HotelChatter - Stories about Hilton New York

HotelChatter - Stories about Hilton New York http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T05:52:45Z HotelChatter HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/299 New York: Where Should Two Dudes Stay in the City? http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/7/20/223230/059 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/twobeds_dudes.jpg" class="top"> Two beds is a must! <img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/q_n_a.jpg">HotelChatter Questions: In which, the intrepid HotelChatter editors and our hotel maven readers answer hotel questions that pop into our inbox. Have a question for us? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Send it along</a>. Think you have a better answer than we gave, or better yet, want to give a vote of confidence to our answer? Comment away below.A good guy friend of HotelChatter recently asked us where he could stay in NYC with another one of his dude friends while attending another dude friend's bachelor party. Needless to say, they need a room with two beds. He writes (names have been changed): <blockquote>Hey, I am trying to find a hotel for Matt and juliana 2011-07-25T17:01:36-05:00 New York: Saudi King May Have Done Waldorf Guests a Favor By Kicking Them Out http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/12/14/142343/20 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/WA_bed.jpg" class="top">Really, you are sad over this?<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/joe sharkey">Joe Sharkey</a> of the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/business/14road.html?_r=1&hpw">NY Times</a> reported yesterday that some guests at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Waldorf+Astoria/local/188">Waldorf-Astoria</a> were denied their hotel room reservation because King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia had taken over the hotel at the last-minute. Naturally, the guests were all bent out of sorts. But should they have been? Sharkey reports: <blockquote>The Morgans had planned for a festive family gathering in New York, making their reservations last summer for four rooms, including three suites, starting two days before Thanksgiving, on Nov. 23. Mrs. Morgan, who lives in Seattle, said that she and her husband learned only by chance that the rooms were not available when her husband called to make juliana 2010-12-14T14:38:17-05:00 New York : Hilton New York Honored With a 'Green Street' Award. Really. http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/28/14331/356 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/32083/hiltonmidtown.jpg" class="top"> Swarming with smog, exhaust, and buzzing with the din of taxis in neutral, New York's Avenue of the Americas is hardly a location we think of as being environmentally-considerate. A work in progress, maybe, with a little cheerleading needed to nudge it in the right direction. The "Green Street" Award was established by the Avenue of the Americas Association to inspire the thoroughfare's tenants to think eco and find new ways to close the loop. This year, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+New+York/local/299">Hilton New York</a> was honored, and not just because it hosted the ceremony in its Trianon Ballroom last week. Innovative eco-hotels are normally found bourgeois bohemian neighborhoods like the West Village or SoHo, so when we caught wind Heidi Atwal 2009-10-28T15:54:18-05:00 40.7625480 -73.978801 New York: Libyan Dictator Might Be Ruling Over NY's Pierre Hotel Next Week http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/11/0555/97508 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/Qaddafi.jpg" class="top"> 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 <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/31/92959/1294/hotels/Moammar_Takes_Manhattan_Top_3_NYC_Hotels_Picks_For_A_Picky_Dictator">Top Three Recommendations</a> for him during his stay in New York for his meeting with the good old United Nations. Instead, <a href="http://www.luxist.com/2009/09/10/gadhafi-may-bunk-at-the-pierre/">Luxist</a> did some sniffing around in the news to discover that suites have been reserved in Moammar and company's names at several properties not on our list, like <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Pierre/local/941">The Pierre</a>, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Plaza/ian/105314">The Plaza</a>, and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+New+York/local/299">The Hilton</a>. The current favorite seems to be The Pierre, whose rooms begin at $820 a night and have the Taj Pierre JetSetCD 2009-09-11T09:19:53-05:00 New York: Obama's Hotel-Hopping In Manhattan And We Want To Come Along http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/17/03929/0472 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/NaacpObama.jpg" class="top"> There'll be no Broadway play and fancy dinner with Michelle for Obama during this stop in New York. After last week's grueling family trip of international stops including Moscow, Rome and Ghana, President Obama made it back to the States just in time to close off streets in Midtown Manhattan during yesterday's evening rush hour. And what did he do while in The Big Apple? Why, it's our favorite pastime: some good old-fashioned hotel-hopping. After a speech in New Jersey, Obama's big city evening began at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+New+York/local/299">Hilton New York</a> on Sixth Avenue, where he spoke at the NAACP's 100th Anniversary Convention. This hotel is truly the epitome of conference hotels in the city; we can JetSetCD 2009-07-17T08:59:19-05:00 Search HotelChatter Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/