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The Ginger-Chile Mojito From the Four Seasons Austin
We've kicked off our Summer Cocktails series where we profile fun new summer drinks that hotels are making. Got one we should know about? Send us the recipe with a photo of the drink. Otherwise, enjoy and @reply us when you're wasted!
Guests hitting up the Four Seasons Austin should try out some of the hotel's "Summer Sips" being served in the hotel's lobby lounge from now through the end of September. These cocktails are fun, fruity and most importantly, packed with alcohol!
The hotel's mixologists have introduced five new summer drinks, available for $12.50 each: The Ginger-Chile Mojito, The Sparkling Sangria, The Terlingua 75 (served with Patron tequila), a Cucumber Martini and a Pineapple Mojito. We were able to get our hands on the Ginger-Chile Mojito recipe which we've listed here so you can try it out on your own.
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SXSW Attendees Minus Hotel WiFi Equals Disaster at the Omni
By now, most of us are well aware of the major AT&T snafu that happened down in Austin at this year's South by Southwest. Basically, the cell service provider was not equipped to handle the massive amount of iPhones that convention-goers were packing — not to mention the heavy twittering, texting, and emailing they were probably doing. Yikes. Not good.
And almost as bad as a big ol' AT&T fail is a SXSW hotel in Austin with crappy WiFi. Sadly, this was the case at the the Omni Austin, where one blogger and SXSW attendee reports the WiFi was mostly down. Oh noes.
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What Hotel Rooms Can You Get for SXSW?
Despite the recent reports that signal music festivals might be dying, everyone's favorite Texan music fest--South by Southwest--is still very much on again this year. If you have the time to get to Austin (perhaps the downfall of our economy has freed you up a bit, eh?), hotel rooms are available but not quite affordable. We have a feeling Austin is trying to milk this event even harder in the wake of the economy's collapse.
We checked our hotel rates search engine for March 13-16--prime festival time and found the Hyatt Place Central Austin for $109 a night. This hotel is about five miles from downtown and it involves a freeway ride. But if you are a music geek who needs to upload or edit music, video, bootlegs, whatever, remember Hyatt Place has all the geeky tools you'll need to make that happen.
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Hotel Options Dwindling for SXSW Festival
It’s almost time for Austin’s annual blowout music event, SXSW, and you know what that means: Come March 12, a heaving mass of skinny-jeans and bearded bloggers will descend on the hot streets of Austin for 10 days of music festival madness. Also, with this starting in less than three weeks, hotel rooms are getting scarce.
If you want to stay in one of the official SXSW hotels, your options are paltry — particularly if you want to stay through the whole festival. At this writing, the SXSW website lists four not-particularly-central hotels with availabilities: Candlewood Suites-South (doubles $123), Marriott-Austin South (doubles $149), Crowne Plaza (doubles $156), and Barton Creek Resort & Spa (doubles $199). Though all the downtown hotels seem to be booked, SXSW runs pay-to-ride shuttles ($30 unlimited pass) during daytime and nighttime shows to and from the other official hotels.
The Country Inn & Suites-North (doubles $114) and Embassy Suites (doubles $172) are available all but the first night, if you can stomach the late start. Or, scour Expedia for deals that started around $67 when we searched. Just remember that cabs can be near impossible to catch in the height of SXSW, so that cheap hotel in the hinterlands might not be the sweet deal it appears to be.
[Photo: bre pettis]
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Hilton Austin Still Has a Few Rooms Left For SXSW
If you're planning to go to South by Southwest in Austin this year, we have some news for you: hotels are gettin' pretty full already. You need to get your game up and start booking.
We started checking individual hotels' websites for stays that ran March 12-23 (the festival runs March 13-22), but the Hilton Austin came back with absolutely no availability on any of those dates — which was curious, but not impossible since the hotel is adjacent to the Austin Convention Center, where many of the SXSW activities go down — so we investigated further.
According to Expedia, if you're really set on the Hilton Austin (it's nice and it's convenient; easy, easy), it can be done if you're only staying for the first weekend of SXSW (Thursday through Monday). But you'd better book it now and be prepared for a $349 rate.
If you're down for staying a few miles out of downtown, The Doubletree Austin does have rooms available for the entirety of SXSW for $118 a night — but, again, you'd better get to booking now. Rooms in the more upscale (read: not Super 8) hotels are lookin' scarce around the city.
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Austin's New Vinyl-Friendly Saint Cecilia Spins Us Right 'Round
We have to begin this post by saying that Austin's newest boutique property, Hotel Saint Cecilia, has one of the coolest hotel websites we've seen in a long time. Seriously; check it out: it has an old school cinematic vibe and it just swallows you up into the hotel's whole vintage-chic ambiance. We love it.
That said, this newcomer onto the Austin hotel scene is named for the patron saint of music and poetry — appropriate for Texas' coolest art and culture hotspot. Accordingly, the 14-room hotel features little odes to the art forms throughout: from killer soundsystems in the rooms — equipped with both turntables and iPod docks — to a library chock full of films and books on poetry, poets and musicians and an extensive collection of vinyls available for guests to check out and bring to their rooms.
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Hyatt Andaz Coming to Austin and Midtown Manhattan
A rendering of Andaz Austin.
Andaz fever is spreading (we think we just had an Andazm? No?): Hyatt's funky new brand, which first debuted in London and is headed to West Hollywood and Wall Street in the next year or so, has announced plans for two new locations: Austin, Texas and Midtown Manhattan.
First up will be Andaz Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, opening in late 2009. The 144-room property will be directly across from the New York Public Library and will feature a restaurant and bars, one of which is a wine bar and vino shop downstairs in the cellar. The interior spaces will be designed by Tony Chi, who is known for his work with the Park Hyatt Beijing and the MGM Grand Skylofts.
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Austin's Las Manitas Shuttered to Make Way for Marriott
Shut. Up. Las Manitas -- the Austin institution that served up Mexican food with a cult-like following among Southern foodies -- has been (unexpectedly to most, it seems) shuttered.
And why? To make way for -- drumroll please -- a Marriott complex.
In her Texas Monthly dining blog, Patricia Sharpe reports:
The shaky detente between the purchaser of the property (White Lodging Services Corp., parent company of Marriott hotels) and Las Manitas's proprietors, Cynthia and Lidia Perez, came unglued at the end of last week for reasons that are-I'm just going to say they're fuzzy, in order to avoid stepping in a bear trap.
Fortunately, the plan is for Las Manitas to eventually move down the block into another building -- but things look sad over there right now: there's a sign in the window that reads "CLOSED FOREVER." We hope not.
[Photo: Texas Monthly]
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PM Linkage: Rooms Under $200 for SXSW Festival in Austin
The South By Southwest Music Festival begins March 7th and even though all the official hotels were sold out a while back, there are places to stay in Austin if you wanna be there.
We found a boatload of hotels under $200 on Expedia from March 7-10. Sure, these hotels have zero personality (i.e. Radisson Hotel Austin North, Super 8, Marriott Airport, etc.) but a deal is a deal. For more info how to "do" SXSW, check out Jaunted's Back of the Envelope Guide.
In other news:
· Drunk driver causes havoc on the Rocks in Sydney, smashes into a car at the Park Hyatt. [SMH]
· Just because you're in Cleveland doesn't mean you can't lodge in style.[Bizweek]
· The Waldorf-Astoria collection adds the Dakota Mountain Lodge in Park City to its portfolio.[Centre Daily]
· Times Square's Naked Cowboy a hotelier? [Page Six]
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