Operation blips and woes aside, the Gramercy Park Hotel has a lot going for it.

The plush, dark rooms feel more like your rich, moody uncle's place than your typical hotel room and they are full of lovely little details, including the Allure magazine-editor-curated toiletries--a mix of best-of-the-best products rather than all items from the one brand.

And now, you can take a whole lot of the hotel home with you. For a price. You see, the rooms at GPH are designed for you to shop til you drop. Everything in the collage above—from the pretty tassels right down to the tray that the bathroom toiletries are sitting on—is for sale.

]]> MsRebecca 2012-01-19T09:44:30-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2012/1/12/143534/840 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/deansttown.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>You know the drill. Drinks going well, you decide to get dinner, then more drinks&#133; then all of a sudden it&#146;s midnight on a school night and you have to go home. What a downer! <p>Ah, says the <a href='http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel/local/1738'><b>Dean Street Townhouse</b></a>, but it doesn&#146;t have to be. Because if that dinner happens to be in that restaurant, and you happen to order after 11pm (it&#146;s open till midnight weekdays and 1am at the weekend, last orders 11.30 and 12 respectively), they&#146;ll make you an offer you can&#146;t refuse: <b>stay on in a hotel room that night for just £50</b>.* <p>The £50 is per room, not per person, and you could strike lucky &#150; they&#146;ll give you juliab 2012-01-12T14:42:12-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2012/1/6/94516/84122 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/InsideAndazWallStBathroom.jpg" class="top"><p>We don't know about you, but the post-holiday void has left us in need of a little diversion, so we're just going to play along with all this <b>Hotel Week</b> business&#151;however much it feels like a bootleg version of New York's more established Restaurant Week. Here to bolster a select batch of NYC hotels through the dreaded January slow season, <b>the nine-day <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/12/23/1418/3801/hotels/Where_Will_You_Be_Staying_During_New_York_s_First_Ever_Hotel_Week_">promotion</a> starts today</b>. <p>And to help you get excited, here are a few tips on ways to get the best bang for your buck. <p><b>#1.</b> By saving money on the room, you can relax (read: spend) a little more at the <b>hotel restaurant.</b> For example, <b>Lexington Brass</b>, the glazed brick-lined brasserie on the ground floor ASchechter 2012-01-06T09:51:12-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2012/1/5/14330/29283

We've already told you about the glorious bathrooms in the specialty suites at the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong, the tallest hotel in the world. But down in the other guestrooms, the amenities are just as nice.

For instance, there are Asprey Purple Rain toiletries lining the bathtub and under the sink vanity is a dedicated toiletry drawer which features golden boxes of dental kits (2), a shaving kit, a hairbrush, an emery board, cotton pads, Q-tips, shower cap and mouthwash.]]> juliana 2012-01-05T15:00:02-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/12/29/9509/0149 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/454/IMG_1853.JPG" class="top"><p><i>It's what you've been waiting all year for--<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/hotelchatter 2011 awards"><b>The 2011 HotelChatter Awards</b></a>! We'll be bringing you the best and worst of the year all day today and part of tomorrow. Agree or disagree with our picks? <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/12/29/94852/501/hotels/Most_Provocative_OpenThread_Toiletry_Dispensers_Eco_Friendly_Or_Unsanitary_#postform">Air your thoughts in the comments below</a>.</i><p>In August, we decided to resurrect an ever-popular topic of discussion&#151;<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/7/27/12231/1723/hotels/Toiletry_Dispensers_Eco_Friendly_Or_Unsanitary_"><b>Toiletry Dispensers</b></a>&#151;and boy, were you guys full of ideas. This thread easily proved to be the most fruitful of the entire year, and why wouldn't it? What's a hotel bathroom without all its free soaps, gels, shampoos and creams? <p>But what we (and the hotels themselves) still haven't quite figured out is <b>how to strike a balance between the eco-friendliness of dispensers HotelChatter 2011-12-30T10:31:17-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/