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Holidays: Need a Last-Minute Gift? Hotel Shops Want to Help
As hotels have edged into endeavors that have nothing to do with lodging – art galleries! screening rooms! bingo nights! – retail scores high as a splashy extracurricular effort. With Barneys edging...
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Top Ten: The Best of the New at NYC Hotels in 2011
By the time 2011 morphed into a memory at the stroke of midnight, New York City boasted an unprecedented 90,000 hotel rooms. But the year that was didn’t just set records. If 2011 was a wine we’d raise...
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Travel Lit: Rock & Roll Hotels
Sex, 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...
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In the News: Trip Advisor’s Best Hotels of 2012
We 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...
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On View: Hey, Bud!
Roses at Jumeirah Essex House. “Florals? For spring? Ground breaking.” We hear you, Miranda Priestly. But strolling through a half dozen or so hotel lobbies, we couldn’t resist whipping out a camera...
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Feed Me: Michelin and Zagat Pick Their Top Hotel Restaurants for 2013
Michelin’s newest star: the NoMad restaurant. October isn’t normally thought of as the start of a new year – unless you’re publishing a restaurant guide. This month biggies Michelin and Zagat unveiled...
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Is Hotel Room Service on the Way Out — And Do You Care?
At your service. The news last week that the New York Hilton-Midtown plans to stop offering room service later this summer was a shocker. Envisioning a big player like the 1,980-room Hilton without...
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Want to Pay $100 for a New York City Hotel Room?
$200 a night: Central Park view at The Roger. You’ll have to come to town in January. But 12 hotels are offering rooms for $100 during the third annual New York Hotel Week, January 3 through 12, 2014....
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What Are New York City’s Best Hotel Restaurants?
Michelin Guide This month Michelin and Zagat had their say. Which hotel restaurants did these reviewing heavyweights smile upon? The Modus Operandi differ sharply between the two guides. That said,...
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Farewell Alex Calderwood, Creator of Ace Hotels
Ace New York. Every decade or so, someone comes along and tweaks the way hotels look and do what they do. In the 1970s, London designer Anouska Hemphill transformed a pair of run-down South Kensington...
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