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Sweet Dreams Are Made Of...Singing Karaoke At The Dream's New Karaoke Bar

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April 23, 2012 at 9:02 AM | by | Comments (0)

[UPDATE 10:37am: Though Jelsomino is located inside the Dream New York, sources at the hotel have told us that the bar is actually a separate entity, owned by (and imported from) Russian hospitality and nightlife company, Ginza Project]

Our friends at Condé Nast Traveler have picked up on a new venue that recently opened inside The Dream New York: a Broadway-themed underground karaoke bar called Jelsomino. And, as we've seen with other NYC hotel venues under the Chatwal empire (we're thinking of high-concept hotspots like Romera at Dream Downtown and the all-red Lambs Club inside The Chatwal), there's nothing subtle about the place.

The Dream doesn't just 'open a karaoke bar' and that's that. No, it sets up eight VIP tables with bottle service, astronomically-priced cocktails, iPad song menus, and even a troupe of backup singers and dancers on stage. Golly, our dreams really have come true.

CNT breaks it down:

"This tricked-out leather and stage-lights lair, imported directly from Russia, is part show-stopping cabaret, part exclusive nightclub, and wholly over the top. At a press preview last week, wannabe songbirds on stages with Solid Gold lighting (and dancers!) rocked the house until the wee hours."

Judging from our modest experience with the private karaoke rooms in neighboring Koreatown, karaoke bars, unlike regular bars, usually benefit from a lot of weird lighting and a sense of exclusivity. In other words, the bigger, bolder and more glamorously tacky, the better.

Unlike those rentable blue-lit cubicles in Koreatown, Jelsomino has the bonus of having a hotel on top of it. So when you've reached the point of no return, at 3am, having swigged too many cocktails and devoured the entire Mariah Carey karaoke repertoire, you can quietly retreat to your Dream-y bed upstairs.

We checked on rates here for the last weekend in May, and found, to our delight, prices hovering at around $250/night and even as low as $229/night. Nothing like a little Memorial Day weekend karaoke getaway!

[Photos: crshotels / Flickr; inset, Andrew Zimmer / Thrillist]

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