The three guest rooms are furnished Victorian-style. Other than some menu tweaking, the near future may not hold a lot of changes for Rainbow Gardens' successful formula, Lee says. We just don't know what that is yet. There isn't much competition for the Omni Hotel at Yale in this category. The facility is an acknowledged leader in its class, with 22,000 square feet of meeting space and conference or wedding accommodations for up to 1,000 people for a standup reception or 800 or so for dinner.
Accommodations are old-world luxurious and service is impeccable.
But that's only part of what makes the Omni Hotel the best in New Haven. It's also one of the few places in town where you can go star-watching. The hotel often accommodates the theater stars from the Shubert and the Oakdale, and a lot of the network television shows conduct interviews at the hotel. The Omni has recently hosted U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, political spinmeister David Gergen, Larry King, Johnnie Cochrane and Ernest Borgnine. And don't forget the best view of the city from the top floor at the bar-restaurant Galileo's.