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New York Hotels Hang 'No Vacancy' Signs For Gadhafi And Ahmadinejad

September 21, 2009 at 8:44 AM | by | Comment (1)

Gadhafi, Gaddafi, al-Qaddafi...whichever name you want to call Mr. Moammar of Libya, none of them will be allowed to bunk down at Manhattan's swank Pierre Hotel during his time in NYC for United Nations functions. Apparently of all the luxury hotels in New York, Gadhafi and his retinue had set their sights on the luxe Upper East Side hotel on Central Park as his headquarters in New York, but after complaints from current guests (paying four figures a night, so they should have such a say), the hotel turned him away.

Now it looks as though Gadhafi will have to crash at the Libyan Mission; no luxury hotel and room service for this dictator.

Meanwhile, fellow United Nations guest and President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also got the boot from a pricey Manhattan hotel this week. He was however not kicked out of sleeping there—he's a guest at The Barclay Hotel—but a banquet he was supposed to attend at the Helmsley Hotel was canceled when the hotel was informed that the "Israel-hating, Holocaust-denying America basher" was on the guest list.

Perhaps the The Barclay should have followed the example of The Pierre and The Helmsley by kicking out Ahmadinejad, as now when you search google for "ahmadinejad hotel new york," the InterContinental's official website and hotel information is one of the top results. It's also pretty nearby Grand Central Station, which just doesn't bode well. It's a tumultuous week for luxury hotels in New York as well as for the United Nations.

[Photos: AP and Hotel 414]

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Hotels are for people!

Let him sleep in the streets like all the other stray dogs!  Someone ought to beat the hell out of him!!!
twedrosm on September 23, 2009 at 9:30 AM #Permalink

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