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Hotel Swag
Fancy Some Courtyard By Marriott in Your Bedroom?
November 4, 2008 at 3:10 PM | 0 Comments
Courtyard By Marriott has just celebrated its 25th anniversary and along with an updated lobby look, the brand has now put forth their own retail swag. Shop Courtyard under the Shop Marriott website, has just been introduced for all those guests eager to get their grubby hands on...pillow protectors, sheets and shower curtains. Hmm...not quite what we were anticipating although the sale of Davies Gates toiletries gave us something to smile about.
The prices are what you would expect from bedding in a department store although the sheets are not sold as a set. You have to buy the fitted and flat sheets and pillowcases separately. Those prices begin at $35.
Word on the Marriott Twitter feed is that Renaissance will get its own swag shortly too.
Park Hyatt Hotels
Park Hyatt Istabul Opens With Armani and Gucci Inside
September 3, 2008 at 10:59 AM | 0 Comments
[Update: Despite what the online reservations system initially told us, this hotel is offically opening on October 16th. Online reservations are being taken for stays later than October 18th.]
There are at least two reasons to stay at the new Park Hyatt Istanbul Maçka Palas: Istanbul is the only city in the world located on two continents, and Emporio Armani and Gucci boutiques are in the same building.
Of course, there is also the limestone bathrooms, with 25 of the 90 deluxe-sized rooms featuring authentic Turkish baths with heated stone seats. And it's located smack in the middle of the ultra-trendy shopping district, Nişantaşi, home of some of the best shopping in the world.
Each guestroom is equipped with the latest technology including high-speed broadband Internet access, flat screen television, a DVD/CD player and iPod docking station. And a boutique hotel wouldn't be complete without an exclusive spa and special spa suites.
This renovated 1922 building has a unique blend of the old art deco and new modern architecture found in other Park Hyatts. Glass tile is found in much of the hotel with a "Bordeaux Wall" in The Prime, the first Istanbul steakhouse, made entirely out of wine bottle glass.
The hotel officially just opened September 1 but already appears to be sold out for much of September. Rates start at 230 euros ($336 US).
Mykonos Hotels
Jet Set Girl Dines Next to Nobu at The Belvedere Hotel in Mykonos
August 12, 2008 at 4:22 PM | 2 Comments
Once again, Jet Set Life's Kimberly Murgatroyd returns with another VIP Hotel Review. You may recall her last visit at the Don Carlos Resort in Marbella. This time she's chillaxing in Mykonos at The Belvedere Hotel. Enjoy.
Some jet-set destinations come and go, but Mykonos has actually been an island getaway dating back to the 11th century BC. This island is so sexy that even Zeus fought over it! Enough history, let's get to the good stuff.
My husband and I did a two week stint for our yearly honeymoon during mid-July when the season, which in my opinion, is perfect. The weather is warm, yet not humid. The island is crawling with a mix of weekend visiting Athenians and the beautiful Italians.
For those in the know,The Belvedere Hotel is the only hotel on the island that delivers the kind of service, vibe and consistently chic attitude that you want from your Greek island getaway.
Viva Vegas
MGM's CityCenter Will Feature a Shopping Mecca Called The Crystals
July 21, 2008 at 10:57 AM | 1 Comment
When MGM's CityCenter opens in late 2009, it will change the face of the Las Vegas Strip forever. The complex will feature three hotels, a luxury apartment building and a ton of gaming, restaurant and retail space.
And it's that retail space we're so interested in. CityCenter has wisely ignored the choice to name their shopping complex something tired like "The Shops at City Center" in favor of something a bit more mysterious. CityCenter's retail haven will instead be called, The Crystals.
Hotel Beds
Snapshot :: The Plaza Bed Spotted in Santa Monica
July 21, 2008 at 9:05 AM | 0 Comments
We didn't know that the legendary New York hotel, The Plaza was churning out their very own brand of mattresses until we stopped into a mattress store in Santa Monica over the weekend.
The Plaza has partnered with Stearns & Fosters mattresses to create special mattresses which are actually used in the hotel. (Or so they say.)
Another fun fact? The different types of mattresses are named after the different room categories in the hotel like Edwardian room, The Terrace room and the Louis XV elite. Even other parts of the hotel get a shout-out like the Oak Bar and the Palm Court.
As for us, well we're partial to the Terrace Room Firm. Too bad the mattress prices are just as ritzy as the hotel room rates as they begin around $2,000.
Another pic is after the jump
Manhattan Hotels
Assouline Books Check Into the Plaza Hotel
July 18, 2008 at 12:29 PM | 0 Comments
New York's grandiose Plaza Hotel is bringing in some equally high-brow retail tenants to solidify its reputation as something special. After luxe British cell phone brand Vertu opened their second US store in the Plaza (the first is in Vegas, natch) at the end of April, the Warren-Tricomi salon followed and then all fell still until recently.
Assouline, the publisher of vellum-inous artsy coffee table tomes, has just opened their first US store inside of the Plaza, overlooking the lobby so that shoppers can look down at everyone else not buying Assouline (and who are probably Taschen fans).
Snapshot
Snapshot :: Christian Louboutin Boutique at the Palazzo Las Vegas
July 10, 2008 at 9:45 AM | 0 Comments
Aside from having a plethora of Christian Louboutins for sale at their Barneys New York department store, the Palazzo Las Vegas also has a full-fledged Christian Louboutin boutique inside its massive three-story retail complex, the Shoppes at the Palazzo.
Forget buying Rolexes after you win big at the craps table. Take yourself to this boutique and go buckwild. The boutique is rather small but has the mirrored-cubbyhole obsession that is found in CL stories in New York City.
And yes, you will need some dough to buy these shoes (unless you happen upon a sale.) A suggestion on Yelp might help the pain on your wallet if only temporarily:
Stop over at Double Helix bar right outside the door and do a shot to make that credit card swipe go a little easier. Before or after. Your choice. Maybe both.
See our gallery below for other stores at the Palazzo.
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump Back to Being Ivanka Trump
June 20, 2008 at 4:30 PM | 0 Comments
Yesterday, we were stunned to hear of the lovely Ivanka Trump's quick trip to regular-people-land (which involved staying at the Quality Inn and munching on Little Caesar's), but today we've learned that girlfriend is back to doing what she does best: hawking her father's crap.
WWD has the scoop:
Ivanka Trump, who visited the Windy City recently to show her fall jewelry collection at J.Mendel's Michigan Avenue boutique, didn't miss the opportunity to promote (albeit graciously) the new Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago. The statuesque blonde, who wore her own diamond tassel earrings, mentioned that while in Chicago she stayed at the hotel, received several spa treatments that day and dined for both lunch and dinner at the hotel's restaurant Sixteen, where she enjoys the admittedly rich porcini ravioli.
How sweet of her to plug her dad's businesses! And she was rewarded nicely for it, too: Ivanka's getting a bit of retail space in the hotel to open up a boutique for her jewelry line.
Viva Vegas
Mandalay Bay Gets the Teen Touch with New Metropark Shop
June 5, 2008 at 9:00 AM | 0 Comments
While money Mommy and Daddy enjoy some alone time in the cabanas at the Mandalay Bay, the teenyboppers can have their own private fun with the family charge card at the Shops at Mandalay Place.
Next Friday the 13th (ooh ominous!), the LA-based "specialty store chain for trendsetting young adults" Metropark will join Mandalay's other teen-preen shops like Urban Outfitters and Fornarina.
Hotel Retail
Hotel Retail News :: A Louis Vuitton Store Inside a Marriott?
April 30, 2008 at 5:05 PM | 0 Comments
Hotels are slowly moving beyond the bar, nightclub and restaurant trend to add some hip retail spaces in their properties. Of course, this is nothing new as some hotels have been doing this already for a long time. But what is news is the report of a Louis Vuitton store opening inside the JW Marriott Bucharest Hotel.
The store will open in June and offer customers the standard LV leather goods as well as the opportunity to design their own travel trunk based on their "requirements and taste." Hmmm...Marriott we smell a package!
As for why LV would open in a Marriott, international senior VP for LV said :
"We looked on Calea Victoriei and on other boulevards in Bucharest but chose the Marriott because it is a visually safe and controlled environment, where you know who your neighbours are and do not risk having a sex shop open next door.
Word. Who else is selling what and where? Here's a short list:
· The Beverly Wilshire Hotel: The Pretty Woman hotel has added the fine jewelry brand Avakian to its retail presence. Oh if only Julia and Richard were there now. [WWD]
· The Plaza: The Plaza will get mobile phone store Vertu. [WWD]
· Waldorf-Astoria Collection Sarasota: The upcoming hotel just announced it will have a Guerlain spa and along with that a chance to purchase all the Guerlain goodies you are suckered into believing your skin will need.
· The Standard Hotel NYC: Ok, so the tentatively planned Barneys New York in the Meat Packing District isn't exactly located inside the new Standard, but it will be one block away. [Racked]
[Photo: iirraa]
