Imagine our surprise when we saw the rates for June 19th: $919 for a standard king room. Holy crap.
We're all about blowing our money in Vegas, but we prefer to spend our hard-earned dollars on cocktails and slots. [SLOTS, people. Get your minds out of the gutter.]
Man, it must be hot in Orlando. According to police reports a black bear was spotted taking a swim in the pool of the Hard Rock Hotel early this morning.
The hotel was not evacuated and no one is in danger as this breed is particularly shy but the search for the bear is on at nearby Universal Studios.
Still can you blame the bear for wanting to take a dip? The Hard Rock has a 12,000-sq.ft. sand beach pool area with an underwater stereo system, a 260-foot water slide, and themed cabanas like "The Yellow Submarine" or Stevie Wonder's "Musiquarium" which have ceiling fans, plasma TVs, wireless internet, and dedicated server to bring you drinks.
Or perhaps the bear was just trying to reserve some chairs for the family. We know how heated these pool chair wars can get.
Tsk, tsk, Jesse Metcalfe. We had such high hopes for you gardener boy but it looks like you were unable to parlay your on-screen bare chest appearances into anything worthwhile after Desperate Housewives.
Nowadays, about the only thing that's keeping Jesse Metcalfe in the news is his bad hotel behavior. Previously he reportedly blacklisted from the Mondrian West Hollywood.
Poison frontman and Rock of Love star Bret Michaels is performing at the Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando on May 29th for the hotel's Velvet Sessions. The cost of a chance to dance near the extension-wearing aging rocker? $50 and that includes specialty drinks from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The concert starts in the hotel lobby at 8:30pm. [Orlando Sentinel]
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Dedicated readers of HotelChatter know that they will never find us at the Rehab pool parties that take place every Sunday at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.
It probably all stems from this review where a guest saw people engaging in "sex acts" by the pool. That and the copious amounts of video and photos we've seen. It makes the Jersey Shore look tame!
So when we got this press release on the Rehab Las Vegas website (a microsite of the Hard Rock's site) we didn't really care. Then we looked closer and realized that even if you can't physically get to Rehab you can still participate in all the trashy shenanigans.Keep on reading for the full release
Eric Clapton, whose guitar was the first piece of rock memorabilia the Hard Rock chain ever acquired, will be performing at the hotel on May 5th. This is during the same time that Princess Diana's famous dresses will be on display at the hotel.
The the hotel's package combines VIP tickets to the concert and VIP tickets to a preview of the Princess Diana Dresses exhibit. And there's more:
Also included in the package is two-nights deluxe accommodation, round-trip Rolls Royce airport transfers, a welcome bottle of Cristal champagne, and dinner for two at the Hard Rock Hotels' famed Council Oak steakhouse.
Also poolside, guests will have cabana accommodations with butler service. The package is good for May 4-6th (only) and is priced at $5,000.
Art on the walls at Mary Jane's Coffee Shop at the Hard Rock SD.
The LA Times' Valli Herman recently reviewed the Hard Rock San Diego and for the most part, she liked the hotel. We think this is mostly because she was expecting a room and board version of the played-out Hard Rock Cafes, yet she found the hotel to be rather "well-run."
However, she did find the classic rock piping through the hotel to be a bit "goofy". She writes:
With a pantheon of classic, and often dead, rockers on heavy rotation, the hotel also isn't pushing any boundaries musically. After a few too many rounds of the Beatles, the Monkees and the Doors, I was tempted to call it the Classic Rock Hotel.
As we all know, the man responsible for the music at the hotel is Vibe Manager John W. Resnick. Now he might have to actually spend some time working at this job.
Still, Valli Herman had plenty of other nice things to say about the Hard Rock including this reassuring bit: "Snap-to-it service without attitude."
Meet John W. Resnick, a 25-year-old New Yorker and Cornell Hotel School grad, who's responsible for keeping the rock n' roll vibe at the new hotel. Why should we sum up his job when he can do it himself:
My job is to create experiences for our guests both musical and cultural that really keep them begging for more, so they know they're at a Hard Rock [and] not a Holiday Inn.
I'm in charge of all the music at the hotel. Literally all the playlists that we make, the thousands of songs in our music library, the energy level in the hotel, and a whole sense of music, from the lobby to the spa to Mary Jane's [café] to the gym.
Wow. A vibe manager who basically just creates playlists all day long. That's kinda cool we guess. But Nemo Librizzi's and his hash-smoking hammock still trumps all.
Tsk, tsk, Jesse Metcalfe. We had such high hopes for you gardener boy but it looks like you were unable to parlay your on-screen bare chest appearances into anything worthwhile after Desperate Housewives.
