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Merry Christmas, It's a Trump Gift Card!

October 22, 2009 at 4:16 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

While it's a little too early for us to be writing about holiday gifts here at HotelChatter, we did think it was funny that Trump Hotels are now promoting gift certificates for their properties.

The certificates start at $50 and go up to $5,000 and they are only good for one property. So there's no hopping from New York to Vegas, unless you gift your special someone with two gift certificates.

Since we're not so keen on the Trump Las Vegas, we say you might be best either at the Trump Chicago, which just opened last year or bide your time for Trump Soho, opening February 1st. (Trump Waikiki is not available for a gift card just yet.)

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Scoping Out The Trump SoHo With Ivanka on 'Nightline'

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 246 Spring Street [map], New York, NY , United States, 10013
October 20, 2009 at 4:58 PM | by MsRebecca | 0 Comments

In case you missed it, Ivanka Trump was on Nightline last week, talking about nepotism, her conversion to Judaism, her impending marriage, and—our favorite part—Trump SoHo. There’s not too much of the hotel’s much-vaunted Rockwell design to see in this clip, but if you want to see Ivanka in construction boots, this may be as close as you’ll get without stalking the still-in-the-works hotel. (She says her dad would kill her if he saw her in 4-inch stilettos on a construction site.)

You can kinda sorta see the view from the Terrace Penthouse, even though it’s raining and Ivanka doesn’t want to go out on the balcony. For the rest of the details, we turned to the hotel’s press release to get our imagination working …

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The Trump SoHo Will Open February 1, 2010

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 246 Spring Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10013
October 14, 2009 at 10:06 AM | by MsRebecca | 0 Comments

Say what you will about The Donald and The Trump Organization. They’re brash and they’re bold but, hell, today we like their barnstorming brand of confidence. Why? Because they’ve just given us an official opening date for the Trump SoHo. And with all the delays in this industry, there is little we love more than marking a hotel’s opening in our calendar in Sharpie instead of pencil. The big day? February 1, 2010.

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Ivanka Trump Wants You to Spend The Night at Trump Soho

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 246 Spring Street [map], New York, NY , United States, 10013
October 2, 2009 at 10:58 AM | by MsRebecca | 1 Comment

Want to be one of the first to stay at the new Trump SoHo opening in February? And meet Ivanka Trump? (And, no, it doesn’t involve becoming an apprentice chamber maid or front-desk clerk.) In a promotion we can totally get behind, the hotel has a “Trump SoHo Hotel Countdown” website which includes a contest to win a two-night stay in a spectacular suite, dinner for two at Quattro, and a VIP invitation for the hotel’s big opening bash with Ivanka.

It couldn’t be easier to enter—just punch in your email address. Plus! Reading the fine print for the sweepstakes gave us some valuable intel on the hotel’s opening timeline. The Trump SoHo’s Twitter page says the hotel does not have an official opening date yet—listing “February 2010” in their bio—but here’s what we found reading the contest rules:

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Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal Covers The Grit In Gilt

August 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM | by JetSetCD | 0 Comments

Guess where we were last weekend? No, not Las Vegas, but close! We took a day trip down to Atlantic City for the fun of it, and for some hotel reconnaissance. Also, we only took a day trip because we refuse to pay over $200 a night at a hotel where weeknights go for $40-60.

If you haven't already guessed from our picture above, we meandered through a Trump property or two, this one that obviously overdosed on chandeliers being the Trump Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal is like an old Jersey Shore woman spending her retirement getting plastic surgery: she pretties up here and there, but in the end she's still old and still facing the inevitable.

But now that Donald Trump has recently bought back control of his Atlantic City properties, will this old lady shake her weakening hips once more? For the record, we also spent time at the Hilton, Showboat, Caesar's (where we won $25 on slots!), and Resorts, and, although the Taj still has a lot of work to do to reheat Atlantic City's hipness, at least it isn't the worst property on the boardwalk.

[Photo: HotelChatter]

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Trump Waikiki is Going After Your Family

August 4, 2009 at 4:21 PM | by Jenna | 3 Comments

Trump NYC aims for 'tweens (hey, we're just callin' them like we see 'em — though we've been told by some very authentic Trump NYC fans that the hotel is very luxurious and wonderful), and now Trump Waikiki is going for families. Which is...interesting.

With steep room rates on the ol' calendar — we heard $300-$395 and $650-$670 for standard and oceanfront rooms, all the way up to $1,440 for two-bedroom suites — this palce has luxury written all over it. Uh, luxury...and family.

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Trump Soho Now Taking Reservations Starting January 4th

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 246 Spring Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10013
August 3, 2009 at 11:57 AM | by Jenna | 1 Comment

Trump Soho is coming. Are you ready?

Well, if you're at least ready to poke around the website, we might gently suggest that you turn off your speakers before you head over there — the music is terribly annoying. Aside from that fanfare and goofyness, there is some good stuff happening: the ginormously-tall place is taking reservations!

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Rihanna and Chris Brown's Trump NYC Stay is Way Shady

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 1 Central Park W [map], New York, NY, United States, 10023
July 27, 2009 at 9:57 AM | by Jenna | 5 Comments

So, as we are all well aware by now, the Rihanna/Chris Brown relationship was a little bit tumultuous. And there was that whole February assault scandal, which Brown has since publicly apologized for — and we're not going to offer our opinion on that whole mess because, really, it's not our business.

But this gossip is more our thing: this weekend, the should-be-estranged couple was allegedly spotted coming and going from the same Manhattan hotel. According to PopEater (and the whole celeb gossip circuit, really), Chris is supposedly not allowed to see Rihanna (hello, restraining order) — but the two of them were both staying at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Manhattan this past Friday. Smells like scandal.

And we say it smells like scandal because, like, really: of all the hotels in NYC, The Trump, you guys? The odds that both of you would pick that place over like, the Ritz-Carlton Central Park or something — kind of shady. The Trump, really?

Reviews at the Trump are so-so, with its biggest perks being the location and its crew of obviously-well-trained-to-deal-with-paps staffers.

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Uh, Why Do People Care About the 'Trump' Name So Much?

July 14, 2009 at 8:55 AM | by Jenna | 1 Comment

Uh-oh! Remember how we told you that Trump Fort Lauderdale was having some sorta-bigtime issues and may not have the Trump name on it after all? The condo-hotel development's "opening date" of late 2009 was a little bit ambitious, and developers had sent a letter out to condo buyers to notify them that the folks behind the project were in default of a licensing agreement that allowed use of Trump's name on the project — and then, when buyers heard that there was a pretty decent possibility that Trump's name was going to be yanked from the building altogether, they wanted nothing to do with the place and sued developers for misleading them into thinking Trump was definitely going to be in on the project. Whoops!

And then we told you that Trump Waikiki was having no such issue, and was moving along just fine. But: not so!

Pacific Business News reports today:

Buyers of 11 of the units at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Waikiki filed a lawsuit Monday against the developer seeking to cancel their purchase contracts because use of Donald Trump’s name on the luxury condominium project is not guaranteed.

Sounds mighty familiar.

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Fort Lauderdale May Not Get a Trump Condo-Hotel After All

May 18, 2009 at 8:57 AM | by Jenna | 3 Comments

There is a Trump condo-hotel project going up in Fort Lauderdale. Not surprisingly — let us not forget the problems that have seemed to plague many, many upscale condo-hotel projects recently (i.e. the condos aren't sellin' too well) — there are some problems with the 298-room development. Some big problems, really — so big, in fact, that the whole thing might never be completed and The Donald is trying to yank his name from the project altogether.

The Miami Herald is saying that its "opening date" of late 2009 is a bit ambitious. Apparently, the developers had sent a letter out to condo buyers to notify them that developers of the condo-hotel were in default of a licensing agreement that allowed use of Trump's name on the project — among other things:

The May 13 letter said given the ''uncharted economic climate,'' developers did not expect the hotel to open if fewer than 50 percent of buyers close on their units. But if the hotel doesn't open, the letter said, owners could not occupy their units, given local zoning rules for condo-hotels.

Good one. Now 30 of those condo buyers have turned around and are trying to sue the developers and Trump for misleading them into thinking Trump was definitely going to be in on the project. As for whether or not the hotel is going to open up at all? Well, we're thinkin' that if things are bad enough for Trump to want to pull out, they must be real bad; after all, he's had his name on the Taj Mahal for all these years (zing!)

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Jonas Brothers Draw the Tween Mobs to Trump NYC

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 1 Central Park W [map], New York, NY, United States, 10023
February 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM | by Jenna | 1 Comment

Well, it's dark times for the Trumpster. As we reported yesterday, things have been rough for the real estate giant — you know, with Trump Entertainment (the company behind the casino properties) filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and all.

But meanwhile, the Trump International Hotel in NYC seems to have no problem drawing crowds. Unfortch, these aren't the types of crowds that are gonna be filling up rooms in the hotel (unless they snatch Daddy's credit card and some fake ID's): they're tweens. The mobbing, screaming kind. Jonas Brothers fans.

Christine from OnLocationVacations sent over these photos of a Jonas mob, which were taken this weekend when the trio was exiting the hotel. It's cool that they were staying there and all, but we cannot possibly imagine having a screaming mob outside the lobby of the place we were staying. Like, we don't expect NYC to be a quiet sanctuary — but a screaming tween mob, people. No thank you.

It looks like the boys were gracious and stopped for a couple photo ops and autographs. And with our luck, we would totally have been the guests who tried to walk into the lobby as soon as the Jonas Brothers came out, getting stuck behind the barricades and the Uggs. More photos of the scene here.

[Photo: OnLocationVacations]

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Get Trump's Vegas Golden Goose for $89 a Night

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 3790 S Paradise Rd [map], Las Vegas, LV, United States, 89109
January 21, 2009 at 12:03 PM | by JetSetCD | 2 Comments

Trump Las Vegas hasn't even been open for a year yet and already it's discounting rooms as low as $89 a night. With Vegas tourism dropping with the economy, deals like this could be a budget traveler's dream or nightmare.

Should you be seduced by the rates and find yourself within Trump's golden goose, one whose windows are actually covered in a film of real gold, be prepared to feel generous with your money. This is the idea of the property; to swaddle the guests in luxury and lend them a sense of high-roller status to then persuade them into spending more . We realize this is usually the game at all the other Las Vegas hotels too, but Trump is especially adept at it. Look at that pool--don't you just want to order up an overpriced cocktail just to enjoy it better? And the Trump is betting that you will, if you're saving on your room.

For the laid-off migrating to Vegas in hope of a jackpot, staying here could have its added benefits. When and if you win at the tables, you can enjoy the feeling of being temporarily rich as a result of stealing from the rich, namely Donald Trump. Just don't stay too long on the casino floor as you've got a whole $89 room to enjoy. To book, be flexible with your dates (we found $89 a night for February 8 and 9), and do online at their website.

[Photo: Trump Las Vegas]