Okay, we confess: we’re a corporate blog, bought and paid for by the owners of the Chelsea Hotel. That’s why, when Stanley was in charge, we harped about roaches and fires and junkies in the bathrooms. Then, when David Elder and Marlene Krauss staged their coup, we quickly switched our alliance, lauding our new overlord as, respectively, a Lovecraftian abomination and a mud wrestling proctologist. Kudos, therefore, to Gary Lee of the WashingtonPost.com for being (actually, far from) the first to ferret out our dirty little secret. Lee writes:
I also looked at some independent hotels that publish their own blogs:…
The colorful blog presneted by New York’s Chelsea Hotel,…..
His feat is all the more noteworthy in that he (also, like the others) apparently uncovered this diabolical plot without actually having read our blog.
Seriously, to set the record straight, we were the very first hotel blog in existence, and remain the only non-corporate blog. (This claim in Gary’s article that the Starwood blog is run by fans is bull. It’s run by a "pr firm" rather than "fans".)
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2 responses to “Chelsea Bloggers Sell Out — Again!”
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Obviously a very close reader of the blog. Maybe you should invite him to stay in your luxury hotel suite that he must think the hotel provides to you free of charge in lieu of the blog. He could sleep under the foosball table.
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…ringing off the hook with calls from young kids who would never have considered the Chelsea except for its new “flophouse rates.” Won’t it be pleasant when somebody gets stabbed or worse because of the skid row element that these rates are going to bring in. This is just one more example of new management having no real connection with the hotel whatsoever. They must look at us as squatters somehow, in spite of the fact that most pay huge rents. And if some don’t, its because of lawful rent stabilization. A little pathetic that their answer is to cast about for the “99$ Special” crowd.
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