HotelChatter - Tag: Condo Hotels

New York: New York's Mark Hotel to Get a Five-Star Restaurant Of Its Own

JetSetCD — 2008-10-14T12:56:20-05:00

Fresh from opening his Chambers Kitchen restaurant inside of Minneapolis' new hot property, The Chambers Hotel, New York chef extraordinaire Jean Georges Vongerichten has returned to the Big Apple to take up another hospitality project.

Jean Georges, who always has something cooking with hoighty-toighty hotels, already owns swanky restaurants Mercer Kitchen at The Mercer and the three Michelin star Jean Georges at the Trump International Hotel. His most recent news is a partnership with the tony six-star Mark Hotel to create yet another dining experience and bring the buzz further uptown.

New York: NYC's Plaza Hotel Sued for "Attic-like" Penthouses

KatieK — 2008-09-11T09:55:25-05:00

Oh dahlings, the Plaza makes us want to order champagne room service, "happen upon" an Almost Famous-style room party, or at the very least play Macaulay Culkin for the day.

Celebration, it seems, would be untimely though, as that gilded giant of New York infamy appears to have fallen on a bit of hard times of late. Following well-documented buzz over the Plaza's insane $400 million renovation, the talk of the town had been that the glitterati was getting lonely in the empty hallways of those coveted penthouse apartments.

Las Vegas: The St. Regis Will Offer Residences at the Venetian-Palazzo Complex

AndrewC — 2008-09-08T09:43:40-05:00

The Palazzo Condo tower, which is currently being built in between The Venetian and The Palazzo hotel towers has now been officially named.

And.. Drumroll please... It's going to be the St Regis Residences at the Venetian Palazzo Las Vegas!

The project has been under construction since March, but just this week it was announced that it would end up being a St Regis. It's due to have 398 residences (some fully furnished even!) and they are expecting sales to reach over 2 billion dollars. Sputtering economy be damned!

Robert Falor :: King of "Heartbreak Hotels"

juliana — 2008-09-02T11:56:10-05:00

The NYT recently profiled the most reviled hotel developer on the planet right now and no, it's not Donald Trump.

The man is Robert Falor, the once and former condo-hotel king who almost supported the failed Nicky O hotels venture from Nicky Hilton as well as the failed Rande Gerber/Maxim bar inside the Royal Palm Hotel in South Beach.

And guess what? He's flat broke and has no friends.

Lahaina: Room With a Killer View: Palm Trees on Maui

amandak — 2008-06-26T09:00:06-05:00

<![CDATA[We are suckers for a room with a killer view.  We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view. <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Killer_View_Lahaina_Shores_Maui.jpg" class="imgborder"> It just goes to prove that there's no such thing as too many palm trees, when you stare long and hard at