http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T07:42:47Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/1232 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/4/14/111756/010 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/watlmidtownext.jpg" class="top"><p> There's been some alarming news on the hotel crime scene this week, including yesterday's horrific suicide plunge at the <a href="http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/deadly-scene-at-angels-hotel/">Le Parker Meridien</a>. We don't normally like to post on the grisly but when it comes to guest safety, we feel that guests should know what's been going on.<p>At the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/W+Atlanta+Midtown/local/1232"><b>W Atlanta Midtown</b></a>, employees at their Whiskey Park bar was robbed on early Monday morning at gunpoint. <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/robbers-hit-w-hotel-456103.html?imw=Y">The AJC</a> reports: <blockquote><p>Two employees were counting money in an office around 12:30 a.m. when two gunmen entered, threw down a black bag and demanded all the cash, police said. <p> "They gave the males all the money that was sitting on the table and in the safe juliana 2010-04-14T14:07:48-05:00 33.7868122 -84.381617 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/12/17/114644/73 <![CDATA[<p><img src=" http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/30451/WhiskeyPark.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>Snookie and her <i>Jersey Shore</i> crew may be getting all the talk-show buzz this week but let&#146;s not forget that the <b>Real Housewives of Atlanta</b> know how to party just as hard. And thanks to the city&#146;s <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/W%20Hotels"><b>W Hotel</b></a> packages, you can get your groove on for New Year&#146;s Eve at the same hotel bars NeNe, Kim and co. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/6/4810/69473/hotels/_Real_Housewives_of_Atlanta_Kick_It_in_the_ATL_s_W_Hotels">like to call home</a>.</p> <p>Both the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/W+Atlanta+Buckhead/ian/117603"><b>W Atlanta Buckhead</b></a> and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/W+Atlanta+Midtown/local/1232"><b>W Atlanta Midtown</b></a> are offering a range of New Year&#146;s packages, with a choice of a 3-course dinner at Spice Market, or a boozefest at Whiskey Park&#146;s NYE event&#151;or both. The packages all include a bottle of bubbly with in-room dining, complimentary valet, MsRebecca 2009-12-17T12:16:18-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/19/123450/437 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/8580/WAtlantaHelicopter.jpg" class="top"> <p> For some odd reason that we have yet to figure out, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Atlanta%20Hotels">Atlanta</a> is quickly becoming the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/W%20Hotels"><b>W Hotel</b></a> capital of America. Next week on January 27th, Atlanta's fourth W Hotel, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/W+Atlanta+Downtown/local/1433"><b>The W Atlanta Downtown</b></a>, will open within Allen Plaza. Economy be damned! <p> This newest hotel will join <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/W+Atlanta+At+Perimeter+Center/ian/113199">W Atlanta Perimeter</a>, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/6/13/124045/118/hotels/Sneak_Peek_The_W_Atlanta_Buckhead">W Atlanta Buckhead</a> and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel/local/1232">W Atlanta Midtown</a>, but this one promises to be totally "W" inside out, since it's the only W in Atlanta that was built from the ground up instead of a conversion from another hotel brand like the others were. <p>In addition to having 74 residences, the W Atlanta Downtown will have a Bliss Spa, AndrewC 2009-01-19T13:05:38-05:00 33.7646980 -84.388765 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/29/92332/8863 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/watlantaspectacular.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/w%20hotels"><b>The W Hotels brand</b></a> is one step closer to completing its hotel monopoly on the city of Atlanta as the second W Hotel opens today in midtown. A third and fourth W Hotel is schedule to open next year, making Atlanta just one hotel behind New York for the title of most Ws in a single city.<p>Now you must be asking why so many Ws in Atlanta? Turns out the city has a bumpin' hotel market:<blockquote><p>Atlanta has four distinct hotel markets, and W wanted to have a share in each, [Frits van Paasschen, Starwood CEO] said. Perimeter caters to residential and shopping while Buckhead grabs the business crowd and the well-heeled looking to drop cash at juliana 2008-05-29T09:38:26-05:00 33.786357 -84.393124 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/22/171050/378 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/w2.JPG" class="imgborder"><p>The Atlanta blog, <a href="http://aroundmidtown.com/?p=64">Around Midtown</a>, has posted some pics of the conversion of the <b>W Hotel Midtown</b> from a Sheraton on their site and this is what the new W will look like. What's going on there? Well Around Midtown breaks it down:<blockquote><p>Now construction is finally at the point where you can see some of their plans unfolding, which include painting the predominantly cream building a slate color, accented by a linear black effect up the building. The retaining walls at the ground level are being covered with a slate.</blockquote></p><p>While anything is better than a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/4/17/162439/629/hotels/Fugly_Sheraton_Hotels">fugly Sheraton</a>, we have a feeling the folks in Hotlanta might get sick of W Hotels soon. Aside from this one juliana 2008-01-22T17:19:43-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/