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Gay Hotel Chain Set to Launch


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A New York-based hospitality group is planning to open five LGBT-oriented hotels in America before expanding overseas.

Calling itself a luxury lifestyle resort collection, G Worldwide intends to launch properties in New York, Florida, California, and Las Vegas, according to its website. The hotels are described as being "uber high-tech facilities" operated by "some of the most innovative, creative people in design, food & beverage, nightlife, events, and hospitality." No specific dates for opening are mentioned on the website, which officially launches in a month.

In February another group of New York developers made clear its intention to open a boutique gay hotel in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.

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  • Name: ArtNOLA
    Date posted: 5/4/2010 10:14:06 AM
    Hometown: New Orleans

    Comment:

    I used to work for Ritz-Carlton and we loved the gays, of course half of us were gay... LOL I agree with what others said, this seems like a way to over charge for a hotel room. Honestly, unless you're planning to spend the entire time in the hotel, why pay that much extra? If the "gay hotel" has a fabulous restaurant, stay at the nice mid-priced hotel down the street and eat in the fancy restaurant, you can spend the money you saved on your hotel room on a really good bottle of wine. Don't get me wrong, splurging on a nice hotel for a night or two can be a wonderful experience, but that wonderful feeling usually only lasts as long as it takes to be seen walking through the front door, across the lobby and up to your room, once you're in the room, you just as well be at the Marriott. Unless you're staying at a spa, I wouldn't waste the extra money.

  • Name: john
    Date posted: 5/3/2010 7:07:46 AM
    Hometown: las vegas

    Comment:

    Whenever a business puts the word Gay in front of it, you can be sure it will be double or sometimes triple the price. Gay cruises are notoriously overpriced, Gay inclusive vacations are out of the reach of most, Gay stores sell useless crap and it is overpriced, etc.etc. I'm sure a Gay Hotel chain will not be accessible to the average GL in America.

  • Name: Davya
    Date posted: 5/3/2010 4:03:49 AM
    Hometown: Wynnewood, PA

    Comment:

    straight, gay- ripoff hotel, does it really matter?

  • Name: Jerry
    Date posted: 5/2/2010 11:47:24 PM
    Hometown: Washington DC

    Comment:

    Gee it never occurred to me that well-heeled str8 people don't want luxury lifestyle accommodations. Who would have thunk it?

  • Name: customartist
    Date posted: 5/2/2010 1:19:55 PM
    Hometown: Myrtle Beach

    Comment:

    Two thoughts: Are these Gay-Owned? I wonder if this is a brainchild of a Marriott-Offshoot like host Hotels, which by the way, has a Much Lower rating with the HRC than Marriott Corp proper? (all benefitting the Mormon Church via requisite tithing) Also, while this may appeal to those needing to commune/socialize, it also seems as a method to perpetuate our isolation/ostracization, effectively keeping us out of the eye of mainstream America?? Be thrifty - Save your Gay Hotel Dollars - Put them toward effectively funding Gay Rights. The Straights already get enough of our money via taxes, which they then keep for themselves.

  • Name: RWG
    Date posted: 5/2/2010 11:00:16 AM
    Hometown: Greenwich, NY

    Comment:

    Just what Las Vegas needs...more over-priced hotel rooms. Downtown and the Boulder Strip are have always welcomed me.

  • Name: Mike
    Date posted: 5/2/2010 1:45:33 AM
    Hometown: Albany NY

    Comment:

    My husband and I travel frequently and tend to stay near gay neighborhoods if at all possible. One of our frequent destinations is Fort Lauderdale with a number of gay owned motels. We have stayed in some in the past and would like to have stayed at one on our recent trip. However, all too often the hotels that seek our business our way over priced, so this trip we saved about half the price of the cheapest gay motel and stayed at a moderately priced chain hotel. Why in the world to people who market to gay people assume it is the same as marketing to people who want to waste their money. A chain of moderately priced hotels with a restaurant bar attatched would have a much greater market, especially if it was also available in some smaller markets such as Providence, Kansas City, and Little Rock. We live and travel everywhere and are not all uber-wealthy

  • Name: Davya
    Date posted: 5/1/2010 9:30:22 PM
    Hometown: Wynnewood, PA

    Comment:

    ughh...what a waste of money.

  • Name: Troy
    Date posted: 5/1/2010 8:03:53 PM
    Hometown: Boston

    Comment:

    Ugggh .... why do they have to once again stereotype us as a "lifestyle"? This concept has to have been dreamed up by a het.

  • Name: Joe
    Date posted: 5/1/2010 5:58:08 PM
    Hometown: San Francisco

    Comment:

    Somehow this seems superfluous in the places they are opening hotels. In most of these places GLBT are welcome and even sought after guests by almost every hotel and tourist oriented business. My bf and I checked into a cheap Best Western in Seattle recently and we were welcomed by the desk clerk who mentioned to us his visits to San Francisco (where we live), specifically the Castro and Folsom Street Fair. Granted it wasn't the W but for about $75 a night we got free wi-fi and breakfast within walking distance of downtown and Capital Hill. This new chain just seems like a opportunity for someone to collect the "gay tax".



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