Guests enter a high ceilinged lobby with a light colored wood floor, colorful rugs, guitar shaped black wood tables, hot pink pillars, gray cube chairs, contemporary background music, and movies starring famous Jameses (Cagney, Bond, Dean projected onto a high white wall—all conveying the casual, colorful, contemporary ambience that draws young professionals to the hotel. The hotel is staffed by energetic young personnel. Amenity y highlights: An interior garden courtyard contains a play pool with underwater music, a quiet pool, a 14 person spa tub, cushioned teak lounge chairs, and two person daybeds. The hotel's contemporary Italian restaurant, Fiamma Trattoria, is an outpost of New York City's Fiamma Osteria. Packed nightly by a blend of locals and hotel guests, J Bar includes a bougainvillea fringed terrace with a huge hot pink gas fireplace. Insider tip: The Pink Pony Steakhouse, a legendary hangout for generations of baseball managers, coaches, and writers during spring training, lies four blocks from the hotel
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