Category: Hotels
Implosion Date and Time of former Sand’s Casino Hotel Confirmed
UPDATE 10-16-07: FAQ of Sands Casino Implosion Last week Pinnacle Entertainment sent out a press release giving the date and time of the Sand’s Casino implosion. Pinnacle Atlantic City today announced that the implosion of the legendary Sands Casino Hotel will be held on Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 9:30 p.m. (rain or shine). The [...]
Future W Hotel Locations
I came across a pretty complete list of W Hotel Locations – existing, under construction and planned hotels. This list also contains information such as who the architect was, who the designer was, if the hotel was a conversion or new build, and the year the hotel was opened. The document is noticeably out of [...]
Starwood’s aloft and element in Lexington Massachusetts
One of the first (if not the first) aloft and element hotels that are scheduled to open in Spring 2008 are the Starwood owned and managed aloft & element Lexington, MA. Don’t worry - its not going to be a one building containing both brands – its going to be two separate buildings, two separate [...]
Atlantic City Gets It’s First Boutique Hotel – The Chelsea!
UPDATED: 9/21/10 - Go here for information on the Ritz-Carlton Atlantic City featured in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire? UPDATED: 9/10/07 – I was contacted by LaForce + Stevens, the PR agency for the developer and was told that the name of the development will be ”The Chelsea” and NOT The Chelsea House, I have updated this post to reflect that. [...]
Pritzker Family selling a portion of Global Hyatt Corporation
It was announced today that the Pritzker family is selling a $1billion stake of their Global Hyatt Corporation to an Investment company named Madrone Capital Partners (owned by the Waltons Family from Wal-Mart fame) and Goldman Sachs. Each company will pick up a $500million stake which will give them a board seat and a minority [...]
Asbury Park, NJ’s Renaissance
Even if you are not from New Jersey, or even the East Coast – there is a good possibility that you have heard of Asbury Park, NJ.. You may be familiar with it as the “Birthplace” of Bruce Springsteen (actually, he was born and grew up in Freehold, NJ, but he was first noticed at [...]
Blog featured on HotelChatter.com
So I was featured in a short article on HotelChatter.com this morning! (Read it here) I’ve only had this blog up for a few days, and it seems like I’m getting a good reaction to it already which is awesome. I just hope that no one gets the wrong idea about my “stalking” the W. [...]
Ian Schrager and Bill Marriott? Does anyone think this will work?
One of the biggest news stories to come out of the hotel industry in the last few months is how Ian Schrager (of the Hudson, Cliffs, & Morgans hotel fame) is teaming up with Bill Marriott & Marriott Hotels to design and develop about 100 new boutique hotels worldwide. Marriott will be managing the hotels, [...]
Progress of W Hoboken & W New York Downtown
A number of years ago I spent a night at the W Hotel Times Square, located in New York City – ever since that night, I have had the utmost respect, fondness, and love of the W Hotel brand. Before I even stayed at that W, I always thought Starwood Hotels & Resorts was an [...]
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