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Naomi Watts Makes It a Family Affair at the Hudson and Cooper Square Hotels
Naomi Watts and her honey, Liev Schreiber spent the past couple of days hanging out at some NYC hotels. On Monday, the Aussie beauty struck some poses for a photo shoot outside of the The Cooper Square Hotel with her photographer bro Ben Watts behind the camera. The actress, who will star in the upcoming flick The International, glammed it up with some little black dresses on the streets of New York.
Then Watts and Schreiber turned out to support Ben at Hudson Hotel on Tuesday. The celebrity and fashion photographer threw a book launch party at the hotel for Lickshot, his new photo scrapbook and travel diary. The book features gritty photos, Polaroids, and hand-scrawled graffiti, held together by slashes of colored tape. Watts and Schreiber partied alongside Ben at the cocktail reception hosted by Moët & Chandon.
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The Empire Hotel Introduces City Running Tours
What awaits you at the Jeunesse Spa after your run.
Last year, the Westin Times Square got its guests running by teaming up with City Running Tours, and obviously the Empire Hotel has figured out this was a great idea. Starting from today, guests at the Empire will also be able to get some exercise in during their stay.
Jogging fans who check in to the Empire will be able to take part in an Empire Hotel Five-Mile Running Tour around the scenic and historic sites of the Upper West Side. These will include Strawberry Fields and Bethesda Terrace in Central Park, Lincoln Center, Ansonia Apartments, The Dakota, The Natural History Museum, Hayden Planetarium and the 79th Street Boat Basin in Riverside Park, just to name a few.
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No Sleep Til There Are More Budget Hotels in Brooklyn
We know NYC room rates are dropping. But when you really want to do up the Big Apple on a budget, we've been telling you to take a second look at Brooklyn. We consider ourselves sorta like Brooklyn cheerleaders here at HC; we've already profiled the Five Best Hotels for Those Willing to Go to Brooklyn — and we're happy to tell you over and over just how easy it is to hop on a subway to roll a few stops into Manhattan. Heck, we promise you: it's even easy to hail a 2 a.m. cab back to the ol' BK after you've indulged in a few too many swanky Manhattan hotel cocktails. Really!
And apparently The Borough of Trees is really hoping we do our Brooklyn cheerleading job well: they're adding even more hotel rooms out there. The Daily Eagle is reporting that a Hyatt Place Hotel and a Best Western are on their way to Downtown Brooklyn.
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Who Are the Five Best Newbies on the NYC Hotel Scene?
We came across BlackBook's picks for New York's Top Five Hotel Newcomers -- and, well, we got to thinking about what our own picks would be. See, we'd be totally down to agree 100% with BB's list if the headline were, say, the "Top Five Trendiest Hotels in NYC" or something along those lines.
But then again, we're hotel geeks seeing things from a different perspective and, of course, everyone's got their faves. Naturally, we had to speak up and give our own opinion.
After the jump, check out BB's list and, like the annoying kid in class who thinks she knows everything, we added our (extra-picky) insight. Be sure to let us know what you think, too.
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Checking In On Brooklyn's Nu Hotel :: Big, Clean, White and Bright
We listed Brooklyn's Nu Hotel as one of the top five hotels in Brooklyn and ever since it opened, we have felt like it could be a place we wouldn't mind stashing our visiting parents, whether we lived in Manhattan or right around the corner.
Since our parents (or friends) haven't had a chance to check it out for themselves -- hammocks in the rooms and all -- we dropped into TripAdvisor to see what reviewers had to say.
Feedback was mostly positive -- a couple "teething problems," but nothing out of the ordinary for any recently-opened hotel. But what really jumped out to us were the number of reviewers who commented on the differences between Manhattan hotels and the Nu: Nu's rooms are apparently bigger, brighter and cheaper than their counterparts over the bridge.
A couple of our fave comments after the jump.
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Manhattan Hotel Prices Striking a Nerve? Stay at The Verve
Consider this: Your nice, Midwestern parents are coming to New York City for the weekend, and because you live in the proverbial shoebox, they can't stay with you. And with Manhattan hotel prices as sky high as the Empire State Building, asking your nice, Midwestern parents to shell out $400-plus for the pleasure of being in your company for three nights seems like, well--a lot to ask. So what do you do? Book them in an outer-borough hotel, specifically, in the industrial section of Long Island City, Queens.
How does it turn out, you ask?
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HotelChatter Reader Deals :: Quikbook Top Cities Sale
Quikbook Top Cities Sale
15-35% Off Hotels in NYC, Miami, Chicago and Orlando
For four days only (through 5:00 pm on October 3rd), Quikbook is offering rooms at a group of hotels in Miami, Orlando, Chicago and NYC at killer prices.
Here were our faves:
· Score a room at the Hudson in NYC for $246.
· If you're headed to Disney World, a room at the Gaylord Palms can get down to $166.
· In the mood for Chi-town? Try The Belden Stratford at Lincoln Park for only $144.
· And if Miami strikes your fancy as the weather gets colder wherever you are now, you can snag a room at Gansevoort South (if you dare) for $236.
For the complete list of hotels, more info about the sale and reservations, go here.
Have a hotel deal you think we should consider? Or have a destination and date where you want us to check for hotel rooms and rates for you? No guarantees on either, but you can try your luck by hitting us here: tips@hotelchatter.com. Please include "For Reader Deals" in the subject heading.
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The Five Best Hotels for Those Not Afraid to Go to Brooklyn
You may not know it, but part of HotelChatter HQ happens to be located in Brooklyn, NY. And if you were, say, heading to NYC for a big-city visit, we'd be quick to recommend our 'hood instead of that busier, slightly more stressful borough over the bridge (don't be scared! Brooklyn kicks ass!) But hey, we'll be the first to break the news to you: hotels are pretty hard to come by 'round these parts.
But we're here for you. You're gonna be tired when you get here (you know, cause "no sleep 'til Brooklyn" and all) so we'll get right to it: after the jump, our five fave Brooklyn hotels.
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RoomMate Hipster is Way Cheaper Than RoomMate Grace
NYC's RoomMate Grace Hotel (formerly the Hotel QT) had her dorm-sized rooms going for $349 a night on Quikbook last time we checked. Pass.
Luckily, for those of us who happen to be down with the dorm-style hotel thing, we've got another NYC option in that lovely alterna-trendy Williamsburg/Bushwick area of Brooklyn.
And it's $29.99 a night. How do you like that, RoomMate Grace?
Take the L train (natch) down to the New York Loft Hostel on Varet St. where you can live like the kids these days and stake out a bunk bed in a big, shiny room full of cheap hip young things.
RoomMate Hipster (ha! We're so funny) offers three choices: a 14-bed female room, a 20-bed male room, or a 22-bed mixed room. And even though this is technically a hostel, the beds and floors are all as shiny and new as your fellow guests' 3G iPhones. For now.
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Room With a Killer View: Central Park and More From Mandarin Oriental
We are suckers for a room with a killer view. We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.
You've gotta feel pretty much on top of the world if you can get a view like this over the skyscrapers of New York City, and the green of Central Park too ... and it's a view you can get by checking in to the Mandarin Oriental on Columbus Circle--specifically, in Room # 4708.
We're already daydreaming about sitting comfortably at this window with a good book and gazing out over the city (if the book got boring, of course). You can still book in for the Sex and the City package, starting from $2000 a night with a river view, and just $100 more to get this view over Central Park. Without a package deal, the cheapest rate for this kind of view is $1,275 a night. Not exactly cheap, but a view that's worth paying for.
[Photo: CourtneyMay]
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Good Rate :: Getting Irish at Fitzpatrick's Grand Central Hotel
[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same region and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quoted here were captured on March 4, 2008 and are subject to change. Enjoy.]
A survey from the American Society of Travel Agents found that New York City will be a less popular destination for Americans this year, with the city dropping from number three to number seven on the list of desirable places to go. If the comments on the Budget Travel blog story linked above are any indication, it's the sky-high hotel prices that are turning people off.
As one person noted, "We are all savvy NYC hotel searchers. No one could come up with a room for less than $300. Even my favorite, cheap-o hotel Hotel 17, was $275."
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Bad Rate:: Santa Patrick's Easter Semana Break at Hotel Pennsylvania
[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same region and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quoted here were captured on March 4, 2008 and are subject to change. Enjoy.]
The odd headline above is to highlight the fact that we've got a high season week to beat all high season weeks this year, with St. Patrick's Day, Spring Break (for many public schools and colleges), Easter, and the Latino "Santa Semana" week before Easter all hitting within one 7-day period. Good luck finding a deal anywhere warm.
How bad will it hurt in New York City, where you can catch the St. Paddy's Day Parade, hit some Santa Semana festivities, and go to mass in a big cathedral?
You're going to pay a bundle then no matter what, but some bad deals are worse than others. Take the Hotel Pennsylvania, for instance, one of those decrepit and sad places milking the high city occupancy rate for all it's worth.
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