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NYT Looks at the Hotels of 2006

The New York Times has done an in-depth review of the new hotels set to open in 2006--worldwide and here in the U.S.

Some of the hotels on the schedule are:

· Manhattan's Hotel Gansevoort will open Gansevoort South in Miami this fall and Gansevoort West in downtown Los Angeles next year.

· Amid white-sand beaches and coral reefs, W Hotels is building the W Maldives, which is essentially "50 thatched bungalows" over water that start at $1,300 a night when the hotel opens in June.

· An interesting boutique/museum hotel created by the daughter of one of the founders of Brown-Forman, The 21C Museum Hotel will open in March in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, at $159 a night.

· Furniture designer Ron Arad's, the duoMo Hotel, will open in the beach resort of Rimini, Italy "where guests will enter through giant pinball flipper doors, although the real action will be at night, when D.J.'s take over the noMi hotel club."

· And Thompson Hotels will add three more to its namesake chain: 6 Columbus in Manhattan, Thompson Beverly Hills (it's taking over a Best Western on Wilshire near Rodeo Drive) and, next year, Thompson Lower East Side, a condo-hotel in Manhattan.

Related Stories:
·Hotels of the Year: For the World Traveler, What's new in 2006 [NY Times]
·2006 New York City Hotel Openings Preview [HotelChatter]