HotelChatter - Panama City

HotelChatter - Panama City http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T10:50:26Z HotelChatter HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Come To Panama For The Canal, Stay for the Cool Hotel Art http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2012/2/12/172636/906 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/GamboaBirdArt.jpg" class="top">It's been two weeks since we returned from Panama, but still we find ourselves <del>flipping</del> clicking through our photos from the trip and letting out tiny sighs. One thing we loved about almost every hotel we visited was all the cool lobby art on displayall of which had a great way of summing up the look and feel of each property. Inside the lobby at Gamboa Rainforest Resort, there's so much animal art, it feels like the safari's begun before you even setting foot in the rainforest! In addition to banners embroidered with frogs and butterflies hanging from the ceilingnot to mention some beautiful metal sculptures of birds poised in mid-flightwe loved this intricate metalwork on the railings, ASchechter 2012-02-13T09:10:02-05:00 Do Yourself A Favor and Make It An Ocean View At Westin Playa Bonita http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2012/2/1/92114/47484 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/WestinOceanView.jpg" class="top">You're checking into your hotel. You're tired from the trip, yet excited to be somewhere new, yet disoriented by the unfamiliar sceneryoften all at once. Without your wits about you, how are you supposed to determine which side of the building to request to get the best room view? Well, in the case of <a href="">Westin Playa Bonita</a>, let us point you in the right direction: between two options (Rainforest view and Ocean view), always, always pick the Ocean view. We were lucky enough to get given a room with an Ocean view right off the bat. And sure enough, one of the first things we did upon entering our room was rush over to our balcony, slide ASchechter 2012-02-01T09:28:50-05:00 Men Get A Little Something Extra In The Bathrooms at Trump Ocean Club http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2012/1/31/91323/6604 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/2TrumpPanamaUrinal.jpg" class="top">There's no accounting for tasteWe stopped in at the newly-opened <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Trump+Ocean+Club+International+Hotel+%26+Tower/local/4809">Trump Ocean Club</a> in Panama recently, and of all the hotel's glittering features (infinity pools, ocean views from every room, a Louis Vuitton-inspired wine bar), our curiosity was perhaps most piqued by these inverted semen-shaped turquoise urinals, found near the 15th-floor lobby. Nothing like a urinal with a tail on it to get you nice and relaxed! These are the only urinals in the hotel with this specific designthe rest of the bathrooms (public and otherwise) are much more traditional, including the women's bathroom next door, which, for obvious reasons, has no use for turquoise urinals. The employee who showed us around the place explained, "This is ASchechter 2012-01-31T09:15:22-05:00 Guests Got A Taste of Carnival This Weekend At The Westin Playa Bonita http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2012/1/29/172057/673 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/WestinOpening.jpg" class="top">Any Panamanians who were still unclear about that gigantic white tower that recently went up on a quarter-mile stretch of beach outside of Panama City had their doubts removed this weekend, when <a href="">Westin Playa Bonita</a>, a 650-room, Pacific Ocean-facing resort with three pools, six restaurants, and a forthcoming spa, officially opened. Drawn by a few awesome firework displays, an open bar, and a steady stream of live music (salsa, merengue, reggaetonyou name it, they played it), an estimated 3400 people turned up to celebrate Westin's grand arrival in the city (though <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Starwood%20Hotels">Starwood</a>'s <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Le+Meridien+Panama/ian/326406">Le Meridien Panama</a> has been around for a few years now). And with yet another Westin <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2012/1/16/235841/535/hotels/The_Master_List_of_Worldwide_Hotel_Openings_in_2012">set to open</a> later this year, ASchechter 2012-01-30T09:15:01-05:00 Hard Rock to Open in Panama, Panama Oh-oh-oh-oh http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/5/26/05055/3149 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/454/hardrockpanama_pressconf.jpg" class="top">Hard Rock Hotel execs including Michael Shindler, Executive VP (third from left), rock out with their guitars out at the Hard Rock Hotel Panama press conference. Now that we've got the Van Halen tune in your head, let us give you some more detes on the Hard Rock Hotel Panama Megapolis which is expected to open in December 2011 in Panama City.The 66-story hotel will have 1,449 rooms, including a whopping 796 suites, some of which will be the brand's signature Rock Star Suites. The detes on the room designs and amenities are scant but guests will be able to create a music playlist all their own through the hotel's "Sound of Your Stay" music collection. Throughout the juliana 2011-05-26T09:25:01-05:00 Search HotelChatter Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/