http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-22T20:23:52Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/19/0537/1880 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/22421/2009_10_19_HC___CheongFatt.jpg" class="top"><p>Originally built as a 38-room feng shui masterpiece for 19th century merchant Cheong Fatt Tze, the <a href="http://www.cheongfatttzemansion.com/"><b>Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion</b></a> fell on hard times as its Malaysian Georgeton neighborhood became a mid-20th century slum. Nonetheless it never lost the fame of its singular design, a unique mix of Eastern and Western influences that somehow blends cast-iron staircases and pillars, Gothic windows, Chinese porcelain, and Art Nouveau stained glass. <p>Some time after its original construction the mansion was coated with its now-famous blue exterior, a mix of lime and Indigo plant die, and became the Blue Mansion. Eventually restorers took over and began transforming it into a modern <a href="http://www.cheongfatttzemansion.com/">half-hotel half-museum conservation project,</a> part of a more general Omri 2009-10-20T13:58:40-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/5/8197/98262 <![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 company's 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>.</i><p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Mandarin_Oriental_Kuala_Lumpur.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>With some friends hanging out in <b>Kuala Lumpur</b> this week, without me, pretty much the only revenge I can get is by daydreaming of staying amandak 2009-08-05T09:02:30-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/16/13415/9219 <![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><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/petronasmalaysia.jpg" class="top"> <p>It sounds kind of dirty to say that you can see the world's biggest twin buildings without even leaving your hotel Jenna 2009-07-16T13:44:53-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/1/91331/48827 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Kuala_Lumpur_Pavilion.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>Management at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Raffles%20Hotels"><b>Raffles Hotels</b></a> continue to sit in a room and throw darts at a globe &#150; in other words, they've just announced yet another new Raffles in another new corner of the world. This time the dart has landed on Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.<p>The <b>Raffles Kuala Lumpur</b> won't be ready until 2011 but they're promising to bring "unparalleled service" to KL. This new hotel will include 200 rooms and suites and will be found in the main business district of the city, within the Pavilion Kuala Lumpur, one of KL's enormous shopping mall complexes. <p>Six different restaurants and bars sound like you won't need to leave the hotel for your entertainment at all &#150; and amandak 2009-06-02T13:29:00-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/13/65015/3268 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/clubsaujana.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>Labeling itself a "boutique resort," the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Club+At+The+Saujana/ian/273507">Club at Saujana</a></b> is a great compromise if you're wanting or needing to stay in hectic <b>Kuala Lumpur</b> but want a place to sleep that doesn't exactly feel like KL. The Saujana complex where the Club belongs is half an hour out of downtown KL and half an hour away from the airport, so if your plans can accomodate it, this is definitely the quiet way to stay in the Malaysian capital.<p>The Club at Saujana has 105 rooms set in the middle of a tropical garden and two 18-hole golf courses. Inside, it sounds it's got one like one of those "no expense spared" kind of designs: rooms are "lavishly amandak 2009-04-15T12:19:05-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/