http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T20:23:20Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/23/125234/471 <![CDATA[<p> <i>We are suckers for a room with a killer view. &nbsp;We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.</i> <p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/petramareview.jpg" class="top"> <p>Have you ever wanted to have a young-celeb-lady freakout? Trash a room, tip off the paps to your crisis, storm the Jenna 2009-07-23T12:56:18-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/23/63012/0355 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/movenpickcrete.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>About eighteen months ago we mentioned that the former <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/12/14/225247/11/hotels/M_venpick_Makes_A_Move_Into_Crete">Candia Maris</a> resort on the beautiful Greek island of Crete was being taken over and turned into the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Moevenpick+Resort+Crete/ian/265162/"><b>M&#246;venpick Resort and Thalasso Crete</b></a>. In fact, they've spent a good two years doing renovations and are finally open for business.</p><p>With all that time passing we're figuring the new resort won't resemble the old one very much. The M&#246;venpick people are advertising the new Crete resort as being upscale and modern, with some particular cultural characteristics, including an:</p><blockquote><p>exquisite combination of typical Greek hospitality and the traditional Swiss passion for efficiency, reliability, punctuality and precision.</blockquote></p><p>They have a huge seawater spa known as the Aegeo Spa Center which includes a amandak 2008-04-23T09:23:25-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/8/29/92445/1846 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3930/amirandes_crete.jpg"> <p>Last year we mentioned the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/11/19/23859/626/hotels/Hotel_Thule_in_Namibia_A_Good_Spot_for_a_Hiding_CEO">Hotel Thule in Namibia</a>, which became famous as the place thieving former Comverse executive Jacob Alexander was tracked down while running from the law. <p>Apparently <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Greco+Amirandes/local/793"><b>Amirandes </b></a>in Greece, on the island of Crete, is the place to stay when you're a fugitive Greek who has run a Ponzi scheme hedge fund into the ground. That's according to this <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/08262007/business/hedge_fugitive_freed.htm">New York Post article</a>, which says this find may not have a happy ending. Greece won't extradite a naturalized citizen unless he's guilty of something like murder, not just stealing $80 million from defrauded investors. <p>Angelo Haligiannis is certainly having a grand time with the stolen money: <blockquote><p>About a month after he Tim L. 2007-08-29T11:36:15-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/