http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T01:13:08Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/2/7/83553/65691 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/inn_sugarbowl.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>While the East Coast has Sugarbush, California has Sugar Bowl, about a three-hour drive from San Francisco in the Lake Tahoe area. And <a href="http://www.sugarbowl.com/tahoe/SITE/top/listing.cfm/lodging/4314/38.18171.20484777/direct?c=1"><b>The Inn at Sugar Bowl</b></a> recently made a list of the top romantic lodges for skiers, making it at once a ski hotel and a Valentine's Day hotel.<p>We guess what makes the Inn so romantic is its historic feel and for California, historic is the 1930s when the country's first gondola started running here and continues to this day. The Inn was also built in 1939 by architect William Wurster with 27 simple rooms facing the Sugar Bowl slopes. It looks a bit austere and well, European but that seems to have been the juliana 2007-02-07T09:00:01-05:00 39.3058760 -120.33091 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/3/21/908/91786 <![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/2474/fat_man.jpg"><p>Though we mentioned this <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/3/15/17287/2861">briefly last week,</a> the German hotel who is charging guests by their weight, has been getting some <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11931061/">major press</a> so we decided to take a closer look.<p> Juergen Heckrodt, owner of the three-star <b>Ostfriesland Hotel</b> in Norden, Germany has started a new weight loss program that's no <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/10/27/14184/798">Bikini Boot Camp</a>. <p>Forget gyms and healthy snacks, Heckrodt makes his hotel guests weigh-in at check-in.<p> Heckrod was so disturbed by all the XXL guests coming through, he did what any socially responsible hotelier would do, he decided to capitalize on the extra pounds. Guests are asked to step on a scale prior to moving into their rooms, and are charged a half euro GEM0330 2006-03-21T14:04:54-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/