http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-21T21:25:09Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/1323 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/2/114717/5590 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/elitehotels1.jpg" class="top"> <p>It&#146;s not often we hear about offers for the older generation (everyone seems to be up for offering the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/1/121539/2775/hotels/This_Summer_The_Kiddies_Stay_Totally_Free_at_Shangri_La_Hotels">kiddies</a> to stay for free), so we&#146;re quite tickled with this offer from <b>Elite hotels</b>. <p>Book the <i>Grandparents Stay Free</i> package and, as it suggests, you can bring along the grandparental folks for free until the end of August. <p>This sounds great, because the country piles in this group (<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Tylney+Hall/ian/179771"><b>Tylney Hall</b></a>, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/LUTON+HOO+HOTEL+GOLF+AND+SPA/local/1323"><b>Luton Hoo</b></a> and Ashdown Park Hotel) would go down ever so well with the older generation. But here&#146;s the bad news: it&#146;s only really worth it for those with kids. Because you get two rooms &#150; one for the grandparents, and one for the juliab 2009-06-02T13:22:51-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/18/163650/065 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/lutoncristal.jpg" class="top"><p> We&#146;re getting used to hotels pumping out discounts and throwing extra goodies our way to get us to stay with them this year, but giving a room away for free? That&#146;s taking it one step further. <p>Chi-chi UK chain <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/elite%20hotels"><b>Elite Hotels</b></a>, which owns four sprawling countryside mansions in the south east of England including <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/LUTON+HOO+HOTEL+GOLF+AND+SPA/local/1323"><b>Luton Hoo</b></a> (where such luminary films as <i>Four Weddings and a Funeral</i> and <i>Eyes Wide Shut</i> were filmed) is doing just that. <p>You have to spend a wedge to get the free room, of course; £278.50 (about $413) on a bottle of Louis Roederer Cristal 2002, to be precise. But then, there are worse things to throw your money at. Especially juliab 2009-01-19T09:45:51-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/26/4247/03810 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/lutonhoo_4weddings.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Luton+Hoo+Hotel+Golf+And+Spa/ian/258786"><b>Luton Hoo Hotel</b></a> in England doesn't have this name just to inspire bad "Luton <i>Who</i>?" jokes. Apparently "hoo" means "hill" in old Saxon so really it's the plain old Luton Hill Hotel. But it's got a great selling point that it was one of the reception venues in Hugh Grant's <a href="http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/f/4wandf.html">Four Weddings and a Funeral</a>--we definitely want to tread in Hugh's footsteps.<p>The UK <i>Independent</i> reviewed the Luton Hoo recently and had mostly positive feedback to give. It's only been a hotel for a short time, after being a neglected private house for many years, so most of it's newly renovated--although 1980s touches like peach-colored paint, weird stripes and gold taps remain, which we're not amandak 2008-08-26T10:15:16-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/