While it's definitely the off-season for Palm Springs right now, it's also the best time to take advantage of cheap room rates at some of the desert's best hotels. We'll be rounding up some of the Palm Springs area's (including Palm Desert) most notable hotels this month. Got any suggestions or questions? Let us know.
Like its neighbor the Parker Palm Springs, The Horizon Hotel was once the scene of a reality TV dating show, I Love New York.
Ok, so that might scare some of you off (not us, we love us some New York baby!) but the Horizon is a very chill spot consisting entirely of 22 little bungalow-type rooms. These rooms were originally built in the 1950s but have been restored with a modern post-modern look.
A TripAdvisor reviewer said the photos on the website don't do the place justice and we have to agree. The hotel grounds look much more appealing in person than online. We also like how it's close, but not too close to the main drag of Palm Springs, and that its rectangular layout isolates the hotel from the rest of the block.
Two nights minimum is required on the weekends and room rates start at $139 this summer. Thank god for unbearable Palm Springs heat or we may never have a chance to visit such cool hotels.
The Parker Palm Springs is returning to the small screen again tonight but fortunately it is only for one night and has nothing to do with its ill-fated reality show Welcome to the Parker.
Instead the Parker will be the back-drop for the reality show The Bachelorette featuring Deanna Pappas. The show is on tonight at 8pm on ABC. And the hotel is of course taking advantage of such prime product placement by offering guests a "Bachelorette" Package.
Will he get a rose, will he not? Ahh... the drama. For all of you who wish you were Deanna or had a chance to date Deanna, we've got the perfect solution. Pretend!!!
As seen on ABC's "Bachelorette," Deanna and her men enjoyed the Parker Palm Springs and now you can too. Indulge in a night in one of our villas and wake up to breakfast for two on your patio. Then go and strut your stuff poolside and impress "her or him" with your croquet skills. We know who the true winner is!
The package is good from now through September 16th at the price of $495 a night. Roses not included. Nor are a gaggle of men from which you can choose to spend the night. Click here to book.
Since the U.S. premiere of the British hit Secret Diary of a Call Girl airs tonight, we decided to check out one of the sexy hotels used as a meetup spot for high-class hooker Belle and her upscale clients on the show.
Shots of "rooms, the lobby, the main bar and the lift/corridor" of London's historic five-star May Fair Hotel are featured on the first season of SDCG and we can understand why. The decor is lavish and the atmosphere screams decadence -- and, dare we say, the name is just a touch scandalous: May Fair sounds an awful lot like Mayflower, the site of the Spitzer high-class hooker scandal. Coincidence?
[UPDATE: The hotel has changed the luxury car service from four hours to one hour.]
Because living like the Gossip Girl fixture, Serena Van der Woodsen, at the Palace Hotel in Manhattan might take some serious liquidating of bank accounts, there's a much cheaper (although still expensive enough to impress your friends) package available at the Upper East Side's Franklin Hotel.
The renovated property is offering their own girlfriends getaway and wisely chose to do a Gossip Girl theme over an already overdone SATC theme.
The package includes two nights in an executive king guestroom, a $100 gift certificate to Henri Bendel (which Jenny could like totally use!), a $100 gift certificate for dinner and drinks at the Mansfields Hotel's M Bar (we say arrange a meeting with Chuck Bass there), admission for two at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art (you know, lunchtime on the steps), a "Gossip Girl" Guide to NYC, and luxury car service for up to four hours. (Take it to meet Dan in Brooklyn!)
Have mom and dad or your very own real-life Nate Archibald pony up the $999 for the package which is available through October 2008. Visit the Franklin Hotel website to book. Note: Seven day advance booking is required.
Google "Laguna Beach" and the top result is a link to the third season of MTV's faux reality show. But Laguna Beach is more than a town that spawned numerous addictions to "The Hills."
In fact, in the amount of time you spend on the couch taking in yet another Hills marathon, you could be scoping out Laguna Beach for yourself with Surf & Sand Resort's "60 Hours at Surf & Sand" package, in honor of the resort's 60th anniversary this year.
Available from April 1 through June 30, the package is priced from $849 and includes two nights in an ocean-view room with a balcony; daily breakfast; $60 resort credit toward the resort's spa or food and beverage services; and "special surprises" delivered to guests' rooms throughout their stay, which we're hoping doesn't include spoilers of the next season of "The Hills."
Still fans of LC, Lo, Stephen and Kristen will rest peacefully knowing they are sleeping where the "Laguna Beach" kids partied in Season 1.
Finalmente, some sexy news about the Hotel Chelsea instead of drama over the current hotel management shake-down.
The famous bohemian outpost was featured on the new Bravo TV show, "Make Me a Super Model" hosted by Tyson Beckford who is considerably shorter than his co-host Nikki Taylor.
We didn't watch the show and we don't have time to watch the video on BravoTV.com but judging from some episode snaps that we browsed through, we gathered that the wannabe models have a sexy lingerie shoot inside the hotel's suites. The group is paired off into couples (same sex couples included) and then shot in various poses of lust in some really pretty lingerie.
Word is those are suites 611 and 603 which cost about $329 a night on the weekend and range from 500 to 1,200-sq.ft. (Rates are cheaper during the week at $249 a night.)
Still, the Hotel Chelsea is no stranger to sexy photo shoots. In fact, there's always been sex around this hotel from perverts in the walls to impromptu naked self-portraits. So really, it's just another day here.
I Love New York is one of our favorite shows ever. How can we not like this reality dating show where Tiffany aka New York describes one of her contestant's ex-girlfriend as "Wesley Snipes when he dressed up as a woman in 'To Wong Foo.'"? We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
Anyways, Tiffany took the three remaining men to Miami to duke it out for her love. She shacked the guys up at The Sagamore Hotel. Unfortunately, contestant Buddha was hitting on the hostess and Tiffany found out, leading the two to have one of those twisted Rhett Butler/Scarlett O'Hara fights in her suite (Room 11) where they grab onto each other and say stuff like "I hate you" before they say "I love you."
The next night she took Tailor Made (she gives all contestant weird nicknames) to the Chesterfield Hotel for a romantic dinner on the hotel's rooftop. That got them in the mood and they headed right into the rooftop suite (room 418) and got a little freaky. But they were interrupted by a hotel staffer who came into tell Tiffany that her mom was awaiting downstairs. Oops.
Tiffany, her three men and her mom kick it in the downstairs club at the Chesterfield. Buddha gets mad and leaves the joint while Tiffany spends more QT with Tailor Made and Punk.
In the end, Tiffany holds the elimination round by the pool at the National Hotel and decides that the heat with Buddha is just to hard to ignore, thus leaving the perfect but boring Punk to pack his bags and leave.
We can't wait for the season finale next week when New York takes the two guys to Jamaica! We see Tailor Made crying in his bathrobe, Buddha and Tiffany fighting (again) at dinner and someone may get hurt cliff-diving. If you aren't watching, you better catch the re-runs.
Janice Dickinson is shooting the newest season of her reality show The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency down in Miami and in an effort to get some/any press, the former supermodel is terrorizing the hotel scene.
First, she staged a photo appearance with panty shot on the steps at Casa Casuarina in remembrance of gunned-down fashion designer Gianni Versace.
Now Page Six is reporting that the producers of the show have removed the minibar from her suite at the Hotel Victor because she racked up $900 in drink and snack charges.
Meanwhile, TMZ says the show is actually being filmed at the Catalina Hotel. Oh boy...
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