http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-25T03:09:11Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Downtown%20Hotel http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/1/152845/4313 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/greenwich_hotelchatter.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p> Yes, it is true, this is not an April Fools' Day joke, we reserved a room tonight for the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Greenwich+Hotel/local/1047"><b>Greenwich Hotel</b></a> opening, via the Greenwich Hotel website and though our reservation went through last week, late yesterday we received word that our reservation had been canceled at the request of the hotel. A phone call to the hotel's PR reps and the hotel itself confirmed that they were not going to let us sleep there tonight. <p> As loyal readers know we have been following the opening of the DeNiro/Drukier hotel project since the middle of 2004. We followed the constantly "coming soon" North Moore Street hotel through <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/11/7/13812/3232/hotels/DeNiro_s_Hotel_Already_Too_Noisy">loud construction</a>, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/7/23948/37289/hotels/Bobby_DeNiro_s_Greenwich_Hotel_Gets_a_Website_And_Is_Now_Taking_Names">name changes</a>, HotelChatter 2008-04-01T16:22:17-05:00 40.719731 -74.010177 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/8/14380/95278 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/bowery_terracesuite.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><i>The Bowery Hotel's Terrace Suite</i><p>Now that we know how pricey Bobby DeNiro's hotel will be (<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/7/23948/37289/hotels/Bobby_DeNiro_s_Greenwich_Hotel_Gets_a_Website_And_Is_Now_Taking_Names">$725 a night!</a>), it's time to wonder, "Where can we put that much money to good use?" First, a couple NYC options.<br> <p>Good old <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Six+Columbus+Hotel/local/25"><b>Six Columbus</b></a> has a King Suite available for $625, which is the property's priciest room. It comes with all <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/8/235750/641/hotels/We_Spent_the_Night_at_Six_Columbus">the standard amenities</a> plus two flat screen TVs and, of course, tons of square footage. Suites at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Bowery+Hotel/local/220"><b>The Bowery Hotel</b></a> go for $750, where you get hardwood floors, 400 thread count sheets, marble bathrooms and other niceties like outdoor terraces with jacuzzis. The priciest suite at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Duane+Street+Hotel/local/118"><b>Duane Street Hotel</b></a>, in TriBeCa like DeNiro's place, pbb 2008-01-08T14:55:18-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/7/23948/37289 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/greenwich_hotel.png" class="imgborder"><p>Amy over at <a href="http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2008/01/deniros_greenwi_1.php">NewYorkology</a> reported yesterday that the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Greenwich+Hotel/local/1047"><b>Greenwich Hotel</b></a> aka the Downtown Hotel by Robert DeNiro has finally got itself a website. And not only that, it's accepting reservations for April during DeNiro's Tribeca Film Festival then from May onward.<blockquote><p>Reservations are available only April 1 through 20, and then from May 5 onward. All rooms listed thus far are for <b>$725</b> a night. (The odd dates may be explained by the fact that the DeNiro-fueled Tribeca Film Festival is scheduled for April 23 to May 4 for 2008.)</blockquote></p><p>$725 a night? Sheesh, Bobby obviously doesn't want any people outside of "his kind" (i.e. Hollywood and film elite) to stay here. And just when we began to juliana 2008-01-08T09:20:01-05:00 40.719731 -74.010177 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/9/6/122511/5488 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/deniro_downtown_hotel.jpg"><p>What's going on at Robert DeNiro's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Downtown%20Hotel"><b>Downtown Hotel</b></a>? For such a buzz-worthy property, it's been eerily quiet the past six months. (Though the mysterious Down By The Hipster <a href="http://downbythehipster.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-name-hotel.html">blog</a> told us the hotel "will make the Bowery Hotel look like a Red Roof Inn.") We had to put on our reporter caps to dig up even the slightest bit of news. <p>But it's big news, at least to us: According to a spokesbot at NYC and Co., the hotel opening will be delayed until 2008. We originally had the opening date pegged for early this year, but the TriBeCa property is drifting closer and closer to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Six+Columbus/local/25"><b>6 Columbus</b></a> infamy. (A call over to Rockwell Group, the pbb 2007-09-06T12:27:31-05:00 40.720031 -74.010117 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/12/12/125811/51 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/hc_white_house.jpg" align="right"> <p> According to the <a href="http://www.nycvisit.com/home/">NYC &amp; Company</a>, New York City is adding nearly 5,000 new hotel rooms to its current inventory of 70,723 by the end of 2007. That is a lot of hotel rooms, right?<br> <p> Regardless, we have way too much fun following all the supposed NYC hotel openings, and once in awhile these places even toss us a bone and sell rooms for half price during their opening phase--yeah, that is still about $250 a night in Manhattan. So it is time to rundown the most buzzworthy 2007 New York City hotel openings--according to us, of course. &nbsp;As always, these are <i>scheduled</i> openings, and <i>scheduled</i> can quickly turn into <i>delayed</i> or even <i>dead</i> markj 2006-12-12T14:09:56-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/