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Johnny Depp is Coming to Hoxton, Will He Stay at the Hoxton Hotel?
Just how great is Johnny Depp? Very great. So great in fact that he is, according to Spoonfed, “negotiating a one-off performance” with indie band Babybird in the Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen on November 12.
Where might he be staying? Well there’s only one option round that way: the Hoxton Hotel, so if he wants to make a night of it, he should probably stay here. In fact, we like to think he snapped up one of the £1 rooms in the sale this month and decided to throw in a gig as thanks to the people of Hoxton.
Whatever. Rooms for 12 November are costing £184.98 at the moment, which sounds a bit steep to us (we said when we stayed there that we’d pay up to £120). But then, a potential glimpse of the Deppster in the bar is probably priceless.
[Photo: Blogamole]
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Sleeping By The (Red) Sea in Bir Suwair's Bamboo Shacks
We learned several things from our visit to Egypt last week. First, five star there does not necessarily mean the five star that you would be accustomed to. We stayed in three five star properties in the Sinai peninsula – the Four Seasons and the Concorde in Sharm El Sheikh, and the Intercontinental in Taba Heights, and, unless you count all inclusive buffets and slightly tired decor as desirable five star attributes, only the Four Seasons was up to scratch.
Second, do not trust the buffets. They will make most likely you ill.
Third, you may tire of the resorts after a week of the buffets and the activities and the enforced gaiety and being surrounded by what seems like half the inhabitants of Britain and Russia, comparing sun burn and complaining that the guy at breakfast overfilled the coffee cup.
This is when you need to escape. And this is where you should escape to: Bir Suwair, in northern Sinai, between Nuweiba and Taba. It’s a settlement on a lovely sandy beach (this is important because not all the beaches in Sinai are lovely and sandy; most are rocky and have to import sand that’s a bit chunky and scratchy, although they have awesome coral reefs to make up for this). And by “settlement”, we mean a group of about 30 campsites made up of bamboo and wooden shacks. Robinson Crusoe eat your heart out.
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Get Your Harry Potter Fix for Halloween at These Hotels
While dressing up in costume and checking into the Hilton San Francisco might win you a free hotel stay, it doesn't include treasure hunts, Harry Potter screenings and an afternoon of witchcraft. Nope, for that you will have to head to the rather luscious-looking Ashford Castle in County Mayo, Ireland.
The castle is having a Harry Potter-inspired Halloween. This might surprise you, given that the place has nothing to do with Harry Potter whatsoever – in fact, the tenuous link they make is that the castle was built in 1228: “a time when magic in Europe was the norm.” Hmm.
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Flex Those Fingers: The Hoxton's £1 Sale is Back Next Thursday
Wow, is it really that time of year already? It only seems like yesterday we were declaring our £1 room at the Hoxton Hotel the best value ever – and now it’s time to have a go at getting another one.
The hotel’s fabled £1 sale is back next Thursday, 1 October, at 12pm GMT (that’s 7am for East Coasters and too early to conceive of for those further west.)
The rules are the same as ever – 500 rooms for £1, 500 consolation prizes of £29, and nearly 80,000 people trying to book them.
Last time, the £1 rooms sold out in 4 minutes to smugsters like us, so you’ll have to be quick – we suggest going for a weekday several weeks down the line to maximise your chances. As long as it’s not the one we were thinking of – we’re looking forward to playing paper, scissors, stone with those cushions again…
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Pitch Your Hotel: GEM Hotels Are Not 'Nightclubs With Rooms'
Welcome to our regular Monday feature, Pitch Your Hotel, where we let hoteliers, general managers and other hotel execs tell us on-camera what makes their hotels so different from all the rest. And believe us, the competition is fierce these days. So sit back, relax and listen to them explain why their hotels are worthy of your hard-earned dollars or rewards points.
GEM Hotels is a fairly new collection of independent boutique hotels that have opened up in NYC. The collection has only three locations--Chelsea, Soho/LES and Midtown West. These are small hotels with small rooms but at budget-friendly prices and with lots of perks.
What the rooms lack in size, they make up for in comforts like complimentary Wolfgang Puck coffee in the rooms, turndown service, free WiFi, flatscreen TVs, bathrobes and Gilchrist and Soames toiletries.
And even outside the rooms, the hotel continues to offer guests perks and useful services that don't require a lengthy consultation with a concierge or an added fee.
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TripAdvisor Picks Ten Not-Too-Bad Hotels for Under $19
OK, this isn't The Mondrian South Beach but it is cheap.
You wouldn't expect to find too many hotels on a list of under $19 accommodation, but TripAdvisor has so many they've made a Top 10 list. And sure, we're not talking five-star luxury or anything, but if you're traveling on a budget it's good to know just how many super-cheap options there are out there.
But what do you get for under $19? For a start, not one of the hotels in the Top 10 has ever been featured here on HotelChatter, so we feel like we're treading a little into unknown territory. But it ain't all bad, we think. Take the #1 pick, the Hotel Lion d'Or in Buenos Aires, which starts at $14 a night, and rates well in the top half of the 340 hotels that TA monitors in the Argentinean capital.
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The Five Worst Budget Brands In Europe
You’re headed to Europe and despite all the talk about airline deals, getting there has eaten up a lot of your budget. So you're going to stay on the cheap. Yesterday, we listed our Five Best Budget Brands in Europe so that you will know the best hotels to hit up and what you get for your money.
But you also need to know which ones to avoid. Sure, the prices are right at these budget brands but there are times you may want to pay a little more for your peace of mind.
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The Five Best Budget Brands in Europe
In need of a cheapo vacation? Thinking that the $100 and $150 deals we were talking about here are out of your price range this time round? It’s time to rediscover the joys of the budget hotel.
And while Europe doesn’t have quite as many as America (in other words, there isn't a choice of about five chain motels at every motorway exit), it’s still possible to know roughly what’s in store when you book into a budgie room. Here are our Five Best Budget Brands in Europe. Tune in tomorrow for our picks for the worst.
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The Capitol Skyline Hotel: 'A Giant Concrete Submarine Headed Back to the Future'
Jetsons lovers, take note: The NYT checked in to an off-the-beaten-path DC hotel and deemed it somewhere the space-age family "might have vacationed — a giant concrete submarine headed back to the future.” Though it’s docked between the Capitol and the new-in-2008 Nationals ballpark, the Capitol Skyline Hotel takes up a city block in a weirdly void location in the small-and-unloved Southwest quadrant of Washington.
Originally designed by Miami Beach’s Morris Lapidus in the 1960s, the 203-room hotel later became a Best Western. In 2001, the hotel was purchased by the late Steve Rubell’s brother’s family, who have been quietly transforming the hotel ever since, starting with a “playful modernist lobby that includes two Frank Gehry twisted wood chairs, and a large pool out in back,” says the NYT.
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South Beach Goes Hollywood, Budget Hollywood
No, no, the SoFla folks aren’t coming west, just heading north. The self-described “hip hotel group” The South Beach Group has just announced a new property in Hollywood Beach, Florida. But don’t look to their Miami Beach boutique hotels—Catalina, Riveria South Beach, Whitelaw, et. al—for clues to the new digs: this baby is a two-in-one, the Hollywood Beach Hotel + Hostel.
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The View From This Madrid Ibis is Ibusted
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
Things to see in Madrid: see a game at Bernabeu Stadium. Picasso's Guernica. The Plaza Mayor. The Royal Palace.
Things that can be seen from Room 18 of the Ibis Madrid, Valentin Beato: this.
This was shot by that_james and was posted to Flickr — granted, this particular hotel is "5.6 miles from the Sol district in the city center," according to the website, so maybe there's not a whole lot around here to see.
But we suppose you get what you pay for: this 128-room hotel (it has all "new rooms with air conditioning") will cost you 76.32 USD a night — or $69.26 if you want to book with a no change, no cancellation policy.
[Photo: that_james]
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Your Dorky Road Trip Mix Could Win You Some Free Stuff
Don't lie. You totally make dorky road trip mixes whenever you have to drive long distances. Whether it's your iPod playlist or on a CD, don't even pretend like you dont put "Hit the Road, Jack" and "Born to be Wild" and "Life is a Highway" into the rotation, even if you're trying to keep it cool with Black-Eyed Peas or Beyonce or whatever the kids are listening to these days. You have your road trip jamz. It's okay to admit it; we all do.
And now that nerdy mix might be winning you some free stuff: Starting July 24th and running through August 27th, you can enter to win some cool stuff from Econolodge. Going to Econolodge.com and voting for your favorite road trip jam enters you into the Econo Lodge Travelin’ Tunes Sweepstakes (yes, we know, it's not the Four Seasons but you don't do your road trips in Ferrari's, do you?) for the chance to win "the ultimate music lovers prize": a trip to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, which includes roundtrip airfare, $1,000 of spending money, and accommodations for three nights at an Econo Lodge hotel.
If you're not usually the lucky type who wins grand prizes, don't stress: five entries will be chosen every week, and they'll each win a $25 music gift card. So you can download your other embarrassing road trip jams. Like "Little Red Corvette" and stuff — the promo starts Friday.
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