HotelChatter - Tag: Gem Hotels

New York: Need Tix for the Tribeca Film Festival? Book a Room at the Gem Chelsea

juliana — 2011-04-14T10:06:58-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/guess_silouhettes.jpg" class="top"> The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off next week and while we've found several hotels with availability and reasonable rates, including these <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/4/12/105947/915/hotels/Where_to_Stay_for_the_Tribeca_Film_Festival">three</a>, getting tickets is a different story. Single tickets and discounted packages are currently <a href="http://www.tribecafilm.com/festival/tickets/">on sale</a> for Amex cardholders. This weekend more tickets will open up to downtown NYC residents while more tickets will be released on April 18 to the general public. Fortunately, the tickets aren't crazy expensive. They start at $8 for matinees and $16 for evenings and weekend screenings. But the add-on charges are silly. For example, it's $3 to order online and $3 to print at home. You could save all that hassle by staying at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Gem+Hotel+Chelsea/local/1386">The GEM Chelsea</a>.

New York: Plan Ahead to Score 20 Percent Off GEM Hotel Rooms and Free Gift Cards

Jennifer Kester — 2010-12-14T12:45:53-05:00

You may be scrambling to find those last-minute Christmas gifts, but you'll want to make a New Year's resolution to drop those procrastination tendencies to get this deal from GEM Hotels. If you book early and prepay in full, you can get 20 percent off of your room.

You really have to be a planner for this one. The New York chain, which has hotels in Chelsea, Midtown West and Soho, will slash the rates, but you will have to pay it all upfront, it's nonrefundable and no changes are allowed. Though you'll be rewarded with rates as low as $135 a night, which is pretty darn good for a Manhattan hotel.

New York: The GEM Hotel Breaks Ground in Union Square

juliana — 2010-10-26T08:45:08-05:00

We've long been a fan of the GEM Hotels in New York after a rather good stay at their Chelsea hotel so if NYC is gonna get yet another new hotel, it might as well be a GEM.

Ground has officially broken on The GEM Hotel Union Square at 52 West 13th Street where a 113-room hotel will open in 2012. Despite having three other properties in Manhattan, this GEM will actually be the brand's flagship hotel.

The building is designed by Andres Escobar and the architect is Gene Kaufman, he of the Tri-Pack Hotel. Fortunately, this hotel will be a little less crazy-looking than the Tri-Pack.

New York: GEM Hotels in New York Now Have an iPad in The Lobby

juliana — 2010-05-20T17:50:43-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/GEMipad.JPG" class="top"> Another week, another batch of hotels that are using <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/5/5/9132/16729/hotels/Where_to_Find_Hotels_With_iPads">iPads!</a> Today we got word that the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Gem+Hotel+Chelsea/local/1386">Gem Hotel Chelsea</a> and the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Gem+Hotel+Soho/local/1392">Gem Hotel <s>LES</s> Soho</a> will now be offering guests the use of an iPad in their lobbies. Here's a snapshot of the Gem Hotel Chelsea's iPad. The Gem Hotel SoHo will get theirs <s>tomorrow</s> on Monday. Guests can use the iPad to listen to music, watch movies, go on Facebook and Twitter, make dinner reservations, play games, look up the NYC subway map or the city's bike route (among other apps). As of now, there's no time limit but the hotel may implement a "borrowing time" later in the future. Check out our

New York: Launch Your Own Hotel Takeover With the GEM Hotel Midtown West

MsRebecca — 2009-11-11T15:14:07-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/30451/GEM_midtownW.jpg" class="top"> Have you ever dreamed of taking over an entire hotel, just like those kids in Hotel for Dogs or like Venezuelan President <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/15/102058/14/hotels/Chavez_Not_Happy_With_Hilton_Installs_Himself_At_Front_Desk">Hugo Chavez</a>? Well, now you can do it without having to set up a makeshift animal shelter or get all nationalistic and chummy with the military. Thats because the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Gem+Hotel+Midtown+West/ian/278497">GEM Hotel Midtown West</a> is inviting guests to takeover all of its 39 rooms. The Hotel Takeover offer is available in January and February 2010, which gives you ample time to save the $5,000 youll need for one night of playing hotelier. (Or you could just put it on your Dear Santa list.) The five grand is the starting rate (it's based on