http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T12:34:14Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/5/3/235437/4864 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/Gooniescontest.jpg" class="top"><p> <i>Watch out for those booty traps.</i><p>It's already well-established that <b>Goonies</b> is the best rainy day movie <i>ever</i> and anyone who was a kid in the 80s can probably recite the movie line-for line at any given time. (Our favorite? "Up there is their time but down here, it's our time.") So how can we not love this new contest which is combining two of our favorite things--Goonies and hotel rooms.<p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/CANNERY+PIER+HOTEL/local/4160"><b>The Cannery Pier Hotel</b></a> in Astoria, Ore., where Goonies was filmed, is offering Goonies fans the chance to win a two-night stay at the hotel, along with dinner for you and Troy, er, your friend/lover/spouse at the Bridgewater Bistro, drinks and dessert at the Astoria Coffee house juliana 2011-05-05T17:02:11-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/11/1/112645/898 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/cannerypierhotelshipreport.jpg" class="top"> <p>Of all the things we&#146;d expect to find in a hotel room, a shipping guide is fairly low down the list. But this is what was sitting on the coffee table in our room at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Cannery+Pier+Hotel/ian/232885"><b>Cannery Pier Hotel</b></a> in Astoria, Oregon at the weekend. <p>The hotel is bang on the Columbia river (we actually mean <i>on</i> it &#150; it&#146;s perched on a little jetty and you feel like you&#146;re floating on the river from the rooms) right continuous truss bridge (we&#146;re not sure what that is, but it&#146;s pretty splendid to look at). <p>All the rooms have balconies overlooking the river and they&#146;re all stocked with a pair of binoculars. But we found that what juliab 2010-11-02T09:10:12-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/9/163635/6418 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/cannerypierbikes.jpg" class="top"> <p>Aww. Don't you sometimes just wish you could hop on a 50's style bike and ride up and down the pier and only stop to eat ice cream cones and kiss your significant other and stuff like that? Well, you can fulfill your only-in-the-movies-style fantasies at the Oregon Coast's adorably-charming (but pretty big &#151; we mean "charming" as in playful and quirky, not in the Craigslist-esque, this-place-is-small way) <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Cannery+Pier+Hotel/ian/232885">Cannery Pier Hotel</a></b>. <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/timetoembark/3610904649/sizes/o/">Embark Creative</a> snapped this sweet shot of the fleet of 50's-style bikes available to guests at the Cannery Pier in Astoria, located in the Northwest corner of Oregon. They are, admittedly, "50's-replica" bikes, but they're offered up at no fee for guests to use Jenna 2009-06-09T16:42:44-05:00 46.1889302 -123.85241 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/