![]() ![]() In 2013, Hotel Max partnered with iconic label Sub Pop on the design of the 19 rooms on its fifth floor. Also available: private vintage-vinyl shopping services courtesy of local store Breakaway Records and, for the most musically inclined, Gibson guitars for rent from the concierge. ![]() Guests can flip through the hotel’s lending library and borrow selections from an encyclopedic collection of records (classics like Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, Bob Marley & The Wailers’ Legend and Carole King’s Tapestry are the most in demand) and rock’n’roll biographies to bring to their rooms, all of which feature Rega turntables and Geneva sound systems. “It’s the younger, road-tripping guests” - not the weekday business travelers - “that are the most excited and the ones buying the most albums.” “It’s not something guests are seeing at a Marriott, a Hyatt or a Hilton when they check in,” he says. Director of sales and marketing Drew Parker sees the initiatives as a way to set his branch apart. ![]() The Goodland will host a concert by St. Lucia in August as part of a national Kimpton series. “Then you get the younger, millennial generation that is very in tune with the new uptick in popularity of vinyl and are all about this.”Īt this branch of the 66-location chain, lodgers can browse the lobby’s record shop-slash-library, run in cooperation with the subscription record service VNYL, for albums to buy or borrow during their stay. (Victrola record players have been available for guests to borrow and take to their rooms since the Duniway opened in 2017.) “The older clientele that haven’t seen a record player in a long time immediately start smiling,” says GM Ryan Kunzer. This April, the Hilton-owned hotel will debut its Vinyl Suite, a 350-square-foot room equipped with handmade players from U-Turn Audio and a collection of 900 records.
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