Talk:Hotel Chelsea

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I'm originally from New York, and I've always heard it called the "Chelsea Hotel", not the "Hotel Chelsea". Is there any basis for the version of the name used here? -- Jmabel 06:23, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The name on their website is the Hotel Chelsea: http://www.hotelchelsea.com/ . I think it's the "official" name, even though you're right that most people call it the Chelsea Hotel. Moncrief 06:27, Mar 15, 2004 (UTC)

yep- in conversation it's just 'the chelsea'. in the real world that causes problems, couriers looking for the Chelsea Lodge show up etc. Absolute pedantry!

1 Permanent guests
2 POV?
3 Price?
4 Sid & Nancy

[edit] Permanent guests

Can someone say if the hotel is still used by permanent guests? Or is it just a hotel now. Their website seems to suggest that its just an expensive hotel now.

-to the best of my knowledge, the hotel still has more permanent guests than rooms for people who only stay there for a few days. This is what I heard when staying there a year ago (2005).

In a recent Sunday Times Magazine article (25 March 2007), it says that of 240 apartments, 60% are residential and only 40% are hotel rooms. Chrisfow 18:10, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Removed "Raymond Foye." Not a notable 'writer or thinker'. 71.247.73.50 19:05, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POV?

Does anyone else feel that "Ruth Harkness...during her long decline into alcoholic oblivion." is kind of out of nowhere and judgemental? Even Sid stabbing his wife to death (ok, allegedly) is very matter-of-fact, no judging. Harkness' bit sounds like someone with an agenda decided to vent a little.

[edit] Price?

Does anyone know if the chelsea hotel is expensive these days? i go on websites about it and the pictures they have of the rooms is so nicer than how the hotel was Years ago. so i was wondering what the price of a normal room would be?. --70.18.67.87 21:57, 12 December 2006 (UTC)-Bianca

The Hotel's website, http://www.hotelchelsea.com/rates.html , has all the latest rates. Chrisfow 18:10, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sid & Nancy

This is in the intro: 'It is perhaps best-known as the hotel where Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death…' shouldn't this read '…where Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols allegedly (or may have) stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death…', seeing as he was never found guilty of the crime, and there were other people visiting the room that night?eiscir 17:52, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone really remember who Sid Vicious was? I remember it as the home of Virgil Thompson.Saxophobia 00:42, 14 April 2007 (UTC)