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A Chinese New Year Resolution: Fly in a Hotel Helicopter

JetSetCD — 2012-01-23T16:00:16-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/HeliPeninslaw.jpg" class="top"> Happy Chinese New Year! As we turn from the tame Year of the Rabbit to the aggressive Year of the Dragon, we've got Asian hotels on the mind. To be more specific, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/peninsula%20hotels">Peninsula Hotels</a> and their badass heliports. If you're in the habit of making resolutions for the New Yearwhich onethen "setting off from a Peninsula heliport" needs to be one of them. To get you in the mood to drop some dough on a flight worthy of James Bond, we've now got three exclusive looks inside different Peninsula helilounges: · <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/travel-photos/full/187/The+Helilounge+and+Heliport+at+the+Peninsula+Hotel+Hong+Kong">China Clipper Helilounge</a> at The Peninsula Hong Kong · <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/12/4/214735/809/travel/Exclusive%3A+Inside+the+Helicopter+Departure+Lounge+at+The+Peninsula+Hotel+Tokyo">The Seven Seas Pacific Aviation Helilounge</a> at The Peninsula Tokyo · <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2012/1/18/92426/0580/travel/Inside+Paribatra%2C+the+Helicopter+Departure+Lounge+at+The+Peninsula+Hotel+Bangkok">Paribatra Helilounge</a>

Should Colored Lighting Be Allowed In The Bathroom?

ASchechter — 2011-12-20T09:38:14-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/Glacier.jpg" class="top">We've enjoyed seeing the way mood lighting has worked its way up as a kind of current hotel trend. Perhaps most notably seen inside <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Yotel+Times+Square/local/4852">Yotel</a>'s spaceship cabins, we've also documented the effects at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/11/21/8416/2208/hotels/">The Water Club at the Borgata</a>'s rooftop spa and at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/14/92532/7615/hotels/Mood_Lighting_or_Hi_Tech_Toilets_What_Kind_of_Hotel_Geek_Are_You_">Peninsula Tokyo</a>. But should the trick be used in hotel bathrooms as well? <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/thomaswanhoff">@thomaswanhoff</a> photographed and tweeted this show from a hotel in Thailand called the Glacier Hotel over the weekend. We're seriously digging the blue-lit sideways teardrop sink, but realize it might not be for everyone. In fact, a quick hop over to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/TripAdvisor">TripAdvisor</a> shows at least one guest who, while approving of the hotel in general, couldn't

Inside the Newest Anantara Hotel: The Anantara Riverside Bangkok

JetSetCD — 2011-12-19T10:31:50-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/BKKMarrmain2.jpg" class="top"> The hotel's Longtail Bar on its private dock While Thailand was flooding these past few months, a hotel right on the river in Bangkok was busy renovating and changing brands. Luckily the new <a href="http://bangkok-riverside.anantara.com/">Anantara Riverside</a> (formerly the Marriott Riverside) wasn't effected by the high waters and now that the country is drying off, they're ready to welcome the return glut of travelers. Until the end of April 2012, they're offering rooms from 3,888 THB ($125 USD) per night; it's the <a href="http://bangkok-riverside.anantara.com/Bangkok-Riverside-Journey-Begins-Package/">Journey Begins package</a>, which includes a room upgrade, breakfast, internet and discounts on the spa and further dining. During a recent trip to Thailand at the very start of the flooding, we spent two nights at

As Bangkok Dries Off, a Hotel Renovates and Relaunches

JetSetCD — 2011-12-15T16:54:39-05:00

Check out that pool. Would you believe that it's just outside the very middle of the bustling metropolis that is Bangkok, Thailand? Now that the city is drying off after catastrophic flooding, it's time to head back and luckily there's a new hotel to make things interesting.

Well, actually it's an old hotel. But it's a new hotel too! You see, the Marriott Riverside Bangkok has been renovated, revamped and relaunched as the Anantara Riverside.

Who Is The Magic Doorman?

ASchechter — 2011-11-03T11:15:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/1195422351496392571johnny_automatic_magician_doing_a_trick.svg.hi.png" class="top">If our recent coverage of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Bangkok%20Hotels">Bangkok</a> hotel scene hadn't already whetted your appetite to visit the Land of Smiles yourself (perhaps you could time your trip to the opening of the future <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/9/9/93044/76337/hotels/A_Sexy_Skyscraper_for_the_Upcoming_W_Hotel_Bangkok">W Bangkok</a>?), then maybe this will get your travel wheels spinning. To the Four Seasons, that is. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/FOUR+SEASONS+BANGKOK/local/1906">Four Seasons Bangkok</a> has a special trick up their sleeve, in the form of what they call the "<a href="http://press.fourseasons.com/bangkok/hotel-team/narongsak-khamkaew.html">Magic Doorman</a>". Narongsak Khamkaew is a Bangkok-born doorman at the hotel who just so happens to be an amateur magician. Or is he an amateur magician who also happens to work at a hotel? We can't really be sure. Either way, he bought a David Copperfield