The Tipton Hotel

Tipton Hotel
The exterior of the Tipton is actually the Hotel Vancouver.
Location	138 St. James Ave near Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts
Opening date	1939
Architect	Sir Edward Tipton[citation needed], The Lady Maria Jane Frances Fellowes Tipton[citation needed]
Management	Tipton Industries
Owner	Wilfred Tipton (voiced by Bob Joles)
Rooms	551 guestrooms and suites[citation needed]
Restaurants	3
Floors	25

The Tipton Hotel is a fictional hotel from the television series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. Most of the action occurs inside the hotel and it is the main setting for the series, particularly the lobby, the basement, the Tipton's 5-star restaurants, the ballroom, the game room, the Martin's suite on the 23rd floor, and London Tipton's penthouse. The Tipton Hotel Chain is presumed to be a parody of the Hilton Hotel chain because London Tipton is loosely based on Paris Hilton.

Hotel

The Boston Tipton Hotel contains at least twenty-five stories, as well as an outdoor pool on the roof, a mezzanine, and a penthouse. The hotel also offers room service and houses a game room, a fitness center, a daycare, yoga classes, a bank, and, as of December 2005, three restaurants. In "The Suite Life Go Hollywood", the actual set in which the Suite Life is filmed on is used as a location for the characters. The set for the "fake" Tipton is located in Hollywood.

Managers

• Various managers (1939–1995)^{[citation needed]} NOTE - London Tipton shipped one of them off to South America to work in the copper mines.
• Marion Moseby (1995–2008)^{[citation needed]}
• Esteban Ramirez Assistant Night Manager (dates unknown)

Exterior

The Tipton Building itself doesn't exist; shots of the building's exterior are pictures of the Hotel Vancouver. The moving vehicles and most people are animated or green screened but spliced on top the site of an actual Boston luxury hotel- the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel. The various external shots of the Tipton Hotel along with views from the windows of the Martin's and London's suites would place the hotel in several different locations around Boston. One external shot has the John Hancock Tower close by and another has the Tipton reflected on the Hancock. That would put the hotel in the Back Bay section of Boston. Views from the suites would put the hotel down near the waterfront as the buildings seen outside the window are all near the New England Aquarium. Lastly, in "Birdman of Boston", "Bubba" the hawk (also the name of Dylan and Cole Sprouse's dog), at the end of the show, is seen flying around an open area with a church in the background. That church is the Park Street Church, so that shot would put the hotel right on the Boston Common.

Events

The Tipton has hosted many special events and functions, which include:

• Below the Tip (Carey Martin singing cabaret)
• Celebrity weddings
• Proms
• Go Dance USA competition
• Battle of the Bands
• Universal Mini Miss Pageant
• The Beacon Hill Masquerade Ball (formerly held at the St. Mark Hotel)
• Press conferences
• Motivational speakings and lectures
• Science fairs and spelling bees
• Birthday parties
• Conventions
• Boston Ballroom Dance Competition
• Junior Fashion Show
• Hotel Engineer Games

The Boston location is also the backdrop for the hotel chain's television advertisement.

Notable Staff

Main article: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody recurring characters#Tipton Staff

• Mr. Tipton, the hotel owner
• Marion Moseby, the hotel manager
• Carey Martin, the ballroom singer
• Maddie Fitzpatrick, the candy counter girl
• Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya Deleroso Ramirez, Bellhop
• Arwin Hawkhauser, the hotel engineer
• Chef Paolo, the chef
• Patrick, the maître d'
• Muriel, the former housekeeper
• Lance, the lifeguard
• Nia, the substitute candy counter girl (Mr. Moseby's niece)
• Millicent, the other substitute candy counter girl
• Skippy, the night manager
• Norman, the doorman
• Irene, the concierge
• Gary, the waiter
• Rich, the waiter
• Chuck, the waiter

Clientele

Over the course of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, the Tipton has accommodated many guests, including:

• Foreign prince/princessess
• Ambassadors
• New York Yankees
• Circus entertainers
• Jesse McCartney
• Merit scholars - (Trevor: played by Zac Efron)
• Bernard Bernaise
• Amputater (wrestler)
• Hannah Montana and Robbie Ray
• Raven Baxter and Donna Cabonna
• Kurt Martin, visited the Tipton 5 (Dad's Back, Christmas at the Tipton, Volley Dad, Graduation, & A Tale of Two Houses) times
• Con artists Harry and Holly O'Neill
• Mr. Moseby's big brother, Spencer
• Japanese opera singer Kumiko Mori
• London's fifth stepmother, Brandi Tipton.
• Mr. Moseby's grandmother, Rose Moseby
• Tony Hawk
• Chris Brown
• The Cheetah Girls

Residents

Several people are known to live full-time at the Tipton:

• London Tipton (Brenda Song), rich daughter of Mr. Tipton, lives in the penthouse on floor 25 in suite 2500 with her dog Ivana.
• Carey Martin (Kim Rhodes), the lounge singer, and her twin sons, Zack and Cody (Dylan and Cole Sprouse), live in suite 2330 at the Tipton Hotel.
• Arwin Hawkhauser (Brian Stepanek), the hotel engineer, used to live in the bottom floor of the Tipton Hotel & had a cot in his office. He lived with his mother on weekends until she moved away with her new husband and Arwin got the apartment.

Tiptons around the world

There are Tipton hotels in the following locations: Tokyo, Hollywood, Paris, New York City, Mumbai (Bombay), Boston, Siberia, Taipei, Beijing, Morocco and Milan. There is also the cruise liner, SS Tipton, the Tipton Space Station, and a possible future Starship Tipton.

Advertisements

There are currently 3 commercials for the Tipton, most of which air on Disney Channel. The first commercial is the Tipton staff singing "It's Your Place to Stay" on the episode Commercial Breaks. The phone number is 1-800-654-2192 (in real life, a fictional, nonworking number used by ABC for television and film). The other, which plays regularly on Disney Channel as an ad for The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, mainly brags "When you require the best, forget the rest!" The last is a show called "The Fabulous Lifestyles Of The Stinkin' Rich" where it stars London Tipton and her rich life.^{[citation needed]}

Competition

The Tipton's main competition is the St. Mark Hotel, across the street The St. Mark Hotel's employees include: Ilsa Shickelgrubermeiger-Von Helsing der Keppelugerhofer, the manager; Irv Wheldon, the hotel engineer, who competed against (and tried to sabotage) Arwin in the Hotel Engineer Games; the owner of the St. Mark hotel; and Gretel, the Knackwurst counter girl who hates Maddie^{[citation needed]} and has a crush on Esteban. Other competing hotels in the area include the Glitz-Harlton (a parody of the Ritz-Carlton), the Dempsey, the Royal, Motel 31/2, the Gordon, the Calvada, and the Petrie. Many of the competition hotels came to The Tipton for the hotel engineer games in the episode "Going For The Gold".