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Print at Ink48 Is Now Serving Breakfast & Lunch
Midtown far west isn't exactly known for attracting foodies, especially right over on Eleventh Avenue. But that's what makes Print, the new restaurant at Ink48, such a welcome addition. Guests at the Kimpton hotel, next to the West Side Highway and the Hudson River, will no longer have to trek for blocks to find decent food. The restaurant is now serving breakfast and lunch, and dinner is set to begin next Monday.
The dining room looks much prettier than its printing-press name would suggest, and so far the menu looks straightforward and reasonably priced for a hotel. (The $9 Print Breakfast is a scrambled egg sandwich with local cheddar, bacon and arugula on seven grain toast.)
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There's a Porcupine in a Penthouse on Park Avenue!
It's true! If you've been watching the early morning TV shows that broadcast from New York, you may have noticed that some of the zoologists and animal care takers of the San Diego Zoo have been making the rounds to chat up their new Polar Plunge exhibit, which opens in March and gives their resident polar bears a whole fresh environment.
But no, they didn't bring any polar bear with them to New York, even if the temperatures here are about right for them. Instead they brought a few more portable critters, specifically two endangered tortoises (one a spider tortoise!) and prehensile-tailed porcupine. The staff and their small traveling circus have made the penthouse of the pet-friendly 70 Park Hotel their zoo away from home, and we dropped by yesterday to say hi.
After the jump, the cutest animal pictures you will see today!
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The EPIC Hotel is No Longer Waiting to Exhale: The Spa is Now Open
OK, so the buzz down in Miami right now is all Super Bowl, all the time. But if this week of partying is just too much and you need to escape, you can do it without fleeing the city. Just head downtown, where the Exhale MindBody Spa at the EPIC Hotel is now open.
You may be familiar with Exhale from other hotels—including the Hotel Palomar in Dallas, the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica, and the Gansevoort in New York. Their biggest claim to fame is their custom Core Fusion classes, but the spas also offer yoga and a full range of spa services.
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The Eventi Hotel is Taking Reservations for May 15, Starting at $209 a Night
High on our Andaz buzz, we now turn to another NYC hotel opening, one that’s sure to be the Eventi of the Spring. (Har har har). Yes, we’re talking about the city’s next Kimpton Hotel, Eventi.
This is the property on Sixth Avenue in Chelsea—the one sharing a city block with condos and an outdoor public plaza. And even if it’s still below zero here, you can get started on planning your spring jaunt in New York, because Eventi now has a website and is taking reservations.
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Inside The Argonaut Hotel in San Francisco
Longtime readers of HotelChatter know The Argonaut Hotel is one of our go-to hotels in San Francisco. Why? Good rates, comfortable beds, kitschy nautical theme and free WiFi (for Kimpton's InTouch members.) Oh, and most importantly, we don't have to deal with the glut of Union Square that makes life with a rental car extremely difficult.
Caveat emptor; you must be able to put up with Fisherman's Wharf (we actually have grown to love the area if you take a left instead of a right out of the Argonaut front door and avoid the Powell & Hyde cable car debacle), and on this trip we figured out parking was a whopping $43.00 a night.
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Kimpton is Giving Canadian Olympic 'Refugees' Special Rates, Eh?
Hotel Vintage Park
Kimpton Hotels' Seattle properties will come to the rescue of its neighbors to the north whose city will be inundated with tourists coming to see the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Hotel Vintage Park, the Alexis Hotel and Hotel Monaco will offer an Escape the Olympics package to aid those in need of a getaway from the craziness.
In honor of the 2010 Games, the three Seattle hotels will offer a 20.10 percent discount to all Canucks. According to a Kimpton official, the company knows that since hotel rooms are at a premium, residents are renting out their homes and going on vacation—especially since schools in Vancouver are closed for the Olympics—so Kimpton is giving them a place to go.
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The Hotel Palomar Chicago Sets Its Sights on April 24 with $89 Rooms
Last we heard, Hotel Palomar Chicago was set to open a few weeks before May 1. It looks like the Kimpton hotel has decided on an official date, announcing on its website that it's taking reservations for April 24 with packages as cheap as $89 a night.
The River North hotel is offering several packages, the most wallet-friendly one being the $89.00 and a Bottle of Wine deal, which gets you a room with a king-sized bed, a bottle of red or white, and daily coffee or tea service.
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Best New Hotel Service: Kimpton's 'Forgot It? We've Got It!'
It's what you've been waiting all year for--The 2009 HotelChatter Awards! We'll be bringing you the best and worst of the year (and the decade) all day today and part of tomorrow. Agree or disagree with our picks? Air your thoughts in comments below.
At the core of every hotel philosophy is to give the guest whatever they want and during the boom years, hotels were trying to outdo each other with over-the-top services to please you. Hence the introduction of engagement/proposals concierges, bath butlers and the Andaz Reader in Residence.
But the financial woes of 2009 put a damper on the crazy services hotels were offering. Indeed, many hotels began to scale back on the basics like newspapers at your door and chocolates on the pillow to save operating costs.
Yet at Kimpton Hotels in the United States, they still offer the basics and a little more with their "Forgot it? We've Got it!" menu. What we like about this service (which we admit is probably not brand new in 2009) is that all the usual suspects are on the list, like toothbrush and toothpaste but so are some other toiletries and products that we often leave behind on our travels like a straightening iron, make-up mirrors, TSA-approved plastic bags, contact lens solution, mouthwash and tweezers.
Yes, some are only available for a small fee but it beats trying to find a Duane Reade or Walgreens at 11pm at night.
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Book a Kimpton Emerald Bowl Package and Feel Free to Curse, Boo This Weekend
For many, Christmas weekend will be a time of screaming matches, heckling, and cursing under one's breath. These forms of anti-cheer have nothing to do with Aunt Mable's fruitcake or Uncle Tim's drunken dinner table insults, but football, everyone's favorite helmet colliding sport of the season.
Fans are hightailing it to San Francisco en masse to catch the Emerald Bowl on December 26, where USC and Boston College will go at it just 24 short hours after tinsel and wrapping have been cleared away. Finding a place to stay over the holidays, especially in a choice destination like San Francisco, is no easy feat, but several Kimpton properties in the city are offering convenient Emerald Bowl packages. Overnight tailgating in frigid weather is no fun, don'tcha know.
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Santa Paws is Visiting All The Good Little Dogs, Thanks To Kimpton
Where: United States
Oh, c’mon, you knew this was coming. Cute Hotel Doggies with Santa! Some hotels put up massive Christmas trees and wreaths, others offer delicious holiday spreads—and then there’s Kimpton, which loves dogs so much it set up a Santa photo op for them in cities all over the country.
Our picture was taken at Manhattan’s still-new Ink48, which you may recall is all the way west on 11th Avenue. That made for a bit of a trek in frigid weather, and may explain why we were one of the few dog owners to show up for the event.
Everyone at the hotel was very welcoming, and the lobby was cozy on a winter’s day, but we were a bit disappointed with the Santa. He was jolly—but not old, and not fat. The hotel offered costumes for the canine guests, but we refrained, since Winnie prefers the stylin’ look of her own scruffy fur.
She was, however, quite enamored with the dog treats that were hung on that little Christmas tree as ornaments. (Whoever put them there surely does not own a dog.) We managed to prevent her from tackling the tree to get the treats by bribing her with a biscuit from the hotel’s jar at the front desk, but then she caught sight of a Frenchie puppy and refused to look at the camera. Dogs!
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The EPIC Hotel is Not Responsible for Legionnaire's Disease Death
Despite the initial reports, it looks like the EPIC Hotel and Residencesin Miami has been cleared by the Miami-Dade Health Department in the case of the guest who died from Legionaire's Disease.
We listened in on a press conference held late yesterday by the Miami-Dade Health Department and they were very insistent that the EPIC Hotel had nothing to do with the fatality of the foreigner who stayed at the hotel earlier this fall. Apparently, the source of the illness came from somewhere else although the health department would not release the name of the source and kept repeating that the investigation was ongoing.
However, the department did admit that tests were still being conducted on the hotel. Two other hotel guests have also become ill but there is no definitive report out on whether or not that had anything to do with the EPIC Hotel.
The hotel remains closed to guests and a rep tells us that the hotel will wait until the health department’s investigation is complete. As expected, we'll update you on when the EPIC Hotel opens again to guests.
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Hotel Guest Dies After Contracting Legionnaire's Disease at The EPIC Hotel
A guestroom at the EPIC Hotel in downtown Miami.
One guest has died and two others are still ill after contracting Legionnaire's Disease at The EPIC Hotel in Miami earlier this fall. The EPIC, a Kimpton Hotel, has currently stopped accepting new guests and have relocated current guests to different hotels.
Sadly, it looks as if the hotel was only trying to improve its drinking water but ended up harming its guests instead. The Miami Herald reports:
An investigation this week by county and state officials revealed that the hotel had installed a water filter powerful enough to remove chlorine from its city-supplied water, a move that encouraged bacterial growth.
``What's ironic is the hotel installed a special filtration system to enhance the quality of their drinking water,'' said Dr. Vincent Conte, the county's top epidemiologist.
Not much is known about the guest who died the bacteria infection, except that it was a foreigner who stayed at the hotel this fall.
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