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Anaheim: Officials Arrest Tinkerbell, Peter Pan During Disneyland Hotel Worker Protests

Jenna — 2008-08-15T10:00:11-05:00

It's probably in your best interests to stay away from Disneyland and all of its hotels this week, as things are so chaotic over there right now that they've gone and arrested Tinkerbell. What is this world coming to?

Yesterday, we caught wind of the plans for Disneyland hotel workers' protests to go down last night. The issues involve about 2,300 unionized hotel workers at three Disney-owned hotels: the Paradise Pier, the Grand Californian and the Disneyland Hotel.

Hotel News Briefs :: Microsoft Surface Computers Debut at More Sheratons

Jenna — 2008-08-14T17:00:10-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/mssurfacesheraton_2.png" class="imgborder">There's tons of hotel news flying around this week and we don't have time to give each and every story the love and attention it may deserve, so you will have to settle for some news briefs.· <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/08/11/daily53.html">Starwood Exec Migrates to Marriott</a>: Former Starwood exec Tina Edmundson was named senior vice president of Marriott's lifestyle brands and Renaissance operations. [Washington BizJournal]· <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/374884_msftsurface14.html?source=mypi">Microsoft Surface Computers Come to Sheratons</a>: 5 Microsoft Surface Computers made their debuts in Sheraton lobbies in Seattle, New York, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. [Seattle PI]· <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/content/business/stories/2008/08/14/acvb_hotel_occupancy.html">Rough Times for Atlanta Tourism</a>: Hotel occupancy is down almost 5% in Atlanta -- so low that the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau had to make some

Anaheim: Disneyland Hotels Go Smoke-Free

GEM0330 — 2006-02-01T09:05:05-05:00

<![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/2474/cruella.jpg"> Get that cigar-smoking Jiminy Cricket out of the hotel! <a href="http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/home/home?name=HomePage">The Disneyland Hotel</a> and <a href="http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/hotels/landing?name=ParadisePierHotelLandingPage&bhcp=1">Disney's Paradise Hotel</a> are going nonsmoking starting March 1st. So leave your hookah pipes at home. The other hotel at the resort, <a href="http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/hotels/landing?name=GrandCalifornianHotelLandingPage">Grand Californian hotel</a>, has been a smoke-free establishment since 2001. The Disney hotels aren't instituting the policy because of morality, public pressure, or health. It's just business--is it ever anything else when it comes to the House of the Mouse? <blockquote>On an average no more than two requests per day come in for smoking rooms. The hotels will gradually take the smoking rooms out of use and begin the task of replacing drapes, rugs and doing thorough cleaning