Tag: Hotel Swag View All Tags
Tags: Hotel Bikes / Hotel Swag / Ace Hotels / Portland Hotels / Hotel News / → All Tags
Portland's Ace Hotel Enters Fall With New Bikes And Artisan Booze
Ah, fall in the Pacific Northwest; it just makes you long to be outside, wearing your favorite flannel shirt and dreaming of chai tea. Luckily, The Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon anticipated this and they've amped up their offerings for a refreshed and outdoorsy autumn.
First up are their new, specially-outfitted-for-Portland Swobo bicycles. Now we've all heard about the classic cruisers availabe at New York hotels, but Portland requires something more rugged, more street and trail-ready, and they've found it in their new fleet of six Swobos, with the customizations done by six different Portland bike shops. If you're a hotel guest, then you can feel free to borrow them for the day for free, and take in the fall foliage under your own power.
Tags: Hotel Music / Tokyo Hotels / Park Hyatt Hotels / Hotel News / Hotel Swag / → All Tags
Tokyo's Park Hyatt Teams Up With Tastemaker For Anniversary CD
Do you know Nigo? If you are a fashion-conscious person living in Asia and clued into what's hot, then you would know that he is the current king of street style, a byproduct of founding and designing the clothing and shoe brand Bape, amongst other projects he has going on. He collects modern art, regularly hangs out with the likes of Kanye West and Pharrell, and is mobbed anywhere he goes. Naturally, a hotel is going to want a piece of this action, and the revered Park Hyatt Tokyo is the lucky recipient of a collaboration with him.
To celebrate their 15th anniversary, the Park Hyatt asked Nigo—who has spent time in the 50th floor's Tokyo Suite—to compile music tracks for a special edition CD that evokes Tokyo's mixed cultures. Hypebeast explains the direction with a bit more detail:
Tags: Hotel Swag / Hotel Sex / Manhattan Hotels / Hotel Restaurants / Matchbooks / → All Tags
The Maritime's Matchbook Ignites The Fires Of Desire
Happy Friday! You know what we like to talk about on Fridays at HotelChatter? Hotel Sex! So, just to get your all geared up for the weekend, we thought we'd share with you this semi-NSFW matchbook that we picked up this week from the restaurant of New York's Maritime Hotel.
Too bad we grabbed it during the hot pot party at the restaurant Matsuri and not at the Marc Jacobs x V Magazine x Belvedere Vodka shindig that took place in the hotel's Hiro ballroom last week—we have it on good authority that Lady Gaga's red lace outfit at that is just as semi-NSFW as the pictures on this matchbook.
Tags: Fashion Hotels / Fashion Week Hotels / W Hotels / Hotel News / Hotel Swag / → All Tags
W Hotels Launches 'Glam' Clothing and Jewelry Line
We've always been pretty intrigued by the non-hotel related items sold in the W Hotels online store, from nerdy flash drives to ugly dolls to pricey sex toys and even cute dresses. But W is getting even more fashion forward.
The brand has just announced a new apparel and accessories collection with pieces by 34 new and known designers such as Foley + Corin, Lauren Merkin and Wink. Called Global Gam, the collection will be sold in W stores and prices will range from $50 to $500.
"W is a design-led brand, therefore fashion is a tool to engage our guests in design. The people we're after are trendsetters and fashion-forward. We have a passion for fashion," said Eva Ziegler, global brand leader of W...."The idea was to create items inspired by five new W properties in downtown Manhattan; South Beach in Miami, Santiago, Chile, Hong Kong, and Istanbul."
Tags: VMA Hotels / Manhattan Hotels / Hotel Swag / → All Tags
An Unlikely Partnership: The Pierre Hotel and The VMAs
Wanna rub shoulders with these two? Yeah, we don't want to either.
Go ahead. Say it. Just like we're too old for most reality shows, we're too old for the VMAs. Young kids don't want the likes of us around them, trying to get into their groove thang with our beepers and our Cross Colors shortalls. (See, we just dated ourselves.) So that's why we promise to stay away.
But whether you like it or not, MTV's Video Music Awards are coming back to New York on September 13th, with British comedian Russell Brand set to host again. Also making a comeback? Free swag! Swag at events like the VMAs, the Grammys and the Oscars came under scrutiny by the IRS a little while ago forcing celebrities to start actually paying for some stuff. (We know! That's like, inhumane.)
Yet the fear must have subsided because we just got a press release for a VMA gifting suite at the most unexpected hotel in New York.
Tags: Hotel Retail / Hotel Beds / Mississippi Hotels / Road Trip Hotels / Hotel Swag / → All Tags
Buy Everything But The Bed (But Try The Bed) At The Alluvian
We’re always suckers for hotel tat – whether it’s nicking a pen and notebook from the room, buying branded crockery or saving up for one of those Kimpton animal print bathrobes.
So imagine our excitement when we popped in to see the posh Alluvian hotel in Greenwood, Mississippi and found that, as well as the beds in the rooms (which we couldn’t hunker down on, what with not being hotel guests), there’s a bedroom for visitors to try out in the hotel shop across the road.
Tags: Hotel Packages / Hotel Swag / Hilton Hotels / → All Tags
Hotels Are Really Reaching For the Incentives These Days
Sheesh. It must be getting tough out there for hotels to deliver new, creative incentives — especially, we're guessing, for the big-box brands. What can they throw in as an added bonus to draw guests to their hotels?
Well, in an effort to get creative, it seems like they're really starting to reach for it. Here's one that's a little less appealing and more of a too-much-explanation for too-few-perks kind of deal: Hilton has partnered with American Express and Shutterfly to offer a reward for using the "latest internet technology" (hehe) to plan their hotel stays: a Shutterfly gift certificate. Try to contain your excitement.
Tags: Hotel Swag / Standard Hotels / Hotel Shops / → All Tags
A Way to Ensure Your Activities at The Standard Won't Result in a Rash
Let's be up front about this: lots of people have sex at The Standard. Particularly, we know that lots of people have sex in the windows of the Standard New York, in plain view of all the High-Line explorers and skeevy Meatpacking District bartenders. There's a whole lotta humpin' going on in that building — and we're pretty sure similar activities happen all over the LA, Miami and Hollywood properties, too. And, as we all know from health class and, um, college, sometimes those particular activities result in rashes. And you don't want to associate The Standard with nasty rashes, do you?
No, you don't — which is why we'd like to tell you that Quiksilver has partnered with Standard Hotels to release a retro-looking set of swimwear (a limited-edition line that goes on sale today) that not only has special snap detailing, but incorporates Quiksilver's Diamond Dobby anti-rash material. Yay!
Tags: Hotel Shopping / Hotel Swag / Mondrian Hotels / Los Angeles Hotels / → All Tags
LA's Mondrian Wants To See You In A Bikini At Their Pop-Up
Looks like the Mondrian West Hollywood has a little case of boutique envy, ever since their Miami sister the Mondrian South Beach got that baller vending machine back in March.
Looking to get in on the action of selling 24K gold handcuffs and $400 maribou feather vests, the Mondian LA has opened a pop-up shop just off of their lobby. It'll only be open though August 30, but until then the 300-square foot space will feature swimwear designer Shay Todd’s "perfect mix of rich, lush and romantic colors carried through bikinis, one-pieces, cover-ups, renowned terry cloth loungewear, and accessories, perfectly suited to the hotel’s fun, sexy summer vibe."
Although it's the LA hotel's first pop-up, we highly doubt it'll be the last. The Mondrian SoBe is successful with their vending machine, and so all we can say is "watch this space."
[Photo: Mondrian West Hollywood]
Tags: Hotel Shopping / Ace Hotels / Manhattan Hotels / Hotel Swag / → All Tags
Ace Hotel NYC's Restaurant and Boutique Still In The Works
Gosh, it feels like it's been forever since we last commented on the progress still underway at The Ace Hotel in New York. The rooms may be open for sleeping and the lobby open for drinking, but its Breslin restaurant, Stumptown coffeeshop, and Project No. 8a Boutique are still very much under construction tarps.
At first rumored to be opening in late summer—which would mean they should be looking near done in order to train wait staff and such—the hotel's many other amenities are now slated for early fall. This probably means September, but knowing that The Ace is nothing if not infamous for its quiet continual delaying, we'll place our chips on October.
For a moment, since we love hotel boutiques, let's focus on what to expect from Project No. 8a, which will be a travel-focused outpost of the popular Lower East Side shop Project No. 8. There's apparently a limited edition collaboration clothing line in the works between 8a and The Ace, which includes an $850 unisex Project 8a x Ace x Mackintosh Raincoat, which WWD points out as being "roughly the price of an eight-night stay in one of the hotel's modest suites." It's a bit expensive for a hotel which aims for homey over haute, but we'll reserve any judgments for when the place actually opens.
Tags: Hotel Swag / Hotel Deals / Desires Hotels / → All Tags
'Desire' A Threadless Tee? Desires Will Give You One For Free(ish)
Okay, admit it: you've always been sort of curious to check out one of Desires' cutesy themed(ish) properties. Even though some of the most notable ones are not in your standard LA/NYC/Miami hotel-mecca locations (read: Milwaukee and St. Louis), you've always been up for a little bit of an adventure — and our incessant yapping about places like The Iron Horse doesn't really help you get it off the brain.
And there's probably no better time than now to take a chance on one of their properties (even if you're not sure quite what to expect): you can get a 25% off your rate (on a two-night or more stay) by booking from July 10th through September 30th (yes, that's seriously like all summer) — and on top of that, you can also get a free t-shirt! Along with the discunt, you'll get your hands on a $25 gift certificate to Threadless.com.
You can make a rezzie here (or call 866-593-4330) — but just so you know, we're pretty sure they don't sell any t-shirts that say "I Went to St. Louis to Check Out a Hotel and All I Got Was This T-Shirt (And Also a Moon Pie)."
Tags: Hotel Toiletries / Westin Hotels / Hotel Spas / Hotel Swag / → All Tags
Testing Out Westin's Heavenly Bath Toiletries
It's no secret that we love talking about hotel toiletries here at HotelChatter, but we have to admit we're pretty set in our ways. We like Kiehl's, Fresh and Red Flower toiletries (in that order) — and we're willing to risk a 3oz violation at the TSA checkpoint for these babies too.
So when a batch of the new Westin Heavenly Bath toiletries arrived on our doorstep, we thought we'd give them a try. But we weren't going to hog them to ourselves. We were on our way to Palm Springs and we thought we'd pack them with us so our friends could try them out too — a sort of unofficial focus group, if you will.
Upon asking our friends if they could sample the goods during their next shower, a lady friend who had just come back from the Westin St. John nearly freaked out. Apparently, the hotel already had the new bath toiletries in place and she admitted to hoarding the new Heavenly Bath toiletries. We were going to ask her if she raided any cleaning carts but we were afraid for the answer.
Hotels In: Africa | Asia | Australia | Caribbean | Europe | North America | South America
Our Publications:
Jaunted | HotelChatter | VegasChatter
