http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T00:56:49Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/12/91947/845 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/30451/buddhabarPragueNYT.jpg" class="top"></p> <p>Forget all those new hotels opening up in the paper&#146;s <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/8/112135/4005/hotels/The_September_Issue_10_Hot_New_York_City_Hotel_Openings">own backyard</a>; this Sunday the New York Times went hotel hunting in the Czech Republic. Lured by the groovy chill-out tunes and &#147;sultry&#148; restaurant chain of the same name, the NYT <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/travel/11check.html?ref=travel">checked into</a> the new <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Buddha+Bar+Hotel+Prague/ian/309049"><b>Buddha Bar Hotel</b></a> in Prague. </p> <p>We&#146;ve seen hotels sprout out of fashion labels, so why not restaurants and music? Judging by the NYT&#146;s response, the Buddha-Bar folks have produced a fine <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Buddha%20Bars">accompaniment to their brand</a>, attracting scenesters who are &#147;good-looking, well off and ready to party&#148; (British boys, Middle Eastern royals, and wealthy local couples). Overall, the Times writer's affection for the place bodes well for the MsRebecca 2009-10-12T10:33:36-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/24/61838/4432 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/The_Augustine_Prague.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Rocco%20Forte%20Hotels">Rocco Forte</a> people are busy right now &#151; if it wasn't enough to open their first resort with the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/23/7104/31411/hotels/Verdura_Resort_Brings_a_Bit_of_Swank_to_Sicily">Verdura Resort</a> in Sicily, they're also hitting eastern Europe for the first time when the <b>Augustine Hotel</b> in Prague opens on May 14. <p>This place is a 101-room hotel overlooking the Wallenstein Gardens, and the hotel itself is made up of seven historical buildings, including the 13th century St. Thomas Monastery. The coolest part is there are still monks using parts of this monastery and hotel guests might glimpse them going about their monkly tasks.<p>The décor and furniture are all in the good taste you'd expect for such a respectable-sounding area; in fact, the whole amandak 2009-04-24T11:18:03-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/21/8353/19154 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Buddha_Bar_Hotel_Prague_Bathroom.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>We caught wind of the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Buddha+Bar+Hotel+Prague/ian/309049">Buddha Bar Hotel</a></b> planned for Prague <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/19/35031/5096/hotels/Buddha_Bars_Aren_t_Just_Bars_Anymore_A_Prague_Hotel_is_Coming">last August</a> and, last we checked, they were travelin' full steam ahead for a pre-2009 opening. Unlike many deadline-missing hotels, the Buddha Bar got its soft opening in just before the calendar turned, officially opened on January 2, and since then has been impressing the hell out of guests &#151; at least if the first <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g274707-d1231513-r27635580-Buddha_Bar_Hotel-Prague_Bohemia.html#REVIEWS">guest reviews</a> are anything to go by. <p>The staff and the service they provide get a ton of compliments, as do the ultra-luxury rooms. The "amazing" bathrooms get plenty of thumbs-ups too &#151; they also include a TV, but one guest warns us that the remote control is amandak 2009-04-21T09:26:41-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/3/5/111614/0154 <![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><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/BWUFO.jpg" class="top"> <p>Remember that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/12/11/124754/67/hotels/A_View_From_a_Best_Western_That_is_Both_Best_and_Western_">awesome Killer View</a> we found out the window Jenna 2009-03-05T11:19:06-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/21/0467/1264 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Kempinski_Prague.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>The German <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Kempinski%20Hotels"><b>Kempinski</b></a> chain looks like they're starting up a plan of world domination. <p>This month they opened the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Kempinski+Hybernska+Prague/ian/271109"><b>Kempinski Hybernsk&#225; Prague</b></a>, but there are so many more on the way.<p>First things first: the new Prague Kempinski has normal nightly hotel rates going but also have a lot of one and two-bedroom suites that you can rent for longer stays, so the business market is obviously top of the list here.<p> But tourists won't mind being close to Prague's coolest way to cross the river, Charles Bridge, either. The tech side is good too with free WiFi and a "media panel" where you can hook up your iPod.<p> They've got opening rate specials around a amandak 2008-10-21T09:50:48-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/