http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T07:42:14Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/1188 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/14/235439/200 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/theresidencebath.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>Simply called <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Residence/local/1188"><b>The Residence</b></a>, there's a hotel in Bath, England, that seems to hark back to Jane Austen days of exclusive clubs and high society--except that if we've got the cash, we can stay there too. There are just six rooms for guests but they are part of a larger complex inside an old Georgian house, with a restaurant, bar and gardens also accessible to members of the private club.</p><p><a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g186370-d618897-r14962403-The_Residence-Bath_Somerset_England.html">Recent guests</a> at TripAdvisor can't speak highly enough of The Residence, with everyone loving the luxurious rooms and a few mentioning the "adults only" drawer, too! But a <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hotels/1308278/The-Residence,-Bath-hotel-watch.html">UK Telegraph</a> review over the weekend was not quite as over-the-top impressed, citing short showers, erratic bar amandak 2008-04-15T09:15:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/20/15130/418 <![CDATA[<p> <i><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/monica%20guy">Monica Guy</a> is fed up with the old guard hotels of the U.K. that may have entertained her grandparents when they were tripping all over the world in their youth but have since been lasting on reputation and little else. In this new feature, she pits her grandma's favorite hotel against some of the new hip hotels popping up across the rainy motherland. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/bathpriory_hotel.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>So you'd won in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/18/143144/10/hotels/Oxford_Hotels_Grandma_Versus_the_Rest_of_Us">Oxford </a>and won in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/18/143656/05/hotels/Cambridge_Hotels_Grandma_Versus_the_Rest_of_Us">Cambridge</a> - your slick boutique hotels were a hundred times smoother than gran and granddad's choice. Proves you can't sleep on a bed of reputation.<p> <p>But your grandparents excelled themselves in Bath with the much discussed (in upper-class circles) <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Bath+Priory+Hotel/ian/184989"><b>Bath Priory</b></a>. The femmefatale 2007-12-21T09:29:25-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/