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Need Tix for the Tribeca Film Festival? Book a Room at the Gem Chelsea
The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off next week and while we've found several hotels with availability and reasonable rates, including these three, getting tickets is a different story.
Single tickets and discounted packages are currently on sale for Amex cardholders. This weekend more tickets will open up to downtown NYC residents while more tickets will be released on April 18 to the general public.
Fortunately, the tickets aren't crazy expensive. They start at $8 for matinees and $16 for evenings and weekend screenings. But the add-on charges are silly. For example, it's $3 to order online and $3 to print at home. You could save all that hassle by staying at The GEM Chelsea.
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Plan Ahead to Score 20 Percent Off GEM Hotel Rooms and Free Gift Cards
You may be scrambling to find those last-minute Christmas gifts, but you'll want to make a New Year's resolution to drop those procrastination tendencies to get this deal from GEM Hotels. If you book early and prepay in full, you can get 20 percent off of your room.
You really have to be a planner for this one. The New York chain, which has hotels in Chelsea, Midtown West and Soho, will slash the rates, but you will have to pay it all upfront, it's nonrefundable and no changes are allowed. Though you'll be rewarded with rates as low as $135 a night, which is pretty darn good for a Manhattan hotel.
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The GEM Hotel Breaks Ground in Union Square
We've long been a fan of the GEM Hotels in New York after a rather good stay at their Chelsea hotel so if NYC is gonna get yet another new hotel, it might as well be a GEM.
Ground has officially broken on The GEM Hotel Union Square at 52 West 13th Street where a 113-room hotel will open in 2012. Despite having three other properties in Manhattan, this GEM will actually be the brand's flagship hotel.
The building is designed by Andres Escobar and the architect is Gene Kaufman, he of the Tri-Pack Hotel. Fortunately, this hotel will be a little less crazy-looking than the Tri-Pack.
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GEM Hotels in New York Now Have an iPad in The Lobby
Another week, another batch of hotels that are using iPads!
Today we got word that the Gem Hotel Chelsea and the Gem Hotel LES Soho will now be offering guests the use of an iPad in their lobbies. Here's a snapshot of the Gem Hotel Chelsea's iPad. The Gem Hotel SoHo will get theirs tomorrow on Monday.
Guests can use the iPad to listen to music, watch movies, go on Facebook and Twitter, make dinner reservations, play games, look up the NYC subway map or the city's bike route (among other apps). As of now, there's no time limit but the hotel may implement a "borrowing time" later in the future.
Check out our review of the Gem Hotel Chelsea here!
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Launch Your Own Hotel Takeover With the GEM Hotel Midtown West
Have you ever dreamed of taking over an entire hotel, just like those kids in Hotel for Dogs or like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez? Well, now you can do it without having to set up a makeshift animal shelter or get all nationalistic and chummy with the military. That’s because the GEM Hotel Midtown West is “inviting” guests to takeover all of its 39 rooms. The Hotel Takeover offer is available in January and February 2010, which gives you ample time to save the $5,000 you’ll need for one night of playing hotelier. (Or you could just put it on your “Dear Santa” list.)
The five grand is the starting rate (it's based on dates and availability) but that works out to about $128 per room per night, and you also get complimentary high-speed Internet access, bottled water, and Wolfgang Puck coffee. The GEM has a mix of King and Duo-Double rooms to house your friends, but you’ll want to book yourself into the Terrace Room, so you can get some “fresh air” (the hotel is located near 10th Avenue and the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel.)
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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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GEM Hotels Want Guests To Get To Know Their Neighborhood
The GEM Hotel Chelsea
Though they only opened less than a year ago, the three boutique GEM Hotels in Manhattan have been busy with promotions. So far, the brand has three properties in Manhattan: Chelsea, Soho, and Midtown West, with a fourth property to open off Union Square in 2011.
Back in June, we hit up the hotel's GEM Hotel Chelsea which we liked very much. What the hotel room lacked up in size, it definitely made up for in amenities and free perks. Haven't checked out a GEM Hotel yet? Amuse yourself with the chain’s very…musical…web site.
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GEM Hotels Gets Their Very Own Website
GEM Hotels — that fun little offshoot of Choice Hotels’ Ascend Collection, with three boutique NYC hotels — recently launched their very own brand platform, complete with a shiny new website. Who says we never bring you exciting news?
First, the website. Pervasive elevator music aside — with a different tune for each hotel, eep! — the site has clean design and is easy to navigate, which, really, is all that matters. Beyond the looping pillow fight on the home page, the overall aesthetic is a little generic though, which doesn’t bode well for its memorability, especially for a hotel that was apparently “born out of necessity in 2007,” according to the website, “to provide excellent hospitality service in an unpretentious, accessible and sustainable manner.”
But! Via the website we did learn that GEM Union Square is coming in 2011, which we will definitely be tracking. Also worth noting: GEM Hotels are incorporating a few unique brand hallmarks, in addition to their legendary amenities. We already told you they’re searching for local rockstars to showcase via lobby playlist, but they’re also taking their name quite seriously with the GEMstone program — a collection of small rocks each engraved with a “word reflective of the brand” (from “relax” to “GEMtastic”). Guests who want their sheets laundered can plop a GEMstone on their pillow instead of scratching a note on paper. A little forced, sure, but it’s still a nice touch.
Sizzling Summer rates are discounted 15 percent and start as low as $135.
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Inside The GEM Hotel Chelsea
Yesterday we asked you to guess the hotel's funky silhouettes and one of you was able to correctly identify it as the GEM Hotel Chelsea.
For those of you who didn't know, the GEM Hotels in New York (there's one in Soho and two on the West Side) are part of Choice Hotel's Ascend Collection and while the rooms aren't exactly budget prices (the standard queen room can push $199 a night), it's what the hotel doesn't charge for that really made us happy here.
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GEM Hotels, Not the Holograms, Are Searching for Rockstars
Got a band and dreams of fame and grandeur? Are you looking forward to the day you can walk into a hotel lobby and hear the sweet sound of your own voice and the twang of your buddy's guitar echoing softly off the walls? Hanson gets played in Aloft lobbies (well, one Aloft lobby anyway) — isn't it time that local NYC band you've been playing in for a couple years got its moment in the sun? Yes. It is. It's time.
Get this: the GEM Hotels in NYC want to check out your band's demo (or your solo demo!). Since GEM's brand philosophy is all about reflecting the individuality of the neighborhoods surrounding each property, the hotels want local music playing in the lobbies.
To make it all happen, they've launched their "Rooms for Tunes" program, a sort of open casting call for NYC bands and solo artists who live or regularly perform in either Chelsea, Midtown and SoHo to drop off their CDs at the closest GEM property. Staffers will judge the jams through March 31, 2009, and if they like what they hear, your music will be featured on a rotating playlist in the hotel lobby and you'll score a free room night.
Drop off your CD at GEM Chelsea, GEM SoHo or GEM Midtown — and sit back and wait for the fan mail come pouring in. Or maybe wait for the hotel to call you and tell you whether you got a free room or not.
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The Gem Hotel Chelsea For $159 a Night
Hotel rates in NYC are pretty low right now (well, if you're comparing 'em to the holiday seasons of yesteryear, anyway), but if you're looking to score a mega bargain in Manhattan and you also prefer your carpets new and your beds barely slept-in, we'd like to remind you that you've got a new Manhattan option that is offering an excellent opening rate: the GEM Hotel Chelsea.
The GEM, which first opened back in November, is still offering opening rates that start at $159 until February 28th. This is actually down a bit from the initial opening rate of $189 a night.
The lowdown on GEM: it's a Choice Hotels Ascend Collection branded property located on 22nd Street and it boasts a pretty hefty roster of free amenities (for the price), including nightly turndown, iPod docking stations, free Internet and paraban-free Gilchrist & Soames toiletries. It's bright, clean, happy and cheap (although maybe a tad cramped). Check it out here.
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Gem Hotel "Soho" Also Now Open
A few weeks ago one of the first Ascend Hotels opened in New York City--the Gem Hotel in Chelsea. If you remember, Ascend is the new Clarion Collection from Choice Hotels. And today we also walked by another Gem Hotel--this time in the Lower East Side.
Despite the hotel's location on Houston Street and Eldridge (which is clearly LES turf), the hotel's name is listed as Soho. Hmm...not quite. But you are just two short blocks away from the massive Whole Foods store.
Just like the Chelsea location, rooms here look small with nothing in it aside from a massive white fluffy-looking bed and a flat-screen TV. Sometimes, that's all you need. Rates were going for tonight at $189 a night which is not bad. Except we paid $170 a night for our room at Thompson LES.
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