http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-26T02:36:08Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/14/53839/2523 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/grandhotelwifi.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>When you turn up to stay at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Grand+Hotel+Wien/ian/148567"><b>Grand Hotel Wien</b></a> in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotels/city/at/Vienna"><b>Vienna</b></a>, you'll likely be thinking along the lines of "old elegance" and "grand luxury" rather than "high technology" &#150; but you might be pleasantly surprised. <p>This grand old dame of a hotel has just got itself hooked up to a WiFi network system which claims to be one of the best. (Well, actually it claims to be the best, but we think that's hard to prove). The NonStop Wireless Networking, a Belden brand, has been installed in 140 different access points within the hotel &#150; we assume that means that most or all of the guest rooms now have WiFi. The system has amandak 2009-09-14T09:28:52-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/14/143126/900 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/32083/breakfastspread.jpg" class="top"><p> <p><i>HotelChatter's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/EricRosen">Eric Rosen</a> recently spent some time in Austria and Germany. All this week, he'll be rounding up his hotel observations. Any tips, suggestions, questions? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Let us know</a></i>. <p>The key to &#147;doing&#148; Europe properly, is to start your day with a sensible breakfast at the hotel.<p> For a long time we resisted taking breakfast at the table d'hôte, rejoicing in the five euros we were saving by foregoing bad coffee, stale rolls and a few greasy cold cuts, while saving our ducats for a leisurely lunch instead. But as we&#146;ve grown older, we&#146;ve come to see the logic of shelling out a little extra cash for a hearty breakfast so that we don&#146;t get cranky EricRosen 2009-08-19T17:05:02-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/14/135744/820 <![CDATA[<p><object id="flashObj" width="486" height="412" classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/4862856001?isVid=1&publisherID=1321358962" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="@videoPlayer=33841011001&playerID=4862856001&domain=embed&" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/4862856001?isVid=1&publisherID=1321358962" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="@videoPlayer=33841011001&playerID=4862856001&domain=embed&" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object> <p><i>HotelChatter's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/eric rosen">Eric Rosen</a> recently spent some time in Austria and Germany. All this week, he'll be rounding up his hotel observations. Any tips, suggestions, questions? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Let us know</a></i>.<p> <p>If you&#146;re anything like us, the first thing you want to do after a transatlantic flight is to wash all the grit and grime of airports and planes off your fatigued body. That&#146;s why, for <b>the first installment in our Austria-Germany Field Trip guide</b>, we&#146;ve decided EricRosen 2009-08-17T17:07:24-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/25/5651/12971 <![CDATA[<p><i>We are suckers for a room with a killer view. &nbsp;We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer 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>. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.</i><p><p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Killer_View_Hotel_Bristol_VIenna.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>Vienna is an artsy city -- and, above all, a city of music -- so we figure a hotel that can offer amandak 2008-09-25T12:20:25-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/8/7545/44867 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/TheRing_Lobby.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>Any idea what a "casual luxury" hotel is? We're not sure either, but apparently Vienna's new <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Ring/ian/258863"><b>The Ring Hotel</b></a> is a shining example of one. We have a feeling it doesn't mean that you can run around in your oldest shorts and flip-flops, but instead it sounds like they're trying to saying The Ring is a place where you can get everything you want but without any snootiness. Sound okay?</p><p>It's called The Ring--not the name we'd choose thanks to the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Ring/ian/258863">scary movie franchise</a>, but there is a reason--because it's located on Kaerntner Ring, one of the streets that forms a loop around the center of Vienna. Actually it's in a great spot, almost opposite the amandak 2008-04-08T11:23:22-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/