http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-22T09:03:45Z 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/2009/8/14/211832/700 <![CDATA[<p><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1321361467" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=33841028001&playerId=1321361467&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed> <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> Though it has been open since 2003, the futuristic <b><a href="http://www.loisiumhotel.at">Loisium Wine and Spa Resort</a></b> in Austria&#146;s bucolic Kamptal Valley has maintained an air of quiet sophistication even while educating visitors on Austria&#146;s burgeoning wine scene.<p>That is partly thanks to its out-of-the-way location in the small town of Langenlois, about an hour northwest of Vienna. However, the Loisium is at the nexus of several of Austria&#146;s wine appellations&#151;the Wachau, Kremstal, Kamptal and Weinviertel&#151;so it makes for an ideal EricRosen 2009-08-21T15:29:31-05:00 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/2009/3/19/215328/587 <![CDATA[<p> <i>Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? <a href="tips@hotelchatter.com">Send the story our way</a>.<p> In this episode, Hotel Maven <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/katiek/stories">Katie K</a> visits Austria...in her mind. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/schloss.jpg" class="top"></p> <p>The recent teases of springy weather have me in a Julie Andrews sort of KatieK 2009-03-20T09:27:49-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/