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What Can You Expect to See in Your Hotel Room Next Year? Scoping Out The International Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Show
/in Hotels in the News/by Terry TruccoWe love the sneak peek aspect of trade shows, so we bee-lined to the recent International Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Show at Javits Center. Seeing the panoply of items hotels can choose from prompts reactions from what took them so long to what were they thinking? Read more
Can Do: Is This Replica of the Standard Hotel Really Constructed from Tuna Cans?
/in Hotels and Holidays, Hotels and the Arts/by Terry TruccoQ. When is a can of tuna more than just a can of tuna?
A. When it’s grouped with more than 4,000 others to create a grand-scale sculpture of New York’s Standard Hotel, aka The Candard Hotel. Read more
To Your Health With The Grand Hyatt New York’s New Craft Cocktails Menu
/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry TruccoCocktails as health drinks? In our dreams.
Still, every day, it seems, another hotel bar announces an ingredients purge. Out with processed juices, prefab mixes and high fructose corn syrups. In with fresh squeezed juice, mint leaves and sliced fruit. Read more
Sipping Mrs. Lilley’s Pumpkin Pie, The Ultimate Holiday Drink, at the Crosby Street Hotel
/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry TruccoSeasonal drinks make some people squirm, but we love them. Give us a pumpkin martini, and we say Thanks(giving)! Stir in a cool story, and it tastes even better. Read more
First Look at Aloft Harlem — A Cool New Hotel for the ‘Hood
/in Hotel Openings and Closings/by Terry TruccoHarlem isn’t known for hotels. In fact, it’s main headliner, the white brick Hotel Theresa – guests included Louis Armstrong, Malcolm X, Little Richard, Josephine Baker and Fidel Castro — closed in 1967. Read more
#OnlineOneophilia: The Four Seasons Turns To Twitter For A Wine Tasting
/in Hotel Food and Drink, Hotels and Tech/by Terry TruccoCan you tweet a wine tasting?
Three top sommeliers from Four Seasons hotels aims to find out on November 17. That night, at 7 pm New York time, anyone anywhere can log onto Twitter, search for hashtag #FSWine, raise a glass (crystal or virtual) and join the online discussion that ensues in what’s billed as the first ever online wine tasting at Four Seasons. Read more
Composer and Cabaret Artist Jimmy Roberts Performs at the Keyboard in Afterglow Series
/in Hotels and the Arts/by Terry TruccoNot so long ago, New York hotel bars were almost like supper clubs without the supper, a classic mix of martinis and live music, part Bobby Short, part Fabulous Baker Boys. For the price of a drink or two or three, a pianist, harpist or jazz trio would entertain you before you headed upstairs or back home. Read more
Hyatt’s New Hypo-Allergenic Rooms Help Guests With Allergies Breathe Easier
/in Green Hotels/by Terry TruccoOnce upon a time, no hotel room was complete without an ashtray. Non-smoking rooms eventually appeared and, voila, room categories were born.
Now the choices for guests booking at a small but growing number of hotels include a third category — the hypo-allergenic room, cleansed within an inch of its life of nearly all surface and air-born impurities. For the estimated one in five people afflicted with allergies or asthma, this is news worth noting.
This month Hyatt became the first hotel chain to mount a grand-scale effort to purify its rooms – at least some of them. More than 60 full-service Hyatts currently offer the brand’s new Respire Hypo-Allergenic rooms, including the Andaz Fifth Avenue, Andaz Wall Street and Grand Hyatt, whose entire 29th floor is pure Respire, in New York. Read more
Now Playing at the Crosby Street: A Hip Sunday Night Film Club at a SoHo Hotel
/in Hotels and the Arts/by Terry TruccoAlmost as many New York City hotels have screening rooms as spas. But it’s a lot easier to visit a hotel spa than to settle in with a bag of popcorn for a movie in a hotel screening room. Read more
Socialites, Lapsang Soochang and Carla Bruni — A Night at The Carlyle
/in Hotels in the News, Notable Check-ins/by Terry TruccoThe uniformed attendants posted behind a discrete desk in the grand black-and-white lobby were impeccably polite. But check-in wasn’t unspooling quite as I expected. The man next to me, owner of a blue blazer and a belligerent British accent, waved a sheet of paper and demanded to know what the devil these bloody charges were.
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