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W Hotels are Primping to Unveil 'Global Glam' During NY Fashion Week
Just because New York Fashion Week is moving from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center beginning this season doesn't mean that W Hotels will stop sponsoring it. For as many fashion weeks as we've known, the W Hotels have set up a full backstage VIP lounge, complete with free drinks, POP burgers, TVs screening the runway shows live, and previews of designer merchandise and new hotels. The lounge may be taking a break this year, but W Hotels is determined to make their impression.
For this next fashion week, which begins on Thursday, September 9, the W Hotels will again be rolling out a slew of new items for its Global Glam collection. However, they're going big with 15 designers commissioned to make the limited-edition pieces, including Behnaz Sarafpour, Lulu Frost, Christys of London, Kara Ross and Saga Furs, according to the NYT's In Transit blog. The items will be debuted at Fashion Week before hitting online and at W Hotel stores in October.
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A Hotel With Its Own Train Station: The Westin Nova Scotian
See that classy red brick building in the center of the photo above? That's nothing other than the Westin Nova Scotian, well the back of it at least. This view is from the port, as we spent our brief tim in Halifax onboard a ship there—more on that tomorrow—and yet we want to talk about the Westin and trains.
If you arrive to Halifax by train, by VIA Rail Canada to be more specific, then you'll be pulling into a station right next to the Westin Nova Scotian. You can even see it in this picture; it's the lower, lighter red brick building between Pier 21 and the large hotel.
Although the Westin Nova Scotian isn't exactly located in the thick of things in Halifax, it is perfectly positioned to take advantage of the views over the harbor and the proximity to the rail station the waterfront boardwalk and the Farmers Market soon to open on the piers. Rates for the fall are looking good too. Think $250 CAD ($235 USD) per night, and yes they have a parking lot too for those of you who want to do the fall foliage drive.
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W Brings The Munchies to the New York Stock Exchange
Starwood Hotels & Resorts' Phil McAveety, Executive Vice President and Chief Brand Officer, with W Brand Ambassadors on the New York Stock Exchange floor.
The W New York Downtown has officially opened and to celebrate, the hotel could have just thrown a big ole party but instead they decided to do something different, like ringing the bell on the New York Stock Exchange.
Starwood Hotels' Vasant Prabhu, Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, and Phil McAveety, Executive Vice President and Chief Brand Officer, rang The Closing Bell® at the NYSE yesterday and they did it up in W style. A W Hotels light installation was installed to mimic the hotel chain's newest location and hot girls W Brand Ambassadors were handing out W minibar munchies like PopChips and other W New York Downtown-branded gifts on the floor. (Unfortch, we don't think that pulsing lobby, er living room electronica music was allowed to be played.)
Looking to stay at the W New York Downtown this weekend? Rates are currently going for $314 a night for a wonderful room. Just remember, those munchies do cost extra.
Go here to read our Hotel Spy's review of W New York Downtown!
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Aloft Harlem Won't Take Flight Until October 15
When one hotel door opens, another ... won't open for another few months. Yes, more Hotel Delays news, folks. But we don't feel like we can get too upset about this one since it's a Starwood hotel, and another Starwood property in NYC just opened early. That was the W New York Downtown, while the one delayed is Aloft Harlem.
We're not sure what the hold up is here—maybe the hotel needs to hold another talent show?—but the website now tell us that the opening date has been pushed back from August 19 to October 15.
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Hilton Throws Animal Owners a Bone by Cutting Pet Fees to $50
Pet owners, get ready to start planning more trips with Fido. Hilton's making it cheaper for you to stay in its hotels by slashing its brand-wide pet fee from $75 to $50.
It's a pretty good per-stay rate considering what other hotels charge. Checking in with your four-legged friend at Andaz 5th Avenue or Andaz Wall Street will incur a $100 fee.
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Aloft Hotels Take India Before They Can Get to London
Some of us here at HotelChatter aren't the biggest fans of Starwood's budget aloft Hotels experience, but then some of us are. Regardless of preference, we can say that it's pretty cool to see the modern, affordable chain take off and expand around the world with its free WiFi and excellent lobbies.
We've already told you about plans for London's first aloft, called the "aloft ExCeL" (so annoying), coming in 2012, but meanwhile, the first aloft Hotel in India just opened in Chennai, in a very busy and "under-hoteled" I.T. sector.
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Starwood Wants An Even Bigger Bite Of The Big Apple
The W New York Downtown: Starwood's next move in NYC.
Here we are in the middle of one of the busiest summers for New York City hotel openings—and along comes Starwood with plans for even more new hotels. Today there are 12 Starwood-operated properties in the city. But with six more on the horizon, Starwood can boast—and is boasting—that it will open more hotels in NYC than in other city in the world this year. And this is after dropping a couple of Ws earlier this year—with the Court and the Tuscany departing the Starwood family to become St. Giles hotels.
According to Starwood, 75% of its portfolio in New York will be brand new or freshly renovated by 2011.
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Hotels That Make Their Own Whiskey Have Our Hearts
Local and organic coffee in Portland, Oregon now has nothing on the whiskey scene at The Nines Hotel ever since they began making their own moonshine. This is the second bottling for the hotel's Urban Farmer restaurants, and they're expecting a third batch (aged over 23 months) in August.
So what's it taste like? Well, The Nines describes it thus:
Released from its New American Oak barrel in late May 2010, Barrel #2 of Urban Farmer Whiskey has been aged 18 months and comes in at 98.9 proof. It is perfect for sipping, with dark brown sugar evolving into caramel and licorice with hints of lime and cinnamon on the palette.
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'Spirit Fingers' are Warming Up at The W New York Downtown
The the soon-to-be-opening W New York Downtown is readying its "talent," or in plainspeak, its employees, for the hotel's August 16 opening.
W Hotels are known for throwing "talent shows" to hire employees. And no, they refuse to use terminology like "job fairs." After the new workers are chosen, then comes the pageant-sounding talent training portion of the process. As you can see from the photo, the opening-team workers typically get treated to cheerleader-led festivities as part of the training.
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Book a Hotel, Flight and Car Rental on Starwood's New Travel Site
You can use Starwood Hotels Plus to book a room at Le Meridien New Delhi.
Lindsay Lohan starts serving her 90-day jail sentence on July 20, which means she has less than two weeks to live it up. Before she goes to the slammer, LiLo should plan a quickie getaway on a site like Starwood Hotels Plus. The website is Starwood's version of Travelocity and Expedia, a one-stop travel site that allows you to book your flight, hotel, car rental and trip activities.
The twist, of course, is that you only can book rooms at Starwood brands, such as Aloft, W, St. Regis and Westin. Members of the company's loyalty program, Starwood Preferred Guest, have an added incentive to book through this site: They get 500 points for each night.
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What is a Telepresence Suite and Why Are Hotels Installing Them?
There's a new kind of pay-by-the-hour hotel room in town, and this is one where you won't have to worry about suspicious stains on the bedding because there's no bedding at all!
Newly installed at Starwood's W Chicago City Center and Sydney's Sheraton on the Park are "Telepresence Suites," virtual meeting rooms that connect business travelers stationed around the world as though they were doing business in person. Because you can only do so much using the front-facing camera on a new iPhone 4.
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Starwood Adds Peruvian Hotels to Its Luxury Collection
When you think Machu Picchu, you probably don't think luxury—but Starwood is hoping to change that, with the addition of a new hotel to its Luxury Collection. The newly opened Tambo del Inka is just 50 minutes from Cusco, making it a great base from which to explore the Sacred Valley. (Dude, there's a spa. Perhaps now we may finally get into this thing called "hiking.")
Starwood are partnering with Libertador Hotels, Resorts & Spas on Tambo del Inka, which has 128 rooms and suites, all with views of the Andes and Vilcanota river.
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