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The Distrikt Hotel: Where ‘Late Fall’ Means Winter
Get out your Hotel Opening Date Tracking Sheet, friends, because it’s time for a little update on Manhattan’s Distrikt Hotel. We’re dying to see this place: the NYC-neighborhood theme is one of the most interesting we’ve heard of all year, and we can’t wait to see which floors—each named after a different part of the city—will become the most sought after. (It seems apt that the Financial District is on the lowest floor, and Harlem on the highest, no?)
Alas, it looks like we’ll have to wait a few more weeks. While the hotel’s website is still promising an opening in “late fall,” and a press rep for the Distrikt told us the doors would open on November 15th, we’ve since heard that the big day would be pushed back to December 1st.
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Book The Strand Hotel For $249 on Quikbook For Stays After November 16th
Last week when we checked in on The Strand Hotel we learned the place was opening either "any day now" or on November 16. But having just received our latest Quikbook.com newsletter advertising rates of $249 for the new hotel, we assumed it was open now. But we must have pulled out our "Jump to Conclusions" mat by accident.
Rooms were not available for tomorrow night on Quikbook.com. However, November 16th was open for $249 a night for a standard king with complimentary breakfast. The hotel's website is also not showing rooms open until November 16th. So we think you can guess what we recommend for booking this hotel--wait until November 16th. But book through Quikbook.com. Their rates are $40 cheaper per night than the hotel's website.
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The Strand Hotel: Either Opening 'Any Day Now' or November 16
Welcome to New York's very own Midtown West Hotel Opening Race. We’ve been tracking the impending openings of a number of New York hotels, including two in the Midtown West ’hood—The Strand and The Distrikt. Both were due to throw open their doors this month, but it now looks like they could be heading for twin openings in mid-November.
Not so long ago, The Strand—the fashiony one with the vintage Conde Nast prints on the walls—had mid-October dates on their online reservation system, but now the first date available is November 16. The official word, however, is that the hotel could open “any day now.”
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The Distrikt Hotel Will Open 'Late Fall'
Fall is here, and the Halloween decorations have sprouted. Which reminds us: Wasn’t the Distrikt Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen meant to be opening on October 28? We thought so, but when we skipped over to the hotel’s website today we noticed they are now saying, “Opening Late Fall 2009.” What counts as “late fall,” we wonder? Mid-November?
Quite possibly. Last time we checked, there were just a couple of rooms at the Distrikt available for October 28—but today, the earliest date we could find using the online reservation system was November 16. The best rate available was $309 a night for a Queen, although we found a $279 a night rate for later dates, including November 22, and November 27.
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Stay at The Strand, Get a Pretty Print
As regular HotelChatter readers know, we’re tracking a healthy handful of new hotels opening in New York this winter, and the race is on to see which of them not only opens first but wows guests in the biggest way. The garment district’s major contender, The Strand, is making its first offensive play in the game with its “Room With a View” grand-opening package.
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What's On the Block at The Strand Hotel?
In this regular feature on HotelChatter, we choose a hotel and take a look at what other businesses or buildings are on its block. Because what's close by is nearly just as important as what's inside the hotel.
Today we look at one of our 10 Hot New York City Hotel Openings, The Strand Hotel.
This is how they describe their locale:
the 20-floor Strand Hotel is ideally located just around the corner from the Empire State Building, steps from prime NYC shopping, the Theatre District, Madison Square Garden, Bryant Park, Grand Central Station and much more.
And they’re right. This is a fantastic, central location. Lord & Taylor, Macy’s, the New York Public Library, and all those places they mention are all within walking distance. And you will never go hungry or want for touristy tschokes. But here’s the “much more”—what you’ll find on the actual block itself, on W. 37th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
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What's On The Block at The Distrikt Hotel?
In a new regular feature on HotelChatter, we'll choose a hotel and take a look at what other businesses or buildings are on its block. Because what's close by is nearly just as important as what's inside the hotel.
Today we strolled by one of the hotels listed on our 10 Hot New York City Hotel Openings, The Distrikt Hotel. The hotel describes its location like this: "Located in the heart of Manhattan on West 40th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues in Midtown Manhattan". And "steps away from The New York Times Building and Times Square." Technically, this is true. But there’s a few other things the funky-sounding hotel is not telling you....
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The Strand Hotel Taking Reservations for October 1st, We Think
Got your hotel opening date scorecard handy? It’s time to check in one of our 10 Hot New York City Hotel Openings. Today: The Strand Hotel.
When the press release for this property first went out in June, it promised an August debut. Ha. We know better than to fall for the first date thrown into the air. Then, a few weeks back, it looked like the Garment District digs might open on October 1st.
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The Strand Hotel in New York Could Open October 1st
Another day, yet another Manhattan hotel opening we're hearing about.
Back in July, we scoped out the website for The Strand Hotel on W. 37th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues, right near Bryant Park and the grand New York Public Library. At that time, we couldn't check out the room rates or find an exact opening date but we could learn what was going to be inside--like the tongue-in-cheek restaurant, A Fish Called Avalon, a hotel spa and a rooftop lounge. And now, we have some good news for you today.
When we skipped over to the hotel's website last night, we hunted around for reservations and found that October 1 was the first day the hotel was listed as available! A superior king was available for $289 a night. A superior queen was going for $279 a night. Not great, but nothing too Jeffersonian.
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Manhattan's Upcoming Distrikt Hotel To Pay Homage To NYC's Different 'Hoods
It looks like the (tentatively named) Fashion 26 won't be the only new hotel gracing the island of Manhattan this fall. The Distrikt Hotel is set to debut on October 28 on West 40th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues, bringing a new and exciting alternative for accommodations near Times Square (finally!) Here's the official description of the hotel:
New York City itself inspires the décor with floors representing 10 different neighborhoods or districts beginning with a Central Park living wall in the lobby and renderings of Manhattan's grid around the elevators.
We hear the hotel floors will be arranged in order according to their locations so the Financial District will be the lowest floor and Harlem will be the highest. Cool!
But there's a whole lot more going on at Distrikt. The 32-story skyscraper is actually an Ascend Collection hotel, a Choice Hotels brand, which means very good things for guests--like free wireless internet. We used this service at another Ascend Collection hotel--the GEM Hotel Chelsea--and it was blazing fast.
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Sneak Peek at The Strand NYC, Opening...Soon
Friday fun at HC HQ occasionally involves poking around the HVS Manhattan Market Overview and seeing what the new hot gossip on the streets happens to be. And would you look at this: we noticed that The Strand Hotel at 33 West 37th Street was slated to open its doors in Fall 2009 — mighty soon, kids!
We actually noticed the hotel has a website up and running already, too — though we can't quite get a feel for what rates are going to be like; the site isn't taking any bookings yet.
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Another Tri-Pack Hotel is Now Two-Thirds Open in Times Square
How could we forget that the Tri-Pack hotel in Times Square would have some competition. We got a press release today saying that the Four Points Times Square has opened. When we checked our archives to see what else we have written about this hotel, we found this story which focused largely on Gene Kauffman's Tri-Pack Hotel.
However, we also wrote that he was working on a similar packaged hotel at 40th street that would include "a Four Points by Sheraton, Fairfield Inn and Staybridge Suites, each more than 30 stories tall." For clarity's sake we'll call this new one Tri-Pack BT (Business Travelers.) The other Tri-Pack will have the more budget-y brands of Holiday Inn, a Candlewood Suites and a Hampton Inn.
Now the Four Points is open at Tri-Pack BT but Staybridge Suites won't take guests until January 16, 2010. On the other hand the Fairfield Inn is already open with rooms at $199, making this Tri-Pack hotel two-thirds open.
And yes, that's a Starwood property, an ICH hotel and a Marriott brand all sharing the same space. (Btw for giggles, check out the Staybridge Suites rendering on their site which shows the building as a standalone.)
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