http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-23T04:58:12Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/9/131057/2254 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/rehabtedmurphy.jpg" class="top"> <p>Oh noes. A mother in Poland is suing a hotel in Egypt. Why? Because she <b>thinks her 13-year-old daughter got pregnant from swimming in the hotel's pool</b>. Seriously. <p>According to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1198596/My-daughter-13-got-pregnant-using-hotel-swimming-pool-claims-mother.html?ITO=1490">the Daily Mail</a>: <blockquote><p>Magdalena Kwiatkowska says the 13-year-old conceived after coming into contact with 'stray sperm' in the water of an Egyptian resort. <p>'The mother is adamant that her daughter didn't meet any boys while she was there,' a travel industry source said. 'She is determined to go ahead with the case.'</p></blockquote> <p>You know, little things like this serve as a reminder that the world is a lot different than we all like to think it is. <p>You know what else? We know for sure that Jenna 2009-07-09T13:12:59-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/20/8502/18260 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/blowup5050.jpg" class="top"><p><i>A candidate for our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/13/233311/852/hotels/Best_Geek_Hotels_in_2009">Geek Hotels 2010</a> list.</i><p> It makes sense that a luxury hotel decked out in electronic art would be located somewhere between Berlin and Krakow. (Or, for that matter, floating round a tin can far above the moon). <a href="http://www.blowuphall5050.com"><b>Blow Up Hall 50 50</b></a> opened up last month in Poznan, Poland and it has taken interactive art to inhabitable levels. <p>Guests figuratively should take their protein pills and put their helmets on before entering the black-walled foyer flanked with a video installation created by Tate museum display artist <b>Rafael Lozano-Hemmer</b>. Think meta-meta: 2,400 CCTV scrambled images of the hotel's guests doing whatever they do in the hotel lobby recorded for art's sake. Thankfully, this shiralevine 2009-04-20T15:13:51-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/9/21/71240/3610 <![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/amandak/stories">Amanda K</a> jaunts to Krakow. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/hotel_stary_swimming_pool.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>Krakow in southern Poland is becoming a new travel hotspot, with low cost carriers like amandak 2007-09-21T11:03:53-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/6/20/5276/11519 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Warsaw_Regina.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>We went looking for a place to stay in the Polish capital, Warsaw, and we think that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Le+Regina/ian/219582"><b>Le Regina</b></a> will suit us pretty well. Apart from coming up at <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g274856-d312546-Reviews-Le_Regina-Warsaw_Central_Poland.html">numero uno</a> on the TripAdvisor ratings, Le Regina just looks cool. It was even named the most prestigious hotel in Poland by Forbes magazine.</p><p>It could be a little on the pretentious side, but Le Regina is housed in a gorgeoous Old Town building in central touristy Warsaw, and it's got everything you need from free wireless internet to a pool and sauna. It's nearly too much and there's a chance you'll stay inside instead of exploring Warsaw.</p><p>Le Regina is small--just 61 rooms--but still has a plethora amandak 2007-06-20T08:51:24-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/4/2/171925/2016 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/westin_warsaw.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p><b><a href="http://www.jaunted.com/maps/Amazing-Race-All-Stars">Click Here To Go Straight To Chasing Racers Map</a></b><p>Last night's Amazing Race All-Star episode was a two-hour spectacular that we didn't have to sit through. Luckily, our sibling Jaunted did and wrote down everything that happened. (Unfortch, we still have to sit through <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Tori%20Spelling/">Tori and Dean's</a> ridiculous reality show)<p>In the first challenge, the Racers landed in Warsaw, Poland where they had to choose between either "tuning pianos or hauling and x-raying mannequins." (i.e. running out of challenge ideas.)<p>The hipppest place to stay is probably the Hotel Rialto which is the city's first boutique hotel. But if you're looking for a more mainstream stop to relax (hauling mannequins gets tiring) and a place that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/5/9/101911/4490/hotels/Warsaw_Is_No_Prague">has ironing juliana 2007-04-02T17:25:22-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/