Hotel History Podcast
1) Book Club: Fly Girl
For our latest bookclub episode, we discuss Ann Hood's memoir of her time as a TWA flight attendant at the end of the "glamorous" Jet Age in Fly Girl. To stay up to date on our current read, join our ...Show More
2) The Omni Parker House
If you're going to call yourself the longest continuously operating hotel in America, you'd better have some juicy history to back it up. Luckily, the Omni Parker House delivers. Predating the Civil W...Show More
3) Bashar Wali on Practicing Hospitality
Bashar Wali wants to be your hotel guy, and you really couldn't find someone who knows hospitality as intimately. With 30 years of experience as a hotelier and hundreds of hotel stays notched on his b...Show More
4) The Lodge at Marconi Part 2
Part two! The Lodge at Marconi is a picturesque escape an hour north of San Francisco on Tomales Bay, But don't let its tranquility fool you—its history still packs a punch. We interview General Manag...Show More
5) The Lodge at Marconi Part 1
The Lodge at Marconi is a picturesque escape an hour north of San Francisco on Tomales Bay, But don't let its tranquility fool you—its history still packs a punch. We interview General Manager Leah Fr...Show More
6) Cannes Hotels with JQ Louise: Hotel Martinez & Palm Beach Cannes
Part two of our foray into Cannes' most historic (and luxurious) hotels continues our interview with travel writer JQ Louise and digs into the history of the Hotel Martinez and the iconic casino and m...Show More
7) Cannes Hotels with JQ Louise: The Carlton
We're dreaming of blue waters, sandy beaches, and beautiful people, which means we're off to the French Riviera (figuratively). With the Cannes Film Festival happening this week, we're bringing you tw...Show More
8) The Seelbach Hotel
The Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, is known for its Old World grandeur, its relaxed, Southern style, and its proximity to the most exciting two minutes in sports—it's just a couple miles away...Show More
9) Book Club: A Gentleman in Moscow
We explore the very real history of the Hotel Metropol in Moscow through the lens of Amor Towles' bestselling novel, A Gentleman in Moscow. The fictional Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov is a member of t...Show More
10) The Empire Hotel
We return to NYC for the iconic Empire Hotel. Perhaps best known these days as a recurring setting in Gossip Girl, it has more than 100 years of history on 63rd and Broadway. Its famous neon sign over...Show More