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
Friday, November 26, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Under the hotel
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
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
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Surfing champion on his way home found dead in Dallas hotel
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever#Treatment
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever#Treatment
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