Heard Around the Hotel World: A Thompson Hotel at the Rio Looks Likely

12/14/2007 at 3:57 PM
Tags: Heard Around, Thompson Hotels, Stephen Brandman, NYLO Hotels, Aloft Hotels, Kor Hotels, Viceroy Hotels, Hotel Hype, Hotel Openings

We have spies all over the hotel industry who like to send various miscellaneous tips our way. Some of these are post-worthy, others are not much more than one sentence tid-bits. So here's the latest batch of whispers through the hotel grapevine.

·  Our Vegas sources say that the Thompson Hotel inside the Rio Hotel & Casino is getting closer to a deal. Stephen Brandman, everyone's favorite hotelier, was in Sin City on Tuesday at the Rio checking the place out.
· Prive nightclub inside the Planet Hollywood Hotel & Casino will open on New Years Eve with Avril Lavigne set to host.
· Kor Hotels have announced yet another expansion of the Viceroy Hotel brand, this time in Asia. Viceroy China Beach will open in 2010.
· NYLO Plano is opening on Tuesday, December 18th and we were able to talk with the senior VP of operations, Patrick O'Neil. We will have that interview next week but it's interesting to note that so many of the partners/execs at NYLO Hotels came from Starwood. They of the similar brand, Aloft. And so the battle begins.