Hotels around the world are going crazy for the 2012 Summer Olympics from specialty cocktails to outrageous Olympics-inspired packages. Here are five U.S. hotels that are going for gold in the sport of attracting Olympics watchers. We'll have even more next week! · The London NYC: There are several...
July 26, 2012
Deals: you want 'em, and surprisingly, everyone has 'em. Take a look at some of the latest hotel deals going around the internet today from booking sites, social media sites, flash sale sites and more. Don't forget to scroll down to see the HotelChatter-approved deal either. Who knows? You...
May 01, 2012
Riding a bike in Manhattan can indeed be lethalyou've always got to keep your guard up, and you should never EVER assume a taxi driver has seen you (even if you're riding around in a neon pink unitard). But in the warmer seasons, like now, bike riding can be one...
April 06, 2012
Hotel art. It can be beautiful, weird andsometimesstolen. But nothing we've seen has quite topped the computer-generated lady heads that currently greet guests at the Mondrian South Beach. We first encountered these bug-eyed chicks when we stayed at the hotel two years ago. We loved everything about the Alice-in-white-Wonderland decor....
August 15, 2011
Everyone loves Miami (except maybe Cleveland Cavaliers fans) but not everyone can do it up J.Lo style paying $1,000 a night without a glance inside their Fendi wallets. So there's only one way to do it--go in the offseason which is conveniently happening now. We found totally doable rates...
August 02, 2011
Boy, it sure has been a week of transition. After Wednesday night's momentous closing of the Oak Room, here comes another announcement, this time from Morgans Hotel Group. This October, Jeffrey Chodorow, known for his spaces at the Empire Hotel and the Eventi Hotel, will pull out of Morgans...
July 29, 2011
They're at it again. The ever-busy Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau have a new marketing toy to play with--a promo and website called MiamiRomanceMonth.com, which plays up June as the month of brides and grooms. But how are the hotels involved? For starters, next week five crazy loved-up couples...
June 16, 2011
Sometimes, a few treadmills and a couple of hand weights just aren't enough for hotel guests when they are traveling, which is probably why Morgans Hotel Group has partnered with Equinox gyms in New York and Miami to offer guests a more complete workout option.Guests at the Hudson, Royalton,...
May 05, 2011
Yesterday we noticed that room rates in New York City for New Year's Eve were still rather doable, even finding three hotels under $250 for the weekend. But when we looked today at the hotel rates for Miami Beach, things were far less do-able. Yes, we know that Miami...
December 28, 2010
If you're looking for a way to 1) escape the cold, 2) stay at a cool hotel over the winter break, and 3) do something about those New Year fitness goals, the Mondrian South Beach is calling your name. On December 23, the hotel opens its new SoulCycle Studio, the...
December 13, 2010
Looking for some holiday gifts for the hip hotel lover in your life? The Standard Hotels have their specially designed Pendleton blankets and now their equally cool frenemies, the Morgans Hotel Group, have their own t-shirts. Each Morgans Hotel will have their own t-shirt, very much like the W...
December 07, 2010
You can stay at the Mondrian...on Sunday.It's Day 3 of the Art Basel Miami Beach Week of Crazy so please don't ask us to recount all the parties at hotels and who's been buying which pieces of art. What we can tell you is that it's not too late to...
December 03, 2010
In case you haven't noticed, Morgans Hotel Group have been busy giving cool kids what they want: from Tumblr to custom playlists and a team of sexy cocktail gurus at the Royalton. Now they're adding a web series to that list. The Spanky's Night Out webisode series stars "nightlife enthusiast"...
November 16, 2010
We'd barely finishing playing with the new vending machine at the Hudson Hotel when news of yet another new amenity from Morgans Hotel Group hit our radar. This time, it's all about the music, as MHG teams up with online MP3 curators, RCRD LBL. The Morgans hotels have always had...
September 28, 2010
The Mondrian South Beach Sure, football season has started and leaf-peepers have popped out of the woodwork. But down in South Beach, it's still summer. And it's actually a more bearable time to be in Miami. So we're liking the sound of Morgans Hotel Groups Endless Summer promotion. From now...
September 15, 2010
These days we've been noticing that hotels are trying to make our stays feel more like home. That's why we rarely see a hotel room without a flat-screen TV, an iPod dock, a stack of pillows on the bed and "home-like" decor. But doesn't that seem kind of crazy? Who...
August 24, 2010
The other week we mentioned how the Sky Terrace was open for the season at The Hudson Hotel. The terrace, we noted, is open to hotel guests, select New York influencers and Morgans Hotel Group Global Card holders. Naturally, any sort of secret club or exclusive card-holding group has...
June 09, 2010
Its not too early to be thinking about Memorial Day weekend, is it? Good, because weve got our eye on this TravelZoo deal at the Mondrian South Beach. The Morgans Hotel on the quieter side of SoBe has reduced rates of $195 or $245 a night between April and Juneand,...
March 25, 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
So, 2009 was one of the worst years we've seen since the Great Depression, huh? Now, we know Miami got that memo, what with its glut of condos, foreclosures, and, oh yeah, hotels in financial crisisbut you wouldn't know it from the way New Year's Eve is shaping up...
December 21, 2009
The Mondrian South Beach Apparently, hotel bookings are picking up in Miami (profits, not so much), and theres no hotter week than this one. Thats right, Art Basel is here! Shop for art all day, play all night! South Beach hotels are prime party spots, although many of course are...
December 02, 2009
Thanksgiving may be just around the corner, but so is one of the most pivotal dates on the Miami social calendar: Art Basel. So if youre an art geek or just like crashing artist parties, its time to start thinking about where youll stay in Miami for this years...
November 09, 2009
During a recent stay at the Mondrian South Beach, we were quite taken with the Sleeping Beautys Castle concept of Dutch designer Marcel Wanders. After looking back at some of our photos, we wondered if we might be able to recreate the look at homeor at least, parts of...
September 24, 2009
Now that the Mondrian South Beach has been open for almost six whole months, the hype as well as the advertising of its Marcel Wanders-designers interior has died down. This means it's perfect timing for Marcel to put himself back out there by leaking photos of his next big...
May 21, 2009
Celebrities they really are just like us. On weekend beach getaways, they, too, find themselves sleeping through the sunny Miami morning and rolling out of bed sometime after the noon hour, looking sorta dazed and probably vaguely aware that they were supposed to check out of their room...
March 23, 2009
Is nothing sacred? Not for Morgans Hotel Group, who have just desecrated the almighty concept of a vending machine as well as their Marcel Wanders-designed Mondrian South Beach. Doing away with a hotel gift shop and brushing off Marcel for a moment, the Mondrian brought in Mari Balestrazzi to...
March 06, 2009
Hotels probably consider February one of the most wonderful times of the year, even in a rough economy like this. Aside from lovers taking Valentine's Day getaways, hotels have the opportunity to capitalize on families with children who have the week off in the middle of the month known as...
February 03, 2009
A TripAdvisor reviewer just nicknamed the Mondrian South Beach one of the best nicknames yet, The Moandrian. We decided to skip over to the massive review-posting site to see what folks were saying about this just-opened hotel and so far, the reviews are pretty good. From the "Moandrian" thinker:Was just...
December 12, 2008
Blogger All Purpose Dark kindly sent over the link to her party report from Art Basel. And she got some good scoop. Starting off with what she overheard sexy hotelier Andre Balazs saying at the Raleigh Hotel for Kelly Klein's book party. Highlight: Overhearing Balazs say to someone: "You can...
December 05, 2008
Today was supposed to be a day of reckoning--hotel opening-style--in Miami but it's been kind of a bust so far. Here's an update on three hotels set to open this month in Miami--two of which were to open today. 1. MONDRIAN SOUTH BEACH:The word on the street is that the...
December 01, 2008
Oh noes! Is the Mondrian South Beach going to be open next week? The hotel has said it would be opening Dec. 1st with rooms going for a killer introductory rate of $195 a night. Yet when we tried some dates online, nothing was available. The website was also...
November 25, 2008
Taking hotel technology to the next level, the Mondrian South Beach has just announced a partnership with TiVo to put TiVo recorders in all the guest rooms at the hotel. From the press release for those of you who somehow don't know what TiVo does: Mondrian guests will be able...
November 12, 2008
Ok, disregard what we said yesterday about the Mondrian South Beach opening around Christmas. We just got official word from the hotel that the new opening date is December 1st. Yay! And even better, the hotel is offering a special introductory rate of $195 a night until February 28, 2009.This...
October 28, 2008
The Mondrian South Beach was supposed to open for realz this time on November 18th but as one dedicated HotelChatter reader let us know, that isn't going to happen. Last week we tried to get in touch with the hotel's PR rep but we heard no answer. So we tried...
October 27, 2008
While hotel delays are expected to be more and more frequent in these gloomy economic times, we kinda hope/thought that the Mondrian South Beach would be beyond all that.The hotel was expected to open on November 18th, even listing rooms on its website. However, a tipster emailed us late...
October 23, 2008
A Marcel Wanders tiled rock/ottoman at the Mondrian South Beach.Hallelujah! At the end of a very depressing week, we have some news to cheer us up as we head off into the weekend. The Mondrian South Beach has begun taking reservations for stays on November 18th and later. This is...
September 19, 2008
Remember more than a year ago when Morgans Hotel Group announced that Chicago would be getting a Mondrian of its own? Well, after checking in on the site in the bustling "Viagra Triangle" neighborhood of Chicago, at the intersection of North State Street and Rush Street, we must add this...
August 29, 2008
Yesterday, after we gave you a sneak peek at Asia de Cuba, a tipster sent us the correct website to book a room at the Mondrian South Beach.And good news: The hotel is taking reservations for stays on or after November 17th.Naturally, we had to go in and plug that...
August 22, 2008
A rep for the Mondrian South Beach hotel just sent over this restaurant of the planned Asia de Cuba restaurant (run by China Grill Management) which will open inside the hotel in December 2008. Here's the official restaurant and menu description.Asia de Cuba at Mondrian South Beach blends a vibrant,...
August 21, 2008
According to a tipster, the The Mondrian South Beach will open just in time for Winter 2008/2009 season with reservations being taken for November 17th and beyond. Originally, the hotel was to open in May but the date got pushed back to December 2008. Yet now it looks like...
July 23, 2008
We're already anxiously awaiting the Mondrian South Beach (which should have opened in May but now has been moved to December 2008) and now we have one more thing to salivate over: the 4,000-square-foot Agua Spa. While an Agua already exists at fellow Miami hotel Delano, this one will up...
June 10, 2008
The eagerly awaited Mondrian South Beach--we had a tour of the unfinished version back in November 2007, and we've been enthusiastically waiting for the real opening--is set to open fully soon.In the meantime, HotelChatter tipster Michael told us about a bunch of lobby and sample guest bedroom pictures available...
April 21, 2008
From the Bahamas to Florida....Yesterday we were given a brief tour of the Mondrian South Beach which is, much to our dismay, still under construction. The hotel will technically open some of its units in January 2008, as had been previously reported, but the entire property won't be fully operational...
November 15, 2007
Not a yacht, but the planned Mondrian South Beach Hotel.While we couldn't attend last week's Mondrian South Beach yacht party, (we were busy with a...um..private jet party), the hotel made sure that we got the full party dispatch.Keep in mind, the Mondrian is still not open but it will be...
October 19, 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
We've been chronicling the presence of the Mondrian South Beach for quite some time now but today we have new news about the hotel's pool area--arguably one of the most important areas of a South Beach hotel.The hotel was "conceived" by Marcel Wanders, Elle Décor's International Designer of the Year...
July 31, 2007
The Miami South Beach hotel scene is blowing up and it's not all about Nicky O. This week we are taking a look at some of the planned hotels for Miami which includes hotels for which construction has begun and hotels which still remain a pipe dream. If you have...
November 01, 2006
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