HotelChatter - Tag: Historic Hotels

Boston: NYT Deems the Copley Square Hotel 'Perfectly Nice'

KatieK — 2009-11-23T11:07:21-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/copley_square_hotel.jpg" class="top"> After some incredulity over how many Boston hotels have Copley in their names, the New York Times this weekend reviewed the revamped, historic <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Copley+Square+Hotel/ian/114172">Copley Square Hotel</a>. Until this year, C-Square was a historic but faded enterprise: not the kind of place to earn cool points with your teenager on a college visiting tour, the Times writes. But after $18 million in renovations, the hotel is once again ready for prime time just as, ahem, some of us have been <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/15/101820/716/hotels/Copley_Square_Hotel_Gets_Joan_Rivers_Style_Revamp">telling you</a> all year. Highlights: The bathrooms wall featured unusual reading material: the poem Paul Reveres Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in cursive. Super-speedy room service that arrived in less than 10 minutes (though unfortunately,

New York : Inside The Roosevelt NYC: The Consummate Tourist Hotel

JetSetCD — 2009-11-19T16:04:30-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/RoosMain.jpg" class="top"> Like we said <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/18/13444/893/hotels/Sleeping_Inside_One_Of_NYC_s_Historic_Hotels_Our_Room_at_The_Roosevelt">yesterday</a>, you really can't beat winning a room rate of $19.24 on Twitter for three nights in a historic hotel property in the middle of Manhattan. That said, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Roosevelt+Hotel+New+York/ian/131795">The Roosevelt</a> has its ups and its downs, but it is most definitely the quintessential New York tourist hotel. Onto our experience, over Halloween weekend: Check-in: Although we live in New York, we came straight to The Roosevelt after flying into JFK at the end of a trip, so we were your typical tired, bedraggled guest. Friends who were visiting for the weekend would be staying in the room with us, and as they were arriving earlier, we directed to do the regular thing of

White Sulphur Spring: The Greenbrier Resort Is Looking Sexy

KatieK — 2009-11-03T10:59:21-05:00

Last week we shared the good news that West Virginia’s iconic Greenbrier Resort seems to be back on its feet — and freshly pedicured feet at that. But in addition to adding a new resto and coming-soon casino, C2 Limited Design Associates is injecting the resort with some mod accents.

Indeed, the ol’ Greenbrier is looking sexy — and not even in that Sean Connery distinguished sort of way. Check out the photos below.

Right on trend, the Greenbrier’s new lobby is awash in pink, gray, and black.

Yes, the old pink and white candy-striped awnings remain but those are a Greenbrier tradition.

Skytop: The Poconos' Skytop Lodge Invites Guests on a Ghost Hunt

MsRebecca — 2009-10-29T12:30:14-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/30451/SkytopLodge.jpg" class="top"> Low-budget horror flick Paranormal Activity took first place at the box office this past weekend, raking in $22 million. Of course, that means Paramount execs are already talking about a sequeland theyre not the only ones wanting to hitch a ride on the runaway ghost train. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Skytop+Lodge/ian/164371">The Skytop Lodge</a> in the Poconos is offering a Spoo-Tacular Paranormal Halloween package that includes tagging along on a ghost hunt. A local ghost-hunting team, Pocono Paranormal Research, have been investigating the historic propertys Main Lodge and will host a Ghost Hunting 101 presentation and ghost hunt on-site tomorrow, October 30th. And on Saturday, the team will be hanging out to answer questions from ghost-loving and freaked-out guests. (If youd

White Sulphur Spring: The Greenbrier Resort Might Be Back On its Feet After All

KatieK — 2009-10-28T10:51:10-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/greenbrierext.jpg" class="top"> Its been a little while since we checked in on the owners-swinging <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Greenbrier/ian/119687">Greenbrier</a> in West Virginia. Well spare you the saga from this summer (<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/3/101212/2563/hotels/Greenbrier_to_Marriott_Let_s_Call_the_Whole_Thing_Off_">click here for a quick summary</a>) but we were encouraged to hear the iconic resort is on its feet enough to have opened a brand-new steakhouse, Prime 44 West. Designed by C2 Limited Design Associates, Prime 44 West replaces Greenbriers outdated dining venue with a restaurant that honors basketball legend and West Virginia native, Jerry West. Not to mention, C2 Limited is also designing Greenbriers new, $25-million, 50,000-square-foot casino and entertainment venue, set to debut next April with coffee, wine, sushi, ten retail shops, and a nightly 8 p.m. good-luck Champagne