HotelChatter - Tag: Apple Core Hotels

New York: Off With The Red Roof in NYC: Introducing Nyma

MsRebecca — 2010-07-20T10:00:27-05:00

Being a Red Roof Inn may mean instant brand recognition, but the Manhattan outpost of the budget chain is busting out of the box, shaking off that red roof and going solo. Yep, the former Red Roof Inn on 32nd Street is now Nyma—the New York Manhattan Hotel.

This isn't the first time Apple Core Hotels has de-branded one of their New York properties—last time it was The Hotel @ Times Square, which ditched its old Super 8 identity.

Free of franchise rules, the hotels have more freedom to be themselves. And for Nyma, that means a design overhaul.

New York: The Roaming Gnome Has Competition from Apple Core Hotels' New Mascot, Appleton

Jennifer Kester — 2010-01-20T15:25:03-05:00

Apple Core HotelsAppleton to get around as much as Travelocity's ubiquitous Roaming Gnome.

To get the fruity guy some love, the company is hosting an Adventures with Appleton contest, in which the winners will get Apple iPods, you know, to go with the whole apple theme. But don't take out your camera yet; this contest is just for the kiddies.

New York: Buon Appetito! Apple Core Hotels Tempt With NYC Gelato Tours

shiralevine — 2009-05-06T13:21:48-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/gromgelato.jpg" class="top"> While New Yorkers pray for the out-of-nowhere blustery days to vanish for good, disgustingly hot weather is just around the corner. But it's tutto benne in the gelato 'hood. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/apple core hotels">Apple Core Hotels</a> (the company behind the La Quinta Inn Manhattan, Red Roof Inn Manhattan, Comfort Inn Midtown, The Hotel @ Times Square, and the Ramada Inn East Side) has put together a <a href="http://www.applecorehotels.com/promotions/gelato">"Gelato Tour"</a> package where fancy ice cream fans can sample the Sicilian style giro del gelato throughout the West Village. Through the room-and-sweets package, aficionados and amateurs get to tour Grom (an Italian gelati chain with old country flair), L'Arte Del Gelato (featuring Italian classics Stracciatella, Cassata Siciliana and biscotti), and

New York: Apple Core Hotels Wants to Find the Fugliest Room in America

Jenna — 2009-04-09T12:42:03-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/jryearroomfug.jpg" class="top"> Got a fugly room in your house? Is your room as fugly as this one?* Or if this is even possible even fuglier? If so, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/apple core hotels">Apple Core Hotels</a> wants to see a photo of it and not just to gawk at it and laugh at it. No no: this is for a contest. The hotel group, the company behind five budget hotels in Manhattan (The Hotel @ Times Square, The Ramada Inn Eastside, The Red Roof Inn Manhattan, the Comfort Inn Midtown and the La Quinta Manhattan), has been majorly renovating and sprucing up their properties lately. In conjunction with this, they've launched an "Ugliest Room Contest" and you can

New York: Look Forward to Tax Day with $4.15 NYC Hotel Rooms

JetSetCD — 2009-03-23T10:41:32-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/AppleCoreHotels.jpg" class="top"> Just like rhythm, the tax man is gonna get you, and thankfully hotels are more sympathetic this year. In New York, where you'd be hard-pressed to find someone not directly affected by the economy, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Apple%20Core%20Hotels">Apple Core Hotels</a>, a collection of five budget-friendly hotels in the center of Manhattan, are swooping in to save tax day with $4.15 rooms for the first two weeks of April. The "Tax Time" package, which even includes free breakfast and coffee along with a central location in the Big Apple, can be had by calling one of the five Apple Core properties—Comfort Inn, The Hotel at Times Square, La Quinta, Red Roof and Ramada East Side—and entering your name into a