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Take a Peek at Where Lady Gaga Slept at the Park Hyatt Sydney
Now that Lady Gaga has gone and upstaged the most famous hotel in all of Australia, the Park Hyatt Sydney, let's take a look at the super-swank Sydney Suite which she called home during her visit down under.
The suite was occupied--by someone other than Gaga--during our recent tour of the property, but we can show you these PR shots from the hotel. And if you click through our gallery, you'll also see our snaps of the Park Hyatt's Harbour Suite, not so shabby itself, and going for AU$5,500 a night this weekend.
We can tell you that Gaga's digs, the Sydney Suite, usually rents at $16,000 a night. Or, if you decide to rent it along with the two Rooftop Suites on the same level, to create a super A-list compound for yourself, the whole floor will set you back $50,000 a night.
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What Else Does a Sheraton on the Park Room Have Besides a Kick-Ass Shower?
If you're traveling to Sydney from afar, a nice long shower at the Sheraton on the Park will fix your jet lag. But then what? Will you be comfy in the rest of your guest room?
The short answer is yes. This may not be as glamorous as the recently revamped and suitably expensive Park Hyatt Sydney, but the Sheraton on the Park ticks all the boxes for a home away from home. Well, aside from the $20-a-day WiFi and $9 water bottles. But they're hardly alone in committing that crime, not in Australia.
We stayed here for two nights with a friend recently, and while the beds were small, there was ample room otherwise for us to hang out and not get in each other's way. Lots of closet and bathroom space to utilize as well.
Take a spin through a City Side Room in our gallery.
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Street Smarts Are Recommended, But Not Required, For A Stay At San Francisco's Cova Hotel
The Tenderloin in San Francisco is not exactly a neighborhood you want to spend a lot of time wandering around by yourself in the middle of the night. And that's usually the first concern raised by guests of the Cova Hotel, which is located equidistant between the Civic Center and Powell St BART stops, near the city's Vietnamese quarter.
Luckily, the 88-room hotel offers a free shuttle bus that picks guests up and drops them off every hour (8am–10pm) from central points around the city, like Union Square, Moscone Center and Fisherman's Wharf. Pretty handy, no?
This convenient amenity means guests don't have to forfeit an otherwise perfectly nice hotel due to its questionable location. And the prices you'll pay here? Waaay better than some other places we've seen around San Fran.
Read on to find out how much a Superior room costs, and then browse our photo gallery!
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How We Scored A (Literally) Gigantic Room At The Standard Downtown LA For Half The Price
About a week ago, we were on our laptop, browsing for a hotel in Los Angeles. Several called our name, but on the advice of an LA acquaintance, who recommended the downtown area as a place worth checking out, we set our sights on The Standard Downtown LA. We visited the website and checked rates for our two-night stay at the end of Memorial Day weekend. $165/night—not bad.
Then, getting distracted, we clicked out of the site, only to find, when we re-entered the dates about half an hour later, starting rates had gone up to $183/night. Nooo! So we didn't hesitate to simply pick up the phone and call the hotel's reservation center. When quoted the same $183/night rate, we explained how minutes before, we had seen the same room for about $20 less. "Well," the agent explained, "that might have been due to the Memorial Day weekend special we're running."
Oh? We hadn't heard about those rooms, which apparently were available for a much more reasonable $145/night.
So we booked two nights there and then and called it a day. But our luck hadn't run out just yet...
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Inside a Room at The Kimpton Surfcomber (No Sheep Here!)
Now that we've got you working on a name for the Surfcomber's lone black sheep, we thought you may want to take a look at one of the hotel's rooms--so you know what to expect if you win the name-the-sheep contest on Facebook and all.
The hotel was made over last year, reopening in 2012 with a fresh, sometimes funky, Kimpton feel. You can see what the lobby, bars and restaurant, Lantao Kitchen + Cocktails, look like from our earlier stories.
Now, check out the room in our gallery below.
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What It's Like To Get Your NoMad On
We've been curious about The NoMad Hotel for, oh, about three years now. And since it's opened, we've already taken a look inside the dreamy Library cocktail lounge. Now, we're here to talk rooms.
We checked in over the weekend, taking advantage of the NoMad's introductory rate of $295 for a Classic Room. (We made the reservation about a month ago.) But did the hotel live up to our admittedly high expectations? Was it as pretty in real life as it appears in photos on the NoMad website?
Take a look at our video tour and photo gallery to find out...
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Introducing Casa Moderna Miami (The Hotel Formerly Known as Tempo)
Not long ago, we told you that Tempo Hotel Miami was getting a new name, along with a bit of a refresh. Well, update your bookmarks, because Tempo is no longer--this high-end, high-rise hotel in downtown Miami is now officially Casa Moderna Miami Hotel & Spa.
If you're in Miami for business or are visiting for a good time but don't need to be right on the beach, Casa Moderna is totally worth a look. There are just 56 rooms, all with loads more space than your typical Miami Beach hotel room, and the hotel is only around 18 months old, so still pretty new. New operators Richfield Hospitality have also managed to give the spa a face-lift.
For a quick spin through some of the best of those amenities, click through our gallery.
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What Does a Non-Starwood St. Regis Have To Offer?
A St. Regis for around $200* a night? Yes, it's possible—in Canada! Of course, that room rate should be the first thing to tip you off that the St. Regis Vancouver is not actually a St. Regis of the Starwood variety.
As we found on a recent trip north, the St. Regis Vancouver is a charming boutique hotel with historic bones, a fantastic downtown location perfect for business travelers and tourists alike--and a ton of added extras that we bet you won't find at your local posh version of a St. Regis.
If you're wondering what a Non-St.Regis St. Regis looks like, just click through our gallery for a peek at what the Vancouver indie has to offer.
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First Look Inside The Hotel Williamsburg
It's the beginning of the end: Williamsburg's first boutique hotel flung open its doors earlier last month on a quiet, park-facing street near the waterfront. Though we initially had assumed Brooklyn would allow for significantly more square footage than, say, an equivalent hotel in Manhattan, we might have been proved wrong.
But all is not lost: the hotel's prime location has already begun attracting tourists and film crews alike (The Good Wife, a Vogue fashion shoot, and an unnamed MTV pilot, have all shot here). And if it weren't for the taco truck (it will eventually be installed next to the pool and bi-level art gallery (opening date still TBD), we wouldn't be nearly so excited about the public spaces here. Most of all, we can't wait for the opening of Pillar & Plough, the hotel's farm-to-fork eatery, next week.
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The Americano Teaches Us A Thing Or Two About Culture
The best way to explain the Hotel Americano's name is to point out a piece of artwork found in the lobby—a large photo montage of President Obama, sporting an afro, from his college days. "We want to feel like a New Yorker who isn't quite from New York," a heavily-accented Carlos Couturier (co-founder of Grupo Habita, above left) explained to us during our visit yesterday.
And they've succeeded. The 56-room hotel embodies that cool, effortless—heavily multicultural—essence of America without necessarily becoming Americana. From the minimalist rooms (low beds are as pervasive here as the concrete floors) to the sexy rooftop lounge and pool deck to the Bebel Gilberto-curated music playing overhead, there is a little bit of everything spread around this hotel.
For inside shots of the rooms and public spaces, click below!
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Get Away From Times Square In The Westin's Atrium Club Lounge
A while ago, we showed you the inside of a Presidential Suite at the Westin New York Times Square Well, here's another way to get high-class at the self-proclaimed "healthy" hotel (for a lot less money). Located on the eighth floor, the Atrium Club Lounge is available to any guest staying in one of the 126 Atrium Club rooms. More on those later.
We poked around inside the Lounge on a rainy Sunday evening, and found quite a few couples, families, and lone travelers making use of the large space. Without a doubt, the best seats in the house are by the slanted windows, where you can look down on Times Square—and enjoy it from a distance (the best way).
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An Apartment Doubles as a Hotel Room In Charleston
It's always a gift to find a local hotel with a good "story." Here in Charleston, SC, where we've spent the past weekend island-hopping (unfortunately, not hotel-related), we were tipped off to a small, 15-room hotel on King St—the city's main shopping strip—known as Restoration on King. And despite other, better-known places located nearby, Restoration on King has been making waves based on one major advantage: huge, loft-style rooms that actually resemble lofts.
Certain NYC hotels have claimed to model their rooms on basic loft designs—in some cases, even incorporating the word into the name of the hotel. But here's the main difference: the rooms at Restoration on King, were originally built as private condos, and only later re-purposed as hotel rooms. So between the washer-dryer machines and full kitchens, guests have more space than they could ever know what to do with. Click below for pics of the rooms!
