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Pitch Your Hotel: Patrick O'Neil of NYLO Hotels

Where: 8201 Preston Boulevard [map], NYLO, TX, United States, 75024

Hotelier. The word is so romantic, so eccentric, so...French. However, run-of-the-mill real world hoteliers don't always live up to the etymology.

Always looking to bring you the most pertinent information on the worldwide hotel scene, we figured when we found hoteliers that were worthy of the French pronunciation of the word, we would let them speak to you directly. Besides, before you dropped a bunch of cash to stay at someone's house, wouldn't you want to get to know the owner a bit? Exactly. We, always oh so full of ourselves, are calling this series Hoteliers That Matter and we are sitting down with these hoteliers and letting them tell you, straight from their mouths to web ears, what you need to know about their hotels.

Former intern Jenna skipped on down to her hometown of Plano, Texas over Christmas break to spend a night at the newly opened NYLO Plano Hotel. While there she was able to check-out the entire property from top to bottom. We'll have her full review tomorrow, complete with hotel judging skills acquired from nearly four years in attendance at the Cornell Hotel School.

But we're even more excited to show you this clip of Patrick O'Neil, the general manager of the hotel as well as the Senior VP of operations for NYLO Hotels. O'Neil spoke with us on NYLO eve, just before the Plano hotel opened and you can read what he had to say then here. To see him talk live and in living color, watch the video above.

Big thanks to Jenna for getting the vid and bigger thanks to Patrick for overcoming some nervousness to pitch NYLO Hotels to HotelChatter.

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Patrick O'Neil Talks on NYLO Eve

Where: 8201 Preston Boulevard [map], Plano, TX, United States, 75024

A HotelChatter Exclusive

The first-ever NYLO Hotel is opening tomorrow in Plano, Texas and we were able to grab some quality phone time with Patrick O'Neil, Senior VP of Operations for NYLO hotels as well as general manager for the NYLO Plano property.

O'Neil is a former Starwood man, having helped launch the Westin brand in Europe. Indeed, most of the partners of NYLO come from Starwood. But when we brought up the mega-chain's new spin-offs, Aloft and Element, O'Neil hardly flinched. NYLO is a "totally different thing," he said.

Put your NYLO Plano hotel reviews here, we are dying to find out what the NYLO experience is like.

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NYLO Hotels Relaunches Website, Will Open Dec. 18th

Where: 8210 Preston Road [map], Plano, TX, United States, 75024

We never thought this day would come. The long-awaited first-ever NYLO Hotel in Plano, Texas has re-launched its website to include a detailed preview of the property, more about the NYLO brand as a whole, career opportunities, even NYLO t-shirts and most importantly, a reservations page.

Naturally we hit up the reservations page and looked at rooms for the night of Dec. 18th. But what we found was that we couldn't actually stay at the hotel until January 7th (at a rate of $279.) When we asked NYLO what was up, the hotel's Senior Vice President of Operations, Patrick O'Neil, replied via email with this explanation:

NYLO Plano is still on track for the grand opening on December 18. For the next few weeks reservations can be made by calling NYLO Plano directly at 972-624-6990. As we get closer to the opening date, the online booking engine will allow for fully automated electronic reservation

Good to know. Wouldn't want NYLO Plano to fall behind a la Six Columbus.

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