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Is the W London Really Running Four Months Late?
Hmm. Remember how way back last summer, W Hotels announced that their flagship London location would be opening June 1 2010?
Well, we haven’t heard anything from them recently. But the website is making us a little doubtful that this will come to pass.
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Scary Skinny Hotel No Longer Has Scaffolding But is Still Anonymous
Question: If a hotel goes up in NYC and no one cares to even attempt to guess what hotel it is going to be, does this hotel even really matter? That's what we are starting to think about this hotel on 16 E. 46th Street.
Last week, we asked you folk if you had any clue what hotel this was going to be but no one commented. A persistent tipster sent us another photo showing that the scaffolding has been entirely removed from the hotel. But how can we even get excited about that when we have no idea what hotel this is going to be?
Once again, if you have any idea what hotel this is going to be--if it is even going to be a hotel--let us know in comments below. In the meantime, we'll continue to preoccupy ourselves with actual hotels in NYC.
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Coming Soon, The Nelson Mandela Boutique Hotel?
We really hope this hotel plan isn't all hype. News reports out today say that the land where Nelson Mandela spent his last days of freedom before spending 27 years in prison will be turned into a boutique hotel that will accompany a historical museum already on the land. The Daily Mail reports:
As South Africa prepares to celebrate 20 years since Mr Mandela's release on February 11th 1990, three acres of land on Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, north of Johannesburg, are set to be developed into a 75million rand hotel (around £6million).
Construction on the 48-room hotel is likely to begin in June and the property is scheduled to open in September 2011.
We're adding that to our Hotel Openings list right now.
Here's what else is going on in the hotel world:
· The Chambers Hotel in downtown Minneapolis is now a Le Meridien. [TwinCities Biz Journal]
· Cruise Ship Hotel for the Vancouver Olympics sinks...in theory [Victoria Advocate]
· The Problems with Condo-Hotels from the condo owners side of coin [NY Times]
· Cougars Hunt Cubs and vice versa at the Clarion Hotel in Millbrae, Calif. [Mercury News]
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Is The Bath Hotel Scene About to Join the Modern Age?
This is what passes for modernity in Bath
Now we know most people like Bath, what with it being probably the prettiest town in England, but we’ve always found it a bit twee and timewarpy for our tastes. We stayed there once when we were little, and although we don’t quite remember the decor, we’re pretty sure it was on floral overdrive.
But we might be ready for a rematch, if the new Halcyon hotel lives up to its own hype. It reckons it’s going to set a “new standard of modern living” in the city. Seeing as the city in question is Bath, you might think that doesn’t mean much, but it actually sounds quite sleek: Philippe Starck bathrooms, White Company products, MP3 players (not cassettes?), plasma TVs, and walk-in showers. Everything, in fact, we’ve come to expect from hotels these days. Go Bath!
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Dear Jordan, Please Don't Open a Hotel. Thanks.
Think she’ll welcome guests like this?
Ah, Jordan/Katie Price (whichever name you're inhabiting at the mo). We like you, we really do. We think you’re spunky, we love how you seem utterly indifferent to public derision, we’re glad you’ve split up with that drippy Peter Andre, and you’re clearly a phenomenal businesswoman.
And yet, we would prefer to admire your business skills from afar please. Which means sticking to your childrens books and your underwear business and not dipping a fake-tanned foot into the hotel trade, because that makes us feel a little bit sick.
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From The Five Hotel in Paris Comes Hotel Le Seven
Last year, we stopped into a quaint little art/design hotel in Paris called The Five Hotel in the city's 5th Arrondissement. We loved the location, the hotel's individuality (no rooms are exactly alike), the seriously helpful service and the ceiling that lit up with different colored lights.
Which is why we are excited to hear that the Five Hotel's creators have another one in the works called Hotel Le Seven. However, the hotel is not in the 7th Arrondissement but rather in the Latin Quarter of the 5th, about a 10-minute walk from the Luxembourg gardens.
A tipster tipped us off to the hotel's new Facebook page where we learned that the Seven Hotel will have 28 "individually created guest rooms" but the coup de grace will be there seven suites, designed by seven different designers with different themes and interactive features. Here are the hotel's descriptions of a few of the seven suites:
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Guess The Scary Skinny Hotel Going Up on East 46th Street (Please)
Normally when we play GTH with you, we put down the hints, you throw down your comments and we reveal all the following day. But every so often we ask you to Guess the Hotel because we seriously don't know what's going on.
A tipster sent in this picture of a hotel rising on the East Side of Manhattan at 16 E. 46th Street and it looks like the scaffolding is starting to come down. We wondered about this hotel back in June and according to Curbed the new hotel has risen on the site of the old Gotham Book Mart. It is without a doubt, scary skinny and judging from these renderings, a little scary inside as well. The architecture firm behind it is C3D and Wired New York says the developer is from Montenegro.
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Andaz Heads to Costa Rica With Andaz Papagayo to Open in 2013
Time for one our favorite topics of 2010 so far—Andaz! Only this time we're not talking Andaz Wall Street, Fifth Avenue, or even San Diego. It's time for Hyatt's hip little sister to take a trip to Costa Rica. That's right, this week Hyatt announced that Andaz Papagayo would open on the Península Papagayo in 2013.
The area is alreadly home to other resorts like the Four Seasons, but this will be the first Andaz property in Latin America. Given the brand's love for all things local, we look forward to this hotel's region-specific quirks, design, and food.
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Would You Stay in The Posh Spice Hotel?
Well, move over Marc Jacobs. It looks like dubious fashion designer, former Spice girl and ultimate WAG priestess Victoria Beckham might beat you in designing a fashion hotel first.
According to reports swirling about today, Posh Spice has been offered $40 million to design a fashion-themed hotel in Dubai on Isla Moda. Yes, $40 mill for Posh Spice-influenced design. Guess there's still money to be had in Dubai afterall.
However, Posh can't be trusted to design a hotel by herself otherwise we'd probably just end up with rooms inspired by platform Louboutins and Hermes bags. No, no, no. The word is that iconic Chanel designer, Karl Lagerfeld, will be brought on to help her out.
Despite how silly this idea is, we sorta hope this hotel happens but with more Uncle Karl involved than VB. The word is Victoria is still mulling the offer. She better act quick. Someone may offer Lindsay Lohan money to create a fashion-leggings hotel in Dubai instead.
[Photo: JustJared.com]
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Amsterdam's Lloyd Hotel To Create a New Fashion 'Catwalk' Hotel
A room at the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam.
Touristy trappings and neon signs currently welcome visitors to Amsterdam, none of which say "chic." According to design.nl, the city is hoping to banish the kitsch and turn its entrance into a veritable catwalk, offering a sleeker "Hallo!" to its international friends.
Introducing a high style hotel is a part of the city's makeover scheme, a collaborative project between The Lloyd Hotel Cultural Embassy, AMFI-Amsterdam Fashion Institute and NV Stadsgoed. The Lloyd reflects some of Amsterdam's most forward-thinking design, with cheeky messages about global warming emblazoned on bedding and "fold-away" bathrooms among some of its quirky touches.
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Finally! Marriott's Autograph Collection Announces Seven New Hotel Members
The Celebration Hotel in Florida.
We had a feeling Marriott Hotels would be ramping up the development of their new Autograph Collection at the start of 2010 and today we now have the announcement of seven hotels to be included in this quasi-independent collection.
According to the press release, the hotels are all a part of the Kessler Collection of hotels which are largely based in the Southeast. They include:
· The El Monte Sagrado, Taos, New Mexico
· The Grand Bohemian Hotel, Asheville, North Carolina
· The Mansion on Forsyth Park, Savannah, Georgia
· The Bohemian Hotel Riverfront, Savannah, Georgia
· The Casa Monica Hotel, St. Augustine, Florida
· The Grand Bohemian Hotel, Orlando, Florida
· The Celebration Hotel, Orlando, Florida
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2010 is Going to Be a Big Year (Hopefully) for Fairmont Hotels
We admit. We've been obsessing a bit too much over the W Hotels and New York hotels that will (or will not) open in 2010. But lest you think we are prejudiced, we are actually keeping notes on the hottest hotels to open in 2010, around the world. (We'll be slipping you those notes sometime tomorrow.)
Yet Fairmont Hotels has made it easy for us to track their openings by sending us a press release of their expected hotels coming up this year.
Three of the most impressive Fairmont openings to watch this year include:
· The Savoy, A Fairmont Managed Hotel: After a nearly two-year, £100 million restoration, the legendary Savoy in London will reopen in either the second or third quarter of 2010. In other words, spring or summer.
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