Hotel Coverage: THE BENJAMIN
The Benjamin Shuts You Down For National Sleep Awareness Week
Looks like we’re in the midst of another specialty holiday time, this time it’s called >National Sleep Awareness Week, which runs through March 10th. This is in conjunction with the return to Daylight Savings Time, when clocks move ahead and hour and most people lose an hour of sleep...
March 04, 2013
Hotel Jet-Lag Cures For Holiday Travelers
No doubt many of you are traipsing around the world this holiday season, visiting friends and family. But unforch, the downside of jetsetting is the inevitable jetlag setting in. We’ve read and written about nearly every cure out there and damn near tried them all. Many are bunk, but...
December 26, 2012
Where Can An Olympic Tennis Player Go In NYC For A Little Peace and Quiet?
Just the other day, we were reading a story about British Olympic tennis champion Andy Murray, who bragged about getting to stay in "a lot of different hotels" during his seven-year career. Lucky him. Now Murray's in New York City for this year's US Open tournament (which got underway yesterday),...
August 28, 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
Pick A Pillow, Pick A President At The Benjamin New York
No, The Benjamin's Sleep Concierge, Anya Orlanska. If you have a hard time following the presidential race, The Benjamin is here to help with yet another interactive pillow-themed initiative called the Presidential Pillow Primary. From now through August, each of the top candidates (Obama, Romney and Gingrich) will be matched...
April 24, 2012
The Sleep Concierge At The Benjamin Shows Off Her Favorite Pillows
The Benjamin Sleep Concierge, Anya Orlanska Have you ever flirted with a hotel concierge? In our series, Concierge Interviews, HotelChatter goes behind the Front Desk and gets chummy with the men—and women—whose job it is to never say no. Filmed inside various lobbies, courtyards, and bar lounges, each video will...
March 08, 2012
Get Ready For More James And Affinia Hotels, Supposedly
Another day, another dollar. Yesterday, a real estate investment trust called Pebblebrook helped out the Denihan Hospitality Group, (Affinia, James, The Benjamin, The Surrey) by pumping some mega bucks ($910 million to be exact) into six of the Denihan properties. The Benjamin, Affinia Manhattan, , Affinia Shelbourne, , Affinia Dumont,...
June 23, 2011
This Hotel Will Put Your Kid to Bed For You
Does the hotel's sleep concierge know she's reading about an insomniac? Here's a piece of hotel news that made us go "awww": instead of all those new rooftop bars and grown-up but kid-like amenities hotels are stocking up on lately, New York's Benjamin Hotel is actually doing something for the...
October 07, 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
Hotel Resto A-Go Go: The Latest On Celeb Chefs in NYC Hotels
Todd English at The IC Times Square's Ça Va. It may still be August, and the city streets bare as the power players party in the Hamptons, but fall is almost upon us—NFL pre-season starts this weekend and we've already noticed some leaves turning. (Ugh!). But to cheer ourselves up...
August 04, 2010
Concierge Rounds Up the World's Best Hotel Beds
Sure, we wax poetic about plush amenities and posh hotel perks, but, honestly, we never lose sight of what should be every hotel room’s pride and joy: The Bed. From comfort to aesthetic, a hotel bed can decidedly make or break your hotel experience. So we’re smitten with Concierge.com’s...
April 14, 2009
Forking Over $500 at The Benjamin Will Help You Sleep at Night
Well, the sleep concierge at The Benjamin probably has the most secure job in America right now. With the economy keeping people stressed out and up at night, her job — which involves dishing out advice on pillow selection (the hotel has an extensive pillow menu), arranging massages, and...
February 16, 2009
Starwood Suckers Shaq into Speaking Engagement
Tweeple, it's Twitter time: the hotel Twitterverse has been hoppin' this week. Even if you're keeping up with the HotelChatter Twitter (and if you're not, you should be), there's a whole lot else flying around and it's been hard to catch it all — especially when when you've had...
February 06, 2009
Hotels Near Times Square :: RoomMate Grace is Kind of an Expensive Broad
RoomMate Grace Hotel, formerly the Hotel QT, had rooms going for $349 a night on Quikbook for Monday July 21st. Unless, they combined their notoriously small rooms into spacious suites, this is a totally bad rate. Keep in mind that a "Petite" room is one of the smallest rooms in...
July 16, 2008
"Top Chef" Season Five Contestants to Heat It Up at New York's Benjamin Hotel
We love the reality show Top Chef on Bravo and it doesn't hurt that the show always has some hotel element that we can grok about. Like Season Three when the contestants shacked up at the Fontainebleau in Miami.Now for the fifth season, the show is headed back to New...
July 14, 2008
Hard Rock's Website Turns It Up a Notch
A reader who just happens to work as a new media specialist let us know that the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino has unveiled a new website that includes constant streaming of music, an RSS feed and links to Digg and Del.icio.us sites. But the big change is video that...
October 08, 2007
Partner Reviews: THE BENJAMIN
foursquareIDBenjamin Hotel is a nice upscaled hotel
The Benjamin is a beautiful hotel and it is quite upscaled. We had a beautiful suite with a balcony. The place was lovely and we were acco...
Money with its Worth
If you ever have wanted to have your own place in NYC this is the place. The one bedroom suite was just perfect to accomplish this. First th...
Too expansive
More of a business hotel than a tourist one. We payed extra for a suite and when booking requested a room on a high floor, we were given one...
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