While checking out the Hotel Indigo in Nashville a while back, we walked two blocks away and snapped this photo of the sister hotel in the works for ages, InterContinental Nashville. This project was announced with great fanfare several years ago and after a protracted fight over a beautiful historical structure that was eventually razed, it moved forward in '06.
The developer dug a giant hole and...here we are.
Local office workers have started calling it the "West End Avenue Pond" since it seems to be in a permanent state of being filled with green brackish water.
We're expecting some kind of mutant superfrogs to start jumping out in the spring and the urban mosquitoes will find a new heaven.
It took the developers of Hotel Indigo Nashville a while to transform a blocky concrete office building into a hotel with style, but the wait was worth it. We got to spend the night in room 710 (see the video tour here), spreading out in a city view room with plenty of attractive lighting, a hip living room with nods to the 1950s, and free WiFi that actually worked in multiple locations.
But first, what does it look like? Find out after the jump.
Like Starwood's W chain, the ICH group's new Hotel Indigo line is a "branded boutique hotel," meant to be hipper than your usual hotel chain, but not so hip that it will put off business travelers. Indigo goes all Zen on us, with a Haiku on the side of the building, moving images projected on the hallway walls, and decorating touches that change with the seasons.
We'll have a full review of the just-opened Hotel Indigo Nashville next week, but meanwhile here is a video tour of room 710, a spacious city view room with two flat-screen TV's and a vaguely mid-20th-century collection of furniture. Enjoy!
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
The New York Post talks up Nashville this week, promoting reasons to visit this music city such as the Country Music Hall of Fame, a lot of trendy new restaurants, and your chance to eat "chicken fried chicken".
But there's another reason to hit up Nashville--making your dog's recording dreams come true. At the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, the "Hound of Music" package will have your dog starring in the production of his own CD.
We always knew Loews hotels were very dog-friendly but this package takes the cake. And this puppy comes with a price:
Where better than Music City for canines to cut their first CD? Priced at $1,599 a night, the package offers dogs the ultimate star treatment with accommodations in one of our plush, pet-friendly suites. Includes vocal training, professional in-studio recording session, pet room service voucher, massage, limo ride to the studio and a personalized CD case.
Call us crazy but the sound of a dog howling has never merited such a cost in our books. We'd rather save the money and listen to Paris Hilton's CD.
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by Tim L.
