The Plaza

The Greates NY Hotel!!!

is just the greatest, in the moment i entered i instantly remember the movie Home Alone jaja but its a really cool hotel, excellent location

Unique Quality: JUST THE BEST

Gone but not forgotten

The Plaza Hotel always held a special allure. It seemed like the place that rich people went to be seen and to show off their status. We cut through the lobby a few times and the string ensemble always seemed to play Eine Kleine Nachtmusik like they knew it was our favorite musical piece.

When we heard that the hotel was being closed down, we had to stay there before it was gone. It wasn't as glamorous as it probably was in its hey day, but it still was special.

Alas, it's now gone, but the memory will live on.

• Opinion of Price: more expensive than average
• Related to: Luxury Travel, Arts and Culture, Architecture

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the best hotel in NYC

great view, excellent service, comfortable rooms, nice decoration, delicious food, useful situation
very expensive!!!

Unique Quality: great view (from 47. floor- tower part)

Oysters and champagne..A good Brute will do

Sleeping naked in silk sheets with oysters and champagne for breakfast:::MMM

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"This is a landmark with international recognition.
You'd go there because it's a place you'd seen in a movie."

Tshuva, a scruffy Israeli refugee turned real-estate mogul,
is expanding his holdings in the United States.
He bought the 32-story BellSouth building in Jacksonville, Fla.,
for $91 million, The Gift Building at 225 Fifth Ave. for $125 million
and converted 21 Astor Place to condominiums.

But Tshuva is facing resistance from those who want the storied
hotel to remain unchanged. In answer to these critics, his company's CEO,
the savvy Miki Naftali, has mounted a publicity campaign to convince residents that
remaking The Plaza's interior ? while retaining its French Renaissance exterior
? is the best way to save it.

Tshuva actually has history on his side. When The Plaza opened in 1907, it was used
primarily as a residence for wealthy New Yorkers such as Alfred Vanderbilt. The famous
flocked to its doors. Alfred Hitchcock shot parts of "North by Northwest" there,
and it was the site of the Catherine Zeta-Jones/Michael Douglas wedding reception.

Ernest Hemingway once counseled F. Scott Fitzgerald that he should leave his liver to Princeton and his heart to The Plaza. Just don't forget your luggage ? after April 30, 2005 you probably won't get it back.

• Opinion of Price: most expensive
• Related to: Gay and Lesbian, Luxury Travel

The Plaza Photo: Closed until further notice......SAD

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Want to buy a hotel room?

I think better to describe the surroundings rather than what happened,
I mean I got a good servicing and the rooms look like something
you might find in a French Chateau....Mon Dieu..C?st Manifique!

Unique Quality:
Just the sort of rooms if you like to play games
or have a very good imagination
and like to dress up!

• Opinion of Price: most expensive
• Related to: Architecture, Luxury Travel, Food and Dining

The Plaza Photo: C?st tres tres chic

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The Hotel with History

The weekend stay will go down in my history
books as one to remember!



Since 1995, the Plaza has been owned by one of the world's wealthiest men,
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, and Millennium &
Copthorne, a London-based company that runs hotels in 16 countries.
The prince, a nephew of King Fahd, made headlines after the Sept. 11 attacks when he
offered to donate $10 million to the City of New York, and Rudolph W. Giuliani,
the mayor at the time, accepted but then returned the check.

Mr. Giuliani sent the check back after learning that in a news release,
the prince had criticized the American government's policies in the Middle East.

The prince and Millennium & Copthorne paid Donald J. Trump $325 million and
spent $40 million on renovations. But based on figures from Millennium & Copthorne,
the Plaza had a pretax loss of $1.8 million last year.

"It's an icon, but the price is too good to refuse," Kwek Leng Beng, the chairman of
Millennium & Copthorne, said at a news conference in Singapore, according to
Bloomberg News. "The prince is very happy - he's invited me to Paris,
where he wants to give me a big dinner."

Miki Naftali, president and chief executive of Elad Properties, issued a statement through a
spokesman, who declined to discuss Elad's plans for the Plaza. A real estate executive
who had been briefed on the deal said Elad was considering turning some of the Plaza's
805 rooms into condominiums.

Mr. Trump talked about the same idea when he controlled the Plaza in the early 1990's.
He said at the time that condominiums would not turn the turreted French Renaissance landmark into the Manhattan version of a time-share in the Catskills, though some
architectural historians called the plan heresy.

"The flavor of the project is similar to what Trump had in mind,
" the executive who had been briefed on the deal said. "It's going to be a high-end
condominium with hotel services."

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"This is a landmark with international recognition.
You'd go there because it's a place you'd seen in a movie."

Visitors might remember it from "Plaza Suite," "North by Northwest,"
"The Great Gatsby" or "The Way We Were."

Little girls still clamor to have tea in the Palm Court like the fictional Eloise
who lived in the hotel.

• Opinion of Price: most expensive
• Related to: Luxury Travel, Architecture

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NY never sleeps, but when u do..here is the place

I arrived back to my room after a wild night in several clubs
and an incredible rooftop penthouse party ovelooking Central Park.
I captured some local wildlife I managed to bag at the rooftop.
I got all the services I needed after a very long night.
The bed was very comfy and full marks for bouncy bouncy action.

HISTORY

The Plaza was originally built in 1900 and then was rebuilt in 1907
to the tune of twelve million dollars when the new Ritz Carlton joined
the other hotels at the turn of the century. The hotel brought elegance
east of Fifth street. "The opening of the Plaza Hotel was accompanied
by the sure sign of the automobile on Fifth avenue in New York."

"The Plaza has been able to maintain its standings over the years.
The Plaza's various public rooms have undergone numerous incarnations.
The large room on the corner of Forty-ninth Street and the Plaza,
which was called simply the "restaurant," assumed various decors as the Edwardian
Room and the Green Tulop, and the Fifty-ninth Street dining room that served as the office
of Jules Bache has become, and Remains, the Oak Room."

"Finally, the Plaza houses New York's one functioning Palm Court, and it has a busy day.
Breakfasts and salad lunches are served, and no sooner are the last leaves of lettuce
carried away than a violinist and pianist turn up and a flame is put under the tea kittles and
cocoa in the kitchens. This does not mean, however, that the Plaza has not plugged ahead
into the future. Not only does it provide its guests with closed circuit television and choice
of two movies daily, but troubleshooting hostesses called "service coordinators," together
speaking all of fifteen languages, patrol the lobby and halls where once private maids and
lackies scurried obediently."
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Unique Quality: The man at the desk did give me exceptional room
service and even left a fresh rose on my last night.

ARCHITECTURE
The Plaza Hotel, one of New York city's finest hotels,
was architecturally designed imitating the style of a late medieval
French chateaux. The elegant lobby contains ornamented archways,
pillars, and marble floors. This combined with a usage of the color gold
give the hotel a wealthy, upper-class appearance.

August 14, 2004
Eloise Gets a New Landlord: Plaza Sells for $675 Million
The Plaza's new owner (and thus the new landlord of Eloise,
the fictional 6-year-old heroine of the children's books by
Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight) is Elad Properties.
While the price is not a record for a hotel in New York,
the per-room price - a measure analysts routinely calculate - is,
said Sean Hennessey, who follows the New York hotel market for
Lodging Investment Advisers, a consulting firm.

Elad is paying $838,509 a room, a sign, Mr. Hennessey said,
that the hotel market is rebounding from the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
He said that room rates for hotels in New York had risen 9 percent this year,
far outpacing inflation.
PLAZA TO SHUT FOR MAKEOVER

January 17, 2005 -- Better call the Waldorf, Eloise! —
The Plaza will be shut down this May for extensive renovations, a new report says.
"Inquiries about booking special events at the hotel after April are answered with a
cautionary warning," according to Crain's New York Business.
"The catering department is advising people not to plan parties at
The Plaza for May and beyond."

• Opinion of Price: most expensive
• Related to: Architecture, Singles, Luxury Travel

The Plaza Photo: Wow what a room

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Hotel Amenities

The West Park Hotel is a relaxed urban retreat offering 90 comfortable and quiet guest rooms and suites at a prime location in New York city. The West Park is located on the southwest corner of Central Park, next to Columbus Circle and within a short walking distance from Manhattan's best museums, boutiques, theatres and restaurants

Unique Quality: Ac
Children Free
Concierge
Cribs
Drycleaning
Electronic Room Keys
Elevators
Laundry
Non Smoking Rooms
Safedeposit
Security 24 Hour

• Opinion of Price: N/A
• Related to: Cruise, Theater Travel, Romantic Travel and Honeymoons

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