Hotel Reviews – Flung

Public Spaces for Extrovert Faces: The Ace Hotel in Brooklyn

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 16:46:02 +0000

On my first night staying at the new Ace Hotel in Downtown Brooklyn, I returned around midnight and, having realized that I’d forgotten to pack toothpaste, stopped by the front desk to ask for some. (It would be promptly delivered.) As I chatted with the night clerk, I remembered that I’d also been unable to find coffee in my room. He confirmed that indeed, as a policy Ace Hotels don’t provide coffee beyond the ground floor. It’s one of the […]

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The Culver Hotel: A Contemporary Time Capsule

Katrina Woznicki — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:48:48 +0000

Flatiron buildings aren’t common in Los Angeles, a city more known for horizontal mid-century sprawl than for the 1920’s desert boomtown at its true core. A few weeks after relocating from the New York City area to Culver City, a neighborhood next door to Santa Monica and a brief drive south of Beverly Hills, I was stuck in traffic—in true Southern California fashion—and found myself in the shadow of a very vertical flatiron building that looked like a slice of […]

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Arrive Hotel Palm Springs: New Millennium Addition to the Midcentury Scene

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:45:26 +0000

I’m sitting in the leather armchair in the corner of our room at the Arrive Hotel in Palm Springs, clinging to the last hour or so of the three days I will have been here. I’m two days past a major tweak of my back, suffered just after waking on our first morning here. Right now, the back is feeling pretty good, and credit where it’s due—Arrive is a fabulous place to recover from an injury, thanks in large part […]

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The InterContinental Robertson Quay: Small Space, Big Impact

Sarah Stodola — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 21:02:44 +0000

I stayed in Singapore’s new InterContinental Hotel Robertson Quay just a few weeks after it opened last fall. Already, it felt like a well-oiled machine, in its brand new building, shiny in all the right places. It’s an InterContinental, so as one would expect, business needs are well taken care of. The surprise comes in how pleasant a place this is for leisure travelers. All the details below… The Location: The hotel overlooks the Singapore River in the Robertson Quay […]

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Ace Hotel New Orleans: Beautiful and Scatterbrained

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 22:39:58 +0000

I rolled up to my two-night stay at the Ace Hotel in New Orleans at 1 a.m. on an early Wednesday morning after a long flight from New York. A weird time for first impressions, but perhaps a more honest one than usual. The bar staff was closing things down but the guy at reception looked ready for anything—he wasn’t not dressed for a late night out. Despite his careful hipness, though, he was nice as could be, as were […]

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The Drifter Hotel: A Retro Backdrop for Commonplace Debauchery

Sarah Stodola — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 22:03:01 +0000

The beginning doesn’t feel like the best place to start recounting my experience with the Drifter Hotel. Not the moment I exited my Uber and walked through what had to be the front entrance of the new 20-room hotel in New Orleans’ Mid-City neighborhood. Nor the moment I entered the lobby and looked around, noting that yes, this did appear to be a wonderful repurposing of a 1950s roadside motel. Nor the moment a twenty-something oh-so-indolently checked me into my […]

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The Bon Ton Resort: Malay Tradition in Lieu of the Beach

Sarah Stodola — Thu, 03 May 2018 16:04:36 +0000

Heading to a Malaysian island known for its beach scene, one’s first inclination might not be to book a place inland, and understandably so. That would be a mistake on Langkawi, the popular island off of Malaysia’s western coast where the most interesting accommodation by far is on offer at the Bon Ton Resort, a marsh-side piece of land dotted with traditional stilted Malay houses relocated to the property and converted into guest villas. My boyfriend and I headed to […]

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Downtown Camper: The Hotel Stockholm Has Been Missing

Wailana Kalama — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:28:20 +0000

When you walk into the entrance of the six-month-old Downtown Camper Hotel in Stockholm, the first things you notice are the pillars of wood, the reception desk made of polished timber, and an abundance of ferns. Then, in one corner, you find ceiling-to-floor corkboards pinned with maps of Stockholm. Nearby, moss runs down one side of a freestanding column like a drip. A line of skateboards sit perched against the wall by reception. On another wall, the words “Downtown Camper” […]

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The Roxbury Motel: Imaginations Unleashed in the Catskills

Katrina Woznicki — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:02:25 +0000

The beauty of walking into the Catskills’ Roxbury Motel is that whatever was weighing you down that day—money, parenting, traffic—vanishes instantly. Roadside lodging rarely offers jaw-dropping moments, but as soon as you slide that key into one of the lime-green doors and step into your assigned room you’ll have one, and be too enchanted to wallow in your daily stresses. And it doesn’t matter which room you walk into: MaryAnn’s Coconut Cream Pie (room 27) or Miss Kitty’s Saloon (room […]

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Alkina Lodge: Embracing Nature in Style

Katrina Woznicki — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:45:34 +0000

There are advantages to receiving an itinerary late and not knowing where you’re going or spending the night. After an unforgettable, astonishingly beautiful drive along Australia’s Victorian coast, my group turned inland onto a winding road in Wattle Hill, and then we were in a driveway attached to what looked like a bunch of Legos. We got out of the van and were enthusiastically told by our hosts that dinner would be ready soon. Then we went inside the hotel […]

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