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Two new hotel brands, one stately and one hip
Upscale travelers have more hotel choices than ever as 30 Clermont Hotels and two NYLOs prepare to join the scene.
Clermont, a new luxury brand from glh., the London-based global hotel subsidiary of Singapore-listed GuocoLeisure Group, is spending $3 billion on the debut of its first three hotels, in London, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
London’s five-star Royal Horseguards, on the banks of the Thames, will become the Clermont London in 2014, after a comprehensive renovation; the Clermont Singapore will be in the Tanjong Pagar Centre, Singapore’s tallest building, due to open in 2016; and the Clermont Kuala Lumpur will be within the iconic Damansara City, part of a mixed development to open in 2016.
Both the Asian properties also will offer luxury residential apartments (approximately 200 in Singapore; 370 in Kuala Lumpur) serviced by the adjoining Clermont Hotel.
On a smaller scale, NYLO Hotels LLC, a new Dallas-based boutique hotel chain, has opened its fifth hotel location in New York City, at Broadway and 77th Street.
NYLO, which has three properties in Texas and one in Providence, RI, also plans to open a property about an hour north of the city, in Nyack, NY, in 2014.
The 285-room NYLO New York City includes 33 suites, as well as rooms with private balconies and views of the Manhattan skyline, Hudson River and Central Park.
The hotel has a Roaring Twenties design, and will feature original artwork from emerging local artists, commissioned exclusively for the hotel.
The hotel will have the onsite Serafina restaurant, offering Northern Italian cuisine, and the Upper West Side’s first RedFarm restaurant, offering a "modern and inventive approach to Chinese cuisine," is opening next door.
The NYLO Nyack will offer 132 rooms in a four-story former factory. It will include a full-service restaurant, bar and lounge; recreational bathing pool, fitness center, library and game room; a business center; and approximately 4,000 square feet of meeting space, including a 2,500-square-foot ballroom; and a music studio with a live broadcasting radio booth.
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