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New York: New York Hotels Hang 'No Vacancy' Signs For Gadhafi And Ahmadinejad

JetSetCD — 2009-09-21T08:44:25-05:00

Gadhafi, Gaddafi, al-Qaddafi...whichever name you want to call Mr. Moammar of Libya, none of them will be allowed to bunk down at Manhattan's swank Pierre Hotel during his time in NYC for United Nations functions. Apparently of all the luxury hotels in New York, Gadhafi and his retinue had set their sights on the luxe Upper East Side hotel on Central Park as his headquarters in New York, but after complaints from current guests (paying four figures a night, so they should have such a say), the hotel turned him away.

Now it looks as though Gadhafi will have to crash at the Libyan Mission; no luxury hotel and room service for this dictator.

New York: Libyan Dictator Might Be Ruling Over NY's Pierre Hotel Next Week

JetSetCD — 2009-09-11T09:19:53-05:00

<![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

New York: Melanie Oudin Not 'Booted Out' of Marriott But She is Shacking Up Elsewhere

juliana — 2009-09-09T14:49:58-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/melaniemarriott.jpg" class="top"> Earlier this morning, we learned that the U.S. Open's star player <a href="Http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/melanie oudin">Melanie Oudin</a> was supposedly <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/8/191356/3844/hotels/US_Open_Savior_Melanie_Oudin_Booted_From_The_Marriott">unable to extend her reservation</a> at a Marriott Hotel after she unexpectedly advanced to the quarter-finals in the tournament. Well, the rumor mill was burning up this morning about whether or not she was booted from the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/New+York+Marriott+Marquis+Times+Square/ian/115902">Marriott Marquis</a>, whether or not she was offered a room at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Marriott+East+Side/ian/125206">Marriott East Side</a> or whether or not she was safely ensconced in the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Intercontinental+The+Barclay+New+York/local/798">Barclay Intercontinental</a>. Now, a Marriott spokeswoman has clarified that Oudin--to the best of their knowledge--was not a guest at the Marriott Marquis. The official statement is here:<blockquote>The New York Marriott Marquis was surprised to

New York: Sarah Palin Does Not Attempt to Lay Low While Hitting Up NYC Hotels

Jenna — 2008-09-24T12:08:12-05:00

Memo to Sarah Palin: if laying low is what you're looking to do, may we gently chime in to let you know that staying at the Millenium Broadway smack in the middle of midtown during your NYC visit is not the way to go about it? It's tourist central over there and, frankly, you and the fam are not going to go unnoticed.

And while we're chit-chatting: can you use your authority to kindly ask the folks at the InterContinental Midtown to do something about those dreadful drapes?

New York: Snapshot :: The Barclay Intercontinental is Totally a Paula Abdul Hotel

Jenna — 2008-08-11T14:37:51-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/PABarclayIntercontinental.jpg" class="imgborder"> Here's a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/special/Paula-Abdul-Hotels">Paula Abdul Hotel </a>for the books: the<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Intercontinental+The+Barclay+New+York/local/798"> Barclay Intercontinental</a> in Manhattan. You know what kind of hotels we're talking about -- we officially define them as "old luxury hotels still coasting by on favorable press from the 1980s and early 1990s; old-looking from the inside and out. A few of them may have had some minor up-keeping done but not necessarily for the better." Check out this shot of a room at the Barclay from our recent stay in Manhattan: those curtains! The yellow bedskirt! And, one thing you can't get from the pic: the overwhelming musty smell in the room, which smelled sort of like our college bathroom's shower stall that we