Hotel Riverview residents and its past guests are strongly against the Goode/MacPherson takeover. No surprise here, although if you didn't know it yet, G & M are probably working with BD Hotels--they of the embittered Hotel Chelsea takeover.
The comments and emails about the historic hotel's transition to a hip West Village boutique hotel are filling up our inboxes and burning up our comments feed, particularly under this story about the pending eviction of tenants.
This group is also protesting the notion that the hotel is full of drunks, drug addicts or homeless people--as suggested by the tipster who told us that Goode and MacPherson had officially purchased the hotel. Here's one guest's response to that characterization.
I have served five years in the US Army, Attended the University of Hawaii and traveled through eight countries. I was, am not and will never be any of those adjective you used so gallantly.
You need to be taught some respect for people's transitions as we all have human experiences. I wish Messrs. Macpherson and Goode all the best on their new project. As for you and your tipster, try another angle, b/c this one is tacky.
Needless to say there's a lot of strong emotions about this pending hotel project and we can't post every email so we urge you to...
Our Paris correspondent Monica Guy has put forth a very interesting question about changing the sheets during your hotel stay.
You know those cards that most hotels now have in the room?
Every year blah blah millions of litres of water blah blah save our planet blah blah If you would like to re-use your towels, please hang them on the rack. If you would like them changed, please leave them on the bathroom floor. Thank you for saving the planet blah blah blah.
Those ones. Has anyone ever got that system to work?
I'm a bit of an eco-warrior in my spare time, when I'm not flying around in noisy polluting aeroplanes burning carbon like there's no tomorrow. I'm also clean. My sheets and towels don't need changing every day.
But! In every hotel I leave my towels neatly placed on the rack. I leave a large note in the bathroom and on my bed, in English and in the native language - in Spanish as well if staying in Miami or California - stating:
"Please do not change my towels and sheets today. I want to use the same ones. Thank you." I ring up the hotel desk and housekeeping and tell them I specifically do not want my towels and sheets changed. I tell all the maids I see in the corridor not to change anything. I wait until they come to clean the room, and remind them again.
But nobody pays the blind bit of notice. The housekeepers change my sheets and towels every single day, sometimes twice a day if I've been wasteful enough to shower in the afternoon.
Is it a lesson in not being anal? Or am I doing something wrong?
Does anyone else ever have the same problem? Let us know.
You may have noticed...ahem...you should have noticed that for the past two weeks we have been running our Loyalty Program Guide, compiled by our own Barbara Benham. In this guide we have done our best to detail all the member benefits and the fine print of each hotel's rewards program. Did we do our job? Did we miss something? Do you still have questions or tips to share?
Well hit us up on the tipline with your thoughts and questions or better yet, leave comments under each post. For instance SPG groupies should comment here. General comments about our guide (nicely please) can be dropped here.
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by juliana
You may have noticed...ahem...you should have noticed that for the past two weeks we have been running our 
