If we were Todd English's Food Hall at The Plaza, we'd be patting ourselves on the back right now. After a successful opening back in June 2010, the dining concept has literally taken off, forcing regulars to wait 45 minutes just to sit down for lunch on a weekday, according...
December 01, 2011
First there was the Betsey Johnson-designed Eloise suite, then came the Betsey Johnson pop-up shop and now The Plaza in New York has a whole Betsey Johnson Christmas tree as well. Just completed and lit during a tea service yesterday, the Betsey Johnson/Eloise tree is perhaps the hottest pink...
November 29, 2011
Considering the super-high standards of hotel restaurants in New York (Maze at The London NYC, Maialino at Gramercy Park, and The Ace's The Breslin all come to mind), no one could possibly fault you for ditching the entire fam and taking yourself to a nice dinner in midtown (or Wall...
November 17, 2011
Love pink stuff? Love New York City's The Plaza Hotel? Hate the high prices ($75 headbands!) of the pink-perfect Eloise shop at The Plaza? We're with you all the way. There's some relief however, as The Plaza has just opened a Betsey Johnson holiday pop-up shop in the lower-level...
November 15, 2011
Good news, the perp has been caught! Last week, after checking in and checking out our hotel room (video, photos, you know the usual thing a hotel guest does right?) we noticed that our room door was a little cumbersome in that it didn't immediately close all the way. We...
November 01, 2011
Would you dine at a place with a "B"?UPDATE 6:49PM: Andaz Fifth Avenue's general manager Jonathan Frolich has sent us this statement regarding the letter grade. "We've addressed the issues brought to us by the inspector and we look forward to a re-inspection. We are fully committed to ensuring...
June 13, 2011
We knew it! We just knew there had to be some other connection between hotels and U.S. Representative and Twitter sexpest Anthony Weiner aside from his gawdawful press conference at the Sheraton New York. Ok, granted it's not as salacious as Eliot Spitzer and the Mayflower Hotel but it's...
June 07, 2011
Is that the new hand sign for the Oak Room?Well, scratch this off your To Do list for NYC. The Plaza is shutting down the Oak Room (which Lady Gaga used to frequent on Wednesday nights) due to a rent dispute as well as some concerns over heavy partying....
May 06, 2011
The focus sure has been on New York City this week, though not for the reasons Mayor Michael Bloomberg originally intended. Before Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan, before President Obama made the announcement that caused thousands to gather at the World Trade Center site and before Barack...
May 04, 2011
Just days after his 56th birthday, actor Kelsey Grammer took to the Plaza Hotel to celebrate his marriage to 29-year-old Kayte Walsha former Virgin Atlantic flight attendant who may now count herself as Grammer bride No. 4. The mismatched coupleknown for shameless public displays of affectionwere reported to have...
March 07, 2011
It was the must-have amenity of 2010, and now the iPad is making even deeper in-roads on the hotel landscape with The Plaza's announcement that it will move most basic concierge services to a fleet of in-room tablets, supplementing the hotel's already extant Palm Court loaner 'Pads. The gadgets...
February 07, 2011
Heres some news to detract from the Sheen of bad stuff that we cant help but feel is still kinda tarnishing The Plaza Kelsey Grammer and his flight attendant honey just chose it as the spot for their wedding reception. According to the New York Post, theyve booked...
February 01, 2011
Chocolate lovers, you now have a really good reason for popping into The Plaza.The Francois Chocolate Bar recently took over from Demel Bakery, the Viennese cafe that lasted just two years in the hotel's downstairs retail space. Though originally billed as a pop-up store, FCB's rapid success at the...
January 20, 2011
After last year's debacle with Charlie Sheen and a call girl, New York's famed Plaza Hotel really needed to start 2011 on a good foot and a visit from regular guest Lady Gaga may have been just the trick.Gaga returned to the hotel's Oak Room last night to give...
January 06, 2011
It's what you've been waiting all year for--The 2010 HotelChatter Awards! We'll be bringing you the best and worst of the year all day today and part of tomorrow. Agree or disagree with our picks? Air your thoughts in comments below.We truly, honestly, never expected anyone to top David...
December 30, 2010
There's only five days until Christmas and if you're stumped trying to find a gift for a little one in your life, hotels are a great place to turn for gifts. We've rounded up Five Cute Hotel Gifts for Kids that we think you (and they) will like. The good...
December 20, 2010
Now that the Rose Bar at Gramercy Park has shuttered their secret, invite-only music sessions, The Plaza is at the ready to fill in the gap on the elite NYC music scene with their new Artist in Residence series in the hotel's famed Oak Room. (Perhaps they were inspired...
December 20, 2010
Normally, we'd consider it heavenly if someone paid for us to stay in a suite at The Plaza for a few nights but for Charlie Sheen's call girl, Capri Anderson, it turned out to be utter hell.Appearing on Good Morning America today, Capri tells the morning show that she...
November 22, 2010
We bet the folks at The Plaza could not be more upset with themselves today for letting heinous man bad boy actor Charlie Sheen into their hotel with a call girl where he promptly went on a coke and alcohol binge that culminated in a serious hotel room trashing...
October 27, 2010
Folks, we might have a winner--it looks like Charlie Sheen has beat out David Hasselhoff for Best Celebrity Performance in a hotel because this one is a doozy.The NY Post reports that police were called to the The Plaza Hotel last night after Sheen, "drunk and naked", trashed his...
October 26, 2010
After watching Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino completely break down these past two weeks on "Jersey Shore" (fighting Angelina, trying to pull a robbery on Vinny's cougar girl, smacking Snooki in the mouth) as well as on "Dancing with the Stars" (his wooden dancing skills were voted off this week),...
October 15, 2010
Late-night diners at The Plaza Hotel's Oak Room restaurant got a hairy surprise yesterday, when Lady Gaga sauntered in to give an impromptu performance. She was surrounded by security of course, and clad in a bodysuit made of hair, Gaga jammed with one of her musician friends, Brian Newman,...
September 30, 2010
It's been almost six months now since we heard that New York's infamous Plaza Hotel was extending their Eloise shop into a hotel suite of the character's very own, and now we've got pictures of the finished product. While the Eloise slumber party package is $3,450 per night, a...
August 02, 2010
You already know that we love our Summer Cocktails and we have to admit that we also love a healthy splash of Bad Celebrity Behavior at hotels. So you can imagine our joy to learn that the Oak Room at The Plaza has created an awesome mash-up of these two...
July 22, 2010
Looks like Eloise will have the ultimate sugar daddy to follow around at The Plaza in New York. The Wall Street Journal reports that none other than Steve Wynn has bought the massive penthouse apartment at the hotel for just a meager $23 million.The nine-room apartment is entered on...
July 15, 2010
When you bring Junior to a hotel, why put him up in some boring beige room? Win the best-parent-ever award by staying a colorful SpongeBob or Dr. Seuss suite that'll also score him lots of swag. We scoured around the most kid-friendly hotels to find the ones with the...
June 30, 2010
Today everyone is geeking about the new iPhone 4.0 but come September hotel geeks will be geeking out over the iPads in each room at The Plaza. Earlier this week, the hotel announced a new partnership with Intelity, a hospitality software solution company, to create a custom iPads for...
June 24, 2010
Ah, it's just like Upstairs, Downstairs! While Todd English is holding court with his new food hall down in the basement, the men in white gloves upstairs at The Plaza are getting ready to give you the business. That is, the hotel has just introduced its new Business Butler...
June 23, 2010
There's a good reason that The Plaza's basement mini shopping mall has been failing so horribly since it opened a couple years ago. No one goes down there! And after bakery Demel closed recently, it was completely sans spots to eat...until now. On Friday, the Plaza Shops opened The...
June 07, 2010
Brooding celebrity chef with "bedroom eyes" Todd English is having a busy, busy year. First, he opened Public Urban Bar (P.U.B) inside CityCenter in Las Vegas. Then we learned he would be helming the new restaurant inside the forthcoming Intercontinental Times Square and last month, we found him aboard...
June 02, 2010
One million people may have splurged on an Apple iPad but if you're not keen on shelling out $500+ for the hottest new gadget, you can get your fix at these hotels.* We'll be keeping tabs on hotels that offer iPads either for guest use in-room or in the...
May 05, 2010
The retail shops within The Plaza Hotel have somewhat been considered a failure but the hotel is not giving up on the basement space just yet. The Todd English food hall is expected to open sometime this spring and two new stores have just announced they will be opening...
April 22, 2010
Do hoteliers pick their design team based on who they are sleeping with? We sincerely hope not. But we have a feeling that it does happen this way quite a lot. While we absolutely love Edie on "How to Make It in America," it looks like partyboy/bisexual hotelier, Darren,...
March 29, 2010
When one door closes, another one opens. Even when it comes to hotel eateries. And so it is at The Plaza, where there's good news for a change. After closing in January 2009, the hotel's iconic Palm Court restaurant will reopen on April 12.It wasn't so long ago that...
March 24, 2010
You probably dont think twice about how your bellhop or your front-desk clerk looks, as long as they schlep your bags and check you in quickly. But as we found out when we got our very own Fashion 26 concierge uniform, a lot of effort goes into making hotel employees...
February 25, 2010
Retail space at The Plaza circa April 2009.It's no secret that The Plaza has had a rough go of things outside its fancy hotel rooms, particularly in obtaining a thriving retail space in its basement mall. Yes, there is an Eloise Shop and Chef Todd English is planning on...
February 22, 2010
Cant afford the Live Like Eloise Slumber Party Package at New Yorks The Plaza Hotel? What kind of parent are you? Its only $3,450 a night! OK, so there is a recession going on and we should all be fiscally responsible, yadda yadda. Don't worryfor the rest of us, The...
February 11, 2010
The NY Times has a depressing article about the faded star that is The Plaza Hotel in New York. It turns out the massive renovation that took place a few years ago--which included creating a bunch of overpriced apartments inside--has been largely a failure. At least on the residences and...
January 18, 2010
We must have missed this one during our Thanksgiving tofurkey coma but it looks like celeb chef Todd English is partnering up with The Plaza Hotel in New York to create an ambitious upscale food court hall that will open in Spring 2010. Say what?Yes, The Plaza Food Hall...
December 22, 2009
Snowstorm and canceled flights left you stranded in New York City for the holidays? Avoiding your family? A foreigner? Just hate cooking? Look, we know how it is. We were Christmas orphans just a few years ago, but wound up having a lovely gourmet holiday feast at Town in...
December 21, 2009
We went to afternoon tea at The Plaza last Sunday. Whoopdee do. It was perhaps the worst and most expensive tea service we've ever had, and yet this was The Plaza, for Pete's sake. We were excited, we were going with two friends, and we knew the hotel would...
December 11, 2009
How much is that Santa in the window? No really, how much did New York's Plaza Hotel pay to get this guy, who has a full real beard and the perfect joviality for this gig? We're guessing big bucks, considering the custom Santa suit complete with The Plaza's crest...
December 09, 2009
If you think that little girls go gaga over American Girl, then you haven't realized that little girls will love anything pink and pint-size. This past weekend, we hit up The Plaza Hotel to check out how the holiday tourist season was treating it, and also to wander down...
December 07, 2009
Don't call it a comeback, Eloise has been here for years. Funny that when The Plaza Hotel initially put forth plans to renovate the famed building into luxury residences, all traces of its most famous guests, Kay Thompsons fictional character Eloise, would have been erased. But someone somewhere had...
December 01, 2009
The Yankees and The Phillies are set to square off in the 2009 World Series Championships on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium and tickets on Stubhub.com are starting out at nearly $300 a piece. That's definitely steep but if you're a fan, then money's no object. Your hotel room, however,...
October 26, 2009
Is the Plaza turning into the ultimate girly hotel? First the ladies of "Sex and the City." Now Bestey and Eloise.Perhaps realizing what a faux pas it was to mess with Eloise's house in the first place, The Plaza has just announced a partnership with fashion designer Betsey Johnson...
September 15, 2009
We should have known that a picky dictator only picks the best hotels, regardless of availability of first-floor suites. We guess Libyan dictator Moammar al-Qaddafi doesn't read HotelChatter (thank god), because he sure didn't read our Top Three Recommendations for him during his stay in New York for his...
September 11, 2009
Yes, Sex and The City fervor has swept up New York City once again and much like the first SATC movie, we've learned hotels will play a part in the show. While The Bryant Park Hotel got love from the four ladies the last go-around, The Plaza, which re-opened...
September 09, 2009
The Gramercy Park Hotel, which by the way, is still a five-star hotel.All of the sudden the outlook for the hospitality industry seems to have gone from bad but with hope on the horizon, to worse with drastic cost-cutting measures now taking place. Indeed, 2009 has been one of...
August 26, 2009
Like us, we know you've probably been waiting six months to again drool over the list of restaurants taking place in New York's biannual Restaurant Week, a foodie festival anticipated by locals and tourists alike. The fun actually begins now, since reservations recently opened and everyone scrambles for the...
July 08, 2009
As you're checking into The Plaza, look closely at your bellman: does he seem to have a went-out-of-style in 2002 goatee that appears to be fake-ish? Does that stubble look airbrushed? Do those deep brown eyes look a little... feminine? Maybe it's Mariah Carey in drag, then. Okay, not...
July 01, 2009
You know how every year The Today Show picks a lucky couple and throws them a wedding? Well, you should they've been doing it for ten years now. And in '09, on the official tenth anniversary of "Today Throws a Wedding," four couples will go through a series...
June 29, 2009
Our recent stay at The Plaza made us believers in a place we were having a hard time believing in for a while. Earlier this year, we were asking whether we thought Eloise, Kay Thompson's fictional, most-notorious little Plaza-dweller, would even want to stay at the Plaza anymore ...
June 16, 2009
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face,...
June 04, 2009
Our Guess The Hotel game from yesterday wasn't that hard at all, as all of you correctly guessed the hotel with the pretty bathroom was The Plaza. Yes, we were able to spend a night in Eloise's newly renovated "house" and while The Plaza no longer feels like The Plaza,...
June 04, 2009
Weren't kidding about the Tesla electric car taking up brief residence at The Plaza Hotel, and today it arrived to a gaggle of delighted tourists and confused hotel guests. Granted that it's a day late in showing up, which leads us to think that this might be a one-day...
May 01, 2009
It may be auto show time in the more car-centric cities of the United States, but New York City, as usual, has other plans. Instead of packing a convention center with the newest gas-guzzlers, the city will have one of the Tesla Model S electric cars on display for...
April 29, 2009
Still not keen to spring for a night at The Plaza Hotel despite our secret discount? There may still be a way into the grand dame without having to endure the painful silence of its Retail Collection: free architecture tours! Beginning this week, the revered old property will launch...
April 08, 2009
UPDATE: The Booker ID # listed below has since been retired, rendering the promo code useless. Sorry! This might be just the deal to get you out of your staycation mode and into a hotel. We just got our hands on the unpublished Fairmont Hotels "Friends and Family" code.Use the...
April 07, 2009
What was once the Palm Court Restaurant This weekend, we were out and about in Manhattan when we decided to pop in and take a little peek at the Plaza Hotel to see how things were going. If you'll recall, we've been a little bit worried about how this New...
April 06, 2009
New York's iconic Plaza Hotel may be having serious issues after renovation, but that isn't phasing the equally historic Pierre Hotel at all as it preps for a June 1 grand reopening. Situated on the Upper East Side amongst diamond dealers and ritzy boutiques, The Pierre is out to...
March 17, 2009
Good lord. It's getting exhausting counting up all the reported issues at the once-grand, now-faltering Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. First there was the overpriced re-opening, the unflattering reviews, the new full-time tenants totally unsatisfied with their living quarters for which they'd shelled out many a pretty penny. There were...
March 04, 2009
Okay people, what is going on at The Plaza? Since the iconic Manhattan hotel closed, underwent a major reno and reopened with more condos and out-of-control room rates, there have been some reports of some, er, challenges. We thought we were being too hard on the Plaza when it...
February 27, 2009
If you've been a guest or resident at the iconic Plaza Hotel any time since 1963, you've surely encountered Ed Trinka, the gentleman who's spent the last 4 decades as the Plaza's Fifth Avenue doorman. Today, we bid farewell to him: today is his last day of work (on...
February 26, 2009
Now that we've given you some time to recover from your extreme case of apartment envy after we showed you the video of the penthouse level terrace suites inside The Plaza, we've determined just how much you will need to live here for a year. Are you sitting down? You...
February 18, 2009
Today is the day that stilettos and mascara wands invade the area around Bryant Park in New York City as Fashion Week winds up for weeks-worth of designer runway shows. With over 200 shows and presentations planned, not all can be held in the temporary tents at the official...
February 13, 2009
We're not exactly sure how you go about fully getting your money's worth when paying $20K a night for The Plaza's recently renovated penthouse-level Royal Terrace Suite. We suggest not leaving for more than fifteen minutes because the room runs you roughly $833 an hour. We were able to tour...
February 12, 2009
Looks like those $775 room rates and a hottie chef couldn't save The Palm Court inside the iconic yet newly renovated Plaza Hotel. Elad Properties has officially close the restaurant which they only fully-restored a year ago. Crain's New York reports: The underperforming eatery had struggled to attract customers...
January 08, 2009
While heading up and down Fifth Avenue in the final days before Christmas, we followed the pedestrian flow right into the festive lobby of The Plaza. Bustling with activity as guests checked into their rooms and tourists checked out the surroundings, the lobby forms the heartbeat of the hotel,...
December 24, 2008
Bloomberg's Ryan Sutton went inside the Plaza Hotel's legendary Oak Room and, um, to put it lightly: he wasn't so into it. Before we get to his scathing review, a bit of background: The Oak Room opened up way back in 1907 as a men's bar, closed during...
December 23, 2008
That Gucci event Madonna hit up Wednesday night? Turns out lots of big-name celebs were there and (control yourselves, Twilight nerds) Robert Pattinson was there too. On Wednesday night, Gucci celebrated the launch of their new Tattoo Heart collection with a super swanky celebratory dinner at the Plaza...
November 21, 2008
Fresh from opening his Chambers Kitchen restaurant inside of Minneapolis' new hot property, The Chambers Hotel, New York chef extraordinaire Jean Georges Vongerichten has returned to the Big Apple to take up another hospitality project. Jean Georges, who always has something cooking with hoighty-toighty hotels, already owns swanky restaurants...
October 14, 2008
The Plaza -- yes, that Plaza -- has been under so much stress lately: the $400 million dollar renovation and shift toward a more residential focus was one thing, but now there are lawsuits flying around over the exorbitantly-priced condos that turned out to be a lil' crappy. Plus, you...
October 07, 2008
We wrote last week about how the Plaza Hotel's developers were stung last week with a steep lawsuit by Andrei Vavilov, the Russian hedge fund manager not at all pleased with the conditions of his $53.3-million penthouse. This week, the Plaza bit back. That's right, a copy of a defamation...
September 19, 2008
Oh dahlings, the Plaza makes us want to order champagne room service, "happen upon" an Almost Famous-style room party, or at the very least play Macaulay Culkin for the day. Celebration, it seems, would be untimely though, as that gilded giant of New York infamy appears to have fallen...
September 11, 2008
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.· Jen and Brad Reunite Over Drinks: Supposedly, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt had...
September 09, 2008
Isn't it always sunny at The Plaza? You'd think that after coming out of their $400 million dollar renovation they would be able to control the weather. Especially if guests are spending upwards of $800 a night, the stay better be perfect for enjoying the Plaza's prime location on...
July 24, 2008
We didn't know that the legendary New York hotel, The Plaza was churning out their very own brand of mattresses until we stopped into a mattress store in Santa Monica over the weekend.The Plaza has partnered with Stearns & Fosters mattresses to create special mattresses which are actually used in...
July 21, 2008
New York's grandiose Plaza Hotel is bringing in some equally high-brow retail tenants to solidify its reputation as something special. After luxe British cell phone brand Vertu opened their second US store in the Plaza (the first is in Vegas, natch) at the end of April, the Warren-Tricomi salon followed...
July 18, 2008
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.· Hillary's Hotel Dilemma: TMZ is reporting that Hillary staffers are trying to unload...
June 18, 2008
After a few years of living elsewhere, Eloise has returned to The Plaza again. A portrait of the six-year-old children's book heroine was returned to its original resting place on the near the famous Palm Court dining room. The child actress Jordana Beatty, who will play Eloise in an upcoming...
May 15, 2008
Hotels are slowly moving beyond the bar, nightclub and restaurant trend to add some hip retail spaces in their properties. Of course, this is nothing new as some hotels have been doing this already for a long time. But what is news is the report of a Louis Vuitton store...
April 30, 2008
We just finished reading about the lavish new Palm Court Restaurant and Champagne Bar at the Plaza Hotel, wherein the Bloomberg review by critic Ryan Sutton left us gasping for some free-er air. Having completed the $1 billion re-do of the 1907 landmark hotel, the folks at Fairmont decided to...
March 20, 2008
Republican presidential nominee John McCain is hosting a huge campaign fundraiser tomorrow night at the totally un-affordable and totally unreasonably-priced Plaza Hotel tomorrow night.However, his supporters may actually be able to cough up the $1,000-a-night room rates.According to NY Mag, the host committee is a bunch of wealthy and powerful...
March 10, 2008
Just yesterday, we were saying that the restaurant at Six Columbus sits in the middle of a "culinary wasteland." We should've turned our eyes a little east of Columbus Circle. Two hotels along Central Park South have opened fancy new restaurants, and a third, in The Plaza's Oak Room, will...
March 07, 2008
Ouch. And we thought we were being too hard on The Plaza Hotel's re-opening but this Bloomberg reporter had even harsher words.Architect critic James S. Russell has pretty much panned the restoration from the lobby to the rooms. Actually, he's admired the restoration effort, calling it impeccable, particularly the return...
March 07, 2008
Yesterday, we got a little heated when discussing the audacity of The Plaza to charge $755 and up for its rooms and to tack on a $14.95 WiFi charge.We've cooled down a bit today but not much. Here's a snapshot that Ryan Charles added to the HotelChatter Flickr Pool of...
March 05, 2008
The Plaza has reopened and everyone is just wetting their pants over the fact that it's open again. Well, except the people who bought the apartments in there because it's apparently pretty empty on those floors.And while many tourists want to check out the new digs, not everyone is going...
March 04, 2008
We never thought we'd see the day! The Plaza is finally taking reservations. The historic hotel officially re-opens March 1. At $755 a night, we don't predict a lot of folks will be rushing over to book a room ASAP. (Particularly since you can stay at Six Columbus for under...
February 28, 2008
Fashion Week begins tomorrow in Manhattan. We hope you have been starving yourself! We have. It turns out being sick totally helps you lose weight. You should try it. Go outside with your hair wet and you'll look like a skinny minnie in no time. Here's the latest round-up of...
January 31, 2008
While The Plaza Hotel faces opening delays and Oak Bar woes, there is some good news to be had. The hotel has appointed an executive chef Didier Virot who will oversee the Palm Court restaurant, in-room dining as well as two new spaces---the Champagne Bar and the Rose Club.Straight from...
January 17, 2008
[Ed. Note: Jaunted editor Paul Brady is on his way to Sundance as we type but he managed to file one last story before he hits the powder. The snow powder, not the Hollywood kind.]The re-opening of New York's historic Plaza hotel may be delayed, but that isn't stopping Arthur...
January 15, 2008
The renovated Plaza Hotel was supposed to re-open this month but Kitty Beyonce over at Hotel Hotsheet is saying the opening has been called off.The website still says the century-old hotel is due to reopen at the end of 2007. But when I called the Plaza reservations number (888-240-7775 ),...
December 20, 2007
With the Plaza Hotel to re-open in January, it's getting to be crunch time for the famous Oak Room restaurant. Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair was looking to take over the legendary bar and restaurant last July but Page Six says that he has backed out.Carter partnered up with...
December 10, 2007
We last heard that reservations for the renovated Plaza Hotel on Central Park would be open sometime in mid-December but it appears you can make reservations now. HotelChatter Tipster Franciscus L. writes us: The Fairmont hotels website is finally up. Yet under accommodations, the ONLY category of rooms with a...
October 22, 2007
Work is far from finished on The Plaza, but it's always a good sign when scaffolding comes down as a project gets closer to completion. With the historic hotel set to re-open in January, it's probably for the better that the only work left to do is interior. That said,...
September 28, 2007
We are still reeling over the impending apocalypse of the hotel world--Six Columbus opening in the third week of October--but we have pulled ourselves together just a bit to give you some more hotel opening news. And remember, if you have some hotel opening news we wanna hear it. Send...
September 26, 2007
Mymymymymy. Remnants from the glory days of The Plaza were put on sale yesterday by Christies auction house. The auction was estimated to net $750,000 but instead totalled $1,760,760. Someone plunked down $42,000 for the hotel's old Steinway baby grand piano, just a small price to pay for a...
March 16, 2006
Heard about this yet? The new owners of The Plaza hotel, Elad Properties, have reached a tentative agreement with the New York hotel Trades Council today to keep some "elegant interior space" intact and Elad Properties also agreed to cut down the number of condos and increase hotel space....
April 14, 2005
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