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Hotel Blog Watch: Hawthorne Hotel

Where: 18 Washington Square West [map], Salem, MA, United States, 01970

The Hawthorne Hotel is a small hotel in Salem, Mass. but the hotel has had its own blog for the last year and a half.

General Manager Juli Lederhaus posts every day about the events happening at the hotel, who won the employee of the month award, special dishes served in the restaurant, along with info about sightseeing and places to stop in the surrounding area.

To make it easier to find a story, there's a blog index where you can quickly locate her posts about the hotel's wallpaper, weddings, and history. Since the hotel is one of the Historic Hotels of America  (first opened in 1925), Juli often does posts on this subject:

As we talk to our guests we almost always find connections with them to events in our past. That is certainly one of the enjoyable things about being an historic hotel. We share a common history with our customers, and that history helps us to understand one another, and enjoy one another even more.

So you can tell that Juli will not be griping about customers a la Farmer's Daughter's blog. But the blog is useful to checkout if you plan on staying there and would like to see what's going on. Consider it the modern-day version of a hotel's print out of Daily Activities that you would normally find at the front desk.

Our favorite? The weekly posts about which flags will be hanging outside the hotel on each day of the week.

As for actually staying at the hotel, just keep in mind this is an old hotel in Massachusetts. The rooms are on the small side and modern amenities are scarce.

Related Stories:
· Hawthorne Hotel Blog [Blogger]
· Hawthorne Hotel reviews [TripAdvisor]
· Hotel Blog Watch: Farmer's Daughter [HotelChatter]

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Phoenix Grand Hotel: Salem Slick

Where: 201 Liberty Street SE [map], Salem, OR, United States, 97301

[Editor's Note: Hotel Maven thesnark tell us of a recent visit to the Phoenix Grand Hotel in Salem Oregon.

Oh, and just an FYI, we had a little email exchange with thesnark to make sure everything was on the up and up:

We stayed at the hotel this past month, July for four nights (we were visiting family).

So no, we do not work for the hotel! They are lovely people though.

See...we *do* check things out over here.]

thesnark's hotel review post jump

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Hawthorne Hotel's Annual Bash in Salem, MA

Where: On the Common [map], Salem, MA, United States, 01970

On Saturday October 30 the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, MA will throw one of the most popular Halloween parties in the country.

The 89 room 6 suite hotel in the middle of witch central has long been sold out for this Saturday night, and this party is so popular, that tickets and rooms for Halloween 2005 go on sale next week.

This year Good Morning America's weekend show will be broadcasting live from the Hawthorne Hotel.  Furthermore, the whole town is just one big festival, so even if you can't snag a last minute cancellation room at the Hawthorne you may want to head to Salem to experience the festivities. Either way the Hawthorne Hotel will be the epicenter of this and every hollow's eve in New England.

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