Sweet hotel suites
Pro Traveller's roundup of 15 "coolest hotel suites in the world" does, in fact, feature some pretty nice hotel rooms to aspire to, even if you never check into one. I once did a hotel-review gig that had me staying for two nights in a $1400 suite at the MGM Skylofts in Las Vegas: it was two storeys, with an Infinity Tub, a butler, a badass cappuccino machine, and they printed out a dozen global newspapers of my choosing every day on 11x17 paper, bound them with silk ribbon and laid them out on the breakfast table. It was really sweet -- but no one could figure out how to turn out the clever, design-y lights over the bed, and the WiFi was too slow.
Link (Thanks, Andy!)
Atelier Sul Mare Art Hotel: It would be hard to find bad hotels on the Sicilian seaside but some stand out above the rest. The rooms of this hotel have each been uniquely designed by recognised artists to create an ambience unlike anything you'll find anywhere else in Sicily. The 'I'm Boarding on a Paper Boat' suite is a blue-and-black themed room based on the concepts of water and space. The 'Trinacria' suite is a geometrically designed room that's mostly dark but has flashes of light creating patterns throughout the room wile the 'Energia' room casts a strange red hue throughout the suite. Each space is different and each is a work of art.
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best cool hotels i've been to:
http://www.carltonarms.com/ Ye Olde Carlton Arms here in NYC (and cheap!)
http://www.retrosuites.com/ Retro Suites Hotel in chatham, ontario canada
http://www.hoteldeluxeportland.com/ Hotel DeLuxe
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http://www.jupiterhotel.com/ The Jupiter
both in portland, oregon
The last night of Lollapalooza 2007 I was upgraded to the Rock'N'Roll suite at Hotel Monaco in downtown Chicago.
from their site:
"the Hotel Monaco Chicago invites you to celebrate the rock 'n' roll lifestyle in this one-of-a-kind two-room suite that draws in the fans, including such celebrity guests as James Taylor and Britney Spears. The sitting room features a regal red velvet couch, dramatic zebra-striped carpeting, a display of eight gold records by artists such as the Smashing Pumpkins and the Bare Naked Ladies, and a fully-loaded TouchTunes jukebox, the world's first digital jukebox that stores songs on a computer hard drive.
Dance your way into the bedroom, where you'll discover a Sony 52-disc CD player, an electric guitar and amplifier for your very own jam session. You'll also find 12 original Chicago concert photographs by noted photographer Paul Natkin and framed, autographed handwritten lyrics to John Lennon's songs Nowhere Man and Day Tripper. The luxurious bathroom features a two-person sunken Jacuzzi tub."
There was also a tv 'thrown' through a fake window that hung in front one of the real windows. A lot of Rolling Stones memorabilia too.
Hoping to stay at this killer Guatemalan hotel this weekend! It's perched over Lake Atitlan, which Aldous Huxley called "the most beautiful lake in the world."
http://www.lacasadelmundo.com