While most of you are suntanning at your beach houses, lake houses and boat houses, we're still here at our desks. No, we're not bitter. Here are your news briefs. Hope your hot dog doesn't burn!
· W Bangkok Is Happening: W Hotels broke ground on their Bangkok location today. The 400-room hotel will open in 2010. [Business 24-7]
· Comedian and Designer Brave The Surf Lodge: Jerry Seinfeld and Ralph Lauren (random!) brave the Sam Talbot restaurant at the Surf Lodge which has received some poor reviews. We can imagine Jerry saying, "So what's the deal with the celebrity chef restaurant these days?" [Page Six]
· Chocoholics Head to Grand Hyatt: Travel Chocolate, a 100-gram chocolate bar made up of fair trade certified 70% dark chocolate, is now on sale at the Grand Hyatt on East 42nd Street in Manhattan. [PRweb]
· Blogger Discovers TuneHotels: TuneHotels is cheap we know but blogger Dan'Lion discovered that booking two single rooms for two people is actually cheaper than booking a double room. Nice work. [Danlion]
· Paul Pierce's Four-Hour Massage: Celtics star and MVP Paul Pierce certainly deserves a massage but a four-hour one and by the pool at the Hard Rock? Ew....[TMZ]
Looks like Michael Madsen isn't the only celebrity on bad behavior in hotels this week.
The Mexican soccer goalie, Oswaldo Sanchez, was arrested for trespassing and resisting arrest early Monday morning, after refusing to turn down the volume on the stereo in his hotel room at the Westin Michigan Avenue.
Police say Sanchez was asked to leave the Westin Michigan Avenue early Monday following Mexico's 4-0 victory over Peru in a friendly in Chicago -- and refused. The hotel called police, who arrested Sanchez when he again refused to leave.
The cops let loose on Sanchez with pepper spray in order to subdue him.
Maybe he should have been put in the city's other Westin hotel where the soothing jet lag room could have calmed him down.
Fresh off a Game 1 and 2 win, the Boston Celtics have headed to Los Angeles for Game 3 at the Staples Center. And they will be shacking up somewhere in Beverly Hills, so says the Boston Globe.
We put out our guesses for team hotels in our initial round-up of Los Angeles Hotels for the finals but the fact that the Celtics would be hosting their gameday shootarounds at the hotel made us rethink some of the options. The hotels would have to be big enough or have enough space somewhere to hold a shootaround.
This makes us think of the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Century City, adjacent to BevHills. It has its own special-members only Equinox fitness center attached. Still, we wouldn't be surprised if the Celts picked one of the well-known hotels along Wilshire Boulevard.
However, don't get your hopes too high about seeing either Pierce, Garnett, Cassell and Pruitt at the hotel. These guys all have homes in LA and aren't mandated to stay at the team hotel.
So Game 1 of the Celtics-Lakers NBA Finals goes off tonight and if you still need a room for tonight or Game 2 on Sunday, consider the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel.
The new hotel is centered in the Boston Seaport District and is totally brand-new, having just opened in February. However, it's more than a walk away from the Garden so plan on transportation.
Currently, the hotel still has rooms open tonight for $499 for a standard guest room with either a king or two double beds. On Sunday, rooms drop to $249 a night.
The hotel has also put together a "Sleep With The Fishes" package that has nothing to do with The Sopranos and everything to do with dudes and mancations. This way you and your bros can make a weekend out of Game 2 if you want. Details after the jump.
Found yourself one of the few lucky ones with tickets to Game 1 of the Celtics-Lakers NBA Finals? Still need a hotel?
The Ritz-Carlton Boston Common is located between the city's theater financial districts which isn't exactly within walking distance to The Garden. Yet this is Boston, nothing is really far from where ever you are.
As for the hotel, the Ritz just completed an $11 million renovation this year of all guest rooms, suites, and public spaces. It has a fine dining restaurant in the JER-NE restaurant and bar.
Athletes will like this hotel as well since it's directly connected to the 100,000-sq.ft. posh Sports Club/LA gym. And there will be no shortage of celebs there. We hear the hotel has recently hosted such guests as Leonardo di Caprio, Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Douglas and Justin Timberlake.
Yet you may need an NBA player's salary to stay here. Rooms are available tonight for $695 for a room with a king or double queen beds. We say just hit up the hotel's Gallery Bar and scope out the scene instead.
Now that the Boston Celtics are squaring off against the LA Lakers in the NBA Finals, we'll be rounding up some hotels in Beantown worth checking out, much like we did for LA last week.
Game 1 is taking place this Thursday in Boston, so Celtics fans need to get their hotel rooms booked. A Boston local immediately recommended the Onyx Hotel which is within walking distance to the Celtic's home, the TD Banknorth Garden.
But if you referred to it as anything other than The Garden, you might as well just get a Lakers tattoo on your forehead.
So the Los Angeles Lakers are in the NBA Finals this year. (Um...yay?) Should you find yourself needing a hotel room in Los Angeles to cheer on the Lakers, or either the Detroit Pistons or Boston Celtics, we've put together a few selections for the different types of fans.
Here's a video of the match which is actually very cool especially the aerial views of the Gansevoort's rooftop. We also got a kick of the water ball boys.
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