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Palomar Hotel in Dallas Beats the Local W Hands Down

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 5300 E Mockingbird Ln [map], Dallas, TX, United States, 75206
January 7, 2008 at 9:20 AM | by amandak | 0 Comments

If you judge your hotel by its TripAdvisor rankings, then the best place to stay in Dallas, Texas is the Palomar Hotel from the Kimpton Hotel group. It's a boutique hotel plus residences that was formerly the Mockingbird Hilton, and we've already drawn parallels between the Palomar and the W Dallas.

Some of the pluses, as told by recent guests to the Palomar, include wine tasting with other guests, great staff, huge televisions and even a quick response time if you need a razor to shave your legs! They're also welcoming to your pets.

Yet since some of the guest reviews also likened the Palomar to a W property, we were surprised to find the W Dallas listed all the way down at #49 on the TripAdvisor rankings. Some of the problems here were guests didn't like the bathroom being so closely combined into the bedroom, below-average service for an above-average price, and a location that's not entirely convenient. Seems like the Palomar is out-W-ing the W!

[Photo: Dorkydad]

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W Dallas Victory Hotel: A Place for Business or Just For Fun?

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 2440 Victory Park Lane [map], Dallas, TX, United States, 75219
March 5, 2007 at 1:27 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

The people over at Forbes have dubbed the W Dallas Victory Hotel as one of the top new business hotels for 2006. This actually surprised us because while we know W Hotels projects a "cool" image, their past WiFi troubles have led us to believe that you could get a lot more work done at a Holiday Inn or a Best Western where the internet is free. And need we mention the hotel's dubious party scene?

So we decided to investigate some of the hotel amenities that would make this place a top biz hotel. First off, the hotel has conference facilities totaling 11,000 sq. ft. and a Great Room of 4,300 sq. ft. for larger events.

Second, this W offers Recess, where you can take a break from business meetings and W hotel specialists will help "create unique, inspiring and downright fun experiences that will transform your meeting into a virtual playground."

If that's not enough, the hotel will give a boardroom its Sensory Set Up touch, which will stimulate all five senses by incorporating mood music, aromatherapy scents, "thought-provoking place cards" and "inspiring games." Sounds like a marketing or advertising group would love this.

MORE on the W's business services after the jump.

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Room With A Killer View: W Dallas Hotel

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 2440 Victory Park Boulevard [map], Dallas, TX, United States, 75219
August 24, 2006 at 12:15 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

We are suckers for a room with a killer view. We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.

This is the view from Ghost Bar. W Dallas Victory Hotel. Much better than the view of the correctional facility that we previously saw.

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Viewlicious: W Hotel Dallas

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 2440 Victory Park Boulevard [map], Dallas, TX, United States, 75219
August 10, 2006 at 11:38 AM | by juliana | 0 Comments

Now that we have the full scoop on what it's like to stay at the W Dallas Hotel Victory Park, thanks to Hotel Maven Bohan, here are some viewlicious photos for you to check out.

Click Here to Go Straight to W Dallas Photo Shoot

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W Dallas Victory Hotel Review, featuring The Ghost Bar

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 2440 Victory Park Lane [map], Dallas, TX, United States, 75219
August 8, 2006 at 11:15 AM | by BoHan | 0 Comments

[Ed. Note: As we promised yesterday, here is the full, uncensorsed, sexually-charged review of the W Dallas Victory Park from our intrepid Hotel Maven BoHan. This review is rated PG-13. Shield your children from it.]

The W chain of luxury hotels promises you Whatever, Whenever with even a button on the room phone labeled to that effect.

After staying at the W Dallas Victory last Saturday night, and carousing at the 32nd floor penthouse Ghost Bar,  I'm pretty sure they win on the Whatever part, as that is about all I can remember to say after one evening in this high-class, high-rise, luxury f*ck palace - not that I have any issue with that, mind you - those are the only hotels at which I care to stay, thank you very much.

I'm just not sure Dallas, my hometown, is ready for what the W has to offer (witness, the Brokeback Mountain package which is a prominent W deal-- yeah, this place was just booked to the roof with my fellow Texas faggots and I. Wrong. (Oh, I kid, there were a few). So we shall see how well they conquer this new terrain - the verdict's still out, but I give it a "yes."

More on Bohan's wild W Dallas experience post-jump.

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Knocking White Boots at the W Dallas Ghost Bar

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 2440 Victory Park Lane [map], Dallas, TX, United States, 75219
August 7, 2006 at 4:26 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

One of our intrepid Hotel Mavens had the opportunity to visit the Ghost Bar at the W Dallas Victory Hotel and snapped this picture of one of the waittresses.

We think Michael Kors probably did not design this scary outfit. Only in Dallas would someone sanction the use of white pleather boots.

Stay Tuned for more on the Ghost Bar, and a complete W Dallas review tomorrow.

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'Discount Security Guards' at W Dallas Ghostbar

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 2440 Victory Park Lane [map], Dallas, TX, United States, 75219
August 3, 2006 at 3:44 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

Granted when every hotel opens, it takes a while to work out the kinks. But the W Dallas Hotel is getting some rough reviews on TripAdvisor, namely for its GhostBar.

Here's a recent one:

This hotel is very trendy. The Ghost Bar is cool, but overrated. The pool is way too cold. like icccccccccce cold. ---then the room we were in was like 90+ degress, but the SERVICE here by anyone other than bellhops, etc was horrible.....bartenders, front desk---the worst were the joke security staff at the Ghost Bar. Hillarious. Tools. An ear piece does not make you important! Hard job I'm sure...bottom line without service this is a temporary venture. Did I say the discount 'Secret Security Service' Guards were tools?

See? It doesn't matter how many MySpace friends you have, you still need to prove your worth with actual hotel guests.

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