Eventi in the City: NY
March 11, 2016
The Eventi has done fantastic things to their lobby: new bar, open design, coffee shop, street level buzz. It is an important upgrade.
Who replaced the lobby??? Eventi @kimoton NYC pic.twitter.com/zJlDN1nHBK
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) March 10, 2016
Karma-wise, though, NY is much less personal than the Palomar in DC. It’s the people who make all the difference. Everyone was friendly enough, but NY has so much throughput and staff turnover that nobody recognizes anybody. Oh well.
I was in 1515
1515 Eventi mini-suite
The Eventi mini-suite design is compact, and spacious for NY, but pretty small by the rest of the world’s standards.
1515 sitting area
As always, it was nice to have a note and an amenity from Kimpton. Thanks you guys! The olives were particularly good at 1am after a visit to Lantern’s Keep for a 10:30 meeting.
A visit to @Lanternskeep (no more @thisfellow) for some conversation pic.twitter.com/4fdGCHwb3T
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) March 10, 2016
The Roman Highball
2 oz cynar
.75 ginger syrup
.5 lime
1/2 egg white
shake vigorously. pour in highball and add seltzer
1515 bed pod with view of empire state building
Blue today
The shower design at the Eventi is particularly fantastic.
Awesome glass and marble palace of a shower
With a bench, because you NEED a bench in the shower
One of those never used tubs
Dinner in tribeca at ROC was fantastic as usual and enhanced by the summer-like weather.
NY penn station @krispykreme fake red deliciousness pic.twitter.com/pVKuQRunC2
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) March 10, 2016
Five showerheads for the Eventi (highly recommended) but more wished for personal touch.
The Eventi: NYC
February 20, 2015
The corporation has ditched the apartment in NY. Which means we now have to stay at the Eventi or 70Park when we’re in NY. Life is so hard!
It’s cold this week. Less than ten cold.
NPS is situated in 2304 on the top floor with a clear view of the back side of NY. See how cold it is?
Frozen city.
2304 Eventi sitting room
The comfortable bed in 2304 bedroom dominates
Of course, we’re here for the showers. The marble clad Eventi design is great.
Two headed marble shower complete with bench
After our late-ish arrival, a welcome package made its way up. Thanks Christopher. Sparkling water.
Reward for Kimptoning
In other NYC news, we hit Quality Meats for a nice dinner spiced up with way too much Pappy 23. Ouch. Then Roc Restaurant in Tribeca (a family place where they know us now and we speak some Italian). Get the oxtail ravioli. The Brandy Library is a superior place for a relaxing nightcap.
This NY run was fantastic. Five showerheads for the Eventi.
Oh, and we flew Jet Blue up here in our quest to avoid United at all costs. Jet Blue was fine, but JFK is not all that convenient.
Eventi in NY Bails me Out (kinda)
April 11, 2014
It was one of those days. Plenty of time to get to the airport, no real rush. But somehow my belt did not get the memo and I arrived in NY beltless—for a big meeting with lots of senior banking execs flown in from all over the world?! Horrors. (They were all wearing French cuffs and pocket squares.)
Kimpton attempted to bail me out when the massive belt oversight emergency was broadcast to the world over the @noplasticshower twitter feed (follow us here). [BTW, it turns out that @kimpton does a better job realtime monitoring twitter than @kimptoninnyc! Hmm. It also turns out that Kimpton emergency coordination better accomplished by central emergency services (in san fran maybe?) than by Kevin the concierge in NY.]
Thing is, there was no time to lose. So we uber’ed to two hotels and a mall on the way to the financial district. JC Penny belt it is!
About 20 minutes before my meeting downtown, a twitter DM arrived from @kimpton emergency services who, of course, had managed to pick me up a belt! It was waiting in my room when I got back after the meeting, dinner, general carousing, and shutting down a bar. Super amazing great, but just a smidge too tardy. Thanks anyway Eventi staff (and double thanks to @kimpton central emergency services)! You guys are the best.
Not only was there a belt, there was also a nice snack and some sparkling water. The water probably saved us from certain death by dehydration. Thanks Rebecca.
Thank you Kimpton for beltifying the emergency! Super kind.
Another great authentic Italian meal at Roc in Tribeca. It seemed like the after dinner grappa (moscato) was a good idea, but it completely dissolved our resolve to make an early night of it right there on the spot. And then the lemoncello.
So instead of heading in to harbor, we simply walked over to weather up for some delicious beverages and a bourbon lesson.
By that time we were on a roll and managed to uber on up Lantern’s Keep where I believe we stayed until they ran out of fernet branca. Oh woe is us. We did determine that barman bob is no longer working at Lantern’s Keep , and I am sure that we met the current barmen, but we pretty much don’t recall.
Thursday morning was blinding and way too early. But rally we did for another busy day at the office.
Bright. Ouch.
BTW, our secret noplasticshowers spy contingency is with us this trip. That may explain why the bathroom is so messy and there is a yoga mat on the floor.
Glass shower in 2104
Two shower heads in the shower. And plenty of water pressure. Ahhh.
Who knew that there were yoga mats?!
We strolled down the high line to NYU from midtown. The high line is beautiful in every season.
Thursday evening was capped with a relaxing visit to the Brandy Library.
Anyway, the eventi is feeling more homey in NY even though there is the apartment, and it is in NY! Must be the Kimpton vibe. Five showerheads and some much needed sleep.
Our Spies Report Back from Eventi in NY, NY
December 12, 2013
By now loyal readers know that noplasticshowers has packed up the tent and is not flying anywhere in December, but the blog can live on through careful spycraft. That is, by sending proxies into the breach! Go proxy go.
Our first attempt at these shenanigans involves NY city and the Eventi hotel.
The Eventi is really close to Penn Station. That’s a major plus when you train into town on the Acela.
The Eventi somehow magically determines who our spy is (through the twitters) and greets her with fruit, cheese, sparkling water (!!) and a note. Plus two. Houston, our spy has been outed!
Uh oh, the spy welcomed by name with sparkling water.
Room 815 is the king suite variety. But it is uncharacteristically messy.
Noplasticshowers does not mess up its table like this usually.
Does the bathroom art appeal to our agent as much as it does to us? Why, yes, it does.
Bathroom art looks mighty familiar.
Unfortunately the spy thing is not working out. Here is a picture of our noplasticshowers secret agent outing herself! Don’t look now, it’s a mirror selfie.
Secret agent overtly covets the marble sinks.
Finally, and most importantly, the shower is certified non-plastic by our agent.
This shower is not plastic—at all.
Five showerheads and a big thank you for not putting our secret agent in the gulag but rather treating her like a member of the Kimpton family. You guys rock.
Fortunately, our agent somehow avoided the wiles of oh so dapper barman bob at Lantern’s Keep this trip out. That was a close one!
Eventi, NY, NY
October 5, 2013
A very quick trip up to NY was once again hijacked by barman bob at Lantern’s Keep. Holy cow, bob is trying to kill me (and all of my friends)!
Because of bob, the amenity left by the crack staff at the Eventi came in particularly handy. Here’s what was left in the morning.
Sparkling water was a necessity.
Some pictures of 1804 are in order.
Sitting area.
Sleeping area.
Showering area
No plastic anywhere, sparking water to drink, some cheese that seems to work just fine at 3am, super great front staff (a huge improvement from the growing pains days way back when), I must be at a Kimpton!
It was a typical starbucks kind of morning, though morning happened at noon.
Customer 42
Eventi NY
Five showerheads for this abbreviated stay at the Eventi. Watch out for bob.
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