http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T05:38:24Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/10/13/9426/7683 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/dalailama_hotelpune.jpg" class="top"><p> There's no question that the <b>Dalai Lama</b> is a modern man complete with his own website, webcasts and personal treadmill setup. And don't forget, he <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/dalailama">Twitters!</a> So it's not that surprising to see him out and about at a hotel party in Pune, India. Still, we think it's rather cool.<p>His Holiness showed up at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Le+Meridien+Pune/ian/193352"><b>Le Meridien Hotel</b></a> after attending the World Peace Festival. <blockquote><p>All the members of the staff were extremely excited to have The Dalai Lama at the hotel. His Holiness was received at the entrance by Jaswinder Narang, General Manager of Hotel Le Meridien, and felicitated the spiritual guru by garlanding Him. Jaswinder Narang then personally escorted His Holiness to his suite.</blockquote></p><p>Despite juliana 2010-10-13T10:04:37-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/26/7549/94145 <![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/Langham_Hotels_Logosmall.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p>Here comes yet another <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Langham%20Hotels">Langham Hotel</a>: this one's going to be the <b>Langham Place, Koregaon Park</b> in the city of Pune in India. Well, here <i>almost</i> comes another Langham, since it's not actually due to open until sometime in 2010.<p>Like other Langhams, this one will be a bit fancy. The big selling point at the moment is a huge atrium including (among other things) palm trees, a resident DJ and three-storey windows. There's also going to be a Portal, which unfortunately is not somewhere you can go to get whisked away to another dimension, but instead this Langham Place hotel plans to:<blockquote><p> combine its lobby lounge, cocktail bar and business centre in one area called amandak 2008-09-26T13:10:34-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/21/75414/2497 <![CDATA[<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><p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Anti_View_Pune_Royal_Orchid_Golden_Suites.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>With a name as grand sounding as the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Royal+Orchid+Golden+Suites/ian/258639"><b>Royal Orchid amandak 2008-08-21T11:46:40-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/10/9/123940/304 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/joliepittindia.jpg"><p>Maybe Africa is over. Maybe the new hot place is India. Maybe Madonna is completely out of touch and in several months, will be wishing she'd adopted an Indian baby. Why? Because Brad and Angelina are in India, that's why.<p> Camping out "unofficially" at <a href="http://www.starwoodhotels.com/lemeridien/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1832"><b>Le Meridien</b></a> in Pune, where the duo are filming/producing the Marianne Pearl movie, the India trip is all about family right now. That is, until the paparazzi start to mob them during a rickshaw ride (above) and a bodyguard starts to strangle a photograhper.<p> Nevertheless, Angie has been using the gym daily to keep her post-preggers body in shape, after the gym closes to the public of course. The couple has also had plenty Courtney 2006-10-09T13:25:19-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/2/21/1147/36116 <![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/2474/osho.jpg"><p> New York Magazine lists 12 ways to remake your boring old self, and number 10 is <a href="http://newyorkmetro.com/guides/changeyourlife/16044/index2.html">Go To An Indian Spiritual Retreat To Have Sex All The Time</a>. Spiritual Retreat?? Lots of sex?? We needed to know more.<p> Welcome to <a href="http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=Magazine&amp;Language=English"><b>Osho Guest House</b></a>.<p> The Osha (late sex-guru)'s philosophy, <a href="http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=Magazine&amp;Language=English">Zorba Buddha</a>, <blockquote><p>combines Zorba the Greek, that guy who loves alcohol, dens, and women, with the silence and meditativeness of Buddha.</blockquote></p><p><p> The 40-acre resort near Mumbai, manifests serenity: bamboo groves, wild jasmine, peacocks and waterfalls.<p> Your road to enlightenment (and tantra) starts with a clean and silent room (er, chamber?), air conditioned and "tastefully modern," $45/ night. &nbsp;The guest house is just above the meditation auditorium, GEM0330 2006-02-21T11:51:31-05:00 18.5099810 73.8788720 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/