FOUR SEASONS CHICAGO
Always a landmark of refined comfort, with unrivalled Lake Michigan and city views, steps from chic North Michigan Avenue shops – and minutes from Chicago's business and financial centres. With its elegant restyling now complete in every detail, the Hotel offers a fresh, contemporary ambience that remains as inviting as ever.
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Hotel Coverage: FOUR SEASONS CHICAGO
W Hotels Designs Detox Program For New Year's Diet Stragglers
At the beginning of the year we thumbed our noses at New Year's resolutions that involved dieting by showing you a week's worth of decadent meals at the Four Seasons Chicago to start 2013 on a more interesting note. Well, now we guess we better get on the detox...
January 10, 2013
Nix New Year's Eve Resolutions at The Four Seasons Chicago
In January, Allium's All-You-Can-Eat specials include a whole day devoted to their delicious fried chicken! We’ve been covering sweets, champagne and all the places to live it up before the start of the New Year and those promising dreaded resolutions. But starting January 1, Four Seasons Hotel Chicago is...
December 27, 2012
The Good and Bad on Bourdain's "Layover" Hotels
Anthony Bourdain is back for another season of “The Layover”, and we like it because he names the hotels in the cities where he'll be spending his precious time. We figure, he won't be laying his salt-and-pepper head just anywhere, after all, he's big time now. So, for entertainment...
November 27, 2012
Anthony Bourdain's "The Layover" Returns: We Choose His Chicago Hotels
The Tall Travel King returns! Monday, November 19th brings the Travel Channel's second season of “The Layover with Anthony Bourdain” at 9pm EST. The premiere episode takes Tony to Chicago, where he’ll be riding around in an old-school Caddy, visiting bars (naturally), eating sausages, and stirring up that age-old...
October 15, 2012
An Ice Cream Woman, Martini, and Candy Man Walk In a Hotel Room…
Who needs the bar when you've got a Martini Man at Four Seasons Chicago? Where many hotels are trending toward minimalist room service, there are others that may forever remain true to room service indulgence. It’s not to say that one is better than the other since we definitely...
September 18, 2012
Porcelain Books, Lenticular Art and Coin Sculptures? Toto, We’re Not in a Hotel Lobby Anymore
Ever since the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago rebranded and reopened its lobby and resto space this February, the new restaurant Allium has been getting a lot of buzz. We stopped by to see it out for ourselves and venturing out of the elevator, were stopped by something else: the...
April 12, 2012
Prosecco, Couples Massages and Embroidered Bathrobes: These Are Your V-Day Options in Chicago
There's less than two weeks now until Valentine's Day and if you haven't made plans with your schmoopie, well then you better get started. We've been inundated with a ton of Valentine's Day hotel deals and promotions and we're trying to keep up with them all. Here are a...
February 02, 2012
When The Weather Outside is Frightful, Staying in a Chicago Hotel is Delightful
While the snowfall in Chicago last week wasn't quite as serious as expected, there's no doubt that with winter in full swing, there will be more snow predicted for the Windy City in the weeks to come. We already highlighted a few mobile apps for scoring last-minute hotel deals...
January 18, 2012
Four Seasons Chicago Will Have a 'Hot Choc Doc' On Staff This Holiday Season
Even though the temperatures are falling Chicago, the hotel scene is getting hotter! And over at the Four Seasons Chicago there's a "doc" on staff whose sole job is to warm you up. Starting November 25, The Hot Chocolate Doctor will be making "room calls" at the hotel with...
November 03, 2011
The Four Seasons Chicago Gives Kids Free Fondue, Is An Ageist
The Four Seasons Chicago seriously has a junk food addiction. First it offers an on-call ice cream man to scoop sundaes for National Ice Cream Month. Then it creates its own gourmet hot dogs for National Hot Dog Month. Now it's serving fondue to kiddies (and no, it isn't...
July 15, 2011
The Four Seasons Chicago is Making Their Own Franks for National Hot Dog Month
July is National Hot Dog Month, which should be a holiday in Chicago, since it's basically one of the city's basic food groups. The Windy City is known for its loaded Chicago-style hot dog. To celebrate the delicious encased meat, the Four Seasons Chicago is whipping up its own...
June 21, 2011
The Four Seasons Chicago Wants Royal Watchers in its Royal Suite
If you envy the big to-do that Prince Wills and his lady love Kate will have on their wedding day, you can get a piece of it at the Four Seasons Chicago. The hotel is offering a crazy package so you can celebrate the royal nuptials from across the...
March 29, 2011
The Four Seasons Chicago Gets All Psyched for Da Bears' Big Game
There's no doubt about it; Chicago looooooves its sports teams and their fans! Just like when the Peninsula Chicago's lions dressed up to support the Blackhawks in their bid for the Stanley Cup, so we see that both of the Windy City's Four Seasons is getting in the spirit...
January 21, 2011
More Hotel Christmas Trees From Around The World
Hotels are getting in a holiday mood! Usually around this time, we spotlight all the delicious holiday cocktails that hotels concoct for the season. Don't worry, we're not giving up the booze, but we are keeping tabs on all the wonderful, wild, and in some cases, weird Holiday Hotel...
December 10, 2010
The Four Seasons is Getting Buzzed Tonight on Twitter
The Swann Lounge at the Four Seasons Philadelphia.As with most things in life, we've found that Twitter can be so much more interesting after a glass or two of wine. (Right?) Four Seasons Hotels seem to agree, as tonight they're hosting a wine-tasting Tweetup, in honor of #WineWednesday. The event...
November 17, 2010
Five Hotels that Are Still Going Pink This Month
October is almost over, but hotels are still going strong with their pink-themed celebrations to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month. That means you can still cash in on some great spa deals, yummy teas and more while helping raise funds for breast cancer research. But hurry, since you have...
October 20, 2010
The Other Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago, The Ritz-Carlton, Also Offers Free WiFi for Guests
Yesterday we were positively shell-shocked to discover that the Four Seasons Chicago offered free WiFi in the rooms to its guests. So we've been on a mission to track down other Four Seasons hotels that offer free WiFi. Right now, no other FS hotel in the U.S. offers free...
August 06, 2010
Say What? Four Seasons Chicago Has Free WiFi For Guests
When we were studying the hypo-allergenic suite online at the Four Seasons Chicago yesterday, we noticed on the rates and reservations page that wired or wireless internet access was included in the room rate..We had to double-check the website URL again. Was this really a Four Seasons hotel offering...
August 05, 2010
The Four Seasons Chicago Has The Cleanest Suite in Town
We know that London hotels have gone a little suite crazy this summer but it turns out The Four Seasons Chicago has been gripped by suite mania as well. The hotel is promoting their four new suites--a Presidential Suite on the 46th floor (Obama pick this one!) along with...
August 04, 2010
Five Hotels for a Last-Minute Memorial Day Getaway
We can hardly believe that May is practically over but we're quite happy about that because it means we have a three-day weekend coming up! Yup Memorial Day is upon us and while HotelChatter is taking a break from hotel-hunting, we know that some of you may have some last-minute...
May 24, 2010
Scoff at Tax Day with Tax-Tinis at the Four Seasons Chicago
1040 Easy tax-tini To help you cope with the impending Tax Day, the Four Seasons Chicago is shaking up some tax-tini cocktails. And to cut you some slack in the money department, the drinks will be tax-free. The Seasons Bar will pour the tax-tinis through April. The drinks will...
March 31, 2010
Don't Be Late for an Important Date: The Four Seasons Chicago's 'Wonderland' Tea
The Four Seasons Chicago wants you to fall down the rabbit hole and attend its Mad Afternoon Tea Party on March 6. To celebrate the premiere of the new Alice in Wonderland starring Johnny Depp, the tea will serve Wonderland-inspired pastries, including colorful iced sugar cookies cut out in...
February 26, 2010
Fashion Week Hits Chicago and Hotels Are Ready To Work It
As an influx of Manolo-wearing fashionistas hit Chicago for Fashion Focus—the city's Fashion Week-type extravaganza with runway shows, shopping events and seminars from Oct. 22 to 25—hotels want a piece of the well-heeled crowd. So The Essex Inn, Four Seasons, James Hotel, Park Hyatt, Sofitel and theWit partnered with...
September 29, 2009
Ditch the Football Fanatics for the Spa at the Four Seasons Chicago
You get to chillax in the quiet Four Seasons' spa lounge rather than hear shouting over bad calls from the ref. If you dread Sundays in the fall because your living room gets overrun by football fanatics, you can ditch the noisy, chest-thumping crowd and make a play for...
September 17, 2009
Julie of 'Julie and Julia' Has an Adventure in Overservice
Ah, overservice — if you aren't creeped out by it, you can always laugh about it. Or blog about it, really. Or laugh at how hilarious your own jokes are as you're blogging about it. Not that we'd say that was a frequent occurrence on late Thursday afternoons at...
July 30, 2009
Just Say 'La-Tea-Spa' at the Four Seasons Chicago
Since we're old hats when it comes to Afternoon Tea service in Chicago hotels, new menus or packages to jazz up the offerings never fail to excite us. That's why the spring season is so awesome, as it promises all kinds of fun new tea flourishes and Mother's Day...
April 29, 2009
Tax Season Makes Us Want to Drink Tax-Tinis
We believe that anything tax-related calls for a martini. Whether a drink is in order to celebrate the fact that you've finally finished your taxes, a drink is necessary to take the edge off the pressure of the looming deadline or a drink is a hey-why-not way to spend...
March 23, 2009
Luxe Chicago Hotels Give Guests Room 'Rebates'
We kicked off the week with the Sweet Tax Relief promotion from The Hotel Palomar Westwood, which has now been extended to all Kimpton Hotels, and we're hearing of more and more tax season hotel packages as we near closer to April 15th. Like the "Experience More" packages offered by...
March 12, 2009
Chillax Like Barack at Four Seasons Chicago
The Chicago Obama packages are a-floodin' in — and since we know you've pretty much given up on finding a D.C. hotel for inauguration (you should have listened to us back in November!), might we recommend you book one of these and celebrate Barack's inauguration not by flocking to...
January 07, 2009
Drink and Detox With the Four Seasons Chicago's NYE Package
When Lake Michigan turns into a bowl of Frosted Cheerios and Michigan Avenue is clogged with shoppers from St. Louis, you know it's time to solidify your New Year's Even plans. As usual, all the major hotels will open up their ballrooms for major shindigs, like the annual New...
December 18, 2008
The Four Seasons Chicago Will Read Your Kids Bedtime Stories
Why should only adults get to have a bedtime story read to them when staying overnight at hotels (a la Andaz's Reader in Residence)? The Four Seasons Chicago is giving kids the bedtimes stories that they rightfully deserve with the introduction of their Bedtime Stories Butler in conjunction with the...
December 17, 2008
Four Seasons Hotels Present Surprisingly Affordable Gift Ideas
Maybe inspired by their hometown boy Barack Obama’s populist message, Chicago’s Four Seasons Hotel and The Ritz-Carlton (also a Four Seasons Hotel) are presenting a holiday special that seems to--gasp!--be an attempt to speak to the common man with more-affordable-than-usual prices. The “Twelve Days of Small Holiday Indulgences” includes...
November 14, 2008
Chicago's Four Seasons Hotels Team Up for "Experience More"
[UPDATE: Good news! The credits go towards your current stay. It is not a "bounceback" offer. We apologize for the error.] Two luxury hotels in the Windy City are teaming up to lure you in. Called "Experience More," the Four Seasons Chicago and the Ritz-Carlton Chicago are offering "money back...
July 01, 2008
Four Seasons Chicago Concierges Tell All in New Book
On the one hand, we love this. Two former concierges at the Four Seasons Chicago have written a book, Great Reservations (pun on Dickens title duly noted) about the celebrities who used to stay at the hotel with their outrageous (but normal for celebrity types) demands.Abigail Hart and Nancy Joyce...
March 07, 2008
The Peninsula and Four Seasons Help Chicago Shut Out the Nation's Restaurant Competition
Ahh Chicago, that tottlin' town. They sure do know how to eat. Maybe that's why the city grabbed seven spots on the Best Restaurants in the Nation list and three five-diamond awards went out to hotel restaurants. Three Chicago hotels also received the five-diamond award for excellence - the Peninsula,...
October 31, 2006
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