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Did You Know You Can Picnic at The Berkeley's Secret Rooftop Garden?
The Berkeley is drawing people to its gym, and not for its treadmills. The Knightsbridge hotel transformed its gym and spa's terrace into a lush British countryside, complete with birch trees and lavender, in the middle of the city.
And instead of burning calories on the elliptical, you can order from a picnic menu, which includes blanket-friendly fare like iced tea and strawberries and cream, while you pop a squat on the secret rooftop garden.
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Blood & Bitters is Pretty Sweet at the PuLi Hotel’s New Garden Terrace in Shanghai
Recently, we spent a few days in Shanghai at the behest of the PuLi Hotel in the western Jing’An business and park district. As the muggy heat in the city became unbearable we thought we’d just enjoy a quick refreshing cocktail at the hotel’s Long Bar, but instead, we decided to check out their newly opened Garden Terrace.
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The Palmer House Hilton Does Something Different With Its Rooftop Space
While hotels have opened their rooftops for alcohol-fueled summer fun, the Palmer House Hilton is choosing to offer chili peppers, heirloom tomatoes and basil instead of beer and cocktails on its 25th floor. The Chicago hotel recently unveiled its new 2,000-square-foot garden rooftop.
The hotel decided to plant some veggies and herbs to be used in its restaurants, Lockwood and Potter's Lounge, for a garden-to-table culinary experience. Plus, Lockwood will feature a daily "Chef's Garden" menu item for breakfast that will feature ingredients grown on the rooftop.
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Embassy Suites Chicago Has a New Living Wall
The Embassy Suites Chicago Downtown Lakefront wanted to wear its eco-consciousness like a flashy Lady Gaga getup, so it decided to put up a 720-square-foot indoor living green wall—the largest in Chicago—right in its lobby.
Okay, it may not be as much of a spectacle or as carnivorous as Gaga's meat dress, but the giant standalone wall is made of 3,840 plants, including the hardy neon, rabbit foot fern, aboricola and rex begonia.
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The Montage Laguna Beach Starts a Garden for Its Restaurant and Spa
People most likely come to the Montage Laguna Beach for its sweet on-the-water locale. But they may start heading there for Studio restaurant's new garden-to-table dishes or herb-filled spa treatments, made of veggies and spices that the Orange County hotel grows on its own.
Outside of the eatery sits the new 1,000-square-foot Studio Garden. Its five raised garden beds are full of lettuce, tomatoes, beans, strawberries, blackberries, lavender, sage, chamomile, rosemary, Fuji apple trees and fingerling potatoes among other goodies.
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The Mint Hotel Tower Of London Gets Minty Fresh with Their Living Wall
It's only been open for three months but the Mint Hotel Tower of London is keeping things fresh with the addition of one of those cool, eco living walls. And not just any living wall the "the tallest live green wall on a building in Europe".
The wall was unveiled last month and contains 40 species of plants which make up the whooping 184,000 plants that cover 1,025 square meters of the hotels exterior. We wonder what the Athenaeum Hotel will have to say about it as up until now they were the only London hotel to have a living wall. And let's face it the Mint's living wall dwarfs their one which has only 12,000 plants.
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The Empire (Line) State Of Mind Of The Hotel Del Coronado
Admiring the herb garden from the trashcan. Posh!
Posh, we often think, is a state of mind, not just a clear cut economic thing, and our recent visit to the Hotel Del Coronado made us think that, while the trendy hotels of the Gaslamp District may be giving her a run for her money, the grand dame could still teach them a thing or two about detail.
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The Parker Palm Springs Wants Your Truthful Feedback, As Long As It's Good
The Parker Palm Springs, it would seem, is as Marmitey as the W London: you either love it or you hate it. Except, in the case of the Parker, it’s not the guests making those snap judgments: it’s demanded by the hotel.
A few days after we had our largely wonderful, but marred by things like paper-thin walls and snobby staff, stay at the Parker, we had a particularly perky tell-us-how-your-stay-was email. It read:
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Ski Clothes Optional At The Dukes London's Outdoor Bar This Winter
It might be freezing in London right now but the DUKES LONDON (yep, all caps now) won’t let the cold stop its guests having a good time. The hotel has decided to keep its new Cognac and Cigar Garden open for the Winter. That’s right cognac cocktails and cigars outside, just make sure you bring your snowsuits!
The garden opens at 8pm and closes at midnight and don't fret about actually bringing ski clothes with you. The hotel assures us the outdoor bar is heated. But to be on the safe side, bring your thickest mittens just in case.
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We Go Behind The Living Wall at London’s Athenaeum Hotel
Recently, we shared a photo gallery and a video walk-through of our room during a recent stay at London’s Athenaeum Hotel. We also included mentions of some of our favorite features, like the hotel’s extensive whisky bar, its award-winning afternoon tea, and the luxury serviced apartments it operates. Today, however, we’re going to tell you about the feature that most impressed us: the hotel’s eight-story living wall.
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120 Years of Glory and Tragedy, and Tokyo's Imperial Hotel Still Has a Zen Garden
We'll give you three guesses as to where we took this photo of a perfectly serene little zen garden. Is it at a monastery in Japan? Noooo. Is it in the Karate Kid's backyard? Nope. Is it at a hotel in Tokyo? Bingo!
This zen garden is one of the first things that guests see when they arrive to the legendary Imperial Hotel. Long a favorite of diplomats, royalty and big-time businessmen, the Imperial has quite the history. In fact, it just celebrated its 120th Anniversary this month, on November 3. An abbreviated version of the hotel's stratospheric high times and tragic low moments (epic fires destruction!) can be found over on Wikipedia, but nothing beats being in the building yourself.
The Zen Garden can be overlooked if you rush into the energy of the luxurious lobby, but we think it's the perfect place to stop for a moment, get your bearings, and reflect on the history of the city in which you're standing. Good ol' Tokyo.
[Photo: HotelChatter]
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Eye Up the London Eye From Park Plaza's New Urban Garden
Andaz Liverpool Street may have started the whole fake garden thing with its Summer Garden last year, but looks like for 2010, Park Plaza County Hall has gone one better – because their new Urban Garden is actually outside.
It’s on a terrace on the second floor, and just in case you were worried about missing the World Cup while you’re outside (it’s not much of a view – nearby houses, although you can see the top of the London Eye), fear not – because the terrace is linked to the Executive Lounge, where there’s a 60-in TV that’ll be showing all the games. So you can nip in and out as you dare.
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