HotelChatter - Tag: New Years Eve 2009 Hotels

Miami Beach: Bliss Out Instead of Bingeing Before the New Year at Canyon Ranch Miami Beach

Heidi Atwal — 2009-12-07T13:08:44-05:00

Come January 1st, many of you will be atoning for a holiday spent bingeing on champagne, sweets, and other seasonal vices. Kick starting the new year on a healthy note is no easy feat, even for the most disciplined among us, so it's a good idea to start thinking about self-care before the allure of caviar and egg nog come calling.

Though Miami Beach is associated more with party culture than it is spa culture, Canyon Ranch Miami Beach is shifting the travel hotspot's focus with several healthy living packages.

Hotels Still Hungover From New Year's Eve

juliana — 2009-01-05T09:00:43-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/gvoortnye.jpg" class="top"> The reports from <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/New%20Years%20Eve%202009%20Hotels">New Year's Eve parties</a> at hotels are still rolling in and the latest comes from the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/12/17/13576/046/hotels/Get_Whatever_You_Like_at_the_Gansevoort_South_This_New_Year_s_Eve">mega-shindig</a> that the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Gansevoort+South+::+Paradiso+Miami/local/125">Gansevoort South</a> threw, featuring everyone's favorite rapper and soon-to-be prison inmate TI. <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/01032009/gossip/pagesix/glitches_for_t_i___then_jail_146961.htm">Page Six</a> reports: <blockquote>Promoters sold revelers poolside tables for a whopping $10,000, but when partiers got there expecting to see the concert, they were told T.I. would be performing inside the hotel's small ballroom instead. "The city wouldn't allow him to perform outside," a Gansevoort rep said. </blockquote>Dayum! We love TI and we are probably going to write him letters everyday while he is in prision, but $10,000 for a table? In a recession? And then, he doesn't

New York: Perez Hilton Reflects on His "A-List Status" at the Gansevoort

shiralevine — 2009-01-02T12:52:27-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/perezgvoort09.jpg" class="top"> Apparently celebrities are smarter that we suspected. Anyone with any weather-related intelligence got the freezing cold out of New York heading south or west. For once, New York was quiet, but that meant a lone blogger called Perez and his party at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Gansevoort/local/34">Hotel Gansevoort</a> could emerge from the bone chilling cold as an A-list star within the hottest spot of the night-- with Madonna apparently on-hand to vouch for his coolness. (She wasn't there unfortunately, so we'll have to take P-Nasty's word.)While Chloe Sevigny and T.I. kept things sizzling at Miami's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/12/17/13576/046/hotels/Get_Whatever_You_Like_at_the_Gansevoort_South_This_New_Year_s_Eve">Gansevoort South</a>, the slimmed down Perez was the celeb of the mo at Gansevoort New York. The adorable former lover of E on

Minneapolis: Base Jumpers Caught Bragging at the W Hotel Foshay Tower

juliana — 2009-01-02T11:10:22-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/wbasejumpers.jpg" class="top"> Busted. That's what happened to three party-goers at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/W+Minneapolis/local/1304">W Minneapolis</a> on New Year's Eve who were arrested for base-jumping 32 stories off the Foshay Tower, the 80-year-old building which houses the W Hotel.<blockquote> Investigators said David Juntunen, 36, of Minneapolis and three other men took the elevator up to the 30th floor around 1 p.m. Wednesday and bought tickets to the observation deck. Officials said the men then walked up one floor higher and used a wrench to unbolt a ceiling gate. That is where police said Juntunen jumped more than 400-feet with a parachute. The group video taped the jump and left without incident.</blockquote>Apparently these base-jumpers didn't know the first rule of committing a

Las Vegas: What Went Down at The Venetian and Palazzo NYE Parties

Jenna — 2009-01-02T09:45:41-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/Fergie_Hosts6.JPG_Denise_T.jpg" class="top"> We sort of wish we'd been ringing in 2009 with a collection of entirely random celebrities that nobody has really heard from since 2002 just so we'd have a fun story to tell our friends today. Think about how cool it would have been to brag that you partied with Mena Suvari, David Spade, Pauly Shore (!) and Coolio in one night. Such a scenario would have been possible if we'd been in Vegas to celebrate the arrival of 2009 at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Venetian/local/38">The Venetian</a> and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Palazzo+Hotel+and+Casino/local/927">The Palazzo</a>, where Carmen Electra served as "mistress of ceremonies" at TAO and Fergie hosted and performed the first NYE celebration at LAVO. At LAVO, we hear Fergie gave a concert