March 03, 2008
Palm Court and Champagne Bar open at The Plaza
Only a few people were eating, but The Plaza's famed Palm Court was indeed open and serving tea and brunch on Sunday, marking the weekend the historic hotel reopened after three years and $400 million of renovations.
 The Champagne Bar, on the southeast corner of the ground floor, was busy, the champagne flowing, the seats nearly filled and the adjacent lobby buzzing with a constant stream of lookie-loos anxious to get the first peak at what The Plaza's new owners have wrought.
You can walk through the lobby for free, and up to the edge of the Palm Court and champagne bar. But The Plaza's hotel rooms (what remains of them after the partial-condo conversion) are now entirely booked through April. A call to the hotel's reservation line this morning yielded nothing earlier than an April 1 room at $735.
And even at that rate, the wi-fi in the rooms won't be free, as USA Today, reports:Technophiles will be pleased, save for the fact that free Wi-Fi touted in hotel press releases won't be free after all. "It was a difficult, last-minute decision," Krige says. "All our competitors set a charge." 
The Plaza's Rose Club restaurant is scheduled to open near the end of this month, with the Oak Room and Oak Bar are on tap for "late Spring."
The Oak Bar will be open in time for the May 10 "grand opening," according to the Associated Press.
More pictures after the jump.
Earlier: The Plaza to reopen Saturday with rooms from $715
March 3, 2008 06:24 AM in Architecture, Cheap Stuff, Drinkology, Foodology, History, Hotelology, Kids, Midtown, Romance, Sightsology
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