HotelChatter - Tag: South Beach Hotel Reviews

Miami Beach: Room and Booze :: Catalina Hotel's 'Vodka Collins' Package

juliana — 2007-05-14T13:17:58-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/catalanina_vodka.jpg" class="imgborder">We love summer in Miami because the hotel rates are so low and the packages can get pretty desperate. Take this promotion at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Catalina+Hotel/local/512">Catalina Hotel</a> in South Beach. The hotel is offering the "Vodka Collins Package" for $55 per person per night and includes hotel accommodations for up to four guests, one complimentary bottle of Sky vodka at check-in, complimentary Vodka Collins drinks at the hotel's nightly happy hour from 7 to 8pm, two hours of bowling at Lucky Strike Bowling lanes, two daily beach chaises, two beach cruiser bikes and shuttle service to and from Miami International Airport. The offer is good from June 1 to August 31st but black out dates do apply. Also,

Miami Beach: Art Basel Party Wrap-Up: Rapper Noreaga Rocks the Budweiser Select Party

juliana — 2006-12-22T15:35:07-05:00

Art Basel 2006 is a thing of the past now, but we're still getting tips about the crazy parties that went down. As we told you, artist Steven Keene was featured at the Budweiser Select Porch Project party at the Marlin Hotel. Also on hand was the rapper Noreaga who dutifully posed holding some Budweiser Select bottles.

But lest we forget that Art Basel is actually about art, a great pic of the artist Steven Keene at work is after the jump.

[Thanks Shannon!]

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Miami Beach: Art Basel Party Wrap-Up: Kenny Scharf at the Raleigh Hotel

juliana — 2006-12-11T15:56:17-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/kenny_scharf.jpg">The Miami art show, Art Basel, has ended its weeklong celebration and now its time for all the hotel party reports to start rolling in. Today, we had a couple emails about pop artist Kenny Scarf's Astral Uber Cadillac party held at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Raleigh+Hotel/local/18">Raleigh Hotel</a> last Thursday. Apparently, the party was wild with interpretative dancers kicking off the party with what appears to be cave people doing the Lambada and ending with teddy bears being destroyed. Art Forum mag called it the funniest show of the week with a mint condition 1960 Cadillac transformed into a "den of pop culture" as the show's main focus, centered by  the pool.The car features a tiara on top, florescent brains atop

Miami Beach: Art Basel's Friday Night Hotel Parties

juliana — 2006-12-08T13:27:12-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/skywalker_artbasel.jpg">In case you haven't been reading this week, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Art%20Basel">Art Basel</a> has landed in Miami this weekend and the hotel scene is blowing up with parties and art showings galore.We just thought we would run down (again) what's happening at some South Beach hotels tonight. · <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Raleigh+Hotel/local/18">Raleigh Hotel</a>: A screening of "Coven" by Arden Wohl hosted by Leelee Sobieski, Melissa Bent, Mirabelle Marden, Stella Schnabel, and Yvonne Force. · In the hotel's Oasis, Andre Balazs will be on hand for the reception and book signing by author Jack Pierson and his latest mongraph Jack Pierson Desire/Despair.· <a href="http://www.marlinhotel.com">The Marlin Hotel</a>: Budweiser Select will be hosting its own Art Basel party here today and tomorrow from 12 to 6pm featuring

Miami Beach: Art Basel Arrives: Hotel and Party Information

juliana — 2006-12-07T16:48:51-05:00

Art Basel is here people so grab your hipster glasses and start practicing your snooty art-admiring looks. Either that or grab a few of your favorite experience-enhancing drugs and head on down to Miami.

After the jump, you will find the latest information that we have on the art and hotel scene throughout the weekend. Feel free to email us if you know of any other happening parties and of course, let us know--either via email or photos--how it all went down.