The SLS Hotel at South Beach
The second outpost of SLS Hotels, from hotelier/nightlife king Sam Nazarian, set to open in 2012.
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Hotel Coverage: The SLS Hotel at South Beach
SLS Hotels Heart Miami With New Brickell Hotel Announcement
SLS Hotels are really feeling Miami these days. Almost a year after opening the SLS South Beach and just a few months after snapping up The Raleigh, the boutique hotel chain from sbe and Sam Nazarian has just announced a third hotel for the area--SLS Brickell, an up and...
March 13, 2013
People's Choice Award: The NoMad
It's that time of year again: the 2012 HotelChatter Awards! Today and Monday, we'll be showcasing the best (and worst) of hotels over the past year. But we couldn't do it without you! Let us know your thoughts in the comments below, or shoot us an email. And the Award...
December 31, 2012
Best Hotel Opening of 2012: SLS South Beach
It's that time of year again: the 2012 HotelChatter Awards! Today and Monday, we'll be showcasing the best (and worst) of hotels over the past year. But we couldn't do it without you! Let us know your thoughts in the comments below, or shoot us an email. And the Award...
December 28, 2012
W SoBe Owner and SLS Master Finally Admit To Buying Miami’s Raleigh Hotel
Today, David Edelstein – owner of W South Beach – and Sam Nazarian – the wizard behind the sbe brand and owner of the new SLS Hotel South Beach announced plans to join ranks and buy Miami’s Raleigh Hotel. Now, when we chatted over this in August, no one...
December 21, 2012
Dying For A Glass Of Champagne? There's A Hotel App For That
Yesterday, we showed you a newfangled device that helps guests suss out all the dining/beverage/activites options available in the hotel they're staying at. But what if you're so darn lazy comfortable that you'd just rather not leave your room at all? Well, the obvious answer is: room service. But SLS...
December 21, 2012
Who is Running The Raleigh Hotel in Miami Now?
There's a reason we call our coverage of the Miami hotel scene Miami Hotel Mambo--things are always changing down there at a rapid pace. Like what's happened recently with The Raleigh Hotel.After hottie hotelier Andre Balazs gave up the property a few years ago, we found things to be...
August 22, 2012
The SLS Opening Bell Gets Rung in South Beach
A few years ago when the very first SLS Hotel opened in Los Angeles, we were on hand to witness the opening festivities which included speeches from hotelier Sam Nazarian and the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, and the ringing of an SLS bell.Well, yesterday, the bell traveled down...
June 27, 2012
Here, There and Everywhere: We Found Some More Summer Hotel Deals to Book
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...
June 26, 2012
More SLS South Beach! Including a Sneak Peek of Hyde Beach
That's right: we're not done babbling about SLS South Beach. There's lots to love about this hotel and we've only experienced some of it. To go with our room gallery and taste of The Bazaar by Jose Andres, we now bring you a slideshow of the hotel's other public spaces,...
June 14, 2012
Welcome to Miami, Jose Andres: Dining at SLS South Beach
Now we've slept and told, it's time to move onto one of the most exciting parts of the SLS South Beach: the food. The hotel comes with its own tried-and-true brands, which puts it ahead of the game already. So if you love Katsuya or The Bazaar by Jose Andres...
June 13, 2012
We Slept Like Stars at SLS South Beach. Will You?
If you follow our Miami Hotel Mambo coverage, you'll know that the South Beach hotel scene has been dominated by buzz for one hotel and one hotel only in 2012. There's lots of rebrandings and renovations and reality shows going on but nothing has captured our attention quite like...
June 12, 2012
Where and When Will SLS Open Next?
Forgive this crappy lopsided photo that we snapped on Sunset Boulevard the other week but as the SLS South Beach prepares to open to hotel guests tomorrow, we thought it was interesting to see where and when SLS is opening next.As the billboard above shows, SLS New York should happen...
June 06, 2012
Choose Your Summer Hotel Adventure with These Hot Hotel Deals
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...
June 05, 2012
SLS South Beach Has Its First Check-In... And It's a Duck
Despite rumblings of a soft opening soon after Memorial Day, SLS South Beach has yet to thrown open its doors and much ballyhooed front terrace. (That's happening on Thursday, see below for more.)But that doesn't mean no one has checked in--last week, this giant duck did. With design god Philippe...
June 05, 2012
More Hot Hotel Talk With Hospitality Designer Lenny Kravitz
After picking Lenny Kravitz's brain about his designs for SLS South Beach, we wanted more. So without further ado, here's Part 2 of our interview with Kravitz, where we delve deeper into his design inspirations and his hotel must-haves as he travels the world for that other day job...
May 30, 2012
Lenny Kravitz Takes Us into His Design World as He Dishes on SLS South Beach
We've heard why sbe founder Sam Nazarian wanted to work with Kravitz Design Inc.—yeah, that'd be Lenny Kravitz to you—on SLS South Beach. But we wanted to hear from the designer himself. Who wouldn't, right? Here's what Kravitz had to say about his work on the SLS SoBe penthouse...
May 29, 2012
Philippe Starck Walks Us Through His SLS South Beach Designs
Welcome to Design Thursdays! This is our day to focus on hotel design through photo tours, video walk-throughs and interviews with hotel designers. Got a cool hotel design story we should know about? Let us know.We've seen the renderings and they sure look pretty. But as we all know,...
May 17, 2012
SLS South Beach's Secret Weapon: The Front Terrace
Much of the hype around the SLS South Beach has been over the food truck or the Kravitz Design Inc-ified bungalow by the pool. But there's one other aspect of the new hotel that sbe founder Sam Nazarian is pretty excited about--the front terrace. Here's what Nazarian told us about...
May 15, 2012
SBE's Sam Nazarian Dishes On The Star Designers of SLS South Beach
It's no secret that we're psyched for the upcoming June opening of SLS South Beach. As June 14 gets closer (and we hear rumors that the hotel will soft open even sooner), details of the room decor is starting to trickle out. But what's the official line? We spoke to...
May 14, 2012
Here's What You Can Expect to Find in SLS South Beach's Pink Bathrooms
Just in time for the opening of SLS South Beach with their pretty pink bathrooms, sbe has unveiled their Ciel Spa toiletry line which will now be found in all sbe hotels (SLS at Beverly Hills, The Redbury and the Four Points by Sheraton at LAX).Named after the SLS...
May 09, 2012
The SLS South Beach Sure Looks Sexy (Thanks to That Mirror on the Ceiling)
The SLS South Beach doesn't open for another two months but we're finally getting a little more insight as to what the second-ever SLS Hotel will look like. And like most things, in South Beach, it will be oozing sex appeal. But only up in the guestrooms. The rest of...
April 25, 2012
SBE Doubles Down With Two Hydes in Miami
Clearly, American Airlines Arena was feeling left out: Sun Life Stadium has an offshoot of the Fontainebleau's LIV and the new Marlins Ballpark has a Clevelander bar. So, which hotel jumped in to complete the hotel-nightclub-inside-a-Miami-stadium triumvirate? That would be the The SLS Hotel at South Beach, which will launch...
April 20, 2012
Opening Night at SLS South Beach Costs Just a Little More Now
When we checked in earlier this month on the upcoming SLS South Beach, rooms were opening up on June 14 at $325 a night. My how things have changed. Somewhat..The good new is that the hotel's reservations system is still saying June 14 for opening. However, prices have gone...
March 26, 2012
Rezzies Now Open at SLS South Beach, From $325 a Night
Hmm, perhaps May 8 is not the official opening day for The SLS Hotel at South Beach, after all. Reservations are now open at the hotel's website and the first date you can book is June 14. Perhaps there'll be a soft opening before that -- or maybe it will...
March 09, 2012
Is May 8 The Big Day For SLS South Beach?
As you can see from our snapshot above, the work on The SLS Hotel at South Beach is in full gear. That's the building at the rear of the hotel that will house the poolside bungalows (including one by Lenny Kravitz Design) looking very close to what the rendering promised....
February 27, 2012
Showering at SLS South Beach Will Make You Pretty in Pink
With the opening of The SLS Hotel at South Beach coming up in April, we're officially in stalking mode. Don't worry, we're not creeping around the construction site, a bunch of roses and unrequited love notes in hand. But we are checking out the hotel's website and Facebook page religiously,...
February 02, 2012
5 Hotel Openings We're Excited About in 2012*
*The first part of 2012 at least. So many good hotels are opening this year!As the first week of the new year draws to a close, we've already been pleasantly surprised by some great hotel news like the start of a new brand in China from IHG as well...
January 05, 2012
'Something Lovely's Starting': SLS South Beach Will Finally Open in April 2012
It's finally official--the long awaited SLS South Beach will open in April 2012! This will mark the second SLS Hotel to open after the flagship one in Los Angeles and hotelier Sam Nazarian is pulling out all the stops, combining pretty much all of his restaurant and nightclub hotspots...
November 02, 2011
The Shortlist of Shiny New Hotels Coming to Miami
The forecast for 2012 in Miami? Hot as hell with a deluge of new and newly renovated hotels. In fact, there's been so much Miami Hotel Mambo-ing going on of late that we're getting dizzy. To help us all keep things straight, we created this Shortlist of Shiny New Hotels...
September 28, 2011
Forget The Big-Name Restos, Sally Hershberger's Coming to SLS South Beach
UPDATE: Despite getting our news from a solid source a little while back, it appears that the plans were not finalized or have changed. After we published this story, we heard from the publicity team repping SLS, who said that our info was inaccurate and Hershberger won't be moving into...
August 11, 2011
Lenny Kravitz to Work His Hotel Sex Magic on The SLS South Beach
We didn't think it was possible but the hotel scene in South Beach is going to get a whole lot sexier next spring. SLS Hotel South Beach has just announced that Lenny Kravitz is designing some suites for them.SBE, the parent company of SLS Hotels and run by nightlife...
July 11, 2011
Maybe Now the SLS South Beach Will Finally Get Going
Just a week after we wrote about the dismal renovation progress at the SLS South Beach comes news that Sam Nazarian's SBE company has landed a major new partner with deep pockets, Colony Capital.The Wall Street Journal reports that Colony bought a minority stake for about $35 million and...
January 12, 2011
How Much Did It Used to Cost to Stay at the Ritz Plaza Miami Beach?
$6. That's how much it used to cost to spend a night at the Ritz Plaza Miami Beach when the hotel first opened in 1946. Before that, it had been known as the Grossinger Beach Hotel but it always had air-conditioning! Thanks to our Man in Miami crush, Gregg...
January 05, 2011
The SLS South Beach is Making Zero Progress
The last time we checked in on the SLS Miami, formerly known as the Ritz Plaza Miami Beach, we learned that when it opens sometime in 2012, it would probably not be a Starwood Hotel. That we were cool with if only just a tad intrigued about what was going...
January 04, 2011
So Long Starwood? SLS Miami May Not Be a Starwood Hotel
We've been eagerly anticipating the follow-up to the SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills (to say the least) and we've got our heads turned towards Miami which is where hotelier Sam Nazarian is set to open SLS at South Beach in 2012, after renovating the old Ritz Plaza hotel. Last we...
October 25, 2010
Is the SLS Hotel Miami Still On Track For 2011?
One of our recent hotel-spy strolls in South Beach led us past the site of the SLS Hotel Miami (formerly The Ritz Plaza), and we realized it had been awhile since we thought of this property at all. Last we heard, there hadn't been a whole lot of progress on...
June 01, 2010
SLS Miami Is Set for 2011, So They Say
Hollywood club impresario and frequent "Hills" guest star Brent Bolthouse may have parted ways with Sam Nazarian and his SBE nightlife company--which also oversees the SLS Hotels. But plans for the hotel's expansion are still on. Sorta. A year ago, we questioned what was happening with this hotel and...
September 29, 2009
What's Happening with The SLS Hotel in Miami?
A reader sent in this snapshot of the old Ritz Plaza in Miami Beach saying that this is supposed to be the site of the new SLS Miami. The first SLS Hotel is set to open in Beverly Hills sometime later this fall and Andrew Calvo reported on Passions of...
August 18, 2008
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