Holiday (celebrate)

So you know how unpleasant it is to sit on one of those seats on the bus where you’re facing someone (yep, some of us go on the bus)? And they’re eyeballing you, and knocking your knees with their knees, and spilling their shopping all over your so-far pristine desert boots and looking at your package (OK, so we admit we do that too…) Well, how do you fancy that for four hours on your way to Mykonos? Depends who it is? Yeah, we hear you, sister.

Anyway, that’s the latest idea to save money by squishing us up on flights. Inspired by the way they fly soldiers hither and yon (imagine package watching on those flights!), it’s the brain child (with the emphasis on the ‘child’ rather than the ‘brain’) of Design Q, who admit it ain’t ideal but if we want those fares to stay (stay?) cheap, then it’s a viable option.

What we want to know is, how will they get those EasyTrolleys down without kneecapping everyone? Hmmm?

We love a sexual pun. It’s big and it’s very clever, and when it involves The Standard, just about our favouritest hotel, well, we hate to say chain so let’s say Hermès chunky choker, in the world, it’s big and it’s clever and it’s very very long.  

And bless those lovely Standard people. Not only have they gone and opened a hotel right where we wanted them to open a hotel (down Meatpacking way, NYC. Which we brought your dolly attention to a wee while back), but while they put the finishing tweaks and touches, polishing knobs and putting oil where oil needs to go they’re offering you, the hotel punter, a special rate starting at $195 per night.

OK, for we Brits with the current exchangery that works out at a wheelbarrow-load of cash, but come on, it’s not bad. And you won’t get anything as nice for that price in Manhattan. And if that rooftop pool hosts anything like the kind of parties that go down at the West Hollywood version, we’ll be on sunloungering from dusk till dawn and right through to dusk again. Via a little go-see at Mr Blacks, mostly to touch up our favourite barman with the ‘tache.

Go to nyreservations@standardhotel.com to book your suite… We-thank-you.