Today's sweet suite comes courtesy of the W New York Times Square, which has tickled our fancy by renovating their Extreme WOW suite (aka EWOW) and giving it the theme "Peep Show", which is meant to remind guests of "Times Square's Notorious Past Meets Its Amusement Park Present". And...
April 12, 2013
We're no strangers to celebs having total meltdowns in hotels (hi, Charlie Sheen! hi, Lindsay Lohan!), so when we read about 27-year-old actress Amanda Bynes' recent spaz-out at the W New York Times Square, we thought to ourselves, "Of course." In Touch reports that Bynes was enjoying a month-long extended...
April 08, 2013
Don't skip the homemade pasta at Ai Fiori. Carbs be damned. We always find it amusing New York Restaurant Week falls just a few weeks after the new year, when those plum hotel restaurants we've been dying to try, drop their prices for 20 whole days of diet-busting deliciousness....
January 14, 2013
At the beginning of the year we thumbed our noses at New Year's resolutions that involved dieting by showing you a week's worth of decadent meals at the Four Seasons Chicago to start 2013 on a more interesting note. Well, now we guess we better get on the detox...
January 10, 2013
Not too long ago we learned that quite a few of the W Hotels in North America were getting much-needed renovations. Well, today we have in our hands the names of the 11 hotels who will/have receive facelifts in both the public spaces and guest rooms, and in some...
August 29, 2012
When we posted your hotel check-in rituals, some commented on Twitter and Facebook that ordering room service is the first thing they do when settling in. We're a bit nosy, so we asked a few hoteliers and Food & Beverage folks what y'all are ordering--hoping there would be some...
August 15, 2012
This week's special series is for the people who feel guilty about splurging on their hotel room in NYC and are looking for ways to trim other travel costs, like eating out. Thanks to Brian Silverman, the adventurous eater at Fried Neck Bones, and author of the Frommer's New York...
September 22, 2011
brightcove.createExperiences(); Where do you think guests form their first opinion of a hotel? In the room or maybe the bar near reception? Nope, the judgments begin the second they step into the place, into the lobby orinto the elevator foyer at the W Times Square, which surrounds you in...
October 19, 2010
Is the WiFi free? Does the gym have good machines? All these things get noticed when checking into a hotel, but what about the atmosphere of the placespecifically the art on the walls or on the floor? We're highlighting properties around the world that do their artwork right, and...
October 15, 2010
For as many seasons as we can remember, W Hotels has been a huge sponsor of New York Fashion Week. They would set up a backstage VIP lounge, get their logo all over the place and occasionally hand out fun things like mini purple Etch-a-Sketches to fashionistas. This time...
September 17, 2010
W Hotels pride themselves on their fashion forward ways as evidenced by their new W Resort Collection which will debut during New York's Fashion Week but that's not all they've got up their three-quartered sleeve this Fall. For Fashion's Night Out on September 10, W Hotels asked fashion illustrator...
August 31, 2010
This Saturday, August 14, marks the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II and also the anniversary of the iconic kiss between a sailor and a nurse in the middle of Times Square which was capture by LIFE magazine photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt. The nurse in the photo,...
August 11, 2010
Shut the door and have a seat. And fix us a drink while you're at it. Smoke? Don Draper returns to us once again on Sunday night when the fourth season of Mad Men premieres on AMC. And where there is a Don Draper, there is usually a forbidden...
July 23, 2010
If you want to party like a rock star, the W New York-Times Square offers a VIP package that'll get you into Esquire's seventh annual Signature Space Cocktail Party to get your hands up with the single-ladies queen Beyonce herself and other stars. But this last-minute deal is for...
November 03, 2009
Yes, once again it's time for our annual list of Best Hotels For Watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This is our fourth installment and while last year's choices and anything in the vicinity of Times Square still holds true, we decided to do away with the old and...
November 02, 2009
Next weekend is a big weekend in New York. Not only is it Halloween but it's also The New York Marathon which will be held on Sunday, November 1st. If you're in town for costumes, candy, tricks and the Halloween parade, 70 Park Avenue, a Kimpton Hotel, is offering...
October 23, 2009
Magenta hues at the W Times Square We've written about green hotel packages, but pink? The "Share Your Heart" promotion from New York's family of W Hotels proves that philanthropy and pleasure-seeking aren't mutually exclusive, and they've set out to give back to guests who want to do the...
October 09, 2009
There has been a lot of talk recently about the lifestyle of digital nomads -- folks who work from wherever they might roam. HotelChatter has been covering hotel wifi since the beginning, but as we cited in our 2009 annual hotel wifi report times they are a changin'. Hotel:...
August 17, 2009
Straight from the HotelChatter mailbag, a lovely girlfriend wants to take her boyfriend to NYC for a mini-holiday. But no ordinary hotel room will do. No, she is looking for a room kitted out with mirrors or as she puts it "a decent size room that has mirrors above or...
May 14, 2009
Since discovering that the $17 WiFi charge at the W The Court was such a hot-button issue, we will approach the topic of W Hotels with caution and care today but we're pretty sure this won't disturb or upset anyone since this is a good deal. And good...
April 06, 2009
Thanks to Pat+, who dropped this snap into the HotelChatter Flickr Pool, we now have a visual on the new look of the just-renovated W New York Times Square. We weren't sure exactly what "techno-glam cool" meant when they described the rooms' fresh vibes in the press release earlier...
March 27, 2009
Someone just got a serious facelift and for once it's not Joan Rivers or Mickey Rourke. W New York-Time Square scored a full guestroom renovation in W Hotels Worldwide's attempt to keep up with the times, as well as with those young cats who were starting to find W's...
March 24, 2009
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. · Oops, LHW! Can We Try Again?: After the Leading Hotels of the...
October 01, 2008
In which, HotelChatter readers are treated to exclusive hotel deals dug up by us. All deals have a limited amount of rooms attached to them and may sell out quickly. Today's Hotel Deals Free Island Stay $FREE!If you enter the Layover Nation Contest where you suggest a layover stop...
June 19, 2008
While most of us are still stressing about filing our taxes on time (which is tomorrow if you have forgotten), infamous tax-evader Wesley Snipes was having a grand old time at the W Hotel Times Square, according to Page Six.Snipes was at the Living Room in the Times Square W...
April 14, 2008
The stagehand's strike that's crippled Broadway doesn't seem to be affecting hotels just yet. (The same can't be said for restaurants in the Theater District.) We called around to get the scoop, and so far, concierges say upset guests are the worst of the fallout. At the W Times Square,...
November 13, 2007
A few years back we did a list of Hotels on the Macys Parade Route for those of you considering a visit to the Big Apple to see the action live and in person.While not much has changed, there are some new hotels we think are worth a look. Like...
October 24, 2007
[Update: We just heard from W's PR folks, and this get-away is only for the Extreme WoW suite at W New York.] Umm...can we really put a $70,000 package in the "deals" section? W's "What a Life!" weekend just may be the most expensive weekend package we have ever...
May 20, 2005
[Publisher's Note: We actually have a few photos of this W suite that we will put up soon, along with the rack rate of the room. Enjoy megn323's take.] If you're gonna do it, then sometimes you should really just do it - particularly if its your birthday and you're...
April 29, 2005
[Photo Shoot by HotelChatter photographer Noah Kalina.] Hotel: W Times Square Floor: 45th Floor Room Number: 4511 Current Price: $579 a night (best available rate) Square Footage: 560 SQ FT Highlights: The Views, Sirius Satellite Radio, Spacious Suite, Sweet Bed Question: Isn't It Time To Upgrade To Flat Screen TVs?...
April 20, 2005
W Catwalk Package For 2.5.05 Wonder twin powers, activate! Form of...tall, gaunt model. Yup, that's right Fashion Week is set to kick off this Friday in NYC, and W Times Square is ready to hook you up with an exclusive Fashion Week package. For $750 you get a W...
February 03, 2005
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