http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T07:30:22Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/1443 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/3/23/8225/70469 <![CDATA[<object id="flashObj" width="486" height="412" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/4862856001?isVid=1&publisherID=1321358962" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="@videoPlayer=73306401001&playerID=4862856001&domain=embed&" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/4862856001?isVid=1&publisherID=1321358962" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="@videoPlayer=73306401001&playerID=4862856001&domain=embed&" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object> <p> When is it clear that a new hotel is a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Destination%20Hotels">destination hotel</a>? When we are reluctant to write about the hotel because we know as soon as we do it will be much harder for us to get a room at said hotel when we are in town. Case in point, the inimitable <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Saint+Cecilia/local/1443"><b>Hotel Saint Cecilia</b></a>, a 14 room rock n roll hotel out off South Congress Street in Austin Texas -- actually, describing markj 2010-03-23T09:24:27-05:00 30.2520710 -97.747039 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/3/17/132517/564 <![CDATA[Holy growth spurt. HotelChatter had not graced the halls of the Austin Convention Center for SXSWi in six years, but when the opportunity knocked to head to Austin for 36 hours of south by madness we jumped on a plane, and my has the interactive portion grown. No longer confined to the closets of the convention center the 2010 gathering was spread out over three hotels and the convention center. Of course, this made for a crazy hotel scene, the bell of the ball, Foursquare, even offered a <a href="http://foursquare.com/user/ranajune/badges/1230836">"hookup" badge</a> if you hit enough hotels late at night. <p> As far as price, let's get this out of the way up front, any hotel on this list is going markj 2010-03-17T14:15:56-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/3/16/124841/955 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/hotel_stcecilia_8.jpg" class="top"><p><i> It's our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/sxsw hotels"><b>SXSW Hotel</b></a> revealed! </i><p>HotelChatter was only in <b>Austin</b> for one night of SXSW but we ended up scoring one of the 14 rooms at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Saint+Cecilia/local/1443"><b>Hotel St. Cecilia</b></a>. This here is room #8, one of the three studio rooms.<p>We liked the spaciousness of the room and the hard wood floors (the fur rugs didn't bother us but they may bother PETA.) We also dug the view of Austin from the semi-private back porch area. <p>The hotel is about a 15-minute walk to the Convention Center, which seems do-able but was made miserable today by pouring rain. Still, the hotel's super cool design and attention to detail won out here. And the fact juliana 2010-03-16T14:13:08-05:00 30.2520710 -97.747039 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/23/113512/401 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/saincecilia.jpg" class="top"> <p>We have to begin this post by saying that Austin's newest boutique property, <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Saint+Cecilia/local/1443">Hotel Saint Cecilia</a></b>, has one of the coolest <a href="http://www.hotelstcecilia.com/">hotel websites</a> we've seen in a long time. Seriously; check it out: it has an old school cinematic vibe and it just swallows you up into the hotel's whole vintage-chic ambiance. We love it. <P>That said, this newcomer onto the Austin hotel scene is named for the patron saint of music and poetry &#151; appropriate for Texas' coolest art and culture hotspot. Accordingly, the 14-room hotel features little odes to the art forms throughout: from killer soundsystems in the rooms &#151; equipped with both turntables and iPod docks &#151; to a library chock full Jenna 2009-01-23T11:56:16-05:00 30.2521200 -97.747352 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/