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Is the W London Really Running Four Months Late?
Hmm. Remember how way back last summer, W Hotels announced that their flagship London location would be opening June 1 2010?
Well, we haven’t heard anything from them recently. But the website is making us a little doubtful that this will come to pass.
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The W Hollywood After Dark
The W Hollywood has been officially open for a week now and it looks like the place is already bumpin'. Our tipster stopped in one night this week and took a few snaps of the lobby and the Delphine restaurant.
Yes, these pictures are dark but according to our spy the entire lobby gets that dark at night. Or as our tipster says, "They keep it DIM in there."
Room rates this weekend start at $289 a night for a Wonderful room. That's a full prepaid, non-refundable rate. If you need something more flexible, the Best Available Rate listed is $299, also for a Wonderful room.
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The Nolitan Hotel and its Roof With the Killer Views Should Open in May
As two out of three people guessed, yesterday’s new hotel with the killer view was The Nolitan. And after a walk through the construction site with the hotel’s architect, GM, and press rep, we have to say: we can’t wait for the hotel to open later this spring.
May is a tentative date for now, so jot it down in your Hotel Tracking Sheet in pencil and we’ll keep you posted as the date firms up. In the meantime, join us in whetting your taste buds for a friendly little alternative to some of the cooler-than-thou properties in this neck of the woods.
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Sanctum Soho is Getting A Sister in the Countryside
Do we smell a pretender to the Soho/Shoreditch/Dean Street/Babington House throne of Soho House founder Nick Jones? Mark Fuller, who owns the sexy Sanctum Soho, has just announced that he’s opening a country outpost. Or rather, when we say “opening”, we mean “closing down one hotel and reopening it under a different brand.”
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Is The Bath Hotel Scene About to Join the Modern Age?
This is what passes for modernity in Bath
Now we know most people like Bath, what with it being probably the prettiest town in England, but we’ve always found it a bit twee and timewarpy for our tastes. We stayed there once when we were little, and although we don’t quite remember the decor, we’re pretty sure it was on floral overdrive.
But we might be ready for a rematch, if the new Halcyon hotel lives up to its own hype. It reckons it’s going to set a “new standard of modern living” in the city. Seeing as the city in question is Bath, you might think that doesn’t mean much, but it actually sounds quite sleek: Philippe Starck bathrooms, White Company products, MP3 players (not cassettes?), plasma TVs, and walk-in showers. Everything, in fact, we’ve come to expect from hotels these days. Go Bath!
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World's First Armani Hotel in Dubai Opens Booking With $1,089 Rooms
This is the day that Giorgio Armani has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Or something like that, since bookings opened up last night for his first hotel property, the 160-room Armani Hotel within the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
If you want to spend just one night sleeping in Armani sheets in an Armani bed, it'll cost you at least 4,000 AED—that's $1,089 a night! And that's not even including an Armani breakfast, which costs an additional 132 AED ($36) per person.
And although the hotel is still holding true to the opening date of March 18, reservations for the public don't begin until a few days later, on Monday, March 22. We guess Giorgio wants to keep that first weekend private, for press and friends to party in his new pad.
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From The Five Hotel in Paris Comes Hotel Le Seven
Last year, we stopped into a quaint little art/design hotel in Paris called The Five Hotel in the city's 5th Arrondissement. We loved the location, the hotel's individuality (no rooms are exactly alike), the seriously helpful service and the ceiling that lit up with different colored lights.
Which is why we are excited to hear that the Five Hotel's creators have another one in the works called Hotel Le Seven. However, the hotel is not in the 7th Arrondissement but rather in the Latin Quarter of the 5th, about a 10-minute walk from the Luxembourg gardens.
A tipster tipped us off to the hotel's new Facebook page where we learned that the Seven Hotel will have 28 "individually created guest rooms" but the coup de grace will be there seven suites, designed by seven different designers with different themes and interactive features. Here are the hotel's descriptions of a few of the seven suites:
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The Distrikt Hotel Opens Its Doors (And Front Desk Mural) Today
Oh, how we love a hotel opening. Especially one that brightens up our Monday mornings. And today’s the day for the Distrikt Hotel—and its wooden NY-grid mural at the front desk.
We got to poke around at the hotel last week as the finishing touches were being made, and we have to say: we were pleasantly surprised. The rooms look larger in person—and have a simple, comfortable style that should please visitors to New York. (Given its location near Port Authority and Times Square, we don’t expect this to become a magnet for New Yorkers, unless they put their relatives and out-of-town friends up at the hotel.)
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An Element Hotel Opens In New Jersey But Not at The Shore
An Element in-suite kitchen in Las Vegas.
While the cast of the Jersey Shore are on the move for their second season, don't expect Snookie, JWOWW, Sammi, Ronny, DJ Pauly D and Vinnie to show up at the opening of the new Element Hotel in New Jersey.
The green, extended stay spin-off from Westin Hotels has opened its fifth hotel in Ewing, which is just outside Princeton and near the state's capital, Trenton. Like the rest of the Element Hotels, the new location is in a suburb that's home to corporations like Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson,and Educational Testing Services (where your SATs get sent) and the Robert Wood Johnson hospital.
Also, like other Element Hotels, the Ewing location has a sundry shop, a laundry room, a 24-hour business center, free WiFi, and premium parking for hybrids. But what's different here is that this Element has an indoor pool and an evening reception, called Relax, from Monday through Thursday from 6 to 7:30pm. Wines and locally brewed beers are served along with appetizers.
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Inside the W Hollywood Hotel and Residences
As promised yesterday, we have a huge gallery of snapshots from the just-opened W Hollywood Hotel and Residences. Since we toured the place last week as the hotel was still undergoing some finishing touches, we weren't able to shoot any of the public spaces, just the model rooms.
But sit tight and enjoy these pictures from a Fabulous Room (the starting room category) and the Marvelous Suite. We'll have pictures from the public spaces for you next week.
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London's New Soho House Property Might Be Hot, But the Views are Not
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
It might be one of the hottest new hotels right now in London, and its adjoining restaurant might have celebs stopping in for dinner left and right, but the Dean Street Townhouse, of the Soho House group, doesn't boast the best views from the rooms.
We should know! We slept here on Saturday!
But what kind of hotel room is located behind us, and this horrible anti-view that's like, half-underground and half-tucked behind some other townhouse (which has an elevator)? We guess you'll just have to wait until Monday to see, while we work through a huge gallery of photos and video from our stay under the stairs at the Dean Street Townhouse.
[Photo: HotelChatter]
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W Kicks Up 'The Glam Factor' at W Hollywood, Opening Today
Today's the day! W Hollywood Hotel and Residences has opened! And despite what we had previously thought, rooms are actually open tonight for $489 a night for a king bed.
We've been waiting for this W for a long time and it's a bit surreal that this day is finally here. We were able to tour the hotel last week and while traipsing through as the hotel put on its finishing touches, we chatted with the general manager, Jim McPartlin, in a Marvelous Suite which has views of downtown Los Angeles, the Hollywood Hills and the Griffith Observatory. (Note: the Marvelous adjective is W's room category name, not ours.)
McPartlin has worked for both W and Kimpton Hotels in the past and he was also the general manager at the Gramercy Park Hotel when it first opened in 2006. Now he's back with the W family, and back in Los Angeles, to welcome the W Hollywood into the mix.
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