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Sad Sea Lion Has Nowhere to Sleep in Punta Del Este and Other Stories This Week
HotelChatter | 20 hours 7 minutes ago
It's our weekly recap which we call Suite-Hostel. Get it?SUITE:$19.04 for a Night at The RooseveltFive Hotels Where You Can Sleep and SkateWhich Rooftop Pool is Best for You in Seville?ALSO:Top Five Hotels for Eating MacaronsHOSTEL:Punta del Este Hotels are Sold-Out for New Year's.Marriott Changing Up The Ritz-Carlton BrandDelano a No-Go for
Is This The Real Reason Why Hotels Have Bad WiFi Connections?
HotelChatter | 20 hours 19 minutes ago
Porn jammers! Old men in the club! Fergie! Hotel Strikes!It always seems that no matter how much Celebrity Scoop we write about in a given week, there's also lots more that we didn't have time to get to. So from now on, every Friday we'll be rounding up the week's Infamous Hotels. This weekly list will include hotels that celebrities visited (and it made the news) but also hotels that really up the "Eww" factor. This can easily done by manipulating the WiFi connection for guests.The Sports Gu...
Cape Town: This Week in Hotel Lust: White Picket Fences at Cape Town's Mount Nelson
HotelChatter | 20 hours 52 minutes ago
This week, a combination of wanderlust and hotel lust led us to research the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, which a roving HotelChatter correspondent briefly had the chance to visit last year. We deemed Mount Nelson worth a second look from afar, because of the consistent buzz it garners for its exaggerated sense of luxury. Then again, if it weren't exaggerated it wouldn't be lust-worthy, would it? Fat cats who travel to areas of the world deemed "exotic" aren't usually in the...
These Dog Concierges Have Written a Book, Have You?
HotelChatter | 22 hours 17 minutes ago
It’s that time of the week again: Cute Hotel Doggie Friday! And today we give you not one but two adorable hotel doggies. Because we’re nice like that. Both of these smilin’ fools work for Fairmont Hotels—Catie Copley (the black lab) at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston, and Santol (a Bernese mountain dog cross) at the Fairmont Le Ch teau Frontenac in Quebec City. They have the lofty title of Canine Ambassador, and enjoy all the perks that go with it—business cards,...
Shanghai: Please Welcome A Peninsula And Its Fleet Of Phantoms To Shanghai
HotelChatter | 22 hours 17 minutes ago
We can talk about Art Basel Miami hotels and hotels for the holidays all we want, but we can't ignore one of the biggest hotel openings of autumn, that of the Peninsula Shanghai. It officially welcomes its first guests back on October 19, and yet it's already a like a landmark on Shanghai's Bund—the street of shops, other high-class hotels, and historical buildings right at the bend of the Huangpu River. The main thing to know about this Peninsula is its relatively low starting room rate...
Los Angeles: The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Gets Jazzed About Brunch
HotelChatter | 22 hours 30 minutes ago
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel has a long and checkered history that well pre-dates today’s celebrity tantrums and “Super Sweet 16” parties. As a way of hearkening back to that golden-hued heyday, the hotel has started offering a new ”Jazz Brunch” on Sundays from 11:00am-3:00pm. Since the special brunch starts at $18 per person, it’s actually a pretty good deal, especially for a Thompson Hotel, and especially considering that overnight parking will run you around...
Santiago: Party Dispatch Report: The W Santiago's Grand Opening Party
HotelChatter | 23 hours 22 minutes ago
For the opening of the W Santiago Chile we were fortunate to have Jonathan Franklin and photographer Morten Andersen, the guys behind Addict Village attend the party and report back to us on what they saw. We know, we know, what a tough assignment. Enjoy. W chose Santiago as its first ever South American location roughly five years ago. Finally on Tuesday, The W Hotel Santiago held its official opening party, a trademark WOW experience that included a rooftop pool adorned with three female sy...
Berlin: The Hotel Concorde Berlin Wants You To Look Hawt
HotelChatter | 23 hours 35 minutes ago
Berlin's Hotel Concorde has long tried to be hip with its accommodation packages, and each deal they come out with does seem to get better and better. Learning French in Berlin was a bit of a stretch; their Fall of the Wall deal was pretty good; but now comes the most sensible idea they've had so far: a Shop in the City package.Being all very cosmopolitan and cool, yet not outrageously expensive, Berlin is an ideal place to go on a shopping splurge. The Hotel Concorde is also in the right par...
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IAG -- Aviation and Travel
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TravelPost.com
Daily travel advice, tips and ideas from TravelPost.com and around the web
USA TODAY/Hotel Hotsheet blog
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Luxe Life
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Gridskipper
The decadent travel guide. Scouring the world for chic hotels, hot restaurants, sweet nightlife, and pretty people.
HotelChatter
Hotel Reviews and Info
New York Hospitality by Vijay Dandapani
A hotelier's outlook on NYC, travel and the hospitality industry