But a funny thing elsewhere: Overnight foreign radio shows in English from Europe were wordless re the start of TIFF, preoccupied instead by the windup Saturday of the 64th annual Venice Film Festival.
And the only TIFFref found in the Sunday NY Times was almost all about an unfinished new hotel near Hazelton Lane in the Yorkville neighborhood which has somehow ranked itself as Toronto's, if not Canada's, first five-star hotel. The ranking took place even before it existed, hailed as such months ago by signs on its construction hoardings.
One can only guess its top ranking is based on its tiptop roomrates, which the Times says start at $405 a night and others report (see below) range from $475 to $850 a night for a room, suites renting for $2,500 and $5,000 a night.
It's somewhere to bear in mind when next you're visiting T.O. or, if you live here, when friends and kin too numerous to fit into your abode are visiting.
-cm 9-9-07
THE HAZELTON HOTEL: FILMFEST HOT SPOT
NY Sunday Times September 9, 2007
Travel Section COMINGS AND GOINGS
Toronto Hotel to Be Film Hot Spot for a While
By Hilary Howard
With its $2 million worth of technology, Italian leather seating and mohair-lined walls, the private screening room at the Hazelton Hotel in Toronto, which opened last month, is already booked through the Toronto Film Festival (Sept. 6 to 15), playing host to five to seven screenings a day.
The 77-room luxury property, above, in the trendy Yorkville neighborhood, is definitely going after the high-end market, with nightly rates starting at 405 Canadian dollars ($392, at 1.07 Canadian dollars to the U.S. dollar).
Amenities include Bulgari toiletries in the bathroom, 300-thread-count Mascioni linens on the beds, a spa with four treatment rooms, and a lap pool with imported mosaic tiles. Information: www.thehazeltonhotel.com . #
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