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Last week we heard all about the new skyscraper to rise about the Hotel Pennsylvania and how it would block people’s views of the Empire State Building.
Our first reaction to this whining was: Woe is me to those who can afford to live in a building that offered them in the first place! Our second thought: there are loads of hotels with views of the Empire State, either from the guest rooms or the rooftops, and not all of them are the most expensive joints in town.
So here, in …

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You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell …

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We are suckers for a room with a killer view.  We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty–yeah we are that shallow. Let’s help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number …

You already know that the Trump kids have got their hands all over the family’s hotels these days—but let’s not forget that Ivanka also dabbles in fashion with her Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry line. No need to write this down, though—the New York Trump hotels are happy to remind you, this time via their Fashion’s Night Out package.
At least there is also a feel-good side to this power-coupling: Ivanka’s jewelry boutique has partnered with the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up campaign to launch a special-edition Girl Up Bracelet, with …

Earlier this week, we looked at 10 Annoying Hotel Room Designs but today we’d like to take a closer look at #5 on that list: Sliding Bathroom Doors. Specifically, we want to tell you how we got locked inside the bathroom at the W New York Downtown.
Now, we’re not usually claustrophobic, but when we get stuck in a tiny bathroom inside a Financial District hotel on the weekend (where no one can hear you scream!) … with some peekaboo strips on the frosted glass shower window our only view …