hotel design – 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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It’s Time to Look at Summer 2021’s Notable Hotel Openings

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 22:52:01 +0000

What a delight to discover that we once again live in a world in which new hotels open. In this continuing pandemic era, of course, depending on the country of the hotel and of your residency and your vaccination status, you may or may not be allowed to visit most of them. This is fine; we are all unlikely to visit most of the world’s hotels during our lifetimes. But even perusing the surprising number of Summer 2021 openings from […]

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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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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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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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