Finally, there's some good news for the W Austin which recently had to deal with not one but two separate incidents involving falling glass from their hotel, the latter which actually forced closure of the hotel for 11 days. The New York Times has just written a rare glowing...
July 18, 2011
While the W Austin is taking the necessary steps to make its hotel safe from falling glass, it has wisely decided to relocate guests to another hotel.We've got a copy of the letter the hotel gave to its guests on Monday. Indeed the guest who sent us this letter...
June 30, 2011
For the third time in just two weeks, the W Austin shed more glass panels from its increasingly hazardous steel frame. The 36-story building, which houses both the hotel and condominiums, lost several of its window panes on two separate occasions throughout Monday and Tuesday, and now has evacuated all...
June 29, 2011
UPDATE, 3:42PM: W Hotels has released this statement on the two incidents. The W Austin and W Atlanta Midtown incidents are completely unrelated. The circumstances of the two incidents are quite different and they are totally unrelated. At the W Austin, a panel of glass broke on balcony railings on...
June 17, 2011
Update: The W Austin is now open with rooms available at $229 a night on December 10.Yee-haw! The W Austin is just days away from opening and amazingly, the opening date is still the same as it was when we learned a W was opening in Austin last year--December...
December 03, 2010
The soon-to-open W Austin will try to fit in the city nicknamed the Live Music Capital of the Worldwhich boasts more than 200 live music spots and hosts the SXSW music festivalby having its own rocking venue. The hotel, which will anchor a shopping and cultural center complex, will...
September 29, 2010
That's right, "cowboy cool" is coming to Austin in December 2010 when W Hotels open their second Texas property. (The first was the legendary W Dallas.) But fortunately, the place won't cater to just cowboys. Setting the stage for contemporary luxury and cool stylings, W Austin headlines the vibrant...
December 07, 2009
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