Where to stay when you leave.
10/09/2007 at 1:02 PM
Tags: Hotel Openings, Hotel Renovations, Morgans Hotel Group, Hotel News, Hotel Tubs
With Six Columbus opening last Monday we totally forgot about the Royalton Hotel which reopened the same day after a few months of major renovations. Luckily, Amy over at NewYorkology was on the scene.
In this case it's the Royalton, which re-opened as scheduled on October 1 after renovations, according to the call NewYorkology just made to the hotel's front desk.
Also open, its Bar Forty Four. (Drinks only, save for breakfast from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.)
Closed since June, the hotel website says the new Royalton has been "invigorated with handcrafted African touches, graphic fabrics, original murals and the warm glow of a cast-bronze fireplace."
A while back we got a sneak peek at some of the renovated rooms (done by Charlotte Macaux). But we also learned that some rooms in the hotel will be sporting these ultra-cool baths. These "five-foot Roman soaking tubs" are only available in a limited number of rooms so you may want to request one when you book.
Related Stories:
· Royalton (and Bar Forty Four) open after renovation [NewYorkology]
· Snapshot: A Sneak Peek at the Royalton Hotel Renovations [HotelChatter]
by juliana
5/30/2007 at 4:32 PM
Tags: Hotel Theft, Hotel Tubs, Japan Hotels
A hotel in Japan is very very sorry today. Sorry that they ever allowed a bathtub made of 18 karat gold and worth nearly $1 million to sit in one of their shared bathrooms for men unguarded and unprotected, thus allowing some clever thieves to haul it out of the place.
The golden tub weighing 176 pounds (pictured above in 2005) was stolen from the 10th floor of the Kominato Hotel Mikazuki in Kamogawa, just south of Tokyo:
But police said they found no signs that the heavy bathtub had been dragged out of the hotel.
"The door to the room had been locked with chains, but the chains were found cut off this morning," a police spokesman said.
"We really don't know how this happened at this stage. But what we can assume now is that more than one person was involved in this incident."
A similar bathtub in the hotel's shared bathroom for women is still in place, he said.
Perhaps they were inspired by the Today Show's segment last week on Hotel Theft which included a story of a stolen marble fireplace from the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
Related Stories:
· $1M Gold Bathtub Stolen From Japan Hotel [Forbes]
· Light-fingered Japanese thieves nab 80kg gold tub [Washington Post]
by juliana
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