Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling. Do you feel my heart beating, do you understand?

It's always good to see The Bangles are still out there performing their greatest hits from our pre-adolescence. It's even better to see The Bangles performing for such a good cause like Pinktober at the Hard Rock Hotel Orlando.

Pinktober is the Hard Rock's month-long breast cancer awareness program where guests can book special guestrooms that are outfitted with pink sheets (embroidered with little guitars) and pink bathrobes. Twenty-five percent of the room rate will benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. ]]> juliana 2009-09-28T12:13:51-05:00 28.4775650 -81.464902 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/23/232953/973 <![CDATA[<p><p><i>You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-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>. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/disneydolphinbusstop.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>When superstar athletes win big championship games, the TV cameras always (infamously) juliana 2009-09-24T14:56:16-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/18/7330/79671 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/hilton_bonnet_creek_room.jpg" class="top"></p> <p>As we near the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/9/93010/15368/hotels/Hilton_s_Massive_Bonnet_Creek_Development_Set_to_Open_Oct_1">Oct. 1 drop date</a> on Orlando&#146;s mammoth <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+Orlando+Bonnet+Creek/ian/307886"><strong>Hilton Bonnet Creek</strong></a> development, we thought we&#146;d zoom in on what we know about arguably the most important element for guests&#151;the rooms. Yes, all 1,000 of them.</p> <p>Hilton Bonnet Creek will offer four room varieties, with deluxe rooms and three types of suites: parlor, presidential, and executive. Deluxe guest rooms are a whopping 414 square feet, which includes a seating area and marble bathroom. The marketing material also claims a &#147;contemporary sophisticated décor,&#148; but to be honest, that picture isn&#146;t striking us as the most posh aesthetic we&#146;ve ever seen. Contemporary, sure, but is anyone else a little dizzy from pattern overload, from the KatieK 2009-09-18T09:22:22-05:00 28.3526410 -81.533792 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/8/115539/9400 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/hilton_orlando.jpg" class="top"></p> <p>While we wait for Hilton&#146;s mammoth <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+Orlando+Bonnet+Creek/ian/307886"><strong>Bonnet Creek</strong></a> development to welcome its first guests Oct. 1, another new Hilton Orlando opened shop last week, which we had <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/5/21/53412/6365/hotels/A_Massive_Hilton_Is_On_Its_Way_to_Orlando">forgotten</a> all about. Confusing! (Seriously, who opens two hotels with pretty much the same name, during a recession?)</p> <p>This <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+Orlando/ian/307604"><strong>Hilton Orlando</strong></a> is the more &#147;serious&#148; property, with a covered open-air walkway to the Orange County Convention Center and a host of supersize features: 1,400 guest rooms (counting 53 suites), 175,000 square feet of meeting space, seven dining options, and rec amenities designed to help weary biz professionals wind down, including a resort pool, quiet pool, whirlpools, cabanas, lazy river, 15,000-square-foot spa and fitness center, jogging track, and KatieK 2009-09-08T14:18:58-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/29/104526/107 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/bonnet_creek.jpg" class="top"></p> <p>Earlier this month we <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/9/93010/15368/hotels/Hilton_s_Massive_Bonnet_Creek_Development_Set_to_Open_Oct_1">reported</a> that Hilton&#146;s Bonnet Creek development is on schedule to open Oct. 1, and that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+Orlando+Bonnet+Creek/ian/307886"><strong>Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek</strong></a> &#151; one half of the mammoth development &#151; was offering a free night for its first 90 Facebook fans. Good news!</p> <p>The hotel is making good on its promise to offer more specials exclusive to FB fans and has extended the free-night promotion. Between now and opening day, the hotel will periodically give away <a href="http://www.facebook.com/BonnetCreek?v=app_4949752878&viewas=32900805">free nights to Facebook fans</a>. Once you become a fan you&#146;re automatically entered into the raffle. Free nights can be redeemed on stays Oct. 1 through Nov. 30.</p> <p>Just make sure you check your Facebook inbox frequently, KatieK 2009-07-29T11:01:49-05:00 28.3895040 -81.482114 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/