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Where in the Hotel World is Whitney Port?

· With the debut of The Hills spinoff The City, everyone had their guesses about which hotels the show's star, Whitney Port, might hit up. So far she's spent no time at any hotel bars, but we're only one episode in. But we got a spoiler: Shiralevine says she spotted Whitney and LC filming on the roof of 60 Thompson.

· We'd booked a room through Quikbook for January 11th at the Smyth Tribeca — whose Jan 6th opening was delayed until further notice — so not only did Quikbook email and call us to let us know that we'd be rebooked to the Thompson LES, but they also left us a comment apologizing:

We know hotel open-dates are notoriously optimistic and we always pad the dates by several days to account for delays. Our efforts didn't help in your case, though. Again, maximum apologies. Fingers crossed that the hotel will be worth the wait once it does open.

Meantime, yes, we are offering our guests the option of moving to the Thompson LES. And we are indeed trying to get them all upgrades.

· While Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi nabbed the award for Best International WiFi, a few of you made sure to weigh in on the decor of the place. We won't judge a book by its cover...and we'll try not to judge a hotel by its WiFi.

· And finally, HighOccupancy is pretty sure those glowing TripAdvisor reviews of the Cooper Square are total BS:

Clearly a shill. CSH's management / PR team needs to try harder - these two are shameless! Just another example of why tripadvisor is worthless. As long as you understand that most reviews are from random cranks or blatant self-promoting fake reviews from hotel staff, don't even bother looking.

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