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Four Seasons is Now Promising '15-Minute Room Service'
A while back we expressed our love for Public Express, the new room service concept that Ian Schrager unveiled for his Public Hotels brand.
With Public Express, you don't have to wait 45 minutes for your order to arrive and there's no hemming and hawing over how much extra gratuity to leave on the bill. Instead, you can choose from several different meal options and they all arrive within 10 minutes or less at your door, no signing a check needed.
Thanks to this speedy room service offering, it's one of the reasons why we called the Public Chicago a "game-changer" and now there's some more proof that the game has indeed been changed---The Four Seasons Hotels are now adding their own 15 Minute Room Service option in all 86 hotels and resorts worldwide.
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Public Express at Public Chicago is a Room Service Game-Changer
Trust us, this brown-bag meal is awesome.
We hope you've had fun looking at some of the room photos and public spaces shots at the just-opened Public Chicago from Ian Schrager. As promised, we've got more to show you from the hotel starting now with Public Express, the Public Hotels' new room service concept.
We love room service but there are times when we just don't want to bothered with all the pomp and circumstance that comes with having room service delivered to your room--you know, the awkwardness of letting the waiter into your room, hoping you are not too disheveled looking and that there isn't any underwear strewn about, waiting uncomfortably while he sets up the tray and then hemming and hawing over giving an added tip.
But now with Public Express, you don't have to deal with any of that. That's because the simple meals and sides are delivered within minutes to your room and left at your door with just a sharp knock from the staffer.
Need a visual on how Public Express works? Peruse our step-by-step photo gallery below!
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Do Tea Drinkers Get The Short End Of The Hotel Stick?
Coffee coffee everywhere, and not a drop to drink...
When it comes to standard hotel amenities, coffee makers rank up there with pillows, a working toilet, soap. Basic. But for many of us, a bowl of instant coffee packets is about as useful as a hairbrush to a bald person. When it comes to in-room tea options, we've found some hotels to be quite lacking.
Take a look at this picture of a recent Las Vegas hotel we stayed in. Plenty of coffee! But where's the tea? Nevermind the inconvenience of trekking to the nearest Starbucks for our early morning jolt—when equally-in-need coffee drinkers can simply reach across their nightstand—but it also raises an uglier question. What should be considered an essential hotel room amenity?
Surely, if someone took the time to fold the tip of our toilet paper roll, artfully sealing it with a small hotel-branded sticker, then that person probably had enough time to drop a few bags of Twining's English Breakfast on our desk. No?
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What Would Ringo Order from Room Service?
The answer: not this! Despite the fact that both Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are vegetarians, the Liverpool Beatles-themed Hard Day's Night Hotel proudly features the "Hard Day's Night Burger" on their room service menu, ringing up at a cool 13.75 GBP. That, with the current exchange rate, is a $22.18 burger, a cost made up for by the giant potato wedges qualifying as gourmet chips on the side.
If it weren't for Ringo's history of stomach issues, maybe he would have ordered it. But you know what? We're still sticking with not, since the hotel features a Lennon Suite and a McCartney Suite, but no Starr Suite...yet.
[Photo: HotelChatter]
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5 NYC Room Service Items To Cool You Down This Summer
For a few days this week, New York was actually feeling pretty pleasant. Blue skies, cool breezes, and plenty of sunshine. But this morning's humidity is just a harbinger of the pit-stain-inducing, ninth-circle-of-hell-reminiscent city heat wave that will soon be upon us. Worry not, HotelChatter is here to help! Here are our top picks for refreshing room service treats:
· Above the LEED-certified Crosby Street Hotel in Soho is a rooftop garden lovingly tended to by head chef Anthony Paris (above). All produce that's grown in the garden—and they harvest everything from melons to tomatoes to blueberries to herbs—directly serves the hotel's kitchen. Make use of the Crosby's sophisticated English Afternoon Tea menu, which includes a "Fresh Fruit Tea" ($31). Pick from a platter piled with strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, orange, mango, pineapple, papaya, kiwi, and caramelized banana—oh, and, lest we forget the most important part, loose herbal tea.
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The Crosby Street Hotel Could Just Die After Messing Up Rachel Zoe's Room Service Order
Back in February we noted that super stylist Rachel Zoe had moved her Fashion Week HQ to The Crosby Street Hotel (after a brief stint at The Standard earlier in the week.)
What we didn't know then was that Bravo! was filming the whole thing for the new season of the Rachel Zoe Project. Last night, the Crosby Street Hotel episode aired and like the fashion shows that Rachel attends and puts together, there was some drama. Like, major drama.
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Hilton to Feature 'Top Chef' Dish on Its Menus
If you salivated while watching last week's Top Chef room service challenge, you will be able to taste the winning dish soon. The Hilton is working to put Kelly Liken's braised beef short rib, chèvre-scented polenta, balsamic-infused beef jus, sauteed mushrooms and herb salad on its room service menu soon.
On the show, Hilton's vice president of restaurant concepts, told the cheftestants that the company was looking for a new signature dish that was healthy yet sophisticated, easily executable and able to be made quickly. The dishes also had to fare well traveling, since it will be featured on the room service menu.
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Would You Prefer To Order Room Service Without Talking To Anyone?
The world's gone iPad mad, kids can't stop sexting, and no one answers their phone anymore. Welcome to the geeked-out world of 2010. Of course, we love our hotels to be just as techy as the rest of our lives, and lots of them now offer iPads and other Web-enabled devices to play with—or even use to order hotel services.
You can use the iPads at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront to order room service, for example, and we know that New York's Eventi Hotel is working on an iPhone App that will let friends send you hotel services to your room as gifts. When the GM of the InterContinental Times Square was showing us his hotel's new in-room PCs last week, he mentioned that we'll be able to use them to order room service without having to talk to anyone and we both laughed. And then we thought, actually, we'd kind of like that.
We hate to sound anti-social but often we're ordering room service late at night, or when we've arrived in our room tired and cranky after a day traveling. How easy would it be to simply log onto a screen or our own iPhone and order up a burger and fries?
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Room Service Breakfast at the Shangri-La Sydney is Pricey In Any Language
While shacked up at the Shangri-La Sydney recently, we could barely tear ourselves away from the gorgeous views. But then we decided to flick through the room service menu and off came our rose-colored glasses... We all know that hotel food is expensive, and room service items even more so. But seriously who pays $44—plus delivery charges—for bacon and eggs?
Now, we love love love an Aussie breakfast—the bacon there is out of this world and we may have eaten a whole pig's worth of the stuff in two weeks. But we could most definitely not drop a bright yellow Aussie fifty dollar note on a few strips, even if it did come with fruit, toast, hash browns, sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms, eggs, juice and Darjeeling.
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Guess The Hotel with The Mashed Potato Bar Offerings
Forget GTL, do some GTH--Guess the Hotel!
Omg. We arrived at our hotel in Chicago at around 9pm last night and were absolutely famished, thanks to American Airlines sucky in-flight food offerings for a four-hour flight. (No, we would not like some $5 Pringles.) So we pulled out the all-day dining room service menu and nearly keeled over when we saw this--a mashed potato bar.
There's three different kinds of mashed potatoes to choose from and we have our eyes on the mashed potatoes and fontina cheese ($15.) Sadly, we had to pass on the mashed potatoes last night in favor of a meal with a little more protein but don't you worry, we will sample this later today.
While you'll have to wait until Monday for our review, here are some hints about which hotel serves such amazing-sounding goodness:
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Guess The Hotel in Miami Where People Answer Room Service Naked
>We know that hotel staffers often see the human condition in their most embarrassing moments, but if you're a room service attendant in Miami, then you're most likely to see us hotel guests naked. The Miami New Times recently posted two stories from a room service attendant working at an expensive hotel on Collins Avenue. Around 4 in the morning during WMC this guys orders a couple bottles of Champagne. I go up to the room and there's a guy in a Darth Vader mask in his underwear, a naked Asian DJ, somebody in a full panda suit, one naked chick lying on the floor getting a massage, and another girl just in her panties. For some reason people love answering the door naked when they're at a hotel.
Just last week I went up to a room that ordered only a bucket of ice. It was just one naked dude with a big ass smile on his face and behind him there were three naked girls making out with each other all crazy. There's an automatic gratuity on all room service here, but he gave me 20 bucks."
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How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Bagel at a Hotel?
A bagel from MOZen Bistro at the Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas.
Let’s talk room service, shall we? The story of a former assemblyman and senator from the Bronx who doctored his receipt for a bagel and diet soda on his expense report has had the New York media in a tizzy. The total was $177. Sounds nuts, but if you’ve ever been stung by an overinflated room-service bill for a bagel and a cup of coffee, you know this figure does not necessarily belong in fairy land.
This New York Times story on the varying costs of the bagel found at least two Manhattan hotels that charge over 20 bucks. Which got us thinking: We all know room service and hotel restaurants are horribly overpriced, but just how much is too much to pay for a bagel?
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