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Fairmont Pools: We Want To Go To There
| July 1, 2009 at 11:25 AM | 0 Comments
Ah, rooftop pools. For the city dweller — and traveler — little tops lounging by a pool, lofted above the clamor with a summer sip in hand. Fairmont gets that sentiment, offering a number of rooftop pools and alfresco patios at their hotels around the world.
The one we’re most dying to be whisked away to, um, RIGHT now? The Fairmont Monte Carlo, with a heated rooftop pool that overlooks the Mediterranean, Opera, and the hairpin turn of the Formula 1 Grand Prix. We just hope we don’t spill Champagne on our maillot de bain.
Bermuda travelers sick of all that on-the-beach sun-drenching (we will shed no tears for you!) can retreat to the Fairmont Hamilton Princess, which as a harbor-side outdoor terrace with Friday (5 to 9 p.m.) happy hours of Dark n’ Stormy’s, Rum Swizzles, and an island BBQ. And the Fairmont Zimbali Lodge in South Africa has an infinity pool and a casual restaurant stilted above the resort’s 14th fairway, with views of the Indian Ocean.
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Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Upgrades Its Poolside Offerings
| June 23, 2009 at 4:04 PM | 0 Comments
While a debate was going down over Hyatt Regency Century Plaza's landmark status, the hotel took to spiffing up its pool area, adding a new infinity-edged pool and cabanas.
Rimming the pool are brand new European designed chaise lounge furniture, coordinating extra-large umbrellas and chic cabanas for private retreats. Envisioned as exclusive outdoor escapes, each cabana is rock-star ready and accommodates up to six people. Furnishings include two love seats for lounge style seating, day beds for cuddling or sunbathing, ceiling fans for keeping cool, high-speed Internet and WiFi for staying connected, a state-of-the-art sound system to groove to, a plasma screen television to unwind with and a personal refrigerator for vital refreshments.
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Rancho Las Palmas and La Costa Reward Guests’ Childish Behavior
| June 23, 2009 at 3:07 PM | 1 Comment
It’s time to relive all those adolescent afternoons spent wandering around Raging Waters to win some hotel prizes. Two of the KSL Group’s Southern California Properties, La Costa Resort & Spa and Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa, have started a "Summer’s Sliders Cup Race" that offers hotel guests prizes for the fastest time down the resorts’ 100-foot water slides.
Sliders Cup races take place at each resort every Thursday and Saturday at 5:00pm, and run June 18-September 7. Prospective competitors will be separated into age groups: 7-10 years, 11-14, 15-19, and 20 and over. So all you college kids home for the summer, time to really shine and put your parents’ friends to shame.
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Coming Soon: The Most Scenic Place to Take a Dip in Wailea
| June 23, 2009 at 2:45 PM | 0 Comments
We just spent a ridiculously relaxing week on Maui but we were able to do some hotel snooping while we there. We have oodles to report on the Hawaii hotel scene, but at this very moment, we’re most excited about the July 10th debut of Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea’s new infinity-edged swimming pool.
When we site inspected the hard hat area hole in the ground this past weekend, it looked like it had a ways to go, but Director of Marketing, Mark Simon told us that after several deadline extensions, what’s being dubbed as the "Serenity Pool" would finally be ready for hotel guests right after the 4th of July holiday weekend.
We sure hope so, because the weather was beyond perfect while we were there (as if there’s really ever a bad time to go to Hawaii weather-wise), and we’d hate to see summer vacationers miss out on what’s going to be a truly spectacular, upscale, kid-free pool experience.
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The Park Hyderabad Takes Its Pool to Another Dimension
| June 18, 2009 at 9:31 AM | 0 Comments
We keep hearing that The Park Hotels chain is doing the real, five-star luxury thing right in India. They've got a new 285-room property opening up sometime this fall in Hyderabad, which sounds like it fits the promise of being a "design hotel".
But what intrigues us more than the main architecture of the hotel — its unusual shape has been computer-modeled to maximize the natural light that gets in, for example — is the pool. Although these renderings make it look like just a large, slightly-oddly shaped pool, there's apparently a lot more to it than that: in fact it's
a “three-dimensional” horizon pool, with a stair tube connecting the hotel's night club to The Veranda through the volume of the pool.
We really need more pictures, but does this really mean that we could swim past people climbing the stairs to the night club? Do we want to do that? We're not quite sure.
We've got a few months to wait before we can find out exactly how this goes. Opening prices haven't been publicized yet but this hotel's cousin, the Park Hotels Bangalore has rooms starting at around 6,000 INR ($125) in fall.
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San Fran's Newest Hotel Sure to Please the Voyeurs Among Us
| May 28, 2009 at 3:55 PM | 3 Comments
Curbed SF has the skinny on the newest hotel coming to San Franciso: the Hotel SoMa (SoMa stands for South of Market.)
Currently, there's only rendering-porn for us hotel geeks to gawk at, but Curbed reports that the 75-room pool will be "chock full of the eco-bullet points" such as bike rentals, LEED certification and energy-efficient LED lights.
But perhaps the most striking design feature of this hotel is a suspended rooftop glass-bottom swimming pool. From the David Baker + Partners Architects:
Clad in exterior glass panels illuminated by efficient LED lighting, the facade will appear to light up like a lantern at night.
It will also allow people pulling up into the hotel's drive to peer up and gaze at the swimmers. Hopefully, no one will be skinny-dipping. Or hopefully they will?
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Enjoy Booze Sno-Cones and DJ Sets All Summer at Ace Palm Springs
| May 14, 2009 at 4:11 PM | 1 Comment
With all the delays and sadness surrounding its allegedly-finally-open NYC sibling, it was easy to forget how utterly enchanted we were by the scene at Ace Palm Springs during Coachella this year. Most notably, we were quite dazzled by the booze sno-cones by the pool. So imagine our sweet, sweet surprise when we were reminded that the party continues all summer long on Sunday afternoons, with food, DJs, booze sno-cones for all — likely a slightly classier and accessible affair than, say, those pool parties thrown by the other hotels in the country on Sundays (*cough*Hard Rock*cough*).
Every Sunday afternoon, the Ace will be hosting a pool party from 2-7 pm with live shows, fresh drinks, and food. Throughout the summer, the resident DJ (Oscar Sanin) with be teaming up with different guest DJ's each week. The sched so far:
· May 24: Chris Douridas, former music director of KCRW and host of the Santa Monica station's Morning Becomes Eclectic show, joins DJ Beyonda, host of Portland, Ore.'s most popular soul night and one of the city's favorite DJs
· May 31: Michael Antonia, eclectic DJ of LA's Flashdance
· June 7: DJ Rescue, aka Zia McCabe - the Dandy Warhols' keyboard player and DJ on WK Radio
If you want to make a whole weekend out of it, you can stay overnight on Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday and get 20% off standard rooms rates (which are not so bad anyway; they start at $89) and 15% off spa treatments; just use code SHORT20 when booking.
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You Can Finally Swim Over Andy Warhol's Face at Thompson LES
| May 6, 2009 at 9:29 AM | 1 Comment
One thing you can't accuse the Thompson LES is moving quickly. After we watched and waited in agony as delays just kept coming, we were happy enough just to see the hotel open, let alone the bits around it.
But we were understandably pretty hyped about the Andy Warhol pics on the bottom of the Thompson LES swimming pool. After a promise of an October 2008 start to the Warhol swim season, we saw Andy's images finally appearing in November but there was still no water. But who needs to swim in November, right?
The important thing is this: summer's approaching, and the Andy Warhol pool looks ready — though not open just yet. The photos you'll swim over are film stills taken from Gerard Malanga's "Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man" and we really love the whole idea. Staring at art on walls is so time-consuming; better that we can swim over the top of it to get a good look.
We called the hotel this morning and were told that the pool will finally open at the end of May or early June, depending on the weather. If you think you'll be in the mood for a swim around then, we found Queen Superior rooms for $205 in the first weeks of June. Pack your swimming goggles to get the best view of Warhol.
[Photo: NY Times]
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Vanessa Minnillo Claims First Celeb Incident at SLS Beverly Hills
| April 22, 2009 at 9:12 AM | 1 Comment
Alright, the newly-opened SLS Beverly Hills has been christened and de-virginized. Well, it's lost its New York Post, made-it-to-the-east-coast, somewhat juicy celeb gossip virginity at least: a celeb has landed the hotel's name on Page Six. Incidentally, it was a famous person who Page Six referred to as "celebutrash" — but it was a famous person nonetheless! Unfortch, it was former MTV veejay Vanessa Minnillo, about whom not many people care.
Per the New York Post:
Tongues were wagging over Vanessa Minnillo's recent display of affection with a guy who was not longtime beau Nick Lachey. The celebutrash was spotted at the SLS hotel in LA, "hanging out in a private cabana all night" with "90210" actor Matt Lanter.
This breaks the heart of the 98 Degrees fan inside of us; who ditches Nick Lachey? Who do you think you are, lady? Unless he ditched her first, of course.
Ironically, Vanessa and this SLS mystery dude know each other from working on a film called Disaster Movie (heh). Hopefully this is as far as they will go and they won't end up getting caught by paps having sexytime in the SLS hot tub.
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How BARE at the Mirage Advertises Their Topless Pool
| April 1, 2009 at 1:07 PM | 2 Comments
If you're like us and the nudist hotel in Germany is not quite up your alley, then you can take baby steps at BARE at The Mirage, a topless pool for adults only. Topless is not mandatory (unlike that German hotel) but it is an option for gals who can't stand pesky tan lines — or you could do as this mannequin does and wear pasties.
We snapped this in the lobby of The Mirage. The showcase draws quite a crowd. While we can't say these gawkers actually end up going to BARE, anyone strolling through the Mirage definitely knows about this sexy pool option.
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The Colonnade Boston's Rooftop Pool Will Open May 22
| April 1, 2009 at 11:14 AM | 0 Comments
We figure you've gotten used to being teased today (hello, it's April Fool's Day — surely someone played some kind of joke on you where they told you great news and then informed you they were just kidding, right?) so we're going to throw one more in there: Boston’s only roof-top pool, up on top of The Colonnade Hotel, is opening!
But not yet. Not til May 22. See? We teased you.
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A Deeper Understanding of Sè San Diego's Mer-Geishas
| March 16, 2009 at 1:01 PM | 0 Comments
Did last week's hint about the upcoming "Geisha Mermaids" at the pool of the new Sè San Diego get your curiosity cranks turning? Thanks to a tipster, we've may just have the answer to their identities, or at least some pretty good guesses anyhow. It seems that the Sè has partnered up with performance company Aerial Revolution to tailor acts to the setting and pulse of the rooftop pool ... you know, the one with underwater surround sound.
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