This Wednesday at the W New Orleans, Andy Warhol-inspired cocktails will make their debut. Heh. Leave it to W to host a Warhol event on Wednesday.
From 4.30pm until around seven, W is holding the "Shake It Up With Martini and Rossi" event: Andy Warhol prints combined with six cocktails using Martini and Rossi Vermouth and inspired by Warhol images.
They don't give too much more away except that there'll be "Velvet Edie" and "Factory Martini" cocktails among the six, and they'll all be shaken and stirred "Warhol-style". Which we think is pretty stylish.
It's a first come, first served night so don't be late, and if you do get to try a Warhol cocktail let us know how it tastes.
Man, we are total suckers for a hotel promo with a cute name.
Perhaps not such suckers that we would sit around stuffing our faces whilst clad in a bikini, but we are happy to watch other people do so at the W New Orleans - French Quarter's weekly Bikini Brunch this summer.
On Saturdays during the month of July, throw on your swimsuit (or your jeans) and head down to the W pool for:
a $15 brunch provided by Bacco including Fruit Salad, Gourmet Pasta Salad and Chilled Shrimp Cocktail. Bottle service will also be available in the courtyard complete with your favorite mixers.
Non-guests can totally enjoy the offer too; in fact, Bikini Brunchers (guests or not) get special access to the W Hotel pool all day.
Rates start around $179 per night -- courage to wear a bikini and eat food at the same time sold separately.
The latest hotel to become a member of Hilton's luxury tier of hotels is the Roosevelt Hotel, the hotel's original name before it became the Fairmont New Orleans in 1965.
The The hotel was was hard hit by Hurricane Katrina and so it will undergo a $100 million renovation that will be completed by Spring 2009.
Key among those plans to restore the property to its previous grandeur will be the reopening of the hotel's famed "Blue Room," as well as the legendary Sazerac Bar. In the golden era of supper clubs from the 1930s to the 1960s, the Blue Room played host to some of the biggest names in show business as well as to an elaborate floor show. The reopened Blue Room will once again periodically host live entertainment. The Sazerac Bar, a fixture in The Roosevelt since 1949, will once again be serving its signature Sazerac Cocktails and Ramos Gin Fizzes when the property reopens.
The hotel's ballrooms will get a new look as well and WAC management team will once again do the "extravagant" Christmas decorations which was something that the Fairmont New Orleans was known for.
In total, there will be 500 guestrooms, a luxury spa and a fitness center on site. Fun fact: The hotel was known for having inspired the 1965 best-selling novel from Arthur Hailey titled, Hotel.
Last summer, we went down to New Orleans for a cocktail convention. (Tough life, right?) And while we did have lunch at the Loews New Orleans Hotel, we missed out on the latest innovation the hotel is hyping.
Groups of four can book a "Bar Chef Table" at Cafe Adelaide, for ringside seats to a hand-crafted dinner from chef Danny Trace and bartender Lu Brow. The duo have put together a Creole-inspired menu that pairs up with Brow's fancy cocktails. Each course is presented by chef Trace, making you feel like you're on a tipsy version of Iron Chef.
Meals at the chef's table are a totally reasonable $100 to $125 per person depending on what you order. Not bad for a long night of partying with restaurant industry insiders.
Mardi Gras is fast approaching. If you think it's too much trouble to fill out an application form to stay at the Inn on Bourbon, then you can try the confusingly-similarly named Bourbon Orleans, which has balconies overlooking both Bourbon Street and Orleans Street. It's decorated a-la France in the 1800s (with a few modern touches, luckily), and until 1964 the hotel building was actually a kind of convent. But things have changed.
These days the Bourbon Orleans has its own Mardi Gras deal and they say they still have some rooms available--although the weekend of February 2 to February 4 is fully booked. For the rest of Mardi Gras you can get rooms starting at $239 and you'll be right in the heart of the parade. But there are definitely not many rooms left, so get a reservation in before you miss out and are left to pitch your tent on the pavement. (We don't think this is actually allowed so don't tell anyone we said this).
One of the world's most famous celebrations in one of America's most loved cities is right around the corner--Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Of course, everyone knows the place to be and be beaded on February 5 is Bourbon Street, and if you're looking for a little class among a celebration that occasionally gets a little raunchy, check out the Inn on Bourbon, an elegant hotel in the French Quarter that used to be the Old French Opera House, said to be the first opera house in the U.S., which opened on December 1, 1859.
This New Orleans hotel is so sought after during Mardi Gras you need to fill out an application to stay there. Seriously.
The Inn on Bourbon offers 179 guest rooms and seven suites, most that have balconies overlooking Bourbon or Toulouse streets, which makes it the perfect spot for looking down on (anyone up for a little double entendre?) all the Mardi Gras revelry.
You'll want to request a Bourbon Street Balcony Room, which costs about $900 per night during Mardi Gras. But you'll have to make that reservation for next year--like most Bourbon Street hotels, the Inn on Bourbon's best rooms have all been filled, though space is still available in a few standard rooms.
In fact, securing a room at the Inn on Bourbon for Mardi Gras is a little like applying to live in a New York City co-op. Priority is given to previous guests of the hotel; new entrants must fax a written request to 504-524-8273 to the attention of Jairo Brenes.
The hotel requires a minimum-five night stay that starts the Friday before Fat Tuesday and has you checking out that Wednesday. Insiders suggest booking as soon as possible to secure space in 2009.
The five Marriott and Renaissance Hotels of New Orleans are offering football fans a Big Easy SAINTSational package. Valid game weekends Sept 24 through December 23, the package includes these extras:
* Game-day snack pack - Three bottles of New Orleans brewed Abita Amber Beer, three bottles of Abita spring water and a snack
* Welcome sports amenity - A logoed cooler
* Breakfast for two
Once you start checking rates, however, this deal looks like a bootleg play that results in either a first down or a fumble depending on which hotel you choose. For the JW Marriott New Orleans this deal is a steal, with the football package price the same as the regular room rate with breakfast. Free beer!
At the Renaissance Pere Marquette, however, the rate for just a room with breakfast is $119 the weekend of September 24. If you go for the football package, the same room is $179. Expensive beer! (Plus if you ask us, 3 beers + 2 guests = annoyed couple.)
We'd go for it if you are looking at the hotels at the top end and punt if looking at the lower end. To book it, call 866-530-3763 and ask for rate code ESEJ or visit www.neworleans.marriott.com and click on "View all New Orleans Deals."
If you were totally moved by Brad Pitt's recent trip to New Orleans where he promoted his green building of homes ruined by Katrina and want to see the city for yourself, then consider the Last Minute Labor Day deal from the Marriott Hotels in New Orleans.
Rates start at just $89 per night, which is up to 44% savings compared to other hotels in the Big Easy.
Rates are available at the JW Marriott New Orleans, New Orleans Marriott, Marriott at the Convention Center, Renaissance Pere Marquette and Renaissance Arts Hotel.
You can book your rooms online at the New Orleans Marriott web site using booking code ECEO. The offer is valid from August 29 to September 4.
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