc's struggle with owner Marty Taplin to the the Denise Richards-Charlie Sheen divorce battle. Like Denise...
June 07, 2006
WWJPD?: What would Jason Pomeranc Do about a live tiger at his former hotel, The Sagamore in Miami Beach? A tipster lets us know that the hotel has abandoned its Pomerancian minimalist cool and has crammed every inch with restaurant and bar seating. But even worse, the hotel has entered...
May 05, 2006
We began reporting last week that the Sagamore Hotel was going through some changes. Yesterday, we learned that you had to make reservations via phone and that Thompson Hotels was definitely no longer running it. Today, the Page Six reports that Jason Pomeranc has been having a tough go of...
April 18, 2006
A spy in Miami recently wrote us with some great hotel gossip that doesn't involve abuse of penguins or nipple slips:Something happened at the Sagamore in Miami yesterday...a friend was checking in and was told that the Thompson Group was no longer involved ( I know that the China Grill...
April 13, 2006
Hotel rooms in Miami beach are, what we have been calling, "beach motel chic". Most of these hotels are old art deco buildings, and many properties have their origins in beach motel design. What is that old saying? You can dress a pig up, but it's still a pig?...
November 29, 2005
If there was an award for the best hotel lobby, the Sagamore would win going away. Jason Pomeranc's Miami Beach property will be a perfect location for the Art Basel (December 1-4) crowd, who will invade the area later this week. You could spend hours in the lobby staring...
November 29, 2005
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