http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T11:31:40Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/4/152414/0810 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/mamillaguestroom.jpg" class="top"> <p>Jerusalem's gettin' itself a fly new posh hotel (uh, when's the last time we started a story off like that?) According to the New York Times' <a href="http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/new-luxury-hotel-opens-in-jerusalem/">"In Transit" blog</a>, the big J is set to welcome <b>Mamilla Hotel</b> later this month, a 194-room hotspot inside a building designed by Moshe Safdie &#151; who also, apparently, designed Columbus Center in NYC. <p>Per the Times: <blockquote><p> According to Jerusalem law, all new construction in the city must involve the use of Jerusalem stone, a light-colored local limestone, various forms of which have provided the principal building blocks of older buildings, walls and alleys since ancient times.</p></blockquote> <p>The hotel, obviously, incorporates the stone in the minimalist design, and inside Jenna 2009-06-04T15:27:28-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/8/111642/4324 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/bush_kingdavid.jpg"> <p>No matter what your political persuasion, if you're a U.S. president heading to Jerusalem, there's one place to say: <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+King+David+Jerusalem/ian/141134"><b>The King David</b></a>. Sure enough <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ipy4q-dPUgE49yMSLoCm_N_3pFLAD8U0FDHG0">George W. Bush is staying there</a> on his first official visit to Israel. <blockquote><p>Bush will be staying in a suite at the King David hotel that costs $2,600 a night -- for guests who are not president of the United States. Assistant General Manager Benny Olearchik would not disclose how much the Americans are paying to stay at his hotel, one of Israel's most expensive.<br><br> Bush's entourage already has taken up more than two-thirds of its 237 rooms, and will take over all of them once he arrives himself, Olearchik said. Unlucky Tim L. 2008-01-08T14:26:16-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/9/18/103235/332 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/w_buffett.jpg"><p>Booking out every suite in a hotel abroad is only something that someone like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffet">Warren Buffet</a> can pull off. With his long awaited trip to Israel planned, he has found it necessary to take over the <a href="http://www.danhotels.com/danSite/eng/hotelHomepage.asp?hotelNo=4&amp;top=8"><b>King David Hotel</b></a> in Jerusalem. <p> Buffet's staffers will probably be put up in a suite with private veranda with Jacuzzi bath overlooking the old City. Meanwhile, Buffet will most likely be found in the one and only royal suite:<p> <blockquote><p>Facing Old City, very large living room with panoramic view, separate bedroom, and separate meeting/dining room to seat 12 persons. Option of one or two extra interconnecting bedrooms, jacuzzi bath, separate enclosed shower and toilet, guest powder room, compact disc Courtney 2006-09-18T10:57:10-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/4/21/10121/3301 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/macgregor_kingdavid.jpg">Jerusalem is hot this week. First Will Smith <a href="http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/Will+Smith:+Getting+Yiddish+With+It-9531.html">crashed a bar mitzvah</a> in Jerusalem now <a href="http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/64807.htm">Page Six</a> says that Ewan MacGregor and his wife and daughter are staying &nbsp;at the swank <a href="http://www.danhotels.com/danSite/eng/hotelHomepage.asp?hotelNo=4&amp;top=8"><b>King David Hotel.</b></a><p>But despite the luxury hotel status and celeb clientele, guests are not always so refined. <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g293983-d302547-r3576821-The_King_David-Jerusalem-m10559.html">One guest</a> reports:<blockquote><p>I was there for a week when many Americans with children were there. Not once did a staff member or manager ask a parent to control an unruly child in the lobby or dining room. Not once did a staff member or manager ask an adult guest in a bathing suit (or even one corpulent man without a shirt!) not to walk thru the juliana 2006-04-21T10:31:15-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/3/6/1521/79775 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hotel_kingdavid.jpg"><p> The blog <a href="http://www.israelity.com/?p=196">Israelity</a> stopped into the <a href="http://www.danhotels.com/danSite/eng/hotelHomepage.asp?hotelNo=4&amp;top=8"><b> King David Hotel</b></a> in Jerusalem and this is what they uncovered about the extremely service-oriented 75-year-old hotel.<blockquote><p> A man arrived without his luggage because his airline had misplaced it. In the middle of the night, the airline called the hotel to say the luggage had been found. Rather than wake up the guest, the hotel manager drove to the airport, picked up the suitcases, and deposited them outside the guest's door.</blockquote></p><p>Some other stories include the one of a jetlagged woman who got up at 4 am to start some work in her room. The hotel operator noticed all the activity on her room's phone line and sent up some juliana 2006-03-06T15:02:01-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/