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How To Get Roosevelt-Era Rates at NYC's Roosevelt Hotel
It wasn’t all that long ago that we were telling you about the New York Roosevelt Hotel’s penchant for Twitter contests—and whaddyaknow? They’re at it again. This time the historic hotel goes back to the Web 2.0 future to celebrate Teddy Roosevelt’s birthday, which, as history nerds know, is tomorrow, October 27.
The contest begins at 2:00 p.m. EST tomorrow, when the Roosevelt will post a trivia question about the nation’s 26th president on their Twitter page. The first five respondents to tweet the right answer will receive a special rate at the hotel of $18.58 (the year Roosevelt was born). Then, at 2:30 p.m., there’ll be another trivia question to ponder—with the first five people answering correctly snagging a room rate of $26.00 (in honor of Teddy being the 26th president).
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New York's Tudor Hotel Will Get A Hip New Lobby
When we reported that the historic Tudor Hotel was set to become a Hilton in March 2010, one commenter was not pleased. The concern? That a piece of hotel history would be ravaged by a cookie-cutter chain. Often, this is what happens when old gems are “updated,” but renovations on historic buildings can also be kind of awesome. We don’t know which it will be for the Tudor yet, but we do know who will be responsible for part of the spruce-up: Therese Virserius Design.
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Hilton Snaps Up A Piece of History in the Tudor Hotel
Last week we took you back to a time when a hotel room near the United Nations cost a mere $3.50. Now, a tipster informs us that one of our Vintage Hotels, The Tudor Hotel, is set to become a Hilton. When browsing Hilton.com, this HotelChatter reader saw that the chain’s portfolio of New York properties had grown to include the Hilton New York/East Midtown.
Indeed, the Hilton site tells us that “this hotel will be joining the Hilton Family soon but is not yet accepting reservations. It is scheduled to open in March 2010.”
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We're Skeptical But We'll Play Along With the Roosevelt Hotel's Twitter Contest
Today The Roosevelt Hotel in New York let us know that as part of their 85th Anniversary celebrations, they would be offering Twitter followers the chance to win a night at the hotel for a special rate of $19.24, the year the Roosevelt first opened.
Under $20 for a hotel room in midtown Manhattan? We should be all "happy happy joy joy" about this, shouldn't we? Well, we're just a bit too skeptical to start jumping around.
Gimmicky low room rates have been introduced by hotels several times in the past year and not one has lived up to the hype. Still, we're willing to put some cautious hope behind this promotion because it's a Twitter contest and has nothing to do with entering in special promo codes in a clunky reservations system within a certain time frame.
Here's how this $19.24 room rate promotion will work:
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Don't Forget Your Pen Necklace: 'Mad Men' Party at the Roosevelt Hotel
The Mad Men Package at the St. Regis NYC may have been cancelled but it looks like New Yorkers will have a place to show off their best "Mad Men" costumes as the Roosevelt Hotel is hosting a season three premiere party inside their Madison Club Lounge on Sunday, August 16.
The bar here was a favorite amongst the Sterling Cooper crew in the first two seasons (it's located at 45th and Madison) and now guests can come in costume to watch the show inside the lounge on flat-panel TVs. And you don't even need to make a reservation.
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Bringing Helmsley Back to Life (The Hotel, Anyways)
The good folks who inherited the task of managing The New York Helmsley Hotel (sadly, not little fluffball millionaire Trouble—how awesome would that be?) would like to share the news that they are bringing the hotel’s lobby, bar, and restaurant into the 21st century.
At least, it sounds that way. A PR rep for the property admits that the lobby area “was stuck in its 1981 time warp,” and pointed us towards a blog describing some of the upgrades. They include individual registration desks and Macassar Ebony wood chairs (“no more Fort Apache-style check-in desk”), a sculptural Barovier & Toso Murano Italian glass chandelier, and walls of decorative Bisazza mosaic tile, East Indian Rosewood and Venetian plaster.
Hmm, it all sounds very Helmsley-ian 80s fabulous to us.
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Roosevelt Hotel's mad46 Will Send Preppiest Partiers to the US Open
If you couldn't make it up to the 19th floor of New York City's Roosevelt Hotel for their Kentucky Derby Party, then they've got another chance for you to dress up and drink al fresco.
The US Open tees off on June 20, and Roosevelt's rooftop mad46 space is hosting a party to welcome all of the argyle socks-wearing, knickers-sporting golf fans out there. Along with specialty cocktails like "Dewar's 19th hole," they'll have Wii Golf set up and HD tvs for really getting into the game.
Dress your WASPiest, as prizes are at hand: two Trophy Club VIP passes for the US Open Golf on Sunday, June 21 and a $100 gift certificate courtesy of Pinks and Greens apparel. It's guaranteed to be the preppiest Saturday party off the greens and outside of the Hamptons, so shine up your Sperry Topsiders.
[Photo: Roosevelt Hotel; Golf bag image: BeSportier]
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On Top of The Roosevelt: A Derby and Drinks at mad46
Two minutes. It's how long the actual race of the famed Kentucky Derby lasts, but for many both in Louisville and outside of Kentucky, it's the difference between a fat wad of cash or empty pockets. Curious to observe the spectacle from the comfort of our home city, New York, we headed up to the 19th floor mad46 rooftop bar at The Roosevelt Hotel for their official party, complete with copious mint juleps and little cheese plates.
There were seersucker suits and showy hats, and there was even a little betting in honor of the fun happening in Churchill Downs. The race, which actually began a tad bit late, was broadcast live via several rooftop televisions and everyone gathered around as "Mine That Bird" took home the first jewel in the Triple Crown.
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Expect Rooftop Horseplay at The Roosevelt's Kentucky Derby Party
Fancy a cool mint julep? In the mood to wear a freakishly oversized, overdecorated hat while competing to win tickets to the Belmont Stakes horse races in June? Don't even think about heading to Kentucky for Saturday's Derby at this point, but instead grab a cab and head uptown to the Roosevelt Hotel's mad46 rooftop lounge for their Official Kentucky Derby Party.
From 5pm to 10pm on Saturday, the 19th floor lounge will host nattily-dressed folk after they walk the red carpet on 46th Street and are whisked to the rooftop by private elevator. At 6:05pm, the actual Kentucky Derby will be broadcast live to accompany the specialty cocktail, the "Woodford Reserve Mint Julep," and cheers will go up to this 135th anniversary of the event.
If the women are game to wear dresses with kick-pleats and hats large enough to almost beam in the broadcast on their own and the men break out the seersucker and pocket watches, then there will be hearty competition for "Best Dressed at the Derby." The prize, two tickets to the Belmont Stakes, should be enough to draw out the horse racing fans, but we're also hoping for the appearance of faux southern accents and handlebar mustaches.
[Photo: Roosevelt Hotel]
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Mad46 Returns to Roosevelt NY's Rooftop with New Indoor Space
Slowly but surely, the gloomy cold is lifting from NYC and springtime weather is approaching. Which means — yes, oh yes — rooftop bar season is almost here!
Mad46, The Roosevelt Hotel’s 19th-story rooftop lounge, is reopening very, very soon after a long winter hiatus. And the place will re-open with an indoor space, too. Official word:
Its feel is cosmopolitan and relaxed, refreshing guests outdoors with its ultra chic surroundings and elegantly minimal furnishings, while indoor space offers a fully air-conditioned lounge, perfect for rainy afternoons and escaping the summer heat.
Scheduled to get back into the Monday-through-Friday routine "in early May" (we assume either something's not quite finished or they're waiting for the weather to straighten itself out), the ol' signature drink list will be back: the Mad Mojito — with a white-chocolate stick and shaved coconut — and the namesake espresso-heavy Teddy-Tini will be back and as good as ever.
Stay tuned for official opening news via the website.
[Photo: Evan W. Miller]
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Leona Helmsley To Cover Your Room Tax From the Grave
If only hotel mogul Leona Helmsley — who famously said, "Only the little people pay taxes" — had served those 18 months of punishment in the slammer in 2009, she might have been a celebrated pop culture icon worthy of some good Daily Show and The Soup fodder.
Regardless, the late, great "Queen of Mean" certainly knows how to keep it newsworthy just in time for tax season. April 15th might as well be named Leona Helmsley Day as the New York Helmsley Hotel is offering tax-free rooms cheekily in her honor on the very day most of us file. Not too shabby considering New York city tax went up to 5.875 percent from 5 percent back in March.
That's right guests, now you too can dodge tax payment, only this time let Mrs. Helmsley's estate foot the tax bill for a night. (That's a savings of $50 on a $250 badly-in-need-of-renovations room.) How is that for some afterlife irony? Just stay away from Trouble.
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Would You Stay In a Hotel Room Billboard?
Times are tough, and sometimes you do what you gotta do to get a cheap hotel room. We've all got different limits — some of us are willing to wake up at ungodly hours to do silly promotions, some of us don't mind navigating tricky websites to score $1 rooms, and some of us, apparently, are cool with staying in voyeur-friendly hotel room replicas (where passersby on NYC sidewalks can gawk at you) in exchange for a free stay in NYC. Like we said: you do what you gotta do.
According to the AP, a London couple is receiving a free five-day NYC hotel stay from The Roger Smith in Manhattan in exchange for participating in a sort of live billboard for the hotel. The couple is staying in a replica of a Roger Smith hotel room that has been set up on the ground floor of a nearby building, and they're required to keep the curtains on the room's huge windows open between 4:30pm and 7:30pm during their stay (all week until Friday).
Sort of a creepy arrangement, but sort of not — think about it: what do you do in your hotel room in those twilight hours between touristy activities and dinner? Not a whole lot. They're probably just chillin' in there and enjoying the peoplewatching safari that is a New York City sidewalk. Plus, people go on reality shows all the time. This is kind of like reality show, except people can't hear you saying stupid things. Sounds like a good deal to us!
[Photo: AP via Daily Mail]
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