Well, Ha! Don’t that just beat all. The Hotel was apparently overbooked recently – due to an internet 
glitch, or just the stupidity of Marlene Krauss and David Elder. Guests were showing up with reservations but there were no rooms, so the people at the front desk had to send them to other hotels – and make up the extra cost. Book a room at the Chelsea, end up at the Plaza. Can you imagine this happening to Stanley? You can bet he’d find them a closet some where in the Chelsea – and by God they’d like it too!
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4 responses to “Chelsea Hotel to Paying Guests: “Get Lost””
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Don’t blame me. I’ve never run a hotel before and to be frank, I don’t know my ass from a sack of garbage at the best of times.
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As a recent just-passing-through nobody, I have to say that I am incredibly thankful that I wasn’t shunted to a soulless pamper-masturbation like the Plaza or some Trump-dump. I don’t care what they cost: posh hotels are painfully ordinary and forgettable. Almost every hotel is ordinary and forgettable. Almost. There is no forgetting the Chelsea.
All the goofy charms: the windows that actually open wide – jump if you like! The hallway art that was also rent that are also perfect! Walking through the lobby, past the sitters and the decor, evesdropping those nowhere-else conversations – it’s like walking through a surreal painting. Cracked paint, totally eclectic decor, perfect.
And a couple fourth-rate greedheads want to sterilize it, run out the people who make it what it is and let what happened to the Village happen to the Chelsea. Such small, mediocre money dreams! Damnit, there’s enough ordinary hotels . . . can’t there be one eccentric masterpiece for The Few?
I imagine they’ll change the motto to “A Rest Stop for Bland Conformists”
Hey Ed, I liked your book. Your literary collage really caught the hotel’s vibe nicely.LikeLike
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one word: incompetent!
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“… one eccentrifc masterpiece…”
Well said Raskolnikov. Perfectly said, in fact, the whole post. Thanks for that.LikeLike
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