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Pitch Your Hotel: Henry Kallan of HK Hotels

Hotelier.  The word is so romantic, so eccentric, so...French.  However, run-of-the-mill real world hoteliers don't always live up to the etymology.  Many hoteliers tend to talk about their rooms as commodities that they hope to sell by the click to you, hotel mavens.  Others constantly complain that the online hotel review game has made it extremely difficult to get their hotel message to guests.

Always looking to bring you the most pertinent information on the worldwide hotel scene, we figured when we found hoteliers that were worthy of the French pronunciation of the word, we would let them speak to you directly.  Besides, before you dropped a bunch of cash to stay at someone's house, wouldn't you want to get to know the owner a bit?  Exactly.  We, always oh so full of ourselves, are calling this series Hoteliers That Matter and we are sitting down with these hoteliers and letting them tell you, straight from their mouths to web ears, what you need to know about their hotels.

On our brief visit to the East Coast last month we popped into the Hotel Elysee nestled between Park and Mad Aves on 54th to have a tête-à-tête with HK Hotels owner Henry Kallan. Kallan is the perfect subject for Pitch Your Hotel for several reasons. First he's French so he can the word hotelier just rolls off his tongue. Second, he's not shy about saying his hotels are the best in the city. And lastly, he can give us six succint reasons why you should stop into an HK Hotel soon.

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