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Ace Hotel NYC to Lobby Squatters: Out!
Oh no; we've created a monster. After naming the expansive and dark-and-comfy lobby at the Ace Hotel New York as one of our favorite digital nomad lobbies, we expected to share the space with a few other laptop-tapping entrepreneurs, but not the glut of them that fills the place now!
Earlier this week we reported on the "[t]housands of stories" waiting to be told at New York's Ace Hotel. One of Massify's budding filmmakers might consider making a short about a recent squabble between management and lobby squatters—including freelancers and fans of the Ace who have taken to parking themselves at the hotel, sans reservations.
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Guess the New Hotel's Bar
Are you reading this on your laptop while waiting for a flight? Or on your Blackberry as you sit crammed in the backseat of a car heading to Grandma’s for Thanksgiving? We feel for you holiday travelers, so to help you pass the time we bring you a game of Guess The Hotel! Seasoned readers of HotelChatter know the drill but in case you're new, here's how it works. We put up a snapshot of a hotel somewhere in this great wide world and drop a few hints about the place. Then you put in your guesses in the comments below. Ready? Here we go …
· This hotel is somewhere south of Houston Street in New York City
· It’s not open yet but will be very soon
· It’s located in an area where the "locals" are frequent business travelers. There are a few very subtle clues to the 'hood in the room's design
· This new hotel is part of a brand that belongs to one of the big-daddy hotel chains.
Think you know the hotel we're hinting at? Start putting in your guesses in comments below and we'll unveil the hotel's identity on Monday.
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The Empire Hotel Celebrates Chuck Bass With Gossip Girl Cocktails
If you've been paying attention in the slightest to this most recent season of Gossip Girl, then you'll have noticed how New York's Empire Hotel has become one of the characters, after it was bought by Chuck Bass. Now that the hotel is making appearances on TV, the real life property believes it should embrace the connection by debuting "Gossip Girl cocktails."
Concocted by the Empire's cocktail consultant Somer Perez, there are drinks for each Gossip Girl main character (even the dudes!). You can find them being served in the hotel's Lobby Bar, and each cocktail is $15. There's even an "XOXO" cocktail, with secret ingredients they'll never tell.
After the jump, the rest of the character cocktails...
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Rooms at The Distrikt Not As Funky as the Hotel's Name Suggests
One of our favorite milestones when tracking a new hotel opening is the release of photos. Not renderings, not collages, but full color pictures of the guestrooms we’re so eager to check into. Today The Distrikt Hotel reaches that milestone by posting photos on its Facebook page.
We’ve been dying for a glimpse inside the hotel since the funky collages on the website--while arty and cool--left us without a clue as to room design. Now The Distrikt delivers and we’re both relieved and disappointed.
Relieved that the neighborhood theme is not an OTT mish-mash as it could have been, but a little sad that the décor plays it so safe. For all its savvy marketing, The Distrikt looks pretty middle-of-the-road when it comes to design. The rooms look nice in these photos—but "nice" means a place your mom would be comfortable staying. (That is, if she isn’t scared off by the funky name.) And that’s just not what we were expecting here.
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Inside The Roosevelt NYC: The Consummate Tourist Hotel
Like we said yesterday, you really can't beat winning a room rate of $19.24 on Twitter for three nights in a historic hotel property in the middle of Manhattan. That said, The Roosevelt has its ups and its downs, but it is most definitely the quintessential New York tourist hotel. Onto our experience, over Halloween weekend:
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Although we live in New York, we came straight to The Roosevelt after flying into JFK at the end of a trip, so we were your typical tired, bedraggled guest. Friends who were visiting for the weekend would be staying in the room with us, and as they were arriving earlier, we directed to do the regular thing of asking the hotel front desk to hold the luggage until the person under whose name the reservations is (that'd be us) arrived. But the front desk clerk told us immediately that two others had been looking for us already and that it was a security risk to give out room numbers. Yes, we know this; just hold the luggage and don't act like it's some big scary, unusual service.
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Quikbook Still The Way To Go For The Strand, Now Opening December 1st
While we had high hopes of seeing one of our hotly anticipated new NYC hotels opening before Thanksgiving— The Strand in the garment district—it now looks like we'll have to wait another couple of weeks. Cross out that November 16th opening date, folks, and pencil in December 1st. That is the first date showing up on both the hotel's online reservation system, and on Quikbook.
As we reported in our last update, Quikbook is definitely the way to go when booking a night at The Strand. Previously it was showing a saving of $40 per night compared to the rates on the hotel's website. Now those savings are $70. A Superior King is going for $329 a night through the hotel, but just $259 on Quikbook. If waiting a bit longer for the doors to open can save us money like this, we might even be content to wait another week or two.
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Sleeping Inside One Of NYC's Historic Hotels: Our Room at The Roosevelt
It's almost impossible to believe that, in the years that we've been around here at HotelChatter, we have not slept in the historical hotel that is The Roosevelt. But then, we do live here, and there have been other hyped new openings to focus on, thus putting The Roosevelt on our back burner. And there it stayed.
...Until recently, when The Roosevelt held a promotion on Twitter to offer stays at the low, low rate of $19.24 a night, for a maximum stay of three nights. The $19.24 honored the year that this grand dame first opened, as part of a trio of hotels next door to Grand Central Station. Of the three—the other two being The Biltmore and The Commodore—The Roosevelt is the only survivor, and she continues to give a neverending flow of tourists a place to lay their heads after a long day of exploring the Big Apple.
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Here's Your Chance to Tell Us What You Think of The Surrey Hotel
When we got our sneak peek of The Surrey Hotel on New York's Upper East Side, we were thrilled by the luxe elegance we found in the room, not to mention the swank neighborhood outside. But then we read a review from Globalista that wasn't quite what we hoped for. Even though the TripAdvisor reviews were generally positive, the seeds of doubt were planted.
Coupled with our disappointment about the hotel's introductory offer, chances were looking slim on taking a chance on The Surrey. Until now.
The Surrey has just sweetened the deal for HotelChatter Readers by offering a complimentary night when you reserve a minimum two-night stay.
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Win Tickets to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (And a Night at The Affinia)
Another day, another Twitter hotel contest. But this is one that could score you major brownie points with the kids. Tomorrow, Affinia Hotels launches a Twitter promotion where the prize is exclusive access to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parde—and an overnight stay at the Affinia Manhattan on Thanksgiving night.
While a free night in a NYC hotel on a holiday is nothing to scoff at, the seating for the parade is the big deal here. Tickets are not available to the general public—seating is restricted to the folks of NBC, corporate sponsors, Macy’s execs, politicians, and charitable organizations. So win these babies and you’ll be hobnobbing it up, away from the riff-raff with their fold-up chairs.
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Scoping Out the View From the InterContinental Times Square
Often in New York City hotels, views are non-existent, or they’re of the poor suckers in the apartment building across the street. So when we get a chance to gaze out across the city—or even New Jersey!—we are much happier campers. Which is why we were thrilled to see these photos of the view from the InterContinental Times Square, opening in July 2010.
When we last checked in on the hotel’s progress, there were just renderings of the tower. We’ve got nothing against renderings, but you can't beat seeing a building in living color—or even in muted grays like in these shots taken on an overcast day in Manhattan. The photos come courtesy of InterContinental’s Facebook page—which we applaud. Hotels and chains using Facebook and Twitter to give us sneak peeks at upcoming properties or new promotions is definitely a trend we support.
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Trump International Will Stay Open During 2010 Renovations
With all the breathless anticipation over the February opening of the Trump SoHo, we almost forgot that the Don and the kids had other properties. (Almost but not quite—after all, how can you miss those towers cutting off your access to the sun?) But you don't expect the Trumps to let their flagship baby languish while the cool kid downtown gets all the attention, do you? Of course not!
So it will come as no surprise, then, that the Trump International Hotel & Tower New York (that big sucker at the bottom of Central Park) is getting a multimillion-dollar spit and polish come January.
While the Forbes (formerly Mobil) Five-Star Hotel has always been stately and posh, the renovations will, according to Donald J. Trump Jr, put it in step with the "elegant, classic-contemporary feel of the other Trump Hotel Collection properties." It was Don Jr. himself who approved the model room displaying the proposed renos. So, what can all those tween stars expect when their tours bring them back to NYC in 2010?
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Ma Peche Restaurant Opens At NY's Chambers Hotel, And We're So There
We've made no secret of the fact that one of our favorite Digital Nomad Lobbies is the mezzanine at NYC's Chambers Hotel, and three days ago while working in our usual nook, we noticed a suspicious lunch menu sitting on the sidetable. But how could we order this lunch when there was no wait staff? Ah ha—we should have known that they were being trained at that very moment for the opening of the hotel's new restaurant, Ma Peche.
Ma Peche is the latest spot from David Chang of the foodie favorite Momofuku megaforce that counts three restaurants in the Lower East Side. This being his first highly anticipated restaurant in Midtown, and hello—it's in a hotel, so it's screaming our name—we said scram to our hot pockets and headed in for the first lunch ever.
The details, after the jump.
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