HotelChatter - Tag: citizenm hotels

Amsterdam: CitizenM is All Grown Up, Earns Its First Award

jennm — 2008-11-12T09:15:11-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/11725/citizenMlobby.jpg" class="top">This was perhaps the most hotly contested decision I have seen the judging panel have to make in the six years I have been involved in these awards. No, thats not a judge from Dancing with the Starsits Matt Turner, editor-in-chief of Sleeper magazine, which is a magazine about hotel design, development and architecture, not about boring stuff. The magazine recently awarded <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/CitizenM%20Hotels">CitizenM</a> hotels with the European Hotel Design Award of the Year, as well as awards in three other categories for innovation, technology and graphic design. We already knew guests <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/6/223019/210/hotels/CitizenM_Schiphol_You_Love_It_You_Want_Some_More_of_It">love the chain</a>, now it seems the rest of the world is catching on, too. Of course, this news just thrills CitizenM. Our team

Amsterdam: CitizenM Schiphol :: You Love It, You Want Some More of It

jennm — 2008-10-08T10:20:15-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/citizenmdoll_update.jpg" class="imgborder">My, my, you people waste no time rating a new hotel, do you? Citizen M's outpost at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/CitizenM+Hotel+Amsterdam+Schiphol+Airport/local/1236">Amsterdam Schiphol</a> airport hasn't even been open six months and you all rush to the Internets to talk about it. So what do you have to say about it? In short, you love it. Here are some of your <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g188590-d1126079-Reviews-CitizenM_hotel_Amsterdam_Airport-Amsterdam_Noord_Holland.html">choice words</a>: <blockquote> "Everything was clean, worked perfectly, HOT water, fluffy white pillows... and friendly, helpful staff." "The rooms are small, but well laid out so that the room feels bigger than it is." "If you don't mind a 20-minute train ride to get into the city, this is the place to stay in Amsterdam." "I wouldn't

Glasgow: CitizenM Coming to Glasgow, With Amsterdam-Made Rooms

amandak — 2008-08-20T09:34:13-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/CitizenM_Amsterdam_Room.jpg" class="imgborder"> We <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/28/10348/8910/hotels/CitizenM_Plans_On_Expanding_Over_to_the_UK_Cocktails_Included">already heard</a> that the innovative pod-ness that is the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/CitizenM%20Hotels">Citizen M</a> hotel chain is planning on opening the CitizenM Glasgow sometime around October next year, but now we're hearing more info about it.The Scottish version of CitizenM will have 180 rooms and they're building it next to the Theatre Royal. Well, in fact, they're building most of it in Amsterdam: all the "pod" rooms will actually be built in a factory in Amsterdam, then shipped to Glasgow and "slotted into place on top of each other". Neat.The marketing fizz is always that CitizenM is "affordable luxury"--affordable in Glasgow apparently means rooms starting from £54 (US$100) which we have to agree is reasonable. Since CitizenM

Amsterdam: CitizenM Launches Social Network Thing for Moody People

Jenna — 2008-08-01T10:00:02-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/citizenmsocialnetwork_pic.png" class="imgborder"> Lately, we've been pondering the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/17/16043/7510/hotels/Hotels_and_Social_Networking_Sketchy_or_Seriously_Innovative_">utility, acceptance and sketch-potential</a> of social networks within hotels. It's not necessarily hotels' Facebook or MySpace pages we're concerned with here (although some hotels are doing good stuff with those things, and hooray for them!). We mean hotels who set up their own networks -- sort of like the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Pod+Hotel/local/189">Pod Hotel's</a> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/24/144612/104/hotels/Best_Geek_Hotels_in_the_World_2_0">Pod Community</a> Blog -- where people who are staying in a particular hotel at a given time can communicate with each other and find other same-time guests to meet up with, hang out with, or "et cetera" with. Will people buy into the concept? Will it turn out to be a sketchy Craiglist-esque collection of people advertising for

Amsterdam: The Complete CitizenM Cocktails List

juliana — 2008-07-30T09:45:26-05:00

After our story the other day about the intriguing cocktails that were served at the Citizen M hotel in Amsterdam, like a Mobile Martini and a Vespa Martini, we decided we wanted more...more drink descriptions of course.

So we flagged down a hotel rep who sent over this complete list of the drinks. And it turns out the Vespa Martini is actually a Vesper Martini, a James Bond-inspired drink.