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Someone Was Being John Malkovich in His Hotel Suite at the Mandarin Oriental Prague
Is Craig Schwartz somewhere in Prague? How else to explain the random burglary of John Malkovich's hotel suite at the swish Mandarin Oriental Prague?
The Daily Mail reports:
He was staying at the upmarket Mandarin Oriental Hotel in the Czech city after performing in the murder melodrama Infernal Comedy, based on a real Austrian serial killer, at the Prague Spring music festival on Thursday.
'We can confirm than an investigation is under way in the case of the disappearance of Mr Malkovich's personal belongings,' said a spokeswoman for the hotel.
Apparently, two of his mobile phones were stolen but nothing else. That certainly sucks and honestly, we'd expect more security from a Mandarin hotel but we probably should be grateful the thieves didn't swipe Malkovich's laptop with his nude photos on it. The world is not ready for that.
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Go East! in Europe For Good Deals And Great Culture
It's hard to believe that one of our favorite parts of the world, Eastern Europe, has only been easy to travel to for the last twenty years – that's how long it is since the Berlin Wall fell, and that's also the reason why Marriott is celebrating with the Marriott's Go East! Package, with specials in five major eastern European cities. We like these deals because they're not just a bed and some food – they also feature some little touches to help you get to know the Cold War historical sides of the cities.
In the city where it all happened, you can stay at the Berlin Marriott Hotel with a Go East! package for €199 ($290) including a double room, breakfast, the Berlin Welcome Card and tickets to the very cool Berlin Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie. At the JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel in Romania (pictured), the deal starts at 660 Lei ($226) and gets you a double room, breakfast, 20% off any other food and drinks during your stay, and two tickets to visit the city's Parliament Palace.
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The NYT Digs the 'Chill Out' Vibe of The Buddha Bar Hotel
Forget all those new hotels opening up in the paper’s own backyard; this Sunday the New York Times went hotel hunting in the Czech Republic. Lured by the groovy chill-out tunes and “sultry” restaurant chain of the same name, the NYT checked into the new Buddha Bar Hotel in Prague.
We’ve seen hotels sprout out of fashion labels, so why not restaurants and music? Judging by the NYT’s response, the Buddha-Bar folks have produced a fine accompaniment to their brand, attracting scenesters who are “good-looking, well off and ready to party” (British boys, Middle Eastern royals, and wealthy local couples). Overall, the Times writer's affection for the place bodes well for the other Buddha-Bar properties set to open—in Budapest, Sal Hasheesh, Paris, Panama City, Abu Dhabi, Milan, and New York—between now and 2011.
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Make Friends With Monks at Prague's Augustine Hotel
The Rocco Forte people are busy right now — if it wasn't enough to open their first resort with the Verdura Resort in Sicily, they're also hitting eastern Europe for the first time when the Augustine Hotel in Prague opens on May 14.
This place is a 101-room hotel overlooking the Wallenstein Gardens, and the hotel itself is made up of seven historical buildings, including the 13th century St. Thomas Monastery. The coolest part is there are still monks using parts of this monastery and hotel guests might glimpse them going about their monkly tasks.
The décor and furniture are all in the good taste you'd expect for such a respectable-sounding area; in fact, the whole hotel looks elegant and classy in a way that really seems right for a stay in Prague. It's also central and close to Charles Bridge and other sightseeing spots.
The Augustine seems to be starting out with a 3 for 2 package: this works out at €960 ($1,250) for three consecutive nights for a Classic Queen room including breakfast, but it's only valid from opening night until the end of May.
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First Guests Seem to Worship Prague's New Buddha Bar Hotel
We caught wind of the Buddha Bar Hotel planned for Prague last August and, last we checked, they were travelin' full steam ahead for a pre-2009 opening. Unlike many deadline-missing hotels, the Buddha Bar got its soft opening in just before the calendar turned, officially opened on January 2, and since then has been impressing the hell out of guests — at least if the first guest reviews are anything to go by.
The staff and the service they provide get a ton of compliments, as do the ultra-luxury rooms. The "amazing" bathrooms get plenty of thumbs-ups too — they also include a TV, but one guest warns us that the remote control is only splashproof, not waterproof, so we shouldn't drop it in the bath tub (good tip).
The center of Prague — the Old Town Square — is just a short stroll from the Buddha Bar Hotel, and the famous Charles Bridge is not much further, so you definitely can't complain about the location. There's also a spa on site and the hotel even includes our favorite must-have amenity: free WiFi.
A hotel this good can't be cheap, so don't expect to get away from it without spending a fair swag. The cheapest guest room goes for €444 ($580) a night and the especially gorgeous suites start from €1,225 ($1,590) a night.
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Kempinski Ramps Up World Domination Plan Starting in Prague
The German Kempinski chain looks like they're starting up a plan of world domination.
This month they opened the Kempinski Hybernská Prague, but there are so many more on the way.
First things first: the new Prague Kempinski has normal nightly hotel rates going but also have a lot of one and two-bedroom suites that you can rent for longer stays, so the business market is obviously top of the list here.
But tourists won't mind being close to Prague's coolest way to cross the river, Charles Bridge, either. The tech side is good too with free WiFi and a "media panel" where you can hook up your iPod.
They've got opening rate specials around a hundred euros cheaper than normal rack rates; a superior room, for example, is going for €238 (US$320) now but €304 (US$410) later.
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Kids Get the Better View From the Alchymist Hotel in Prague
A while back Amy Langfield from NewYorkology headed off to Prague and went through a little bit of drama pre-flight with Tablet Hotels about her lodging situation. But as we told you back then, everything worked out ok and Amy and family was sent to a nice suite at the Alchymist Grand Hotel & Spa.
Since today is Killer/Anti-View day, we thought it fitting to post these views from her suite.
The above view is the Killer View from the kids room. While it's mostly buidlings, you can see the castle jutting out in the far background. So what kind of view did the master bedroom aka the parents' room have? Click after the jump to see.
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Buddha Bars Aren't Just Bars Anymore, A Prague Hotel is Coming
If you thought the Buddha Bar was just a cool place for a drink in New York or Paris, you would have been more or less right, until now. Because there's actually going to be a Buddha-Bar Hotel in, of all places, Prague.
There'll be a Buddha Bar within the hotel, of course, which will run on similar lines as the bars in other cities. The hotel itself will be a five-star hotel which has a big task if the website is telling the truth: it has to
embolden the essence of contemporary modern Asian interior design with French colonial influence and will be located in the heart of Prague, in a historical building just few steps away from the Old Town Square.
Now we love the center of Prague, definitely don't mind a Buddha Bar and are so far impressed by the Buddha-Bar Hotel's funky website. If it lives up to expectations, this could be a great place to crash.
The grand opening is planned for the "last quarter" of 2008, which is coming up pretty quickly. After that the Buddha-Bar chain plans to open hotels all over the world, including Panama, Paris, Budapest, Dubai and New York. We'll be keeping our eyes on this one.
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MaMaison Hotels Not to Be Confused with MalMaison Hotels
MaMaison Riverside Hotel in Prague.
Over in Europe, we just realized there are two hotel chains that have very similar names--MaMaison and MalMaison.
The latter we are familiar with as we have written about their funky boutique hotels (one is out of an old jailhouse) located all over the UK. But MaMaison had us intrigued.
According to its website, MaMaison has hotels and apartments throughout Central and Eastern Europe, perfect for guests who are looking for accommodations for "one day or one year."
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Room With a Killer View: High-School Track Flashbacks in Prague
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.
We like to cater for all kinds of people here on HotelChatter and we've realised that not everybody thinks a Killer View is one of the ocean or a perfect infinity pool. Sure, most people think that way, but we've got a truly sports-mad friend who would definitely find this view out of the Mars Hotel in Prague much sexier than any body of water we could throw at them.
So if you love your sports too and think gazing out over a well-kept multi-purpose court and that triangle thing inside the track (is that for shot-put? We failed sports in school), this is your place. Even if it's not, it sure beats the more common Prague views of old buildings in mid-renovation or dirty alleyways that are usually hidden from the views of other tourists.
In ever-more-expensive Prague, the Mars has so far held on to fairly reasonable rates. In high season a double room will set you back €64 (US$100) which is not too bad in a city that keeps attracting more and more tourists each year.
[Photo: Nitro101]
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Mandarin Oriental Prague Has Great Bathrooms
Looks like Prague may officially be over: The new-ish Mandarin Oriental is about as far from a youth hostel as you'll find from the sounds of a recent New York Times review.
Of course, we filled you in on the hotel's opening rates back in February, but writer Evan Rail has some details on the bathrooms:
Designed as if you will spend a lot of time there. Even the smallest include a flat-screen TV, heated limestone floors and black marble counters. The toiletries, from Aromatherapy Associates, include more lotions and body washes than most people could possibly use, to say nothing of soaps, shampoos, nail and skin care equipment, combs, toothbrushes and toothpaste.
We have to give credit to any hotel that will free us from packing toiletries--so we can skip the strip search at the airport. But all the creams and lotions in the world can't cover up the blemish of charging $26 for 24 hours of Internet access.
[Photo: Pavel Horejsi for The New York Times]
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