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The Rhythm Is Gonna Get You at Desires Hotels (And You'll Like It)
We know that hotels love their music offerings but not all of us enjoy that monotonous, new age electronica that is on a constant loop in hotel lobbies. Some of us like our music to have a little soul and preferably, an on/off button. But what we wouldn't mind is a musical suggestion here and there. Now at Desires Hotels you can get exactly that.
Last month Desires, a boutique hotel collection that includes The MAve in NYC, The Betsy in South Beach and The Iron Horse Hotel in Milwaukee, launched a new partnership with Putumayo Music Worldwide, a small record label that focuses on culturally authentic music from around the world.
The partnership allows guests who make a reservation online at a Desires Hotel to instantly obtain a free download and a special discount code to buy Putumayo music CDs online. The Putumayo CDs are also for sale at various places in the hotels, depending on the property. Some will feature the CDs in the minibars, others will sell them at the hotel bars or front desks.
We reached out to Douglas Carrillo, Senior Vice President and Director of Marketing for Desires Hotels, to explain why Desires chose Putumayo for this musical relationship. His answer? Putumayo and Desires both celebrate the "traveling spirit of life, music and culture."
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Desires' Cassa Hotel Will Probably Open Next Summer
We reported a couple of months ago that Desires Hotels' Cassa Hotel and Residences, the NYC hotel-condo development with 166 hotel rooms and what appear to be doorless glass showers (at least from the condo renderings we saw), would be open by the end of 2009.
Well, good news and bad news: according to a New York Times article pubbed this week, the condos are actually selling — even in this craptastic market. The "building is finding affluent buyers who want to create enormous homes." They've sold "17 of 57 units at an average price of $2,000 per square foot." Which, you know, is — if nothing else — a good sign for the hotel, since there have been sad cases of hotel/condo developments that couldn't get things together in the condo-sales department and ended up crashing and burning prior to opening.
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Desires Hotels Announces 'The Charlee' in the City of Eternal Spring
Desires Hotels — the folks behind the quirky-boutiquey MAve, Iron Horse and Betsy — are bringin' the personality to a totally new scene. As in, um, they're going international. Yesterday, the company announced the opening of The Charlee in Medellin, Colombia, slated to be up and running by 2010. And yes, we know: the name makes it sound like a Room Mate hotel.
This 44-room property is notable for having the "first rooftop pool bar and VIP Ultra Lounge" in the country (er, okay), and the hotel's going to be able to boast a five-star restaurant, a 2,150 square-foot health club, 24-hour room service, and a pretty sizable spa.
Location specs: the property will be located in "the fashionable Parque Lleras, and it marks the entry of Desires into an international city — with, according to the press release, follow-up cameos in Portugal, Belize, Dominican Republic, Cape Verde Islands, Montenegro and Argentina.
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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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'Desire' A Threadless Tee? Desires Will Give You One For Free(ish)
Okay, admit it: you've always been sort of curious to check out one of Desires' cutesy themed(ish) properties. Even though some of the most notable ones are not in your standard LA/NYC/Miami hotel-mecca locations (read: Milwaukee and St. Louis), you've always been up for a little bit of an adventure — and our incessant yapping about places like The Iron Horse doesn't really help you get it off the brain.
And there's probably no better time than now to take a chance on one of their properties (even if you're not sure quite what to expect): you can get a 25% off your rate (on a two-night or more stay) by booking from July 10th through September 30th (yes, that's seriously like all summer) — and on top of that, you can also get a free t-shirt! Along with the discunt, you'll get your hands on a $25 gift certificate to Threadless.com.
You can make a rezzie here (or call 866-593-4330) — but just so you know, we're pretty sure they don't sell any t-shirts that say "I Went to St. Louis to Check Out a Hotel and All I Got Was This T-Shirt (And Also a Moon Pie)."
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The MAve Lobby: A HotelChatter Word-Association Exercise
Since it's Friday, we're going to play a little game that we're sticking in the Fun HC Arsenal of Enjoyable Internet Activities (it goes on the shelf right next to Guess the Hotel, FYI); this one's called Word Association, and this round we're going to be working with The MAve Hotel.
Just a reminder: the MAve is Desires Hotels' newest property, and it opened up just last week rather quietly at 27th and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. We haven't had a chance to pop over there to check the place out for ourselves just yet, but we did get our hands on these shots of some (well, some slivers of) the public spaces of the hotel.
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We Have An Addition to This Moonrise Package (We're Sitting On It)
Quick: name every single thing you can think of that relates to the word "moon." Ready? Go. Space! Moon pies! Blue moon! Cows jumping! Hitting your eye like a big pizza pie! What your fratty college friends did out the passenger-side window on your last road trip!
If we were in charge of putting together hotel packages for the Moonrise Hotel (the brand new Desires Hotel down in St. Louis), we'd probably do our brainstorming in exactly that fashion. And we kinda suspect that's precisely what went on during the making of the "Fly me to the Moon" package to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of man's first steps on the moon.
The package includes:
· Cosmic Jacuzzi Room decorated with moon-themed art
· Two Tang-Tini Drink Certificates – redeemable at Eclipse Restaurant – inside the Moonrise Hotel
· Two Moonrise Breakfasts
· Two Delicious Moon Pies provided during nightly turndown service
· Two Blue Moon Bottles of Beer upon arrival
· Two OMNIMAX Theater tickets to the 'Fly Me To The MOON' – at the Saint Louis Science Center
Moonpies? Yeah?
The package is available From July 1st to August 31st, starting at $229. And if we happen to roll by St. Louis, we'll be sure and add our own special addition to the package. Which we're currently sitting on. (Get it? Our butt? Mooning? Moon? Ha!)
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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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The MAve Opens This Summer With Rooms at $169
Ooooh. Remember The MAve? That new Desires hotel that actually had people vote to choose its name back when it was being completed? Formerly known as The Wolf? Yes, well: the people had spoken and they'd chosen The MAve (for Madison Avenue, obvs) and now the place is close to opening — it looks like we can make reservations for July 26th and beyond.
The hotel also launched its funky-fresh website, along with spilling the news that rooms will be cheap, cheap, cheap: $189 $169 is gonna be the going price for a basic room, it looks like, and the hotel will have a 3-for-2 sale running when it opens — that is, pay for two nights and get your third night free. This averages out to be around $126 per night; really not bad for NYC.
Each room is set to have H2O Aquatics bath & spa products, free WiFi, velour bathrobes, and 32" LCD TV's. Oh, and this is in walking distance to Madison Square Park — two words: Shake Shack.
*Update: a rep for the hotel says rates start at $169, though we couldn't find any rates lower than $189 when we tried to book.
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The Moonrise Hotel and Rooftop Lounge Officially Open in St. Louis
It's not often that we get boutique hotel news out of somewhere as hardcore-midwestern as St. Louis, but when we do this is what we like to hear: the new Moonrise Hotel has officially opened today, complete with contemporary design while milking the lunar theme.
The 135-room property gives fans of New York boutique style a comfy place to kick off their shoes while on business or leisure in St Louis, and believe us when we say that this place will be maxing out on leisure. Say hello to what will be one of St. Louis' hottest rooftop lounges this summer: the Satellite Bar. There is no such thing as too many rooftop bars in a good urban landscape, and thankfully the Moonrise understands this. Add to this the fact that the roof will sport an actual, spotlighted replica of the moon, and we're thinking that the laid-back humor of the midwest managed to creep into this property after all.
Room rates start at $159 a night, and of course adding them on Facebook scores you access to some sneak construction pics and the possibility of secret deals.
[Photo: Moonrise Hotel]
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Desires Will Name Their New Hotel 'The MAve'
While we still preferred the first proposed hotel name for the Desires newly renovated hotel (The Wolf), unfortunately the hotel had other plans. Last night votes were tallied in their "You Name It, We Claim It" Contest and the people have spoken. The new name is The MAve Hotel.
The MAve's (pronounced māv'e) name was developed from a creative word play on the location of the hotel at 62 Madison Ave. This new modern boutique hotel is now beginning to move forward towards its grand opening with its fresh new name and neighborhood friendly design. "We would like to thank everyone who took the time to vote on the Desires Hotels Web site, and hope that when we open our doors this summer they will once again take the time to stop by to see what they were a part of," says Shawn Roach General Manager of The MAve Hotel.
We think that MAve rhymes with lav but we're just grateful it doesn't have all those funky symbols like Sīrĕn at Se San Diego. The 72-room hotel is still on schedule to re-open this summer.
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Desires Hotels' Moonrise is Rising Over St. Louis
Leave it to Desires Hotels to keep on bringing the hotel funky-freshness to places that, um, you wouldn't so much expect the funky freshness to be brought (please see: the Iron Horse Hotel in Milwaukee). The quickly-growing family of luxe boutique hotels has added one more to its portfolio in the Midwest: The Moonrise Hotel, arriving (er, "lifting off," per their press materials) in St. Louis this April.
Located in the heart of The Loop, St. Lou's entertainment district, this 135-room quirky-luxe hotel's got the moonlight thing going on inside and out: there's an illuminated, rotating moon on top of the building and an iridescent lobby wall that changes color.
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