http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T05:08:14Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/13/21327/025 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/royalyorkofyork.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><i>From Hotel Maven Annabel Ross....</i><p>Enjoying a traditional railway tour of Ye Olde England? What better place to stop than <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Royal+York+Hotel/ian/144874"><b>The Royal York Hotel</b></a>, a luxury Victorian building just a stone's throw away from the neighbouring train station and National Rail Museum. At the time of its opening in 1877, The Station Hotel, as it was then called, was the biggest hotel in Europe. After a visit from Queen Victoria the name was changed to the Royal Station Hotel, and finally, the Royal York.<p>With 170 bedrooms, each including a high-speed internet connection and a working area, a health and fitness centre incorporating a gym, sauna, steam room, whirlpool spa and swimming pool and a renowned restaurant and bar, juliana 2007-11-14T12:20:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/13/23922/9050 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/deancourt.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p><p>With this week devoted entirely to traveling with kids in tow, The New York Times reminds us that it's family travel season. Which explains why writer Jennifer Colin <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/travel/13check.html?ref=travel">checked into</a> the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/BW+DEAN+COURT+HOTEL/ian/209393/">Best Western Dean Court Hotel</a></b> with her three kids to survey things from the inside out. Despite the chain name--and being there with her "boisterous" family--she found the place to be pretty flash.<br> <p>The staff even helped corral her kids:<blockquote><p>What's more, when our youngest child sleep-walked outside our room in the middle of the night, a friendly telephone call from the reception desk alerted us to our somnambulant son.</blockquote></p><p>But as with so many non-kid-friendly things, only the first one is free: the Hotel also arranges pbb 2007-05-14T09:00:02-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/4/10/5327/23150 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/Castle_Hotel_York.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p>Most trips to Australia concentrate on the bits around the edges, with good reason--nearly all Aussies live there, and that's where the beaches are. But head inland and it's not far until you hit the Outback, that mythical land where all is red and everything is strange.</p><p>Just on the edge of the Outback, if you head in from Perth, is the hip lil' town of York. Rapidly becoming a major tourist stopping point, especially in wildflower season, York's also home to a historic hotel: the oldest existing inland hotel in Western Australia.</p><p>If that title doesn't win you over, then here's a bit more about the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Castle+Hotel+York/local/460"><b>Castle Hotel York</b></a>. It's in the main street of town (you can't amandak 2007-04-10T09:51:54-05:00 -31.889646 116.768409 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/