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'Mr. W' at the W London is Keeping Us Entertained...For Now
Mr W takes his show on the road to Wireless
Seeing as a) the W Leicester Square has pushed back its opening date to February and b) we’re impatient types, we’ve been getting our W fixes from its Facebook page, and found ourselves getting more and more fixated on the mysterious “Mr W” who runs it.
Sod the titillating pictures of the hotel under construction – as well as that, he’s carving out an entire personality for himself and the hotel along the lines of @standarde or Stan D’Arde, the Standard hotel group’s imaginary but still dapper Twitter persona.
In recent weeks, we’ve heard about Mr W getting his moustache shaved off at Glastonbury, hitting the Wireless Festival in Hyde Park and developing an unsightly “farmer’s tan”. All good images.
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How Stalking On Facebook Can Win You a Stay At Le Meurice
Paris in Le Spring Time
We’re not normally fans of cryptic stuff here, but when the cryptic stuff could lead to a stay at Le Meurice in Paris, that’s when we’ll give it a go.
We’ve been studying the hotel’s Facebook page for a while now, but our ears (metaphorically) pricked up last week when they posted a notice telling us to follow their page to:
Discover in the coming days the question and the link to enter the Dorchester Collection contest to win a magical two night stay at the exceptional Le Meurice this spring!!!
Next we heard of it was on Friday, when they told us to study the Dorchester Collection’s Facebook page. They say:
The answer to the question that will be revealed in 5 days to win the contest is there
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And The Award For Intercontinental Times Square's Toiletries Goes To....
The envelope, please! As we prepare for the Oscars this Sunday, another race is underway in hotel land. That for the coveted spot as the chosen bath amenity brand for the new InterContinental New York Times Square. Earlier this week, we noticed that the hotel had turned to the public to help decide the winner—via a poll on its Facebook page.
This was their shortlist:
What type of bathroom amenities do you prefer?option 1:GILCHRIST & SOAMES
option 2:Molton Brown
option 3:Aroma Therapy
option 4:Essentiel Elements
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Invent 'The World's Most Awesome Hotel Job' and Win Two Trips to Marquis Los Cabos Resort
After the contest, this Casita could be meticulously attended by the resort's new Casita Feng Shui Enhancer.
There's been a lot of talk lately about folks wanting to work in hotels but even if you aren't a gold medal Olympian, you can still find a hotel job that suits you. Namely, because you're the one who invented it.
The all-suite The Marquis Los Cabos Resort in Mexico has kicked off a fun new contest via its Facebook page, asking folks to submit their suggestions for "The World's Most Awesome Hotel Job." Coconut keeper, whale spotter, towel fluffer, margarita taster, massage tester, all of those would work.
Contest participants need to upload a one-minute video to the hotel's Facebook page detailing their "most awesome hotel job" suggestion. The catch is that the job description has to be beneficial to the resort's guests.
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The Eventi Hotel Gets a Facebook Page, But When Will It Open?
This just in: The Eventi Hotel has a Facebook page. That’s great—it has a home on the web. But how about in real life? When will the doors to New York’s new Kimpton open? That’s what we really want to know.
We tried “poking” the hotel to find out, but so far all we’re getting is “set to open in spring 2010.” Perhaps that means a soft opening, because the first date you can book appears to be June 1st. (Last time we checked it was May 15.)
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The Distrikt Hotel's Newest Status Update Says February 5th
You know those Facebook binges where you click obsessively through photos of your ex and his sunny vacation with the new girlfriend? We do that too, only with hotels. Our latest Facebook stalking target is NYC’s Distrikt Hotel, which we’re desperately hoping will open before the winter of 2010 is out.
The Distrikt’s page doesn’t tell us upfront what the latest opening date is, but digging through the photo albums, we learned from a caption that they are now looking at February.
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How To Get a Room In Miami For the Super Bowl (Game Tix, Too)
While most folks are focused on the MLB World Series, down in Miami hotels have the Super Bowl on their minds. Room rates for the weekend of the February 7 game were already laughable when we checked back in August, although today Quikbook still has some reasonably priced rooms in the $200-a-night range. (The W South Beach, however? That’s $999 a night.) But thanks to yet another Facebook promotion, the best deal in town so far is to win the Loews Miami Beach Super Bowl contest. The SoBe hotel is giving away a four-night stay valid February 4–7, 2010—and they’ll also throw in two tickets to the big game.
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Get a $50 Hilton Caribbean Hotel Credit Just For Becoming a Facebook Fan
If you're obsessed with finding new places for hotel deals (and let's face it, aren't we all?) then consider joining Facebook and Twitter to follow hotels for special deals. Like this one we just learned about from Hilton Hotels in the Caribbean.
Simply become a fan of a Hilton Caribbean hotel and download a $50 resort credit which is then redeemable at check-in. You can find a list of the hotels here. The hotels include Hilton Barbados, Caribe Hilton, Hilton Curacao, Hilton Kingston Jamaica and the British Colonial Hilton Nassau.
Unfortunately, you just missed your chance to catch the Jonas Brothers who were recently shacked up at the Hilton Santo Domingo which was swarmed by rabid teenage girls. Might be best to give that hotel some time to recover.
After becoming a fan, go to the hotel's BOXES tab. There you will see the resort credit which you can print out. Just remember you must book a minimum 2-night stay and only one coupon per room can be used. The offer is good through January 2010 and cannot be combined with other promotions or offers.
[Photo: Hilton Curacao Facebook page]
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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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Thanks to Facebook, We Get a Sneak Peek at the W Barcelona
There are still six days to go till it opens, but the folk at W Barcelona have stuck up some sneak peek photos on their Facebook page. The teases!
Up top is the the sundeck at the Altitude Terrace. Then there’s the WET Deck (loving the water all over the place)
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The Lorien Hotel Wants Us To Give Up Facebook and Twitter
We have definitely admired Kimpton's new Lorien Hotel and Spa since it opened up earlier this year. But their new special package is one we're finding a little bit confronting – although we suspect it's our fault, not the hotel's.
The thing is, the Lorien Hotel and Spa wants us to relax, and is worried that our addiction to social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook (we do mention them occasionally) might be bordering on a social dysfunction (they even found therapists who agree). So they are offering a Social Media Detox Program for the rest of this year.
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Barbados Posts Deals Galore on Facebook and Twitter
We all know that hotels have gotten hip to Facebook, offering their new fans and friends special deals through the social networking site. But sometimes it also pays to be a fan of a tourism agency on Facebook if you're looking for some vacation deals.
Fans of the Barbados Beat on Facebook can log in daily for promotional codes to stay, spa and dine at the best destinations on island or access different deals via status updates. And like any other "savvy" social media plan, the hotels know to also tweet their deals on Twitter.
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