http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T10:32:07Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/2/19/64233/5971 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/islington_hotel_hobart.jpg" class="imgborder"><br> <i>Hotel Islington View</I> <p>Down Under, pretty Tasmanian capital Hobart's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Islington+Hotel/local/158"><b>Hotel Islington</b></a> keeps everyone up-to-date with goings-on at the hotel through their monthly <a href="http://www.islingtonhotel.com/information/diary.html">Manager's Blog</a>. Hosts and managers Nicholas and Amy share the task of telling all the important things that go on at the Islington, and providing a taste of what's to come if you decide to make a reservation.</p><p>They do, however, manage to make it all sound barely like marketing at all, including recent complaints about their family members who've been slow to send them digital pics from the Christmas party. A juicily-titled section called Islington Gossip didn't quite turn up the tidbits we were looking for, apart from explaining how a couple amandak 2007-02-19T10:44:28-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/1/12/32257/8290 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/islington_hotel.png" class="imgborder"/><p>If you make it on any kind of World Top 100 list, you must be doing okay--especially when you're a hotel located as far away from most of the world as Hobart, Tasmania. Britain's <i>Tatler</i> magazine recently raved about Australia's <a href="http://www.islingtonhotel.com/"><b>Islington Hotel</b></a> and <i>Conde Nast</i> had it on their 2006 Hot List, too. It's recently undergone a $3 million refurbishment and a new review described it as:</p><blockquote><p>More a grand mansion or art museum than a hotel ... its walls are adorned with million-dollar paintings and Australia's oldest tapestry.</blockquote></p><p>Sounds a bit like one of those hotels that you can't quite get comfortable in, for fear of damaging something that isn't yours. But once you do settle in, there's amandak 2007-01-12T11:04:15-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/7/14/14457/0455 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/quality_manor.jpg"><p>Although most people are not anxious to leave summer behind for winter, doing so can be quite refreshing. Jetting straight out of the summer season and into the Southern Hemisphere brings on new seasonal delights. Besides, not much sounds cooler than saying that you are taking a jaunt to Tasmania. <p> Hobart may have started with a lot of devils, criminals, that is, but today it is a capital city filled with friendly locals, sport lovers, and happy tourists. It has escaped the modernizing ways of much of the rest of the world, not to say that it is in the dark ages, by any means, but it does not present the usual menu of hotel chains. This in Courtney 2006-07-14T14:24:05-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/