Subject: Accommodation Facilities and Services

• Naked Candy Thrower Brings His Design Aesthetic To South Beach

  October 9, 2008

• The House That Curtiss Built

  July 21, 1993

• You Know What The World Needs More Of? Luxury Hotels!

  via PR NewswireWe know Paris Hilton doesn't have anything to do with the management of the hotel company that bears her family name, but sometimes you have to wonder. In the midst of the latest, greatest depression and economic free fall you might expect any new hotel plans to include cots, a soup kitchen, and group showers. Instead, Hilton Hotels Corp is launching a new line of luxury pads called Denizen Hotels, and is already working on plans to bring one to Miami. "Denizen hotels, a lifesty

  March 10, 2009

• The Luxe Life

  October 20, 2005

• It's Not All Glamour and Glitz

  August 25, 2005

• BEST NIGHTCLUB DISGUISED AS A HOTEL

  May 13, 2004

• A Cabbie's Crusade

  February 27, 2003

• BEST ART CHAT

  May 16, 2002

• Best Hotel

  May 17, 2001

• Fancy Vending Machine Board Shorts Include Hidden Scavenger Hunt

  ​Does that headline make any sense to you? We're feeling a touch of the surreal today, so we went with that over "Standard Hotels Teams with Quicksilver," which is indeed what this is all about. André Balazs' Standard boutique hotel chain teamed up with Quicksilver, titan of the mall surf store industry, to produce a line of shorts based on each of the four Standard locations. They're a bit retro, with a '70s length that hits mid-thigh, but made with modern materials and fits.

  July 30, 2009

• Morgans Hotel Group Food and Beverage Revenue Drops Over 25% - South Beach Is Hurting Too

  via wikimedia commonsMarket Crash​It used to be that people rented a hotel room, ate dinner, got drunk and screwed. Now that people have gone back to doing that at home, it's the hotels that are getting screwed.Morgans Hotel Group Co. owns or has an ownership interest in properties around the world including The Shore Club, The Delano, and The Mondrian South Beach.Their just released 2nd quarter report states "Food and beverage revenue decreased 27.0% to $19.4 million for the three months ende

  August 12, 2009

• Panty Problem: Howard Stern Sidekick Sues Miami Beach Holiday Inn

  via Elegant Elliot Offen.Elegant Elliot Howard Stern sidekick and self-described "topnotch, prime-time, center-stage celebrity" Elegant Elliot Offen runs 14 miles a day in ladies' lingerie. In New York, he swears, people on the street cheer and salivate over his bodacious curves. "You won't see a sexy, sexy statuesque physique like mine on any real woman," he brags. Bellboys in Miami Beach were not so enthusiastic. The 59-year-old, who tends to refer to himself in third person, was filming a TV

  January 25, 2010

• Elegant Elliot Offen had the bustier, Holiday Inn gave him the boot

  January 28, 2010

• Jersey Shore Threatens to Tear Apart South Beach at its Seams

  For years the trashy elements of South Beach have coincided in a relatively peaceful, if not complimentary, harmony with its more high brow and sophisticated forces. Leave it to the power of Jersey Shore to upend all of that.While MTV has yet to confirm reports that the trash-tastic show will film its second season in SoBe, the beach is abuzz over the possibility.While some club and hotel owners are absolutely giddy over the possibility, others have turned their noses up in disdain.Despite Movie

  February 11, 2010

• Condo Buyers at the W South Beach Allege Deception

  via W HotelsThe W's *gasp* sole pool​W Hotels, a chain so chic it needs but a single letter to identify it, finally came to South Beach last fall, but now owners who bought condos in the complex allege they were deceived and want their deposits back.Potential owners were told there would be larger units, additional condos, and a second pool (because what a complex directly on one of the Atlantic Ocean's nicest beaches needs is two pools). According to the South Florida Busi

  March 15, 2010