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Sneak Peek at The Cartagena de Indias Boutique Hotel
Jaunted correspondent, Courtney Scott, was one of the very first guests to stay the night at Cartagena’s newest luxury boutique hotel, the Cartagena de Indias. Watch the video above as she takes you on a guided tour.
The six floors and 32 rooms of the Cartagena de Indias are sitting on prime real estate -- centered on a quiet street between Cartagena’s three bustling plazas and a five minute walk to some of the sexiest restaurants in the old city, including Oh La La, Don Juan and La Perla.
Although typical hotel amenities will not be fully operational until the November 11th grand opening nears, the rooftop infinity pool and Jacuzzi are both open and boast surreal 360 degree views that more than compensate for the lack of room service and WiFi.
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A Sneak Peek at The Surrey Hotel
While the Crosby Street Hotel wowed us in downtown Manhattan, a sneak peek at The Surrey Hotel left us breathless uptown. If you love The Carlyle, then you will love The Surrey which has the same elegance as The Carlyle, except it's now newer. (And it's just a block away.)
The hotel won't soft-open until October 15 but we took a tour with the hotel's designer Lauren Rottet the other week and got a sneak peek at this model room on the 12th floor.
This is a Grand Deluxe Salon which averages about 330-sq.ft. and features a little sitting area off to the side of the bed. Aside from loving the soft gray color scheme, we found ourselves admiring the hand-painted armoire which holds the flat-screen TV. Usually, we despise armoires in hotel rooms but this one was just too pretty to resist.
The rooms also feature a mirrored wardrobe closet, a vanity/desk and a windowsill seating area overlooking the posh Upper East Side. The minibar is Don Draper-approved with a cocktail tray and the appropriate bar utensils to make your old fashioned, neat. Or at least a Tom Collins.
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Thanks to Facebook, We Get a Sneak Peek at the W Barcelona
There are still six days to go till it opens, but the folk at W Barcelona have stuck up some sneak peek photos on their Facebook page. The teases!
Up top is the the sundeck at the Altitude Terrace. Then there’s the WET Deck (loving the water all over the place)
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The Killer View of CityCenter from Hotel32
So we weren't in love with our experience at the Paradise Tower at The Hard Rock but we were might impressed by the new rooms at Hotel32, the new boutique floor atop the Monte Carlot Hotel and Casino.
Here's a snapshot from the Hotel32 lounge which offers up killer views of CityCenter. What you're looking at right here is the Aria Hotel and Casino. In the corner, you can see the tip of the new Cirque du Soleil building which will house the Elvis show. Yes, an Elvis Cirque du Soleil show!
After some pretty dark times this year, CityCenter is now moving forward with plans to open Aria, Vdara Resort and The Crystals luxury shopping complex, all in December. We can't wait.
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Inside the MAve Hotel
All of you nailed yesterday's Guess the Hotel (and here we thought we'd made it too difficult): the hotel we checked out yesterday was indeed The MAve, the newest property from Desires Hotels, which opened up at 27th and Madison in NYC this month.
We weren't really sure what to expect. See, the first thing we ever heard about this hotel — way back when — was that it was going to be called The Wolf. And then came that weird voting-on-the-hotel's-name thing, followed by an admittedly-hilarious Curbed feature that poked fun at the building's former identity as budget hotel, The Madison. And then we got our hands on the first shots of the public spaces of the hotel, which brought many words to mind — among them: "fame," "iPod," and "huh?"
So we finally made our way over to the property and got a tour of the place; checked out the lobby and saw a couple rooms.
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Sneak Peek at The MAve, Opening July 2nd
Glory be: it seems a Manhattan hotel is opening on schedule. Or, rather, they're at least sticking to the opening date they've been promising for a while.
Desires Hotels' newest, The MAve (that's for Madison Ave — which is the name people chose and voted on) will be opening its doors on Thursday, July 2nd. Opening rates for the rooms there will be cheapo by Manhattan standards: $169 for a basic room, with a 3-for-2 sale running when it opens — that is, pay for two nights and get your third night free. Rooms are still available this weekend, too.
We got our hot little hands on this sneak photo of one of the rooms; it's got H2O Aquatics bath & spa products, free WiFi, velour bathrobes, and 32" LCD TV's. And some trippy-ass art. Yeah.
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A Sneak Peek Inside Venice Beach's New Hotel Erwin
For a long time, Venice Beach has been lacking in providing a hip but upscale beachfront stay. The only choices were hostels or those luxe beachfront hotels in Santa Monica at $400+ a night. Sadly, some of us just don't have that kind of cash. Nor do we want that stuffy, big-box hotel experience. And you can forget about having us spend a night in a hostel.
Thankfully, JDV Hotels have taken over the old Marina Pacific Hotel in Venice at the intersection of Pacific Avenue and Windward, giving us a hipper, happier, cleaner and more affordable place to stay on the beach. It's also got a new name: The Hotel Erwin.
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The Real World Cancun's Bi-Level Suite Now Open for 'Regular' Guests
We found out in April that the newest season of The Show That Will Never Die, The Real World, would be taking place in Cancun at the ME Cancun Hotel. Now with the show set to debut this Wednesday on MTV.com, we were able to get a sneak peek at the suite/apartment where the eight strangers all shacked up.
Naturally, the ME Cancun didn't have a big enough suite in place at the hotel so they had to create one. Thus the hotel took 14 rooms and turned it into the gigantic SuiteME, a 9,757 square foot, bi-level suite that features a fully-stocked bar, a purple felt pool table and three balconies, one with views of the hotel's adults-only pool area.
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The Jane Hotel Officially Opens Their Ballroom and Yes, You Can Drink There
There's been a lot of confusion in recent weeks about whether or not The Jane Hotel will be getting a rooftop bar and whether or not there is a liquor license on the property. But with the opening today of the hotel's ballroom, we can assure you that yes, you can drink here and you will have plenty of space to do so.
The Jane Ballroom is just a grand name for an expansive bi-level lobby bar. There is a narrow bar on the first level that's tucked away from the larger sitting area, giving it an intimate feel especially as its lined with fancy seat benches. Directly above that is another bar, complete with small tables and chairs and more sofa seating. This bar also overlooks the sitting area of the ballroom and from up here, you are nearly eye to eye with the giant weathered disco ball hanging from the ceiling. (It used to hang in hotelier Sean MacPherson's house in Los Angeles.)
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Sneak Peek at Le Meridien Philadelphia
A couple weeks ago, we took a hot tour of Le Meridien Dallas to check out the new look of the Le Meridien brand — modernized, reinvigorated, sleek and (in Dallas' case) pink.
And we got word from The Illadelph (ha, awesome name) that there's a new Le Meridien on its way to Philly, set to open September 3rd. The Illadelph also posted a couple of renderings of the room design and the lobby lounge space; can't say we're too nuts about the room color scheme with the red, white and gray. Kinda reminds us of an airline or something.
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Sneak Peek At the Newly-Revamped Jefferson in DC
We mentioned previously that DC’s venerable Jefferson Hotel would be reopening this summer after a two-year renovation (read: total gutting of its interior). Yesterday we got a tour of the place, and we’ll admit: We left more than a little impressed.
Though the Jefferson is still very much a construction site, the guest rooms are mostly finished and look, well, lovely. Gone is the formerly stodgy Federalist look, replaced with a fresh “Parisian apartment” aesthetic intended to evoke Jefferson’s love for France. Each of the 99 rooms (20 of which are suites) has its own theme — we saw the equine-happy Agrarian suite, with the orange and slate gray motif pictured, as well as the Butterfly suite, which glowed with gold and coppery brown.
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Sneak Peek at London's 'Rockstar Hotel,' The Sanctum Soho
It's ready! The Sanctum Soho — London's new "rock star hotel," and possibly the one we've heard the most rumors about in a long time (recall the Iron Maiden thing), opens its doors tomorrow.
Luckily for us, we got a sneak peek on Monday. Unfortunately, it was at the very un-rockstar time of 8am, so most of the rooms were taken (friends of owner Mark Fuller have been road-testing it for the past few weeks) and there wasn't really a distinctive "vibe" established — but we liked it.
There are only 30 rooms, all of which are built for romping, from huge suites to (our favorites) the "crashpads," called-so because they're for crashing when you get caught late in town or happen to find yourself on a date that's going particularly well (but your moldy apartment might endanger the mood). There are no wardrobes in these ones; there's just about room for a bed, a minibar, a TV and a bathroom — but that's part of the fun, isn't it? The decor's fab too: in the room we saw, the wallpaper was a combo of dark brown, sparkly lurex, and brown sheeny pebbles. It was very dark, but that, again, was probably intentional.
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