http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-05-28T09:17:18Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/9/12/53532/1953 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/ParadorZurburanRoom.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>Budget Travel had a nice article recently about cool hotels run at reasonable prices because they're part of a <a href="http://www.budgettravel.com/bt-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500647.html">government program</a> for preservation purposes or just to promote tourism. Our own Hotel Maven Annie0007 gave us the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/4/5/23528/93435/hotels/Visiting+Spain%27s+Paradores">lowdown on these paradores</a> back in April. <p>A BT recommendation is in a gorgeous spot in Spain, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Parador+Hotel+Zurbaran/local/813"><b>Parador Hotel Zurbaran</b></a> in Guadalupe, Caceres. In the 15th century this hotel was the St. John the Baptist hospital and nowadays it's a 40-room hotel that's full of Spanish character.</p><p>In fact they call this Parador a "luxury four star" but the rates are much more reasonable than that sounds, with summer room rates going at 125 Euros ($170) for amandak 2007-09-12T09:05:58-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/