Originally Posted by
WasKnown
I don’t even know what Marriott / Ian Schrager are trying to do with the EDITION brand these days. On paper it should be a top tier luxury flag with some of the strictest brand standards in the Marriott portfolio (minimum room size, high suite count, “world class” F&B venues, etc). However, IME, most EDITIONs are just full-service hotels with newer hard products. I have never been to the Bodrum EDITION so I can’t comment on that. However the New York, Times Square, Miami South Beach Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai EDITIONs we’re all fine, but not great.
I’ll probably give the Tokyo EDITION a shot (there’s a second Tokyo EDITION opening in Ginza that I also will consider) but other than that… I’m probably done with this brand. I would consider it closer to Andaz/Grand Hyatt than Park Hyatt. The restaurants are definitely very solid though.
The Shanghai EDITION was great when I stayed. I am at the Barcelona EDITION right now and I’d literally pay almost twice the price to stay here than the Hotel Arts which inexplicably made the above list. The US EDITIONs are all crap like most of Marriott’s allegedly luxury properties in the US are crap, I don’t think it’s fair to judge a brand using mostly US properties - there are plenty of terrible Ritz-Carltons in the US, for example. It appears you may have stayed at most of the worst EDITIONs, unfortunately. I think it’s fair to say EDITION is an Andaz competitor - but that’s no bad thing as there are some great Andaz properties in Asia, for example. EDITION also targets a very specific demographic, I think of it as what the higher end Ws were like 10-15 years ago. It’s not mainstream luxury for families etc but some of the properties are definitely aspirational.