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Pass the Popcorn: February 2012’s Most Popular Hotel Room Movies
/in Hotels and the Arts/by Terry TruccoWelcome to our newest feature. Each month we’ll post the 10 top Hollywood films watched by hotel guests in New York and across the US as compiled by LodgeNet, the country’s leading provider of in-room entertainment.
Here’s how guests voted with their TV remotes (and iPod apps) in February. Note to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: The Descendants cleaned up big with hotel guests. Read more
A First Look at TRYP New York Times Square South, Stylish, Comfy and New
/in Hotel Openings and Closings/by Terry TruccoFirst, a word about the name. Even with “south” tacked on, associating a hotel on West 35th Street with Times Square is a stretch, especially a hotel situated between 8th and 9th avenues. But once you accept that TRYP is a lot closer to Madison Square Garden and Macy’s than to where the New Year’s Eve ball drops, things get interesting. Read more
Super Knick Jeremy Lin Checks Into W New York Downtown, a Big Lin-Win
/in Hotels Pets & Sports/by Terry TruccoHis brother’s couch is history. Jeremy Lin, the white-hot, Harvard-educated New York Knicks point guard who less than a month ago was a) an NBA cast-off lucky to land with the Knicks and b) homeless has upped his domestic game and moved into our kind of place – a hotel. Read more
Three NYC Hotels Where You Can Watch the Academy Awards
/in Hotel Food and Drink, Hotels and the Arts/by Terry TruccoWe found three hotels in different parts of town that go all out for Oscar night. The envelope, please! Read more
A First Look at Hotel Lola, the Latest Occupant of the Martha Washington Building
/in Hotel Openings and Closings/by Terry TruccoLola — the fragrance.
Can a perfume bottle inspire a hotel? The thought never occurred to me until I visited Lola, a sleek new hotel in an old brick and stone building in the East 20s. But oh, those colors. The moody/glam lobby – and guest rooms and website – are ablaze in purple, scarlet, navy and yellow. And so is Lola, the Marc Jacobs fragrance in the whimsical bottle crowned with a plastic flower. Like the bottle, the hotel has style. Read more
What Happens When Chocolate and Cocktails Mix? The Two E Bar at The Pierre Finds Out
/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry TruccoChocolate cocktails sound pretty good, but as I discovered on a recent visit to the lounge at the Pierre Hotel, they’re oddly polarizing.
While keeping a friend company before she went to a dinner party upstairs, I spotted the bar’s Chocolate Cocktail Festival menu featuring eight drinks (five hot, three chilled) and two lavish desserts, $14 each. Read more
Trump International New York Hotel & Tower Gets a Great Big Close-up In Action Thriller “Tower Heist”
/in Hotels and the Arts/by Terry TruccoAffinia Manhattan Revs Up for the Westminster Dog Show with a Special Canine Suite
/in Hotels Pets & Sports/by Terry TruccoBest in Show 1924, Champion Barberryhill Bootlegger, Sealyham Terrier.
It’s serendipity that Fashion Week and the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show hit town at the same time this year. Show dogs are the canine version of supermodels. And like the leggy creatures strutting the catwalk at Lincoln Center, the furry creatures running the ring at Madison Square Garden, February 13 and 14, travel relentlessly. Read more
Check out The Empire, the Hotel Across the Street from New York Fashion Week
/in Hotels and Fashion/by Terry TruccoThe Empire lobby viewed from the mezzanine.
Sometimes a hotel just gets lucky. For years Fashion Week unfurled in big white tents in Bryant Park across the street from the Bryant Park Hotel. But in 2010, the big twice-yearly show moved to a sleek gray cube planted in Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park. And just like that, luck winked at the Empire Hotel, so close you can scamper from hotel to cube in stilettos. Read more
Lose That Zapper: Hotel Room Channel Surfing on a Mobile Device Is Here
/in Hotels and Tech/by Terry TruccoAdd the TV zapper to the list of hotel room amenities one step closer to the junk heap.
Last week LodgeNet, the largest provider of in-room entertainment, introduced a new app that lets hotel guests use their smartphones to operate the TV. The free LodgeNet Mobile App turns an iPhone, iPad or Android into a hotel room remote control that does it all — turns the TV on and off, adjusts the sound and accesses free TV, on-demand TV and pay-per-view movies. The app also serves up information about the hotel and local events, restaurants, maps and attractions. Read more