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How Many Justin Bieber Bodyguards Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?

ASchechter — 2012-02-13T11:00:01-05:00

Well, judging from how many of them it takes to babysit him while he eats dinner, we're guessing: a lot.

The Biebs was spotted at New York's Dream Downtown on Saturday night, dining at Marble Lane with his pal Usher. According to Page Six, the pair stopped in for a late dinner, and were taken to a corner booth of the ground-floor restaurant. Surrounding them throughout the entire meal were four bodyguards, plus an extra "lookout guy" to make sure no one came close enough to swipe their bread sticks.

Stay? Play? Eat? Chill? You Can Do It All At The Out NYC For Only $150 a Night

ASchechter — 2012-02-13T10:15:02-05:00

That's right, due to a special opening rate (which they've cleverly called the "Coming Out" special), the first guests who stay at The Out NYC will snag rooms starting at just $150/night. Not bad!

The 152-room "straight-friendly" hotel, which opens on March 1 (but who's counting?), has fallen into our good graces with these revised openings rates, which we originally reported would hover around $229/night. Instead, $150/night for a Superior King—that's right, we're not messing around with one of those sleep share dorm-style rooms, at least not until well after the opening—is waaay more to our liking.

A Killer View of Manhattan, While Still in Manhattan

JetSetCD — 2012-02-10T11:35:02-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/1InkLook_1.jpg" class="top"> We told you <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/4/19/16543/4948/hotels/The_Views_From_Press_at_Ink48_Are_Killer_Even_If_Our_Recent_Stay_Was_Not_">once already</a>, back when it first debuted in spring 2010, that the Press rooftop at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Ink48/local/1019">Ink48</a> has New York City views almost impossible to get while in New York City. And now we're saying it again because the weather in the Big Apple has actually been nice enough, off and on this winter, for some rooftop imbibing. The trick to Ink48's killer view is its odd position on the island of Manhattan; it's in Midtown West. No, even further westextreme west Hell's Kitchen, on 11th Avenue practically in the Hudson River. To the west are the cruise ship piers and, to the east, the crop of skyscrapers that radiate out from Midtown.

5 Hotels To Check Out For Fashion Week

ASchechter — 2012-02-10T10:25:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Fashion%20Week%20Hotels">New York Fashion Week</a> officially kicked off yesterday, and for the next week, New York is a sloppy mess of runway events, underpaid models, and too many cocktail parties than we care to count. On the plus side, hotels always get a good piece of the actionhere's a look at five hotel events this week worth your while. <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/AndazFashionWeek.jpeg" class="top">Since October, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Andaz+5th+Avenue/local/1700">Andaz 5th Avenue</a> has been asking a rotating series of local artists to paint murals that represent their "view" of New York. Starting on Sunday, Claw Moneyor Gold, as she is also knownwill superimpose her own bright, raw graffiti style onto the doors of the bar downstairs. So if you see a girl in six-inch heels

And Another Hotel Restaurant Fails To Launch

ASchechter — 2012-02-10T09:41:54-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/Ellabess1.jpg" class="top">Despite a last ditch attempt last month to re-invigorate the space with some leather banquettes and a large communal table, Ellabess, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Nolitan+Hotel/local/1665">The Nolitan</a>'s restaurant, has closed until further notice. A post on <a href="http://ny.eater.com/archives/2012/02/nolitan_hotels_ellabess_to_close_after_seven_months.php">Eater</a> confirms that the owners hope to come up with something new by this spring, though for now the plan seems unclear. Bizarrely, this news comes just three weeks after the abrupt closing of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/12/2/10101/4036">Pillar & Plough</a> over at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Williamsburg/local/4867">Hotel Williamsburg</a>. Granted, those guys are in the process of transitioning to new ownership, so they're (kind of) off the hook. But what's the Nolitan's excuse? As far as we know, nothing about the hotel itself has changed. And after <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/5/2/22590/61160/hotels/">all that