There is an imperial lobby with rose-colored arches, columns and marble fountains.
There will also be two new elegant watering holes: a champagne bar in the lobby and the Rose Club, which will serve signature cocktails.
Owned by hotelier and tastemaker Ian Schrager Ian Schrager, it has been the leading hotel in SoBe since 1995 and, even though plenty of other copycat boutique hotels have opened up since, the Delano, and its restaurant The Blue Door and lobby bar, the Rose Bar, is the destination of choice for the beautiful people.
The divisions and shortcomings within the council were fully on display last week when its 10-member executive committee met at the Four Seasons Hotel in Doha, Qatar — its soaring lobby bedecked with roses and other red flowers left over from Valentine's Day.
He will also create food for a new Champagne Bar in the lobby, and for the Rose Club, a lounge overlooking it on a new mezzanine.
In a quiet, green section of the modern quarter, Gueliz, the Hotel de la Menara, Avenue des Remparts, (212) 4443-6478, fax (212) 4444-7386, has a welcoming lobby opening onto the rose garden, swimming pool and tennis courts.
Even though there were people in the lobby dressed as raindrops on roses and a drop of golden sun, the event wasn't all that carefree.
The lobby smelled more like cleaning fluid than roses.
The Rose Group spent $282,138 on lobbying in 2012, more than half of it going to Joseph Mirto, a chiropractor-turned-lobbyist, according to state records.
With all three events scheduled the same night, the early-evening talk in the hotel lobbies among those looking for a way in rose to a fever pitch.
