The Happier the Hotelier, the Happier the Guest!
Posted in Austria, History, Hotel Design, Luxury, The Making of, USA on Jul 10th, 2007
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In a recent article the Boston Globe reports about the plans to give the Ames Building in Boston, once (from 1893 - 1915) Boston’s tallest building except for The Church of the Covenant, a new life as a hotel.
Ehotelier.com also reports about this development from the [...]
Posted in Architecture, City Marketing, Design, USA on Jun 19th, 2007
Thanks to Gothamist we know that there ar plans for a playground designed by Frank Gehry for the NYC Battery Park, the “Birthplace of NYC”. An excellent example of city marketing I would say.
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The Ambassador’s Last stand is a blog about the last days of the famous LA Ambassador Hotel.
They still have to update with the actual demolition of the hotel which was all over the news recently.
I was wrong: The demolition I was referring to, was a Las Vegas Hotel
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Sometime somewhere in my newsreader I had seen a reference to her already, but today I stumbled again upon her Blog: Behind Open Doors, the personal Blog of another Hotelier, Yvonne Lembi-Detert, the owner of San Fransisco based Personality Hotels. Their site is also worthwhile to explore.
To see from the photo Yvonne is a real [...]
Posted in Luxury, Promotions, USA on Dec 28th, 2006
The Battery Park Ritz-Carlton in New York City makes a perfect pitch how to spend this year’s average Wall Street bonus.
According to BusinessWeek, the average Wall Street bonus in 2006 will be $137,580. Sure you could use the money to buy a luxury car, but how about sharing a once-in-a-lifetime evening with your [...]
Posted in Design, History, Hoteliers, Luxury, News, Promotions, The Making of, Trends, UK, USA on Aug 12th, 2006
I am not sure whether now 60 years young New Yorker Ian Schrager is into yachts and yachting, but I do know for sure that Philippe Starck is (as is the other famous hotel creator Anouska Hempel, or Lady Weinberg). Ian has created a couple of hotels together with Philippe Starck. Hence the title.
In any [...]
Posted in Internet, Rants, Suite Talk, USA on Jul 1st, 2006
An article in USA Today warns you not to book anything you see advertised on the web without looking up references. Mala fide owners or tenants of dire blocks of apartments put an advertisement on a travel site. The innocent tourist thinks it’s a nice three star “suite”, books it, and arrives in a [...]
St. Regis hotels and resorts is a brand for luxury hotels and part of Starwood hotels. The name originates from the famous St Regis Hotel in New York City, built in 1904 by Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, and located on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 55th Street ( would he have started [...]
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