Chicago Sartorial Holiday Hotel Lobby Crawl

[ld111134]

Please join "Francisco d'Anconia"/Josh and me for a crawl of downtown Chicago hotel lobby bars on Saturday, December 12th from 1:00 p.m. until who-knows-when.

We are going to start at the historic Palmer House Hilton in the Loop (17 East Monroe Street - at South State Street) and end up at the grande dame Drake Hotel (140 East Walton Street - at North Michigan Avenue), with stops at the Hard Rock Hotel, the InterContinental, the Ritz-Carlton and the Four Seasons. We may even push on to Butch McGuire's on Division Street with those left standing.

We'll arrange for car service to take groups of people home from our final spot. If you are interested in this service, please PM "Francisco d'Anconia" or me as to wwhere they live - this will enable us to price and reserve cars and provide a single price.

Otherwise, drinks at each stop will be simply pay-as-you-go.

We'll Twitter our status so latecomers can join the crawl.

Here's the lobby of the Palmer House at Christmas:

Please PM "Franscisco d'Anconia" or me if you plan on joining us, or simply respond to this thread.

We look forward to sharing some holiday cheer!

 

[Xiaogou]

Any pizza along the way?

 

[ld111134]

Originally Posted by Xiaogou

Any pizza along the way?

Why don't we meet up for lunch beforehand, B Squared? The big pizza places near the crawl route (Pizzeria Uno and Due may be crowded, but we might sneak into the Pizano's in the Loop, which is on the way).

 

[Xiaogou]

Originally Posted by ld111134

Why don't we meet up for lunch beforehand, B Squared? The big pizza places near the crawl route (Pizzeria Uno and Due may be crowded, but we might sneak into the Pizano's in the Loop, which is on the way).

Sounds good

 

[unpainted huffheinz]

You guys need to go to the bar at the Park Hyatt and then to the Peninsula to pick up chicks. Ditch the Palmer House and Hard Rock.

 

[ld111134]

If we want to pick up chicks, we should ditch hotel bars altogether and go to Stone Lotus.

 

[Xiaogou]

Originally Posted by unpainted huffheinz

You guys need to go to the bar at the Park Hyatt and then to the Peninsula to pick up chicks. Ditch the Palmer House and Hard Rock.

Ditch nothing, add something!

 

[Tooch4321]

Originally Posted by ld111134

If we want to pick up chicks, we should ditch hotel bars altogether and go to Stone Lotus.

yeah, if you start your bar crawl at 3am!

 

[ld111134]

Originally Posted by Tooch4321

yeah, if you start your bar crawl at 3am!

Another Wicker Parker???!!!

Maybe we should just stop at Tavern on Rush, Jilly's and Lux Bar, the local MILF/cougar dens.

 

[goclarkanderson]

Hahahahah! Well said Id1111134

 

[Cashmoney]

Originally Posted by unpainted huffheinz

You guys need to go to the bar at the Park Hyatt and then to the Peninsula to pick up chicks. Ditch the Palmer House and Hard Rock.

Bingo.

Palmer House is for geezers like my mom.

Hard Rock is Douchebag Central.

 

[Cavalier]

+1 on Park Hyatt and Peninsula (these are the two best hotel bars in the area)

Intercontinental is another I'd skip (really weak bar)

 

[ld111134]

Originally Posted by Cavalier

+1 on Park Hyatt and Peninsula (these are the two best hotel bars in the area)

Intercontinental is another I'd skip (really weak bar)

Originally Posted by Cashmoney

Bingo.

Palmer House is for geezers like my mom.

Hard Rock is Douchebag Central.

We'll I am open to suggestions - we should start at the Palmer House and end at the Drake because they are historic and have great Christmas decorations (recognizing the geezer factor - hey, I'm kind of a "geezer" myself), but I'm open to suggestions for any stops along the way as long as we more-or-less keep the hotel bar/holiday theme.

 

[ld111134]

Hello,

Please indicate whether you will be joining us for the holiday hotel lobby bar crawl on Saturday, December 12th, either by posting to this thread or by sending me a private message. I'd like to get a handle on the headcount.

We will be starting at 1:00 p.m. at the Palmer House Hilton on State Street in the Loop and probably ending at the Drake Hotel at the end of North Michigan Avenue, with 3 - 4 stops in between.

You can join or leave the crawl at any time while it's in progress (we'll be twittering/e-mailing our location to anyone who's interested - PM me for information about Twitter/e-mail).

Cheers,

Lou (ld111134)

 

[oman]

man this sounds awesome. someone should do something like this for toronto