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At Aria Las Vegas You May Actually Want The Valet To Take His Time

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 3730 Las Vegas Boulevard S [map], Las Vegas, NV, United States, 89158
January 4, 2012 at 12:30 PM | by | Comments (0)

Being bored as you wait for a valet to pull out your car is such a first world problem, but that doesn’t make it any less irritating. Which is why we were so taken by this light show we got as we waited for our car at Aria Las Vegas last week.

Aria’s main valet is notoriously slow, but the back valet – or, rather, the North Valet, out by Haze nightclub – was much better. Or maybe it just seemed that way, as we were watching the pretty sentences heading across the screen. They made us think, they made us smile, they made us wonder how much of a Vegas funk you have to be in to find them profound, and they made us wonder who came up with them.

They also made us recollect the entrance to the Cosmopolitan, across the road – so it was interesting to learn that this video screen has been here since Aria opened – a year before Cosmo did.

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Your Duvet Cover Shall Never Wrinkle Again, Thanks to Trump Housekeeping's Nifty Trick

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: One Central Park West [map], New York, NY, United States, 10023
June 20, 2011 at 11:05 AM | by | Comments (0)

** A HotelChatter Exclusive**

Have you ever wanted to make your home as flawlessly clean as the guestrooms of the hotels you visit? It seems impossible right? Especially when it comes to making your bed. But we've come to your rescue--with a lot of help from the housekeepers at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York.

General Manager Suzannah Mills and the housekeeping team have filmed a series of videos exclusively for HotelChatter with their simple tips and tricks on how to make your home "shine like the Chrysler building!" or at least just look "hotel fresh."

Here is the final video in our three-part series with instructions on how to keep your duvet covers perfectly smooth. And all it takes is a water spritzer. You know, the kind you keep by the door to stop your dog from barking. Enjoy!

Hotels--do your housekeepers have any special tips to share with us? Let us know!

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A Look at The 100 Performances Last Night Inside The Yotel Times Square

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 570 Tenth Avenue [map], New York, NY, United States, 10036
June 15, 2011 at 12:59 PM | by | Comments (2)

If Yotel Times Square is setting the tone for a new culture of hospitality entertainment, then we're very excited to see what else it's got up its yo-sleeves. Last night, the purple giant hosted a series of one hundred performances that all took place inside one hundred different rooms of the hotel's top four floors. Kind of like a cross between a haunted house and a peep show (this is Times Square after all!), everyone was encouraged to step inside the rooms and explore, but no one ever quite knew what to expect.

Here's how it worked: guests were issued a "mission card" upon arrival and assigned a "festival captain" who, at the scheduled time, would lead the groups of 10-15 lucky souls to the ongoing carnival taking place upstairs. The plan was for each group to be shepherded along as a consolidated unit, but the reality was much more difficult to control. Once unleashed into the madness, all sense of order truly vanished.

Have you ever walked down the hallway of a hotel whose rooms have all been left completely open? Probably not, which is why things got a little exciting last night. Each of the one hundred marked doors continually led into some new configuration of half-clothed, keyboard-wielding, tarot-card-shuffling, beat-boxing, and—yes—pillow-fighting, umm....creative types.

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Are Your Chandeliers Dusty? Trump Housekeeping Knows How to Make Them Sparkle

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: One Central Park West [map], New York, NY, United States, 10023
June 13, 2011 at 2:33 PM | by | Comments (0)

** A HotelChatter Exclusive**

Have you ever wanted to make your home as flawlessly clean as the guestrooms of the hotels you visit? It seems impossible right? Especially when it comes to making your bed. But we've come to your rescue--with a lot of help from the housekeepers at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York.

General Manager Suzannah Mills and the housekeeping team have filmed a series of videos exclusively for HotelChatter with their simple tips and tricks on how to make your home "shine like the Chrysler building!" or at least just look "hotel fresh." Here is the second video of our three-part series with tips on how to keep your chandeliers sparkling clean. Yes, your chandeliers will soon pass the white glove test and all you need is something that you probably already have at your desk.

Hotels--do your housekeepers have any special tips to share with us? Let us know!

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How the Housekeepers at Trump New York Keep Their Flowers Smelling Fresh

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: One Central Park West [map], New York, NY, United States, 10023
June 8, 2011 at 8:53 AM | by | Comments (0)

** A HotelChatter Exclusive**

Have you ever wanted to make your home as flawlessly clean as the guestrooms of the hotels you visit? It seems impossible right? Especially when it comes to making your bed. But we've come to your rescue--with a lot of help from the housekeepers at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York.

General Manager Suzannah Mills and the housekeeping team have filmed a series of videos exclusively for HotelChatter with their simple tips and tricks on how to make your home "shine like the Chrysler building!" or at least just look "hotel fresh."

The first video in the series flowers fresher longer. Watch, do, then stop to smell the flowers!

Hotels--do your housekeepers have any special tips to share with us? Let us know!

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Inside the Rooms of the JW Marriott Chicago

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 151 West Adams [map], Chicago, IL, United States, 60603
March 24, 2011 at 1:22 PM | by | Comment (1)


A video of a basic room followed by a room with double beds, accessed through the connecting room door

It's a big deal when a new hotel debuts in Chicago. You see, it doesn't happen as often as in New York, but when it does, it's typically worth going out of your way to visit. Such is the case with the JW Marriott Chicago, a mammoth property of 622 rooms that dominates an entire block, the building perpendicular to both the Chicago Board of Trade and the Sears Willis Tower.

Now the JW Marriott actually opened back in November 2010, but with the restaurants and whatnot still testing out their training wheels these last few months, the hotel didn't have its "Grand Opening" until this month. We were lucky to be in Chicago at the time, so we embarked on a thorough tour of the place and can say that Marriott has done some lovely things with the place. Rooms begin around $250 per night, but there's no question of whether or not you'll get a bathtub and flatscreen TV, large windows and chocolates on the pillow; that all comes standard.

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Inside the Omni Downtown LA’s New Look

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 251 S. Olive St. [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90012
March 11, 2011 at 2:01 PM | by | Comments (0)

It’s been a while since we checked out the Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, but when we went in there to feast upon the new menu at its restaurant, Noé, we were astonished to see the dramatic transformation that the rooms has begun. Here’s our exclusive inside look—including a photo gallery and room video—of the new rooms:

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Inside the Regent Grand Hotel Bordeaux

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 2-5 Place de la Comédie, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, 33000
March 10, 2011 at 2:36 PM | by | Comments (0)

While in France recently, we took a quick trip from Paris down to Bordeaux, which is literally quick as we’re talking about a train trip on Rail Europe's TGV that takes under 3 hours. The idea was to hang out in the UNESCO World Heritage city, otherwise known as the “Port of the Moon” thanks to its crescent shape along the Garonne River, but of course we had to have a great hotel too.

We decided to camp out at the city’s only five-star hotel, the recently restored Regent Grand Hotel Bordeaux—not least of all so we could try the fancy signature lobster dish prepared using a 30,000 Euro silver Christophle lobster press at the hotel’s Michelin-starred restaurant, Le Pressoir d’Argent—but in the meantime, we snapped this photo gallery and video of our Junior Suite:

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Spring Break Cancun...For Adults! Inside the Fairmont Mayakoba

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Carretera Federal Cancún, Playa del Carmen Km. 298, Quintana Roo, Riviera Maya, Mexico, 77710
March 9, 2011 at 10:31 AM | by | Comment (1)

Despite some recent troubles, Mexico is still one of our favorite vacation destinations. There are just so many beautiful (and safe!) places to explore, and on a recent pre-Spring Break trip to Cancun, we got to check out one of them: the Fairmont Mayakoba.

Here’s our exclusive photo gallery and room video, so it feels just like you came along with:

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Inside the Hotel Yountville, in the Thick of Napa Valley

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 6462 Washington St. [map], Yountville, CA, United States, 94599
March 8, 2011 at 10:36 AM | by | Comments (0)

It’s been a while since we hit the Valley. Napa Valley, that is. But we had a hankering for great wine and fine food last month, so we headed up to NorCal for a little bit of epicurean living, and while there, happened to stay at the newest hotel in the Valley: the Hotel Yountville.

Of course you're invited in to take a look at our exclusive photo gallery and walk-through video of our Premium Suite, but hands off the wine...

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Inside the Radisson Blu Le Metropolitan Paris

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 10 Place De Mexico, Paris , Ile de France , France, 75016
March 7, 2011 at 10:31 AM | by | Comments (2)

Most of our recent stories on Radisson Blu have had us all a-twitter at the thought of a new location at the Mall of America, but on a recent trip to Paris, we got the chance to stay at one of the chain’s first properties we told you about, the Radisson Blu Le Metropolitan, and here’s our inside look at the rooms, including one of our signature photo galleries and video walk-throughs:

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A Closer (Video) Look at the Latte Art at the Soho Grand Hotel

January 7, 2011 at 4:30 PM | by | Comments (0)

It was almost two months ago that we discovered a small trend, growing in popularity in Manhattan Hotels at least, and that is latte art.

Here's what happens: you sit in the hotel lobby or cafe or restaurant and order up a cappuccino or similarly steamed milk drink and when it arrives—voila!—it's got a little extra artwork or the hotel's logo worked right into the foam. We declared the smiley face latte at the Soho Grand as the cutest, and now we get to see how it's done.

The Soho Grand zoomed in on one of their baristas doing their thing in the video above, and it totally makes us want to see more. Luckily we've been keeping our eyes open...

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