Yesterday's tragic death at the Soho House may turn into a homicide investigation. The NY Times reports that the dead woman found in an overflowing bathtub in room 20 was Soho House member and swimsuit designer, Sylvie Cachay. She had checked in with her boyfriend, Nicholas Brooks, just after...
December 10, 2010
HotelChatter always has a funny way of showing up at hotels during interesting convention events. Remember our International Mister Leather run-in? Well, when one of our operatives was in at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco last week, they noticed this convention was taking place: Society of Single Professionals: Bay...
June 07, 2010
Revolving restaurants atop hotels may remind some of the eighties, but we think they are timeless classics. There is just something about having drinks and a meal whilst in slow rotation that appeals to us. Seattle architect John Graham is the person credited with inventing the revolving restaurant when...
September 19, 2007
The Hyatt Regency San Francisco has started to offer a Clear® Registered Traveler enrollment kiosk in its lobby. What is this? Well, Clear allows business travelers and other frequent flyers expedited passage through airport security checkpoints. Such travelers have to pay a $99.95 fee and have to be pre-screened by...
June 01, 2007
This week's latest edition to the HotelChatter Flickr Pool comes from Jonnodotcom. Jonno (can we call you that?) graciously heeded our request for hotel room views by submitting a few choice shots, including this picture from a room at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. We can't decide if this is...
March 23, 2007
Hotels should ban these Canadian punks from their hotel rooms. After one band member was caught screaming out of a NYC hotel room, now we have footage of Simple Plan's lead singer Pierre Bouvier pulling some pranks at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco like throwing firecrackers into the lobby...
March 28, 2006
Imagine you have trained for a marathon for six months; you even follow the annoying, and constant, Chronicle Marathon email advice and book a room at the "official" marathon hotel. Then, much to your chagrin, the hotel locks the doors on its lobby bathrooms, on the morning of the race...
August 02, 2004
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