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Chicago - Donald Trump opens another hotel

Trump Chicago Hotel

The Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago is now open. Glenn Jeffers, the Chicago Sleeps columnist for the Chicago Tribune’s At Play, spent the night at the new Trump hotel and gave a play-by-play of his stay (which was paid for by the Tribune). Read, “Live From Trump Tower” to take a tour of the room and hear about the high-end room snacks and the surprising cost of a shoe shine. Yes, the Stearns & Foster beds come with pillow-top mattresses and 500-thread-count sheets.

The hotel and residential tower is only partially open. When it is finished next year, it will become the second-tallest building in Chicago. It will be 1,362 feet tall and have 92 floors.

Deal or no deal? Throughout the hotel’s first year, room rates will be slashed from $525 per night to $355 per night (pre-tax). Ask for the “Trump Experience” rates, which will be valid based on availability. Even better, when I checked the website for reservations in March, I found the “Trump Experience” rates as low as $325/night in March for a 600-square-foot deluxe king city-view room with a kitchen.

Have you stayed at the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago? Let us know what you liked and didn’t like about your visit.

Contact: Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago, (877) 458-7867

— Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel Deal Blogger

[Photo: Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago]

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 11:41 am by Jen Leo and is filed under Business Travel, Luxury Travel, Midwestern States, News, Tips & Advice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

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Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago » My Hotel Geek: Blog on Hotel Business Market & News Says:
February 2nd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
[...] Remember Bill Rancic? He was the first winner of The Apprentice season one in the spring of 2004 and had chosen to take charge of the construction of the Trump Tower Chicago in his native Chicago. Well the TV reality show project is now a real life phenomenal 92 stories (1362 ft to the tip of the spire) skyscraper in Chicago and 4 floors of the hotel side just opened a few days ago. [...]