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Hotel News Briefs :: NYLO Hotel Warwick's Message in a Bottle

HotelChatter | 4 hours 15 minutes ago

· NYLO Warwick is Sending Out an SOS: To their opening party! This is what arrived for us regarding the hotel's grand opening on September 18th. Cool! Now if only we could get this dang Police song out of our heads.· Kor Hotels Sells Stake to Abu Dhabi Firm: Owner Brad Korzen says Kor Hotels sold 50 percent of company to Abu Dhabi company Mubadala. The cash influx will allow Kor Hotels to keep expanding. Also: did you know Korzen was married to interior designer Kelly Wearstler who ...

Carmel: Carmel Hotel Guide :: The Best Western is Right in the Middle of the Action

HotelChatter | 4 hours 27 minutes ago

With staycations all the rage these days, we've decided to take a look at some of the best places in the U.S. for quick, close-to-home trips. Up first is Carmel-by-the-Sea, a small yet upscale town on the Monterey Peninsula. Known for its devotion to the arts and its celeb residents (Clint Eastwood was once mayor here), Carmel is also home to small hotels and inns galore. Enjoy.While the sweeping scenery of the Monterey Peninsula with its rocky coastline and cypress trees is not to be missed ...

USA TODAY/Hotel Hotsheet | 4 hours 42 minutes ago

Denver: DNC Wooden Key Cards Update :: Not So Bad at All

HotelChatter | 4 hours 59 minutes ago

This week, hotels all over Denver served to host the world premiere of the sustainable wooden hotel key cards we'd heard so much about. First, we heard they sucked. But then the source we'd consulted had issued a correction (rumors happen!) saying all was fine and dandy with the cards -- but we wanted to wait and hear from someone who had actually used the cards before we allowed ourselves to remain hold out hope for eco-friendly keycards to catch on. So we were delighted when reader Amy, who...

Milwaukee: Hotel Opening Rates :: 'Rev It Up' at the Iron Horse Hotel

HotelChatter | 4 hours 59 minutes ago

The Iron Horse Hotel -- the Harley Davidson-themed boutique hotel in Milwaukee featuring awesome local lady art, sweet-ass decor and rates that are surprisingly reasonable -- was set for a September 15th opening last we checked. We got word today that the hotel is offering special introductory "Rev It Up" opening rates (heh -- get it? Motorcycles? Revving up?) starting on October 1st, so we were a bit confused -- but we called the hotel and they happily confirmed that the official opening is ...

Main Beach: Original Boutique Hotels :: Palazzo Versace Gets a New Look

HotelChatter | 5 hours 19 minutes ago

And now we present you with the second edition of our Original Boutique Hotels series. Enjoy.Nowadays, it's all the rage for fashion designers to create hotels. But just remember that Donatella Versace was one of the first designers in the boutique hotel game with the Palazzo Versace Hotel on Australia's Gold Coast.Of course, in the words of the all-knowing Heidi Klum in the fashion world, "One day you are in and one day you are out." Thus the Palazzo Versace had to make some changes.The hote...

Bodrum: Ultimate Turkish Art Collection at the Casa Dell'Arte

HotelChatter | 6 hours 39 minutes ago

We first heard about the Casa Dell'Arte in Bodrum, Turkey from the Travel + Leisure list of this year's top 30 new hotels, and now we can see for certain it made this list for a good reason.Casa Dell'Arte--"Hotel of Arts and Leisure", as the website says--is a genuine art hotel, run by a family who also have an art gallery in Istanbul.

Hilton's Super-Secret Hotel Lab Hidden Inside the LAX Garden Inn

HotelChatter | 8 hours 2 minutes ago

Ohhhh, we love us some good top secret info: apparently, Hilton has a hidden secret lab -- so secret that it goes by a "code name." It's tucked inside a wing of the Hilton Garden Inn El Sugundo, an unassuming LAX airport hotel. Well, we suppose it's not so secret anymore since Portfolio wrote it up this week: The secret wing, code-named University, is Hilton's "hotel laboratory," the place were the company tests and refines its next generation of rooms. A year or two from now, the ideas, con...

Hotel how-tos: Keeping your belongings safe

USA TODAY/Hotel Hotsheet | 8 hours 27 minutes ago

Are you the sort who leaves a wallet or watch on the dresser when you go to the hotel pool? Do you keep your laptop locked up when out of the room? Do you hide money under the mattress and...

San Pedro: Labor Day "Hotel" :: All Aboard the Queen Mary for a Pajama Party

HotelChatter | 9 hours 8 minutes ago

If you were wondering where you could dust off your slippers from 1930 and button down to your lounging pajamas then we have the place for you. If you are still looking for something to do over Labor Day, you must join the Art Deco Festival aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif. Now technically the Queen Mary is a boat and not a hotel. But the festival is kind of a stellar deal--$650/couple for two nights plus a slough of bashes, lectures and tours, but it's practically a time machine! Y...

RockResorts Thinks Global, Eats Local

HotelChatter | 9 hours 54 minutes ago

With all the ink over green hotels and LEED-certified buildings, it's kinda refreshing to see a hotel chain implement green food. Not with food coloring, but with an approach to cuisine that is local, sustainable, and trans-fat free.The RockResorts chain has just rolled out its Appetite for Life program -- which translates to exclusively offering Coleman natural products (all free-range, organic, natural meats and poultry), Horizon Organic Dairy products, sustainable seafood and fish, and fai...

Las Vegas: WTF Hotel News :: Jason Kidd Gives Elaine Wynn His Gold Medal

HotelChatter | 9 hours 54 minutes ago

USA b-baller Jason Kidd is fresh off his gold medal win in Beijing and guess what he's doing? No, he's not going to Disney World. He's going to give his gold medal to Elaine Wynn, wife of Steve Wynn.Since we could not do this sort of explanation any justice, we're giving you Kidd's own words:"Last summer, we stayed at the Wynn for (what seemed like) a lifetime, close to three weeks," Kidd said. "We met at a banquet, we got to talking, and she really understands the game. "I told her I'd make...

Dallas: Your Hacky Sack Skillz Will Score You 50% Off Your Hotel Palomar Rate

HotelChatter | 10 hours 41 minutes ago

Yo, dude: remember the Hacky Sack? Best known (to some generations, at least) as the trademark accessory and sport of choice by 90's high-schoolers who stuck to steady diets of organic popcorn and weed, the Hacky Sack is -- it seems -- poised to make a comeback. Yeah, we find this curiously random, too, but: Kimpton is bringing the Hacky back. In Dallas, Texas, no less.

Las Vegas: Is the Riviera Hotel and Casino Edging Away From Elvis?

HotelChatter | 10 hours 56 minutes ago

About a year back we were getting all excited about the idea of the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas being converted into an Elvis-themed casino after rumors that Robert Sillerman was about to get involved.Now, the Riviera has announced that it's half-way through a $20 million renovation project but so far, there's no sign of Elvis. The first phase involved remodeling over half of their hotel rooms, giving them completely new interiors plus a bunch of accessories like new flat screen TVs...

Las Vegas: Treasure Island Gets New Rooms But Don't Worry, Pirates and Wenches Remain

HotelChatter | 12 hours 32 minutes ago

Treasure Island recently debuted its new rooms and, um, we're wondering when we can come visit? While we're not crazy about the various shades of brown someone decided to decorate the rooms with, we're really intrigued by the various views touted on the hotel's web site. For instance, there's floor-to-ceiling shots of the Spring Mountains or the Strip available from the Deluxe and (duh) Strip view rooms, or the panoramic views available from (duh) the Panoramic and Tower Deluxe rooms. (Other...

Ixtapa: Killer Views Can Be Found on The Ground Floor at Club Med Ixtapa Pacific

HotelChatter | 12 hours 32 minutes ago

Last week we gave a rundown of the major tranformation at Club Med Ixtapa Pacific in Mexico, where the rooms are now downright swanky and an air of stylishness raises the resort above the usual all-inclusive standards. As with many of these low-rise resorts spread over many acres, rooms in some buildings don't have a view. If you want to be able to look out at the ocean from your room and not just the public areas, pay up for one in the Cielo building. The shot here is from the balcony of 301...

Gerona: Spanish Hotels with History :: Hostal Empuries

HotelChatter | 13 hours 10 minutes ago

After spending two weeks recapping the Lisbon Hotel Scene for us, Monica Guy is back with some history lessons. She's chronicling some of Spain's historic hotels this week. Enjoy.A Spanish beach hotel with a difference: this one's small, special and has a bit of history behind it. The Hostal Empuries is up on the Catalan coast between near Gerona, just north of Barcelona. If you want trendy seaside japes at a good price this is the place to go. The hotel used to be a snack bar for archaeologi...

Tech heist

New York Hospitality by Vijay Dandapani | 13 hours 17 minutes ago

The Sunday Herald, a Scottish newspaper has a report on what could end up being the largest heist in hospitality, if not cyber-space, annals. According to the Herald "An international criminal gang has pulled off one of the most audacious...

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