Reality shows about hotels definitely don't work, but we have a suspicion that at least one documentary film about a hotel will be good. "Hotel Gramercy Park" has been playing this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, and it has its final screening tonight.

Director Douglas Keeve went inside the downtown landmark as Ian Schrager prepared the hotel for its grand re-opening. Keeve gives previous owners, the Weissberg family, plenty of screen time, and he tells the story of why the hotel has such a prominent place in New York's history.

If you're not gonna make the screening tonight, Jaunted has some ideas for enjoying the hotel and the surrounding neighborhood, including its namesake private park.]]> pbb 2008-05-02T15:34:47-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2004/2/16/772/56741 <![CDATA[<img src="/files/3/tokhya01p001.jpg" align="right"> <p>Follow in Bill Murray's footsteps, or contemplate your life like Scarlet Johansson's character did in the hit movie, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/">Lost in Translation.</a></p> <p>The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Park+Hyatt+Tokyo/local/946"><b>Park Hyatt Tokyo</b></a>, where the movie was filmed is offering up three ways you can get a <a href="http://tokyo.park.hyatt.com/tyoph/offers.html">"Lost in Translation Experience."</a></p> <p>For 55,000 JPY, roughly $521, you can get one night's stay, comp breakfast, spa use, a cocktail, and "Map of sites featured in the film (karaoke bar, arcade, nightclub, shrine, etc.)"</p> <p>If you want to stay five night's like in the movie, and get bennies like a shiatsu massage, it'll run you between $3600 - $5,000.</p> <p>NOTE: According to <i>Newsweek,</i> the movie is not scheduled to release there until May.</p> <p></p> jenleo 2004-02-16T07:09:51-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/