HotelChatter - Tag: Jimmy Buffett

Pensacola: The Margaritaville Beach Hotel: A Place for Parrotheads To Um, Rest Their Heads

juliana — 2010-05-25T15:50:24-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/margaritabeachhotel2.jpg" class="top">Parrotheads, your long-awaited dream has come true. No need to escape to the Banana Republics to find a cheeseburger in paradise or waste away in Margaritaville. You don't even need to make changes in latitude to get drunk (and screw) as the first-ever <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Margaritaville+Beach+Hotel/local/1752">Margaritaville Hotel</a> inspired by the "lyrics and lifestyle" <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Jimmy%20Buffett">Jimmy Buffett</a> will open this summer in Pensacola Beach, Fla. on the Gulf of Mexico.There have been many talked-about locations for Margaritaville Hotel before but it looks like this hotel made it the easiest for Jimmy to agree to use his name. According to a press release, the hotel's owner, Marilyn Hess, President of Little Sabine, Inc., was finalizing the details on this hotel last

Honolulu: Jimmy Buffett Will Christen the Stage at His Hawaii Resto

Jenna — 2009-02-18T16:57:55-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/jimmybeachcomber.jpg" class="top"> Surely, hawaiian shirts, white pants, cheeseburgers, fried things and syrupy tropical cocktails will be present for the grand opening of Jimmy Buffett's at the Beachcomber in Oahu and more appropriately, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Jimmy%20Buffett">Jimmy Buffett</A> will be the first artist to grace the stage. Touted <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/22/141953/440/hotels/Jimmy_Buffet_Brings_More_Cheeseburgers_to_Paradise_in_Waikiki">as the highlight</a> of the just-completed major renovation at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Ohana+Waikiki+Beachcomber+Hotel/ian/125813">Ohana Waikiki Beachcomber</a> (to the tune of $21 mills), Jimmy Buffett's at The Beachcomber will fling open its soon-to-be-marg-soaked doors on February 26th. The 500-seat restaurant will be serving up margs and "signature boat drinks", fresh seafood, steaks, and paradise cheeseburgers (natch) in a "festive" tropical atmosphere think booths made to look like ocean waves. Yup. Come on, it's a

Honolulu: Jimmy Buffet Brings More Cheeseburgers to Paradise in Waikiki

Jenna — 2009-01-22T15:06:22-05:00

Jimmy Buffett will never die. And since with Jimmy Buffett comes hawaiian shirts, white pants, the occasional Tommy Bahama head-to-toe ensemble and cheeseburgers and highly caloric entrees and cocktails, it's safe to say that those things — regardless of your affection or distaste for them — will never die, either.

Las Vegas: Hooters Hotel and Casino Lives Another Day

juliana — 2008-06-10T10:00:35-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hooters_sign1.jpg" class="imgborder"><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hooters+Casino+Hotel/local/37">The Hooters Hotel & Casino</a> has been on deathwatch for quite sometime but it looks like it will live (just barely) for another day.The owner of the Hooters hotel, 155 E. Tropicana, was in talks to sell the property to Hedwigs Las Vegas Top Tier. However, Hedwigs failed to make a payment by June 6 which automatically terminated the deal. Yet Hooters did get about $5.5 million from Hedwigs in a non-refundable deposit and extension fees.Of course, Hooters is not out of the woods now. East Tropicana has serious cash flow issues and has not been able to meet its debt obligations. So Hooters is on the lookout once again for some sugar daddies who want to

Biloxi: Harrahs To Rolls Out Buffett's Margaritaville in Biloxi

annie0007 — 2008-06-04T09:45:02-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/margvillebiloxi.jpg" class="imgborder">The other week we found out that the Trump Marina Hotel would turn into a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/30/9647/70339/hotels/Trump_Marina_Hotel_and_Casino_To_Become_Margaritaville">Margaritaville Hotel & Casino</a> which we thought would be the first one to open. Yet Hotel Maven <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/PalmettoSon">PalmettoSon</a> pointed us to the Margaritaville already in the works in Biloxi, MS. Jimmy Buffett and Harrah's have paired up to build a massive hotel down there, one of the metro areas in Mississippi hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. The hotel chain plans to spend more than $700 million this summer building the hotel, casino, restaurant, and cabanas, with a final budget of more than $100B. (Thassright, billion.)The hotel will have 420 rooms in addition to the 378 rooms from the existing Casino Magic