New York’s Chatwal joins Luxury Collection

Luxury hotel the Chatwal New York has joined Starwood’s Luxury Collection brand, making the Big Apple the first city to have properties under all nine of the group’s brands. The boutique hotel opened on Manhattan’s West 44^th Street last September, within a Stanford White-designed building which formerly housed America's first professional theatrical club the Lambs Club. The hotel has now joined Starwood’s Luxury Collection under a license agreement, becoming the first property under the brand in New York, and meaning that Starwood is now represented by all nine of its brands in the city - Sheraton, Westin, Le Meridien, W, St Regis, Luxury Collection, Four Points by Sheraton, Element and Aloft. Other iconic properties within the Luxury Collection brand include Hotel Pulitzer in Amsterdam and the Turnberry Resort in Scotland. For a recent review of the Chatwal New York click here, and for a round-up of new hotels in the Big Apple, see New Beds in New York in the April edition of Business Traveller. Visit starwoodhotels.com, thechatwalny.com. Report by Mark Caswell