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Crosby Street Hotel
Firmdale's Crosby Street Hotel Opening in March of 2009
May 16, 2008 at 9:28 AM | 0 Comments
This week we received an email from Firmdale Hotels giving us some more info on their Crosby Street Hotel which is now going to open in March of 2009, not at the end of 2008 as we had first thought.
CROSBY STREET HOTEL will be situated in SoHo between Prince, Spring and Lafayette. It is an all-new construction which will be built over eight 10 floors and will have 85 individually designed bedrooms and suites featuring floor-to-ceiling warehouse style windows.
The hotel's interior design will be done by Kit Kemp and the public spaces will include an outdoor garden, a guest drawing room, a gym and a 100-seat "state-of-the-art" screening theater, which is actually a Firmdale trademark feature.
There's not much to report on the individual guest rooms except that they will have flat-screen TVs, wireless internet, and CD/DVD players. Several one and two bedroom suites will be located on the top floors of the hotel.
The Crosby still plans on being green all over and is hoping to achieve the Gold LEED status with its construction. So now we just have to sit and wait.
London Hotels
The Soho Hotel London: A Royal Success Story
January 3, 2008 at 9:30 AM | 0 Comments
The Soho Hotel London's Terrace Suite
Of the 1023 London hotels listed on the Trip Advisor website, the Soho Hotel London reigns supreme, coming in at first place in the Customer Popularity Index. Enough of an endorsement to warrant further investigation, we decided to find out if the place really was all that.
Green Hotels
The Crosby Street Hotel: Both British and Green
December 20, 2007 at 9:56 AM | 0 Comments
The company behind London's new five-star Haymarket Hotel is coming to New York. The Crosby Street Hotel is set to open by the end of 2008 in SoHo on what is now a parking lot between Prince and Spring Streets. The hotel was predicted to open in '07 but not many hotels opened their doors this year. Next year, however, should be different.
Anyways, some good news for tree-hugging Anglophiles--the place is seeking a gold rating under LEED for new construction. The hotel will be eight stories with 75-rooms and will include such green features like:
efficient HVAC systems, locally-sourced building materials, wall-to-ceiling windows, and a roof garden.
Could this be an Orchard Garden Hotel of the East? We hope so but you know, much cooler.
London Hotel Reviews
Haymarket Hotel is an 'Instant Classic'
September 10, 2007 at 12:42 PM | 0 Comments
Few hotels opening are as eagerly anticipated as London's Haymarket Hotel. After months of waiting guests finally had the chance to check out this modern hospitality wonder--and we were curious: What exactly did they find?
The Central London hotel, which is the latest in the wide-ranging empire of Tim and Kit Kemp, boasts 50 rooms designed to be as individual as the Haymarket's guests. They're a mix of modern pieces and antique charm that run between $400 and $600 per night. The Haymarket's show stopper is a 60-foot pool lighted by an everchanging wall installation designed by Martin Richman. According to chatters over at Tablet Hotels, despite a lackluster gym, the Haymarket is a hit.
The verdict on the long-awaited Haymarket Hotel: more of the same from the Firmdale group. We're disposed to think of Number Sixteen, the Knightsbridge, the Pelham and all the rest of the group's other London hotels as instant classics: luxury-hotel values on a boutique-hotel scale, with a unique design personality courtesy of Kit Kemp.
When it comes to the best part of the newest Kemp Family addition, we think it's got as much to do with location (there aren't many lodging options on London's West Side) as it's got to do with looks.
[Photo: Channels World of Hotels]
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· Haymarket Hotel Makes Another `Best' List [Hotel Chatter]
· London Travel [Jaunted]
· Check In, Check Out: Haymarket Hotel [NYT]
