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Wondering What To Wear For NY Fashion Week? First, Take Care of Your Pooch
NY Fashion Week is fast approaching. And you know what that means. Private parties, lobbies littered with models, and The James' signature NYFW meal.
And those are just for the humans. Fashion-forward dogs, on the other hand, will be strutting their stuff at the New Yorker. On February 10, specifically, when a New Yorkie pet apparel fashion show descends on the hotel, complete with a celebrity appearance by none other than Schmitty the Weather Dog, possibly our favorite hotel-hopping pooch ever.
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Snakes at a German Hotel (Ew, Ew, Ew)
Rather than drummers drumming, pipers piping, and golden rings, a group of Chinese visitors to Cologne, Germany had a more unseemly batch of presents for their hotel: police confiscated "100 snakes, 70 tortoises and 20 neon-colored frogs" from the three tourists, reports English-language news source The Local. And, no, a partridge in a pear tree was not included in their arc of travel companions.
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If You Find Dolphins Relaxing, You Should Consider Doing Yoga With Them
When we first learned that The Mirage was offering yoga classes inside their underwater dolphin viewing area, we wondered just how productive those classes would actually be. Isn't yoga supposed to be about focus and self-discipline? Last time we visited an aquarium, we were so excited we literally ran from tank to tank.
The unconventional yoga space has multiple windows looking into the "habitat," so students will be more likely to be spying on the dolphin families than fine-tuning their poses. As for the dolphins? They see people every day—whether sitting in rows on the bleachers, or twisted into a pretzel on the floor, an audience is an audience. This is nothing new for them.
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Reindeer Will Reign Over the Trump Chicago on Saturday
Like it or not, the holiday season has officially begun. So while you're drawing up your Christmas wish lists or plotting out the best strategy for door-busting on Black Friday, don't forget to plan out your hotel stay. From now through New Year's Eve, we'll be pulling out the holiday hotel news, deals and events we think are the best (or the worst.) Got a question about booking a hotel over the holidays or what to do when staying in a hotel over the holidays? Let us know!
While the gingerbread mice are busy readying the gigantic gingerbread castle at the Chicago Marriott in Downtown, Santa's other helpers will be back on display at the Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago. Yes, we're talking about the reindeers.
For the second year in a row, two live reindeer will "fly" into the hotel for an appearance on November 19 for Trump Chicago's holiday kick-off party from 3pm to 8pm featuring holiday music, seasonal refreshments, photo ops with Santa and the reindeer and a perfect view of Chicago's annual holiday fireworks show. (The Trump's party coincides with the city's 20th Annual Magnificent Mile Lights Festival.) All proceeds from the event will benefit St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
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Matilda III Goes A-Waltzing At The Algonquin
In case you haven't been keeping up with the royal kitty lineage over at The Algonquin, here's a refresher.
In November, Matilda II stepped down as the hotel's 13-year cat-in-residence. A replacement, going by the name of Matilda III (at The Algonquin, all females are named Matilda, and all males Hamlet), was acquired from the North Shore Animal League (we spied Matilda III posing on a luggage cart here). On Wednesday, Matilda III was officially welcomed into the fold with a Debutante Ball & Meow Wear Fashion Show. Unexpectedly, R&B singer Mya also made an appearance. What?
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Any Concierges Out There Especially Good With Handling Ducks?
There are all sorts of niche hotel jobs out there--we've profiled more than a few of them here--but being a duckmaster at the Peabody Memphis might be the most unusual hotel job out there.
However, taking care of the ducks is a full-time job and apparently a busy one as Head Duckmaster Jason Sensat is looking for an assistant to help him out. The Associated Press reports:
The assistant would help head Duckmaster Jason Sensat feed and care for the ducks. The new hire also would guide the four hens and one drake on their two daily walks from their penthouse suite to the marble fountain in the hotel lobby. The walk, a tradition for 78 years, draws hundreds of spectators every day.
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Sleep With The Fishes At The Pearl San Diego
When we stayed at the Pearl Hotel in San Diego last week, we got something we didn’t bargain on – a sleeping partner called Wolfgang. Sadly, Wolfgang was not a strapping German, and luckily, he wasn’t a bedbug. He was, as you can see from the picture, a fish.
All the rooms at the Pearl have a retro motel feel, and each come equipped with a little fish in a bowl on the wall. Each bowl comes with a name tag, so you’re not sleeping with something anonymous.
Should we have wanted to get maternal, we were warned off feeding Wolfgang with a sign saying:
Everyone gets fine n friendly care from The Pearl Hotel staff. There’s no need to feed me. Enjoy your stay.
The burning question – what happens if the fish dies? Do they create a new sign? Sadly not. This was actually our second visit to the Pearl. During our first, we suspected our fish might have died (it hadn’t – we don’t think) and asked at check in what happens – and they said they just replace them. The fish is dead, long live the fish, kind of thing.
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Shangri-La London Gets A Foxy Early Check In
Only last week we were lusting over the photos of the forthcoming Shangri-La London being built in the Shard – set to be the highest building in the EU. Seems like we weren’t the only ones, either – over the weekend, it emerged that a fox was discovered to be living at the very top of the building site, 954ft up on the 72nd floor.
To be fair, the Shangri-La will occupy floors 34 – 52 of the building, but we like to think that Romeo, as he’s been named (ah, Brits) was admiring the stonking views that hotel guests will enjoy.
According to an amazing article in The Sun, he was living on a “squash court-sized platform” and is thought to be less than six months old. And a followup says that it took pest control two weeks to trap him because the little guy really didn’t want to leave. Can you blame him? Those rooms are gonna go for loadsamoney!
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More Cool Hotel Jobs: Elephant Camp Coordinator at Four Seasons Golden Triangle
All this week, HotelChatter contributor Eric Rosen will be telling us about more of the coolest hotel jobs out there. He reached out across the globe to talk to the dynamic folks who do everything from wrangling elephants (and guests!) to designing the latest high-tech gadgetry for your next guest room. So check back every day to see who he’s talking to next.
When we talk about hotels, which we do a lot of around here, we usually talk about awesome rooms, unique amenities, and cresting trends. But every so often, we like to focus on the people who make the hotels we talk about so unique, like Taweesak Keereekaew (Khun Wee for short), the Elephant Camp Coordinator at the Four Seasons Golden Triangle.
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We Sat Down with The Algonquin's New Lobby Cat (and Took Lots of Pictures)
It was only a month ago that we stopped into the lobby of The Algonquin for tea and got the bonus of spotting the hotel's house cat, Matilda. We're so glad we did too, because Matilda (the second girl cat named Matilda in the hotel's history) retired over the holidays to go live in Brooklyn with her caregiver.
In her place steps Matilda III, another impossibly fluffy kitty, gotten from the North Shore Animal League. We made it a point to come by and meet the little lass, because ummm...it's a Friday and who doesn't like cat pictures?
And now, for a photo gallery of Matilda III in her natural habitat, The Algonquin's lobby:
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Guess Who We Spotted at The Algonquin?
So we ducked into New York's Algonquin Hotel today for a cup of tea and a glance at their Christmas tree, and were treated to a surprise cameo by the hotel's most famous guest: the resident cat, Matilda. Usually she's chilling at the front desk or on her kitty-sized chaise by the front door, but today she slinked around underneath the chairs, and it's only when we spotted a fluffy tail disappearing underneath the seat next to us that we realized she was out and about.
Without the time to grab our good camera, we stalked Matilda with our iPhone until she hopped up onto the luggage cart and gave this perfect pose. She is a Birman, "an exotic breed that resembles a fluffy Siamese," and she continues the hotel's tradition (started in the 1930s when the General Manager adopted a stray) of keeping a cat around.
Matilda not only delights guests by brushing up against their legs in the lobby, but she also hosts cat fashion shows every so often. Oh yea, and she tweets regularly.
[Photo: HotelChatter]
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Cat Lovers Have a New Reason to Stay at Le Bristol Paris
It turns out there is a new permanent resident at the five star Hotel Le Bristol. His name is Fa-raon, he’s from Burma, and he’s white and fluffy and not even one year old yet. He is indeed le chat, yes that is the French for cat.
From his photo we can tell he will fit right in with the hotel's glamorous interiors, he is the ultimate glamour puss. We aren’t sure about the luminous green collar though; perhaps Fa-raon would have preferred a more classic black?
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