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It’s Back! NYC Winter Restaurant Week 2012 Breezes into Town
/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry TruccoTwice a year Restaurant Week muscles onto our dining radar with its vaunted three course fixed price lunches and dinners. Now in its 20th year, the twice-yearly promotion timed to boost business during winter and summer slow spells attracts more than 300 restaurants including more than 30 in hotels. This year’s first promotion, with $24.07 lunches and $35 dinners on weekdays, ends this Friday, February 10. Read more
Hotel Bars Where You Can Cheer the Super Bowl (and the Giants)
/in Hotels Pets & Sports/by Terry TruccoThe ads! The half-time show! Madonna! We love football (Go Giants), but it’s not the only reason to watch the Super Bowl this Sunday.
Where do you want to be when the Giants and the Patriots go helmet to helmet? We suggest a hotel bar that’s geared up for the big showdown. We found six — three in midtown and three downtown — where you can settle in with a pitcher of beer and a bucket of wings and drink in the early February festivities, be it the game, the sideshow or both, on a big screen (or two, or 17). Read more
Are These The Best Hotels in New York in 2012? AAA Thinks So and Rolls Out Its Five Diamond List
/in Hotels in the News/by Terry TruccoAnother day, another survey. AAA has released its 2012 list of Five Diamond hotels and restaurants, and New York City cleaned up with eight hotels and one hotel restaurant landing the coveted diamonds, the goldest star AAA’s professional raters award. Only Las Vegas scored higher in the hotel category, with a nod for ten properties. Read more
Taking Tea — and a Break from the 21st Century — at Lady Mendl’s Tea Salon at The Inn at Irving Place
/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry TruccoTalk about a misnomer. Lady Mendl, aka Elsie de Wolfe, the pioneering interior designer and Age of Innocence-era grand dame, never lived in the twin 1834 townhouses containing the tea salon bearing her name. And we can’t imagine this crusading modernist who loathed Victorian frou frou would have selected, or condoned, the curvaceous loveseats, tufted brocades, fringed lampshades and acres of carved wood that fill the salon’s two parlors.
No matter. We can’t think of a better place to retreat when you want to take a quick break from the 21st century. Read more
Trip Advisor Rounds Up Its Best Hotels of 2012: How Did NYC Hotels Fare?
/in Hotels in the News/by Terry TruccoWe don’t know whether to be befuddled or embarrassed. We’re pretty partial to New York City hotels, but not a single one – not one! – landed on Trip Advisor’s annual Travel’s Choice list of the 25 Best Hotels in the World list published yesterday.
New York did better last year, when the city offered fewer rooms but apparently played to more enthusiastic Trip Advisor users. Though none made the cut for the top 25 international hotels in 2011, the plucky Casablanca in Times Square rolled in at number eight for best in the US. Alas, it – and every place else here in town – was shut out of that list this time. Read more
Want to Stay at Big-Name Chain Hotel like Hyatt, Hilton or Marriott? Check out Roomkey.com, a New Hotel Booking Website
/in Hotels and Tech, Hotels in the News/by Terry TruccoIs Room Key the hotel version of the Empire Strikes Back?
Last week Roomkey.com, a new hotel search engine, went live. But instead of a third-party consolidator like Expedia or Travelocity, Room key is operated by a consortium of big-gun hotel chains whose properties it handles exclusively. Read more
The Gershwin Hosts a Photo Show from the Creepy New Film “We Need to Talk About Kevin”
/in Hotels and the Arts/by Terry TruccoWe always stop by the Gershwin Hotel when we’re in the neighborhood. Besides Birch Coffee, a one-of-a-kind, sustainable-minded coffee shop, and a lively lobby where you can hang out as long as you want, the hotel buzzes with events – art exhibitions, music performances, drama of all kinds.
On a recent evening we strolled into the lobby and found actress Tilda Swindon at her spookiest staring at us on almost every wall. Read more
Where do Rock Stars Crash When They Play New York, Paris or Louisville, Kentucky? ‘Rock & Roll Hotels,’ a New Guide Book, Tells All
/in Hotels and the Arts/by Terry TruccoSex, drugs and fluffy pillows. Think about it, dude. Rock musicians spend a lot of time on the road. The lucky ones score suites in some of the world’s best hotels. Those that don’t often crash in intriguingly oddball places. And things happen. Rooms get trashed. TVs get tossed into the pool. Harleys get driven into the lobby. Read more
Best of the New: What We Saw And Loved at NYC Hotels in 2011
/in Hotels in the News/by Terry Trucco10 Things to Check Out at NYC Hotels Before the Holidays 2011 End
/in Hotels and Holidays/by Terry TruccoWe love the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. A classic liminal period, it’s an opportunity to work less (or not at all), see a movie, read a book, catch your breath. And if you’re like us, you’ll probably stop by a hotel (or two). Here are 10 worth checking out even if you don’t check in. Read more