If you love The Surf Lodge in Montauk, then you've probably already spent a night at its new sister hotel nearby, Ruschmeyer's, a three-acre summer camp-inspired hotel featuring clean and crisp guestrooms, an open-air beer garden, a sand-filled pool, a restaurant from the Orchard Street chefs and a boogie-down bar called the Electric Eel. Oh and staffers decked out in J. Crew shirts, Madewell dresses and Toms shoes.

But what you may not know is that both the Surf Lodge and Ruschmeyer's are part of a new boutique hotel company with serious roots in Morgans Hotel Group called King and Grove Hotels. ]]> juliana 2011-08-24T14:11:04-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/6/16/124356/279 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/caprisouthampton_clubking.jpg" class="top"><p> Finally! The newest hotel in the Hamptons, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Capri+Southampton/local/4863"><b>The Capri Southampton</b></a>, which opened over Memorial Day Weekend, has posted photos of their guestrooms. For now, you can see a room shot on the hotel's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=188869487829433&set=a.183134355069613.39231.183130298403352&type=1&theater">Facebook page</a> but we hear the full gallery will up on the hotel website by tomorrow.<p>Our first thought on the rooms? It looks like <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-photos/full/122/Inside+The+Hudson+Hotel">The Hudson</a> goes to the Hamptons with the white furniture and bed and the curtains along the wall (covering the bathroom we presume.) But we're loving the nautical touches such as the lamps that hang from nautical rope as well as the brightly colored accents and artwork like the special design print from Cynthia Rowley Design Studio juliana 2011-06-16T14:23:27-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/6/6/105720/7511 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/caprisouthampton.jpg" class="top"><p>Our curiosity <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/4/29/133924/530/hotels/This_Summer_Head_to_Capri_in_The_Hamptons">was piqued</a> last month about the new <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Capri+Southampton/local/4863"><b>Capri Southampton</b></a> property, whose "bathing club" and Nobu restaurant had us booking tickets on the next <a href="http://www.hamptonjitney.com/cgi-bin/nav.cgi?page=home.html">Hampton Jitney</a> out of Manhattan! The New York Times also included it in their annual <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/fashion/the-hamptons-whats-new-this-season.html?_r=1">Hamptons preview</a>. As of now, the meager website continues to offer nothing more than a pretty press image (no rooms, no pool, no nothing!), but we spoke to manager James Woods about the hotel's first week of business&#151;for a "slow opening," the picture he painted wasn't that bad at all!</p> <blockquote><p>"This was supposed to be a slow weekend, but we ended up doing 485 covers, which is about 250 reservations. We had celebrities coming ASchechter 2011-06-06T12:50:24-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/5/26/2545/26127 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/CHERYLDUNN_STNDAIR5.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>If you receive the Standard Culture newsletter (as we do&#151;hello, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/5/24/22204/4799/hotels/The_Best_Geek_Hotels_in_the_World_for_20_11"><b>hotel geeks</b></a>!), then yesterday you will have learned about Michael Castillejos, the Texas native bellman who <a href="http://content.standardculture.com/post/5773440268/checking-in-with-michael-castillejos"><b>has a special gift for riding bellman carts</b></a> down Washington Street. <p>But that's not the only buzz around the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Standard+NYC/local/795"><b>Standard</b></a> these days&#151;it turns out master hotelier <b>Andre Balazs has been quietly planning the launch of StndAir, a seaplane service</b> that shuttles passengers to and from standard (ha) getaway destinations like the Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and Hudson Valley.</p> <p>Want to take a ride? The seaplane&#151;which, by the way, seems to be <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/5/18/15052/9646/hotels/One_Perk_of_Staying_at_La_Maison_Blanche_in_the_Hamptons_A_Seaplane_"><b>making quite the comeback</b></a>&#151;can charter a flight to anywhere within a 300 mile radius of New York ASchechter 2011-05-26T10:38:55-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/5/18/15052/9646

Which of the following sounds more appealing: hours by car on the Long Island Expressway, followed by a $12 ferry ride from North Haven to Shelter Island? Or, as convenience would have it, a chartered seaplane that flies you directly from NYC's Chelsea to Crescent Beach? Sound Aircraft, a Long Island-based airplane and helicopter service company, is currently hoping you choose the latter.

What's that, you're afraid to part with so much money?Come on, it's a seaplane! Didn't you ever watch Raiders Of the Lost Ark?