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The Penis Festivals are Over as Maritime Hotel's Matsuri Restaurant and Hiro Ballroom are Closing
It looks like the Penis Festivals and the Hot Pot Parties are over at the Matsuri restaurant inside the Maritime Hotel.
Guest of a Guest reports that both Matsuri and the Hiro Ballroom at the hotel are closing at the end of March. And in their place will be two new spots from Marc Packer, who helped launched two of NYC's hottest nightclubs, Lavo and Tao.
While Hiro and Matsuri were beloved places in their own right (and not just because of penis worshipping), we're guessing they just could not compete with the PH.D, the nightclub at the bumpin' Dream Downtown.
The Penis Festival usually happens during the first week of April. Maybe Matsuri will celebrate a week early. After all, what could be better than a final send-off surrounded by penii?
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The Algonquin Hotel to Close This Winter for Renovations
The Algonqin, circa 2009.
Looks like Hotel Renovations are all the rage these days and the latest hotel to get in on the action is the historic Algonquin Hotel in New York.
USA Today reports that the hotel will actually close for three months at the start of the new year to complete a major overhaul of the guest rooms.
The hotel already did a refurbishment of its lobby back in 2007 along with some guestroom soft good upgrades but the hotel must have needed more, perhaps to keep up with its affiliation as a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel. (Speaking of Autograph, the collection just unveiled a new fancy website you should check-out here. Snazzy!)
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Is Hotel Le Bleu Going Out Of Le Business?
Judging from two giant "FOR RENT" signs posted outside Brooklyn's Hotel Le Bleu, it would seem that the entire place was going out of business. But when we stopped in to ask the Front Desk what was going on, they told us it is in fact just the rooftop restaurant and lounge that are in the stinker, and not the actual hotel. Hmm, twice in two years? Sounds like the penthouse space at Le Bleu might be what we like to call Le Cursed.
According to a Front Desk staffer, the hotel and rooftop remain under the same ownership, but the two spaces are rented out separately. These signs simply indicate that the hotel is seeking a new tenant for the restaurant and lounge space, as the "classy" Italian restaurant which opened in Spring 2010 closed for good in August.
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The Chelsea Hotel, After All The Drama These Past Few Years, Has Closed for Renovations
The day of reckoning has finally come for the Hotel Chelsea in New York, the last Bohemian outpost. The place that housed famous artists and musicians for several years before giving way to tourists on a budget closed yesterday with only a few days of notice.
The hotel had been acquired by a new owner back in May who explicitly said that the hotel would be renovated and modernized. It's just that no one expected it to happen this fast.
According to the NY Times, hotel employees learned late last week that the hotel would be closing after Saturday. The 100 residents of the hotel would be allowed to stay but no more guests would be allowed and that included folks with existing reservations. (No word on where they were sent instead.)
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Cara Triste: Mandarin Oriental Riviera Maya Closes Its Doors
On the heels of the news that the Mandarin Oriental Marrakech ain't happening, we learn that the Mandarin Oriental Riviera Maya closed its doors on June 6, maybe for a little while or maybe forever.
Commenter LuxeSF tells us the property has closed with reports saying the hotel was suffering from a pithy 20 percent average occupancy rate. When it reopens, LuxeSF says, a new company will be managing the property.
Yet when we head over to the MO Riviera Maya website, the official statement is a little different:
Mandarin Oriental Riviera Maya is currently closed in order to complete necessary improvements to its facilities. Our re-opening date will be announced in due course.
Yeah, that still doesn't sound good. Guess you will just have to head over to The Tides for your Riviera Maya getaway.
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So Much For Combining The Old With The New at the SLS Las Vegas
When we heard back in March that the run-down Sahara Las Vegas would close its doors for good in May to make way, someday, for the new SLS Hotel from hotelier/club king Sam Nazarian, we had hoped that they would find a way to integrate some of the Sahara's legendary Vegas history (Rat Pack! Elvis!) into the SLS.
But after following our sibling VegasChatter's tweets from the Sahara Liquidation Sale going on today, we realize not much, if anything, of the Sahara will remain. After all, the Sahara sign is for sale for $4,500 and the Sahara doorhandles have already been sold for $250 a pair as have the Elvis photos and it seems like all the camel lamps have been snapped up by now.
It's a sad day in Vegas today. And when the SLS Las Vegas opens (if it ever opens), there better not be any of those mass-produced old glamour shots of stars from the 50s hanging on the walls and which are so popular in trendy boutique hotels today (as well as Bed, Bath & Beyond) because um, we might lose it.
Follow @VegasChatter for live-tweets and photos from the Sahara Liquidation Sale!
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Viva Las Vegas A Little Bit Less Now The Sahara Has Closed
Elvis has left the building, along with everyone else.
It is finished. After 59 years, half the canon of musical greats and god knows however many 6lb burritos, the Sahara Las Vegas is closed.
The last guests checked out of the hotel at midday, and the doors were shut at 2pm. According to the soon-to-be-defunct website, the Sahara is recommending Circus Circus as its preferred alternative (a poisoned chalice if ever there was one).
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There Will Be No More Lady Gaga Sightings at The Plaza
Is that the new hand sign for the Oak Room?
Well, scratch this off your To Do list for NYC. The Plaza is shutting down the Oak Room (which Lady Gaga used to frequent on Wednesday nights) due to a rent dispute as well as some concerns over heavy partying.
The NY Times reports:
At the heart of the dispute, [Oak room owner Eli] Gindi said, were the Oak Room’s “Day and Night” Saturday afternoon parties, which drew hundreds of young revelers with fat wallets to the restaurant, and reportedly annoyed the Plaza’s year-round tenants.
Yet Gindi's own lawyer, Robert Lynn, had harsh words for the guests themselves, saying "The reality is, worse things go on upstairs in the Plaza than whatever went on in the Oak Room." He couldn't be talking about Charlie Sheen could he?
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Atlanta Will Soon Be a Short a W Hotel (But There Are Still Three Others in Town)
No city ever needs four W Hotels so last year when we heard that the W Atlanta Perimeter would be closing, we weren't very shocked. In fact, we were kind of glad, especially since we heard the hotel might be rebranded as an Aloft.
But now that closing day is just around the corner, the hotel is going the independent route.
A tipster let us know that the hotel will be closing on June 1 and indeed, there is a note on the hotel's website with this change. The hotel will go by the boringly named Atlanta Perimeter Hotel and Suites but will remain a Starwood hotel and all the room amenities, decor and services will stay the same.
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Tsunami Forces The Four Seasons Hualalai to Close for 6 Weeks
Last Friday, Hawaii hotels were on edge awaiting the ripple effect from the devastating tsunami that struck Japan but as we reported, most hotels did not suffer any damage. Guests had to be evacuated to higher floors until they were given an all clear but other than that, things were relatively calm.
However, the Four Seasons Hualalai wasn't so lucky. The storm surge flooded the pool areas, the landscaping, a restaurant and 12 guest rooms and suites with sand and debris, forcing the hotel to close for repairs until April 30.
The hotel sent out a press release about the closure but has also posted a note on its website that reads:
Four Seasons Resort Hualalai is closed until April 30 due to damage from the recent earthquake-generated tsunami. The Resort sustained damage from the storm surge, which brought water, sand and debris onto the grounds. Clean-up efforts have already begun and we look forward to welcoming guests back to the Resort soon.
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No More $1 Rooms as The Sahara Las Vegas Will Close in May
After circling the drain for several years, even closing most of its rooms during slower times, the Sahara Las Vegas will close for good on May 16. The LA Times reports:
Chief Executive Sam Nazarian, the Los Angeles nightclub impresario who purchased the Moroccan-themed casino in 2007 and vowed to restore its hipness, said in a statement that running the property was "no longer economically viable." While the statement said Nazarian's company was mulling options for the 59-year-old resort, "including a complete renovation and repositioning," it gave no details or timeframe for such plans.
For now, any guests with reservations after May 16 will probably be shuffled off to an MGM property, according to VegasChatter.
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Shangri-La Dumps Its Vienna Plans, Will Never Open
Wiped off the map. Gone but not forgotten.
Sometimes, with all these hotel openings, we forget there’s that small matter of wavering economies. But today we’ve been brought back to reality with a jolt, with the news from a tipster that the Shangri-La Vienna will never open.
The hotel has already been removed from the Shangri-La website, as if it never existed. Very secret agent.
It was originally down to open in 2009 and Shangri-La had bought up an entire city block on the 19th century Ringstraße in order to turn it into a 207 room hotel. But things haven’t gone to plan, because, according to our tipster:
Shangri-La has terminated the management contract with immediate effect due to poor construction quality
Shoddy work in precise Austria? Wow. Also, that’s a pretty major step to take – things must really have been dire.
The move has left about 70 pre-opening staff laid off (saddies). And there’s no word yet on what will become of the property instead.
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