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Buy Everything But The Bed (But Try The Bed) At The Alluvian
We’re always suckers for hotel tat – whether it’s nicking a pen and notebook from the room, buying branded crockery or saving up for one of those Kimpton animal print bathrobes.
So imagine our excitement when we popped in to see the posh Alluvian hotel in Greenwood, Mississippi and found that, as well as the beds in the rooms (which we couldn’t hunker down on, what with not being hotel guests), there’s a bedroom for visitors to try out in the hotel shop across the road.
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Parallelogram Beds and Fancy Dolls in German Wine Country
HotelChatter's Eric Rosen recently spent some time in Austria and Germany. All this week, he'll be rounding up his hotel observations. Any tips, suggestions, questions? Let us know.
Beds can be so boring. Soft or hard. Big or little. In the middle or the room or in the corner. No matter what else they are, they are almost always square (or circular at certain establishments we’ll never admit to having patronized ourselves—those ones that usually come with a mirrored ceiling, too). But have you ever wanted to venture a night’s sleep on a bed of a different shape? A parallelogram, say? We didn’t realize we had this very unique secret urge ourselves until we were shown to the Rapunzel Suite (complete with freaky, spotlighted doll!) of the Märchenhotel Anno 1640 in picturesque Bernkastel-Kues, in Germany’s wine-producing Mosel Valley. Turns out it had just the right angles for some perfect nocturnal slumber sprawling.
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Stay Three Nights at the Westin Riverfront, Get a 'Free' Heavenly Bed
You know how sometimes a milestone birthday can turn into a birthday week, or even a whole month of birthday revelry? You know the drill: There’s the coworker lunch, and the happy hour with friends, and the special dinner date, and then the blowout party, and, well, any excuse to party, right?
Westin’s Heavenly Bed turned 10 this year, and we’d have to say it’s celebrating in style. There was the Greatest Birthday Cake Ever, and the stay-10-nights-in-Beijing-get-a-“free”-bed promo. And now, Beaver Creek’s new Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa is offering a similar, slightly cheaper deal.
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Concierge Rounds Up the World's Best Hotel Beds
Sure, we wax poetic about plush amenities and posh hotel perks, but, honestly, we never lose sight of what should be every hotel room’s pride and joy: The Bed. From comfort to aesthetic, a hotel bed can decidedly make or break your hotel experience. So we’re smitten with Concierge.com’s new story on the World's 11 Best Hotel Beds (in their words: "These beds think outside the box springs").
The offerings range from a “safari slumber party” in Kenya to a “magic-carpet ride” in Berlin. We'd love to book a session in all of these beds for some serious shut-eye — not to mention, er, a few other bedtime activities that spring to mind.
Even so, we picked three of our favorites:
1. One by the Five in Paris: The single-suite boutique hotel features a bed floating three feet above the floor to match the rest of its floating "avant-garde boudoir furnishings." Concierge says that an infrared Web cam "broadcasts the bed activity (ahem) on your own closed-circuit television channel." What can we say? We love a little raunchy fun. Suite from $1,275.
3. Oberoi Amarvilas in Agra: Um, you can wake up to a view of the sun rising over the Taj Mahal. Or you can take Concierge's suggestion and not really get out of bed at all; "stay in bed around-the-clock and admire the changing colors as the sun moves across the white-domed Mughal mausoleum in the not-too-distant vista." Rooms with Taj Mahal views from $599.
[Photo: Concierge.com]
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The Beds at the Fullerton Hotel Are a Let Down for One Guest
Thanks to Flickr Member YY for dropping this photo of a room at the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore into our HotelChatter Flickr Pool. And double-thanks for letting us know about the bed sitch:
The double bed is actually 2 single beds put together, so one cannot really sleep on the center of the bed. And as you can imagine the size of the room from the width in the photo, very tiny.
Another Flickr commenter asked YY exactly what we were thinking, "I thought Fullerton Hotel in Singapore is 5 star?" To which YY replied, "Yes, it is 5-star, but the room are not better than other 5-star hotels." Ouch.
To be fair, lots of European hotels seemingly push two beds together to make one giant one. But we can understand the let down here at a five-star hotel. This looks like a Post Master room which is the lowest room category. For a better experience, we say book one of the suites.
Also, according to TripAdvisor reviews, the service seems to be spot on so perhaps a ride in one of the two Rolls Royces at the hotel would make things all better?
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Snapshot :: The Plaza Bed Spotted in Santa Monica
We didn't know that the legendary New York hotel, The Plaza was churning out their very own brand of mattresses until we stopped into a mattress store in Santa Monica over the weekend.
The Plaza has partnered with Stearns & Fosters mattresses to create special mattresses which are actually used in the hotel. (Or so they say.)
Another fun fact? The different types of mattresses are named after the different room categories in the hotel like Edwardian room, The Terrace room and the Louis XV elite. Even other parts of the hotel get a shout-out like the Oak Bar and the Palm Court.
As for us, well we're partial to the Terrace Room Firm. Too bad the mattress prices are just as ritzy as the hotel room rates as they begin around $2,000.
Another pic is after the jump
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Hotel News Briefs :: Hit Up The Standard Downtown LA for All Your Favorite ESPY Stars
There's tons of hotel news flying around this week and we don't have time to give each and every story the love and attention it may deserve, so you will have to settle for some news briefs.
· Standard Downtown LA and the ESPY Awards: The Standard in Downtown LA is the place to go should you want to stalk anyone attending the ESPY awards. The hotel is in the midst of hosting a three-day gifting lounge and today it's the scene of a full-day pool party and barbeque.
· Portfolio Mag "Discovers" Hotel WiFi Charges: What's more annoying? The fact that Joe Brancatelli is just now writing about the Hotel WiFi landscape or that he gets a Portfolio-sized paycheck to do so? Since we obviously aren't in this gig for the money, we'll pick the former. C'mon Joe, it's 2008 already!
· Expedia Wants Venere: Major booking site will get more major. Expedia plans to acquire Venere, an Italian-based European booking site.
· Not All Hotel Mattresses are Created Heavenly: If you spend a lot of time on the road, your back problems could be blamed on hotel mattresses. One cricket player in the UK says sleeping in different hotel beds while on the road has hurt his back. Btw, we think we just came up with the new tagline for Westin Hotels.
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Is This The New, New Guestroom of the Future?
Every so often, a hotel sets up a tricked out guestroom with the latest technology and calls it the "Guestroom of the Future." Right now, we'd say that title belongs to Room X at the Courtyard by Marriott in Delaware.
However, there's a new "New Guestroom of the Future" on the block...if only for a few short days.
At the HITEC annual conference, companies devoted to all things high-tech in the hospitality world unveiled their latest visions for hotel guestrooms as part of Guestroom 2010.
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Thank God for Radisson's Sleep Number Bed...Or Not
As we mentioned yesterday, we spent some time over the weekend at the Radisson Resort in South Padre Island Texas. It was quite a trip and while we didn't loooove the Radisson, we did like the room king-sized bed we had. Also a plus? The bed has lots of pillows which always makes us smile.
And that's not all. This Radisson featured Sleep Number beds by Select Comfort. Remember those infomercials with the old woman tossing and turning on her bed at night and then whose life is changed after she orders one of those mechanical beds that allow you to sleep sitting up or sleep with your legs elevated? Well, that's what these contraptions are like but you can adjust the bed for each person sleeping in it.
There's a handy remote with instructions to let you know how to operate it. Basically, you adjust it up or down until you feel comfortable and when you do, the remote spits out a number. So that next time, you can just go right to your number rather than fiddling around.
If you're staying at a Radisson in the near future and want to know if the hotel will have Sleep Number beds available, Radisson has listed all their participating properties here.
As for us, we would have liked to try the Sleep Number but truth be told, at the end of long wedding reception, we were lucky to remember to remove our contacts before we passed out.
Related Stories:
· Hotel Wedding Crashers: Radisson South Padre Island [HotelChatter]
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Hotel Artist in Bed, Make That 50,000 Beds, with State Tourism Commission
We're friends of the arts, especially the hotel arts, and have friends who are artists to boot. So when we read the article in yesterday's NYT Arts and Leisure Section about Chris Doyle's latest video project, one line in particular jumped out at us:
Underwritten partly by a $90,000 grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism...
Whoa. That's a lot of jack.
As the hotel cognoscenti know, Doyle's video "Sheets" intrigues guests in the lobby at the Hotel on Rivington on the Lower East Side. Doyle's latest, 50,000 Beds, is a trifecta of exhibits showcasing videos shot in 45 hotel rooms in the Nutmeg State. We didn't get the extent of the Connecticut-tourism-office connection of his latest project until we checked out the website.
Now we're wondering: Could this be the sneakiest, and perhaps cleverest, tourism campaign ever?
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