HotelChatter - Stories about The Hyde Park Intercontinental Hotel

HotelChatter - Stories about The Hyde Park Intercontinental Hotel http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T07:28:15Z HotelChatter HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/1075 London: Photograph London Like a Pro With InterContinental http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/12/10/104326/71 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/ichorses.jpg" class="top"> Top Kodak moments like this lurk right outside the InterContinental Who wants to brush up their photography skills? More to the point, who doesnt? However many pictures we take when were travelling (and we take many), it always frustrates us that we have to go through about 20 to get a single money shot. So if your skills are anything like ours, and youd like to be able to shoot for mediums more worthy than Facebook profile pics, you might like the package thats just been unveiled by the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Hyde+Park+Intercontinental+Hotel/local/1075">InterContinental London Park Lane</a>. Theyve teamed up with the awesome <a href="www.eyephotographicworkshops.com">EYE Photographic Workshops</a>, who run photography courses across the world, to offer proper tuition, as you juliab 2009-12-10T11:23:53-05:00 London: Where to Find Free Hotel WiFi in London http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/12/2/7248/23349 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/mayfair.jpg" class="top"> The May Fair: where WiFi and celeb spots both come free of charge This week, the Sunday Times <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article6935847.ece">called out</a> British hotels charging obscene rates for WiFi. Unsurprisingly, London ones were among the worst offenders, with the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Mandarin+Oriental+Hyde+Park/ian/108769">Mandarin Oriental</a> charging £15 a day, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Dorchester+Hotel/local/5">Dorchester</a> coming in at £19.50 and the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Ritz+London/local/1591">Ritz</a> scamming guests for £25. Yup, $42 for one days access. But dont be afeared if you need the laptop but dont want to see your check out bill rocket, there are places in London that dont charge for WiFi, and theyre just as snazzy as the rip offs listed above. Were happy to report that there are more than we juliab 2009-12-02T13:02:50-05:00 London: Intercontinental's Next London Hotel: Way Better Than We Thought http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/6/9219/92505 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/IC_westminster.jpg" class="top">When it was announced this weekend that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/intercontinental%20hotels">Intercontinental</a> were opening up a second hotel in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/london%20hotels">London</a>, we werent too excited. For one, were not the biggest fans of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Hyde+Park+Intercontinental+Hotel/local/1075">Park Lane</a> branch - totally lacking in fizz, if you ask us. For another, the location theyve chosen - Queen Annes Chambers in Westminster is a place we used to pass most days on our way to work, and it always seemed like more of a commuter ratrun than somewhere youd actually want to stay. Also, its next door to police HQ New Scotland Yard, and that made us feel a bit queasy too. But to give it a fair hearing, we popped over to see juliab 2009-11-06T09:27:52-05:00 London: Did a Practice Session in the Hotel Ballroom Cause Tampa Bay to Lose the Game? http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/26/8349/5438 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/tampabayballroom.jpg" class="top"> The weather in London isnt quite on a par with the weather in Florida, as the poor Tampa Bay Buccaneers found out to their cost this weekend. According to the <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football/bucs/tampa-bay-buccaneers-get-to-practice-in-their-hotel-ballroom-not-wembley/1046757">St Petersburg Times</a>, the Bucs had to practice for their NFL Wembley gig against the New England Patriots in the ballroom at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Hyde+Park+Intercontinental+Hotel/local/1075">Intercontinental Park Lane</a> because it was too wet to hit the turf at Wembley itself. NFL officials did offer them a room at Wembley to practice in, but they stuck to the ballroom which holds up to 750 people, and, according to the hotel <a href="http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/intercontinental/en/gb/locations/hotel-features/event-facilities/overview/london-parklane">website</a>, features natural daylight through floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Park Lane and the Royal Parks. Perhaps they juliab 2009-10-26T08:47:41-05:00 London: Skip the Minibar, Hit the Bar Late at the InterContinental Park Lane http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/12/74436/8190 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/intercont.jpg" class="top"> You know when youve been out late somewhere, and you get back to your hotel wanting one more before you go to bed, but you dont want it to come from a minibar because its way too expensive (and also a bit depressing)? The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Hyde+Park+Intercontinental+Hotel/local/1075">Intercontinental Park Lane</a> hears you. Its bar used to be open till one a.m. on weekdays and midnight on Sundays, and although we have some extremely happy memories of drinking there with the Miami Dolphins when they were in town, it was a bit too hotel lobby-like to have a proper atmosphere. So we were intrigued to hear today that on Tuesday, the hotel will open what it calls its Late Lounge. juliab 2009-06-12T09:34:53-05:00 Search HotelChatter Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/