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Westin's Heavenly Bed Will Soon Be On Sale at Pottery Barn

If Santa doesn't come down the chimney with a Westin Heavenly Bed, you are just going to have to take matters into your own hands and buy one yourself. Fortunately, it will be a lot easier to do come December 28 as Westin has just announced they will be selling the Heavenly Beds online at Pottery Barn (as well as in Pottery Barn stores and through their catalog.)

Actually the Heavenly-Barn roll-out will be a little staggered. You can purchase a Heavenly Bed in twin, full, queen, king and California king sizes, priced from $1,195 to $1,795, online starting on December 28 and then you can go into Pottery Barn store starting January 3rd to test it out for yourself before bringing it home.

But of course, the best way to thoroughly "test" a Heavenly Bed is to have stayed at a Westin Hotel recently which shouldn't be hard to do because um, they are everywhere. Sweet dreams!

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The Ace Hotel NYC's New Store Will Stuff You Full of Haribo Gummis

Where: 20 West 29th Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10001

This Sunday might be Valentine's Day, but we've already found our true love: the about-to-open Opening Ceremony store at New York's Ace Hotel. It will welcome shoppers on Sunday actually, so we can forget our dinner plans.

The idea of this Opening Ceremony shop—the trendsetting store already has locations in Soho, LA and Tokyo—is to be a new sort of travel shop, where designers and well-respected brands can offer their take on souvenirs. Sure, most of those items will be out of the typical traveler's price range, but that's why this idea works so well in New York. The store is aimed at style-conscious locals and the hipsters and creative set that chooses to stay at The Ace when they visit New York.

Needless to say, Opening Ceremony's idea of a toiletry kit will deviate from the traditional, but what else will they literally have in store? Find out, after the jump!

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The Plaza's New Eloise Shop Has Plaza Pricetags

If you think that little girls go gaga over American Girl, then you haven't realized that little girls will love anything pink and pint-size. This past weekend, we hit up The Plaza Hotel to check out how the holiday tourist season was treating it, and also to wander down into their shops for a peek at the newly-opened Eloise Shop.

Entering the thoroughly pink space at the end of the lower-level Plaza Retail Collection, we realized that American Girl (and the buying frenzy it generates) is exactly what The Plaza is going for with this space. Perhaps they finally paid attention to how many bright red American Girl shopping bags come in with their guests during this season.

So in the Eloise shop, you'll find a tea room with mini tables and chairs, a boudoir-type space where the moms sit, a powder room, a "closet" with little stage and mirrors, and an activity room with bean bag chairs—also pink. But in each nook and cranny is stuffed stuff for sale, at prices that would make an American Girl weep.

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Eloise Gets Her Own Store Inside The Plaza

Where: 5th Ave at 59th [map], New York, ny, United States, 10019

Don't call it a comeback, Eloise has been here for years.

Funny that when The Plaza Hotel initially put forth plans to renovate the famed building into luxury residences, all traces of its most famous guests, Kay Thompson’s fictional character Eloise, would have been erased. But someone somewhere had the foresight to keep her on and now today, Eloise is opening her very own interactive shop inside the the hotel.

The vibrant 2,100 square-foot-shop, playfully decorated in a color palette of ‘Eloise pink’ and black will resemble a playhouse and will feature a ‘Living Room’, a ‘Fashion Room’ will costumes for dress up, a ‘Library Room’ including a reading area, computer stations, and DVD players, and a ‘Tea Room’ where family and friends can come together for tea and birthday parties and other celebrations.

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Hyatt at Home Lets You Have All the Comforts of Not Being at Home

Where: United States

Even with so many hotel chains selling their swag in online stores these days, we still think it's sort of funny that hotels try to make us feel at home when we're there - and then when we get home, they try to sell us merch that make us feel like we're back at the hotel again. Kinda doesn't compute.

But to be fair, we've had more than a handful of hotel stays with beds so comfy and linens so luxe that we were sad to have checked out.

We're guessing that's the idea behind Hyatt At Home, Hyatt's merchandise collection.

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