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Stealing Shampoo From Hotels is Fine; Stealing a Parrot is Not
Yeah, we'll confess: sometimes we steal stuff from hotels. Like the little baby soaps and shampoos and things (which are ours for the taking), and one time we swiped a monogrammed washcloth and a tea packet and the binder that held the roomservice menus because we thought it looked nice. But do you know what we have never stolen from a hotel? A bird.
Though this is not as bad as the time some guy ripped the head off of one of the ducks in a hotel lobby (and yes, that really did happen), this is still sort of sad and mean: someone stole a couple of parrots from The Breakers.
According to the AP, police are charging a man with trespassing (and also "violating an ordinance declaring the island town a bird sanctuary") after he stole two baby parrots from the hotel and then left them in a pet store yesterday after trying to sell them to the pet store owner. But, uh, they don't know who the guy is.
Per the report:
The chicks were part of a flock of more than 100 wild birds at The Breakers resort in Palm Beach. Biologists monitor the birds with cameras aimed at their nests in hollowed-out trees. That's how authorities learned the two chicks were missing.
No, but seriously: who does that? Kimpton, you need to start keeping close watch on your pet concierges now. Oy.
[Photo: sgrace]
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Bring Your Doggie to the Copley Square Hotel to Support the SPCA
Aw, a heartwarming little tale (tail, hehe) of a hotel doing good on this somewhat blah Thursday morning: the recently-renovated and super-pet-friendly Copley Square Hotel in Boston is all about the animals this summer.
It has pledged to support the Massachusetts SPCA, and will be setting aside a weekend where it will completely waive its $40 pet fee if you bring your doggie in — and the hotel will be donating a portion of its room revenues to the MSPCA that weekend. This is all in conjunction with Take Your Dog To Work Day, which is apparently a real thing and is happening on June 26th.
Something we didn't know: through the end of the year, the hotel will be donating $10 to the MSPCA for every pet who checks into the hotel. And also: guh, look at this picture.
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Hotel Bel-Air Gives New Meaning to Treating Customers Like Dogs
Hotel Bel-Air is introducing the Precious Paws Program, a five-star amenity program designed to cater to man's best friend. The Dorchester Collection hotel gives pups the royal treatment the moment a pet steps it's paw on-property. Pet perks include: a "chic neckerchief" given upon arrival to fancy up the collar, a private photo shoot to make your pet feel like a cover girl or boy, and a frame for your furry playmate centerfold as a check-out souvenir.
Rooms are doggy-ready too. They feature dog beds and read-to-go dog bowls. Doggy turn-down service includes peanut butter treats personally made by the in-house pastry chef. (The recipe is available at check-out.) And if by chance your room attendant is afraid of dogs, or your dog is afraid of room attendants, the rooms are equipped with personalized door tags that alert staff when your dog is in the room.
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The Fairmont Washington Has 105,000 Bees (On Purpose)
Bees at the Fairmont Royal York, 2008.
Last summer, we kind of got the heebies when we learned that the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto had purposely put 40,000 honeybees up on their rooftop to harvest their own honey in an effort to "enhance the hotel's culinary program." And now the Fairmont Washington D.C. has stuck three honey beehives up on its roof with the same goal, boasting a bee population totaling about 105,000 bees.
Each hive has a queen and 33,000 worker bees:
They travel up to three miles away from their rooftop home foraging for food, and always return to their respective hives. Nearby Rock Creek Park offers trees and plants with the essential nectar they must gather for their work.
Apparently, the Executive Sous Chef and Executive Pastry Chef will each take turns acting as Chief Bee Keeper, with a goal of retrieving somewhere around 300 pounds of honey within the year (um, betchya didn't sign up for this when you scored this job after culinary school, huh?) Even bee-haters can enjoy something, though: the honey harvested will be used in in recipes served in the hotel's restaurant Juniper.
[Photo: Norm Betts / Reuters]
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Bring Your Dog to Cocktail Hour at Hotel Indigo Atlanta
If we haven’t made ourselves clear in the past, we love pets. You may have also noted our affinity for, uh, a little sociable sharing of spirits (i.e. drinking). So clearly we love when hotels combine the two, such as the Hotel Indigo Atlanta Midtown.
The hotel celebrates the "dog days of summer" (yeah yeah, groan) with a weekly "Canine Cocktail" happy hour on their patio — held 6 to 9 p.m. — for pet owners and their panting companions, with this year’s season beginning Tuesday, May 26. There’s a water bar as well as the “Ruff Age Bar” — a free “special vegan doggie treat bar” — for dogs in attendance. Or extra-special pups can get pampered from the doggie menu (sirloin steak, $6; grilled chicken, $5; Voss water, $6.50). “Those of the human persuasion” can order pup-inspired cocktails such as the Greyhound, Salty Dog, and Yellow Lab.
Of course, a couple of rules of dog etiquette apply: leashes are required; dogs must stay out of the bar area and their paws off the tables and chairs. Also worth noting is that one dollar from every Indigo martini sold goes in support of the local Piedmont Park Dog Park.
[Photo: TheAtlantaTraveler.com]
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Kiefer Sutherland Thoroughly Enjoys Hotel Monaco Chicago's Goldfish
Well, well, well: we've got some hot goss for you. Apparently one Kiefer Sutherland was in Chicago last week and surprised the Hotel Monaco Chicago staff by popping into the hotel to check in for a night. Says a tipster, "He was in town with members of rock group Jackyl, who play on Sutherland's record label." Yes, he has a record label. Fun fact! Another fun fact: he finds goldfish to be hilarious.
Says our source:
Sutherland was extremely amused with the Hotel Monaco's "house pet" — a goldfish — which lives in a bowl on the front desk.... so much so that he was betting the desk staff $20 to eat the fish! (Nobody took him up on the bet, of course).
Um, goldfish are hilarious-looking, so we're not going to assume JB's back on the sauce again. More importantly, though: wouldn't you eat a goldfish if Jack Bauer told you to? We most definitely would. Most definitely.
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The Savoy London's Most Famous Guest is a Cat
London's iconic Hotel Savoy may be under renovation until May 2009, but that doesn't mean the stories of its legendary past must be put on hold. Since the hotel's opening in 1889, it has served as more than just a temporary home, but as inspiration, to many luminaries including Monet, Oscar Wilde, Bob Dylan, Marilyn Monroe and Frank McCourt.
It was in the 1920s, however, that the hotel's most famous resident checked in and never left. Kaspar the Cat, a 3-foot-high wood sculpture of a regal feline, was expressly created to ward off any superstitions of guests dining at the hotel's Savoy Grill. Apparently, to dine with only thirteen guests is ominous, and the first to rise from the table will soon meet with tragedy. Kaspar's role is to be the official fourteenth guest, served with every course as normal, should anyone unknowingly hit upon the unlucky number of diners.
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Hilton Hotels Kick Off "Hotel for Dogs" Sweepstakes
It's no secret that people who love hotels also love dogs. How else to explain all the pet offerings from hotels both in-room and online? Or the fact that whenever we write about dogs we seem to get a lot of comments?
So the movie Hotel for Dogs is bound to stir some interest in hotel geeks, dog lovers, little children and anyone else who saw Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
The movie stars Emma Roberts as a girl who needs to find a new home for her dog after she and her younger brother are place in a foster home with a strict "No-Pets" policy. But they stumble upon an abandoned hotel and transform it into a hotel for their dog Friday and the city's other strays. The movie also stars Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon, Don Cheadle and bunch of different dog breeds. (But sadly no French bulldogs.)
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Kimpton Dogs Have Some Sage Advice For the Presidential Pups
When news broke that new VP Joe Biden picked out a German Shepherd puppy to be the next vice presidential pooch (and with the continuing buzz about the upcoming selection of the Obama dog), the doggie mascots — ahem, "Directors of Pet Relations" — across pooch-friendly boutique chain Kimpton's American properties felt it was high time to sound off with their advice for the White House dogs. Oh, come on: this is adorable and it's not Friday yet so you could use a little pick-me-up cuteness, couldn't you?
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Is the Muse Hotel's Canine Concierge America's Next Top Dog?
You know how Kimpton Hotels go ga-ga over their hotel pets, dressing them up in silly tuxedos and such? Well, the Muse Hotel in New York is pretty convinced they are dealing with a very special dog (of course, we all feel that way about our dogs). The hotel has submitted their canine concierge, Ginger, in the USA Today Top Dog Contest and she made the Top 20 cut!
The contest is being held to promote the release of Marley and Me and the winner will apparently get the recognition of being America's Top Dog. Voting ends this Friday, December 19th so if you want to get you vote in, do it now. We like Ginger because unlike those other dogs, she has a real job. And yes, we are partial to people who work with hotels for a living.
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Snapshot :: Project Kitty Runway a Success but Felines Look Nonplussed
As we told you about before, the Project Kitty Runway went down at the Algonquin Hotel yesterday as a way to celebrate the house cat Matilda's 13th birthday and to help build awareness for the North Shore Animal League.
The Feline Fashion Show (their official name but we like PKR better) featured several cats in drag ranging from "an Elvis costume to a sequined satin dress." So...how exactly do you get a cat into an Elvis costume? Sedatives? It probably has to be one of those de-clawed house cats because we know our cat would not stand for that.
Humans meanwhile had a better time at the show sipping on $20 specialty drinks like the Purr-tini and the Pink Pussycat. Let's hope the fashion models were treated to an entire bag of catnip after their hard day on the runway.
[Photo: AP]
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Guess the Hotel Revealed :: Kimpton's Pacific Palisades Vancouver
Our Guess the Hotel from yesterday was easy, and hotel maven CourtneyMay was the first to call it. It was the Pacific Palisades in Vancouver, a Kimpton property with a sort of funky retro beach-y vibe. [Note: when we think Canada, "retro beach-y" does not come to mind. We know.]
We hinted about the wine hour -- a tradition at all Kimpton properties -- and noted that they talk funny here. Since the Pacific Palisades is the only Canadian Kimpton (and Canada is clearly the only place in the world where they talk funny), it should have been a dead giveaway...but we thought a shot of the home of Kimpton's famed pet concierge "desk" might give it away too.
We've got an 08.08.08 wedding to hit up today, but we'll be back with a full review next week.
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