she liked hunting for unconventional souvenirs in hotel gift shops (her first purchase was a speckled ceramic pen holder in Japan). She started to wonder what it would be like to choose such items ...

so the hotel’s gift shop should have just what you need. Instead, you are faced with a random assortment of items, bought because the receptionist’s cousin and the assistant director of rooms’ ...

The Untitled Hotel at 3 Freeman Alley on the Lower East Side is chucking the traditional hotel gift shop for something a tad more permanent: Unscripted Ink, the city’s first in-hotel tattoo studio.

Kimpton Hotels has teamed up with Tiny Zaps ... So if you’re staying at a participating Kimpton this spring, skip the gift shop and walk out with a story on your skin instead.