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Strip Views May Just Be A Mirage In These Swanky Vegas Suites
For once, you may not want to stay in the penthouse
We may have been unimpressed by our Strip view being obscured by Donny and Marie at the Flamingo Las Vegas, but we - and the Flamingo - aren't the only ones.
HotelChatter reader Stan contacted us to say that he felt for us, having experienced the same at the Mirage. Only problem is, he wasn't talking about a $45 room as we were. He was talking about a high falutin suite.
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Donny And Marie Are Ruining The Views At The Flamingo Again
Last time we stayed at the Flamingo Las Vegas, we had a nice surprise: the wrap advertising Donny and Marie was down from the building, so our views were both unimpeded and spectacular.
Bad news: when we stayed there again this week, the wrap is back, and it’s ruining the view again. This is what we got on our first attempt from an almost identical room overlooking the Strip. If you squint, you can almost see the Bellagio fountains.
We managed to work around the wrap a little, realizing we just had to step back a bit to take better pictures – but then we had window frame in the shot. We also found the wrap had the uncanny ability to include a honking reflection of us in nearly every picture, and the ones that didn’t still carried a grubby haze from the webbing.
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The Wilshire Grand Hotel in LA Gets Approval for Trippy Digital Billboards
We seriously hope this hotel is investing in some good black-out shades.
The Wilshire Grand Hotel in downtown LA is about to undergo a billion dollar rebuild, financed randomly by Korean Air, and they have just won approval from the city to put trippy digital billboards all over the building.
The LA Times reports:
That district will allow various kinds of digital advertising on the first 10 floors of the two towers. The tops of the two skyscrapers will feature digital signs promoting the buildings' owner and major tenants. And on dozens of stories in between, LED lights would display noncommercial images such as flowers and vines that would fade in and out.
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Without the Advertecture, The Flamingo Has Killer Vegas Views
We're understanding souls here at HotelChatter. We get that times are tough, and we're not averse to hotels indulging in a little advertising if it means cheaper room rates. But when the hotel coining it in affects the view we've paid for, we're not happy. Which is why, last time we stayed at the Flamingo in Vegas, we were sad to have our premium Strip view obscured by a wrap containing Donny and Marie Osmond and their respective grins.
So you'll be delighted to know that, right now, the gauze is gone and the killer views are intact. When we shacked up at the Flamingo at the weekend, the wrap was down (they took it off for Donny and Marie's Christmas hiatus, replaced it with an ad for H&M, and that's now been taken down) and the views were nothing short of spectacular. We had glorious vistas of the Strip, Caesars Palace and, to the far west, Red Rock Canyon national park.
The bad news? The Donny and Marie wrap is coming back imminently, though staff aren't sure exactly when. The good? Right now, you can score an absolute bargain. We got our sexy upgraded GO room for a mere $45 on a Thursday thanks to an ongoing sale, and, thanks to our winning chat with the guy at check in, were upgraded to the premium view room, which technically should have cost an extra $40.
No, the bathroom hadn't been thoroughly cleaned, and no, housekeeping didn't attend to the situation, despite our calling for assistance. And yes, we even discovered a bit of blood on a bath towel. And no, the batteries had died on the big TV and the bathroom mirror TV. But you know what? The room was so nice (and we were drunk) that we weren't actually that annoyed. Also, when we complained again on check out, they gave us a free buffet for two. And nothing appeases our hangover like four plates of free carbs.
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San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina Pimps Its Facade Out for Comic-Con
San Diego is busy decorating the city to welcome Comic-Con on July 22. Today at the Gaslamp Trolley Station downtown, signs will be installed in Klingon, for you Trekkies out there. Meanwhile, the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina is getting itself ready for the party with a big ad with the word "Skyline" emblazoned on its facade.
It isn't as fun as the Hilton San Diego Bayfront's Scott Pilgrim advertecture, but it's certainly eye-catching. If you're curious about the mysterious one-word ad on the Marriott's 25-story tower, Comic-Con ticket-holders can visit the July 23 panel dedicated to Skyline, a film from Universal that will be released on November 12.
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Scott Pilgrim Rocks Out at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront
The Hilton San Diego Bayfront is getting ready for the onslaught of Comic-Con fans this week. The hotel's flashing its geek cred by plastering comic-book slacker and bassist Scott Pilgrim on its facade.
Or, more likely, it's just an ad for the upcoming Scott Pilgrim movie starring Michael Cera as the titular character. Either way, the ad splashed on the 30-story hotel—even despite the glare from the always-there San Diego sun—will surely be a conversation-starter among the comic-book-loving festival crowd.
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What's It Like Staying in an Advertectured Room?
A slightly older Andaz ad
We’ve always wondered what it’s like to be in a hotel room whose window is sitting under one of those wall ads – you know, Donny & Marie at the Flamingo in Vegas, or, the one we always notice in LA, the Andaz WeHo.
And now we know. Some friends of ours recently stayed in said Andaz, and we paid a little visit to their suite. We were wondering why, on one side of the room, the windows were tinted, and then we looked closer to find that they were, in fact, spotted with a network of thousands of little dots - what's making the picture look all grubby here.
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The Catalonia Hotel in Barcelona Was One Giant Windows Mobile 7 Ad
In case you didn't know, the Mobile World Congress 2010 happened last week in Barcelona and thousands of mobile networkers convened to well...network with one another. And it looks like Microsoft went out of its way to promote the new Windows Mobile 7 platform while staying at the Catalonia Plaza Hotel. (Side note: the hotel has free WiFi!)
Blogger Tam Hanna reports that during the day, the hotel's clock on the exterior was also set to seven. And at night, the hotel brightly lit up a square in the center of the building as well as several windows to create the number 7 which glowed from the hotel's exterior. Hmm...we wonder if the hotel can now say, "I'm a PC and Windows 7 Mobile was my idea."
[Photo: Tam Hanna]
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Some Folks Hate the H&M Ads On the Hollywood Roosevelt
On the East Coast, New Yorkers are not happy with Thompson Hotels due to their failure to open Smyth Tribeca in a timely fashion — or open it at all, really. We're not sure if they're adding finishing touches or what. Meanwhile, over on the West Coast, some people are unhappy with Thompson because they've been making too many, er, "finishing touches" to the Hollywood Roosevelt building. And by "finishing touches," we mean plastering the architectural landmark building with ads for a Swedish clothing company. Whoops!
From LA's CityWatch blog:
The Hollywood Roosevelt first sported huge supergraphic ads in 2006. The company that installed these 6,000 sq. ft. plus ads, In Plain Site Media, was cited by the city’s Department of Building and Safety for failing to obtain permits or inspections for the signs. The company then applied to the city for permits. Last July, the Cultural Heritage Commission voted to deny the application, but one of the supergraphic sign still remains on the east side of the building.
It's an H&M ad! Come on, who doesn't love H&M?
Some people, apparently. The blog actually provides Stephen Brandman's email addy, and the author encourages people who are unhappy with the "owners' custodianship of an historic building" to voice their concerns to Brandman directly. While we're sure the B-man will read and respond to those emails, we're going to go ahead and throw out a bit of unsolicited advice here: maybe wait until Smyth Tribeca is up and running — you may get a better response once the opening-delay crisis is over with.
[Photo: JonDoeForty1]
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Hotels Hip It Up with Projection Art
Look up there! It's a bird...it's a plane...it's graffiti on the side of a hotel!
Properties graced with chic, minimalist facades often rely on their recognizable modern architecture as a selling point. But recently, three hotels have taken the innovative step of making their concrete slabs interactive.
The nautically funky Maritime Hotel in New York was the first to get the virtual treatment several years back, when street art group Graffiti Research Lab brought their "Projection Bombing" to 9th Avenue. Using homemade projection technology, they converted the Maritime's be-portholed structure into a gigantic canvas for connect-the-dots and ambient imagery.
This stunt eventually got Graffiti Research Lab on the Museum of Modern Art's radar, who recently purchased one of their interactive projection machines for themselves (and subsequently used it to scrawl "F*ck This Museum" on the wall).
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The Hotel Le Jolie Is A Very Confused Hotel
It's admittedly kinda trendy to beat up on Brooklyn hotels. (At least the ones not charging by the hour, that is.) But when they make it so easy, it's hard to let 'em slide.
The other week we thought the Hotel Le Jolie might be kind of a cool place to stay.
But now we're not so sure after seeing this giant banner ad for Grand Theft Auto IV on the side of the hotel. Needless to say, it's taking the class level down a few notches. And Curbed can't decide which is better: the video game ad or the abandoned gas station next to the property.
We'll say neither after looking over Le Jolie's newly functional website. Among the "snapshots" of great things to see in NYC is a photo of the Brooklyn Bridge at night. There's no doubt that's a wonderful landmark, but couldn't the hotel find a photo of the bridge without the World Trade Center in the background????
[Original Photo: Curbed]
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'The Producers' at Paris Las Vegas to Close Feb. 9
Maybe Broadway shows in Las Vegas aren't doing as well as we thought. Paris Las Vegas just announced that they will be shutting down the production of "The Producers" on February 9th.
David Hasselhoff had first starred in the show when it opened last August as cross-dressing director, Roger Debris. Then Tony Danza brought his fading star wattage to the production as Max Bialystock. Aside from Baywatch and Who's the Boss? fans, the show struggled. Not even the extreme form of advertecture (seen above) probably could pull in big ticket sales.
Other failed Broadway productions on the strip include "Hairspray" at the Luxor which only lasted four months, and "Avenue Q" at Wynn which lasted nine months.
There's hope for "Spamalot" at the Wynn which opens in April and "Jersey Boys" at the soon-to-open Palazzo Las Vegas but we guess people would rather blow $100 at the tables then spend it on a show.
[Photo: GregPC]
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