An authentic Kimpton Hotel room, down
to the bedsheets, artwork, carpeting and wallpaper, had
itsOff-Broadway debut in a new show called
Some Girl(s). The play is about a guy on the brink
of marriage who travels across the country to catch up with former
girlfriends. In the course of his travels, he stays in a series of
boutique hotels.
The set designer wanted to re-create the hotel room dead-on, and
so began an unusual collaboration and promotion between Kimpton,
which furnished the set, and the set designer, who put it
together.
TC wonders if Kimpton works in a plug for its properties or room
furnishings in some theatrical way.
Dont be surprised if legal fees soon overtake
fuel as the airlines most out-of-control cost item.
Based on recent history, its a good bet that lawyers representing
international airline passengers will soon file lawsuits against
British Airways and other carriers mentioned in the news reports
about U.S. and EU investigations ofairline price-fixing.
When similar news broke a few months ago about allegations of
price-fixing with cargo rates, lawyers representing shippers and
freight forwarders started filing civil suits against those
airlines, seeking damages for alleged overcharges -- even though
the government probes have yet to produce verdicts or confessions
that any price-fixing actually occurred. TC hears that the cargo
airlines are now defending themselves in about 60 private
suits.
Anonymity seems to be the latest amenity, and
the just-announced Fern Tree Spa at Jamaicas
Half Moon resort is right on top of it. TC hears
that a secret door will be installed in treatment suites so that
celebrities (or anyone, really) can slip in and out unnoticed in
their cotton robes and paper sandals.