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Hotel Coverage: Setai Fifth Avenue
Would You Pay $700 a Night (and Up) To Stay At These NYC Hotels?
Summer is almost upon us, and along with all the regular seasonal delights (rooftop cocktails, long weekends in Cape Cod, ice creeeaaam), one thing we hate, hate, hate about summer in the city is the exorbitant hotel rates. We've seen numbers climbing to $600, $650, and even $700/night for a...
May 14, 2013
How Will Langham Place Fifth Avenue's New Lounge 'Measure' Up To the Old One?
While Langham Chicago seems to be going through some minor delays, the wait is officially over with Langham's newly-rebranded property in New York. making its grand debut tomorrow. Though we gave you a heads up about the change last fall, Langham sent out a formal announcement late last week, confirming...
May 06, 2013
Get Lovely Locks at NYC's Loews Regency's New Julien Farel Salon
The Loews Regency Hotel NYC closed on January 1st for a $70-million overhaul, and when it opens this fall, it will have more glam than we originally expected: It will have Julien Farel. Not quite sure who Julien Farel is? Just ask Ivanka Trump, Richard Gere, Carl Bernstein, Salma...
April 10, 2013
Langham's in New York, Wyndham's in Miami, and Radisson Blu Goes to Philly
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. · The Next Radisson Blu Will Be In Philly: In other Radisson news...
March 05, 2013
New York Restaurant Week Starts Today: 10 Rezzies We Want
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
Renovated, Reopened and Rebranded...All In A New York Minute
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. · Setai Fifth Avenue Changes Hands: After two years of being...
October 11, 2012
The 5 Best Hotels to Get Some Much-Needed Shuteye
It doesn’t matter how beautiful or funky or luxe a hotel is – if they don’t take sleeping seriously, they’re missing the point entirely. If we don’t get our proper shuteye, then we’re seeing all of the amenities and other hotel niceties through bleary eyes coated with a thick...
July 20, 2012
Need A Room On W 36th St? Soon There'll Be Tons
In July, we updated you on the progress of Tryp by Wyndham's new joint near Penn Station. Back then, we thought, 'Oh, a new hotel for midtown. How nice.' And kept walking. Little did we know of the crazy hotel activity that was taking place right across town! A recent...
October 20, 2011
Where to Eat Cheap When Staying at The Setai Fifth Avenue
This week's special series is for the people who feel guilty about splurging on their hotel room in NYC and are looking for ways to trim other travel costs, like eating out. Thanks to Brian Silverman, the adventurous eater at Fried Neck Bones, and author of the Frommer's New...
September 19, 2011
Hotel Hopping On The East River
If you haven't already tried it, the East River Ferry is a great way to get around NYC—especially in the summer. For $4 a ride, you can zip between lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, and get to enjoy stunning views of the city while you're at it. But for...
August 24, 2011
The Setai Fifth Avenue Rolls Out the First of Many Fashion's Night Out Packages
The Setai on Fifth Avenue opened a few season too late to join in the revelry of being a neighbor to New York Fashion Week when the shows happened in Bryant Park, but just because all the action moved up to Lincoln Center doesn't mean the hotel intends to...
August 22, 2011
The Setai Fifth Avenue's Restaurant Ai Fiori Serves Absinthe, and It Is Goooood
What better reason is there to spring for the absinthe on a hotel restaurant's menu than the fact that it's Friday? None, we say. None. At least, that was our reason when earlier today we popped into Ai Fiori, the restaurant of the newly opened Setai Fifth Avenue, for...
January 28, 2011
What's The Scene Like at The Setai Fifth Ave's Bar On Fifth?
With rooms hovering well above $500 a night--$895 a night next Friday night!--the Setai Fifth Ave has been out of our price range. So last night we did the next best thing to checking in and dropped by the hotel's Bar on Fifth to check it out instead. We were...
December 03, 2010
The Setai Fifth Avenue Is Now Open (But They'll Be Needing Some New Carpet For The Lobby)
It's a brand new week, and NYC has a brand new hotel for us to get excited about. Although, by the looks of this snapshot sent in by a tipster, the Setai Fifth Avenue is going to need some brand new carpet to replace this poor piece that is looking...
November 08, 2010
Once Again, LHW Is The Way To Go For Cheaper Rates, This Time At The Setai Fifth Avenue
We've seen this happen before--with The Chatwal New York--and now Leading Hotels of the World comes to the rescue of luxury-loving but deal-seeking hotel fans yet again. This time, it's with its newest member, The Setai Fifth Avenue. This hotel--not a GHM property like The Setai Miami (although it is...
October 26, 2010
6 More Hot NYC Hotels for You to Lust After
This past summer was a hot one in NYC hotel land. We even created a Sexy Six List to keep you up-to-date. But the openings don't stop! We've taken a deep breath, regrouped, and pulled together this handy list of 6 More Hot NYC Hotels for You to Lust...
October 14, 2010
New York Hotels Serve Up Hot New Restaurants. Here's a Baker's Dozen
Imperial 9, coming to the Mondrian New York. Yes, fall is really here. You might have noticed by the sudden onslaught of Fall Preview Lists. To get into the spirit of cheering ourselves up over summer's end by thinking about all the food we'll eat as the leaves turn, here's...
September 09, 2010
When the Moon Hits The Setai, That's Ai Fiori (Their Newly Announced Restaurant)
More Manhattan Mania! The upcoming Setai Fifth Avenue has just announced that its culinary plans will include a restaurant from busy Manhattan chef Michael White, who already runs Convivio, Alto and Marea and a has fourth restaurant planned for Soho. This will be his fifth. The new restaurant will...
July 23, 2010
The Setai Fifth Ave's Signature Cocktail Will Be a Passionate Affair
We haven't heard much about The Setai Fifth Avenue since last learning of the hotel's plans to leave us breathless. But now we're getting hints that the fancy-pants property is also going to woo us with prosecco and a little passion. That's if the signature cocktail—The Setai, naturally—served at the...
July 02, 2010
The Setai Fifth Ave Wants You to 'Breathe Easy' But Also Leave You 'Breathless'
Is New York ready for the Setai Fifth Avenue? Because the hotel is already getting a bit of a swagger on its website, where it boasts a long list of luxury amenities, and promises that "the experience at The Setai Fifth Avenue is one that will leave you breathing...
May 13, 2010
The Setai Fifth Avenue Will Open November 1st, From $545 a Night
So here we are, still obsessing over the next hotels to open in New York—like The Chatwal, The Nolitan, and W New York Downtown—and we almost forgot about others that were scheduled for a little further down the road. But unlike some of those hotels that have been promising...
April 27, 2010
What's Going On With The Setai Midtown?
Aww, the Empire State Building has a new friend. A tall, glossy, very mysterious friend, who doesn’t like to share too much about herself. We snapped this photo of 400 Fifth Ave this week, and started wondering what was going on with the project believed to be The Setai...
January 29, 2010
Manhattan's Getting a Setai That May Keep the Name 'Setai'
Deep, breath, here we go: So remember when there was a Setai coming to San Diego which was thought to be the sister property to the Setai Miami, but then it turned out that it wasn't actually another Setai but, in fact, a totally unrelated hotel in a different...
May 22, 2009
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