Hotel Stories

Macabre slaying in Glass Building

noreply@blogger.com (Maeve Jeanerette) — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:40:00 +0000

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1345322/Journalist-beaten-death-castrated-luxury-New-York-hotel-room.html
The mangled body of homosexual celebrity TV journalist Carlos Castra is discovered by hotel workers in a room where the celebrity had been living at InterContinental Hotel in New York's Times Square.
Carlos boyfriend was a fashion model and so the fashion world is involved it may seem.
The hotel is a monolithic satin glass structure stretching skyward with precision luxury male homosexual aura interior design. http://www.intercontinental.com/intercontinental/en/gb/locations/NYCHC?sicreative=5749398011&dp=true&sicontent=0&sitrackingid=126584622&cm_mmc=Google-PS-IC_AUNZ-_-G%20B-AmericasEast-_-NY-New%2BYork-City-NYCHC-_-intercontinental%20times%20square&siclientid=1959
A virtual glance at the rooms reveals medically white sheets, pert upholstery and very sealed in luxury. Colour pallet in the brown range currently popular in hotels worldwide. With here and there an ominous blood red chair or some such. Bathrooms shiny, chrome and buffed marble. Snowy white towels folded and draped accessibly. That this hermetically contained, somewhat surgical environment could be the scene for such chilling brutality unimaginable outside horror movie genre, is somehow a reflection of the Gothic tinge to the metro Post Modernistic landscape.

Lawyer Composer cocaine overdose at London Hotel

noreply@blogger.com (Maeve Jeanerette) — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:21:00 +0000

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338854/Composer-Andrew-Muriel-dead-London-hotel-cocaine-binge.html

High flying composer and top solicitor for a global firm with Moscow and UK political connections to Number 10, is found dead from cocaine overdose, at Sheraton Park Tower Hotel London, 3 days after anyone at the hotel had seen or heard anything from him.
http://www.sheratonparktower.com/penthouse-suites

Body in the bath

noreply@blogger.com (Maeve Jeanerette) — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:59:00 +0000

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337163/Woman-dead-bathtub-SoHo-House-hotel-NY.html

Emergency were called to a New York Hotel frequented by celebrities such as Gwen Stephanie, to find the dead body of a woman sitting upright in an overflowed bathtub in one of the hotel's luxury suites. The son of a celebrity song writer was taken in for questioning. It seems the father-not the son-had prior to this been awaiting trial for sex offences.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338297/Nicholas-Brooks-charged-murder-Silvie-Cachay-New-Yorks-SoHo-House.html

Nest of indiscression too fussy for Brit.

noreply@blogger.com (Maeve Jeanerette) — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:17:00 +0000

Freedom to get into and out of this hotel unobserved is said to be part of the attraction of Chateau Marmont for the stars some of whom leave in a coffin.
   Referenced in Eagles song- Hotel California-
1930's Hollywood Gothic Medieval Revivalist pastiche love nest and drug den for deeply sordid scandals and publicity generating happenings. All the worst people have checked in. Years ago because it was inexpensive. Nowadays $3000. AUD /night in a villa.
Further evidence Chateau Marmont is aiming up market, some people in recent history have actually been evicted for declasse behaviour ie Britney Spears-in the garden-food on wrong part of body-banned for life- see link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1333487/The-real-Hotel-Babylon-A-new-film-tells-Chateau-Marmont-byword-Hollywood-debauchery.html

Under the hotel

noreply@blogger.com (Maeve Jeanerette) — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:22:00 +0000

Building excavations on the Waldorf Astoria site at Syon Park spark archaelogical interest as pre Roman and Roman age finds including burial sites, reveal an ancient Roman village.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330281/Roman-settlement-unearthed-west-London-parks-new-Waldorf-Astoria-hotel-site.html

http://www.waldorfastoria.com/search/property-details.cfm?intPropertyId=36

Surfing champion on his way home found dead in Dallas hotel

noreply@blogger.com (Maeve Jeanerette) — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:53:00 +0000

http://granddfw.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp?null

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/sports/04irons.html

A surfing champion on his way home from a contest and too ill to catch his flight, stopped over at an airport hotel and was subsequently found dead in his hotel room. He was 32 years old.
   Unable to board a flight home to Hawaii, it would have been possible to enter the hotel lobby directly from the airport departure lounge and to check in from a check-in kiosk on the meeting room level of the hotel.
   The hotel has specially soundproofed rooms, which it would need due to aircraft noise levels. The state of the art air filtration system in designated smoker's rooms are mentioned on the hotel's official website.   Painkillers and sleeping pills are reported to have been present at the death scene.    The deceased man suffered from a tropical disease carried by mosquitoes, symptoms from which prevented him from being in good enough health to board his flight and had made him withdraw from a surfing contest; reason for his travel presumably.
    Presumably no one would have heard him cry out if he had been unable to call emergency or he may have died in his sleep from drug combination overdose.     If foul play occurred, no reports have yet speculated, but the situation of the hotel could imply ease of access to guest areas.       The deceased man was sponsored by Billabong surf wear and was returning home to his fiance who was expecting his baby in one month.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1326539/Andy-Irons-Investigators-methadone-room-died.html

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Manservant bashed to death at historic London hotel

noreply@blogger.com (Maeve Jeanerette) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:21:00 +0000

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101020/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_saudi_prince

London's historic and luxurious Landmark Hotel evidently has surveillance security cameras in the lifts and film from these was used as evidence to convict a saudi prince in a case involving the brutal death of his manservant.

Assassination in Dubai

noreply@blogger.com (Maeve Jeanerette) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:03:00 +0000

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1253437/More-British-passports-used-Mahmoud-al-Mabhouh-Hamas-assassination.html

A man checked into a hotel in Dubai and was subsequently assassinated with security surveillance camera evidence and media coverage exposing a complex international spy saga involving the use of stolen passports of several nations.

Death at Hyde Park Towers

noreply@blogger.com (Maeve Jeanerette) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:27:00 +0000

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324723/Hotel-guest-starved-death-leaving-Do-Not-Disturb-sign-door.html
An evidently unassuming man checked into a London hotel for an apparently intended long duration stay, left out the -DO NOT DISTURB- sign and was discovered dead by the maid 2 weeks later. An autopsy and coroner's inquest ensued resulting in a finding of death by starvation. How did this occur and what was the purpose of the deceased man's visit to London? On the basis of the Daily Mail report which can be accessed from this post at the above link, not much light appears to have been shed on the matter.
* Hyde Park Towers Hotel where the death occurred, is a different hotel from Hyde Park Hotel and should not be confused.