HotelChatter - Stories about The Hempel Hotel

HotelChatter - Stories about The Hempel Hotel http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T04:24:57Z HotelChatter HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/19 London: Jetsetter's UK Site Forges Ahead with Stephen Fry-backed Hotel Room Sales for Charity http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/12/18/234233/60 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/JetUKcharity2.jpg" class="top"> In case you've been living under an internet-less rock recently, the crazy-popular luxury hotel flash sale site Jetsetter.com has officially opened up for business overseas, in the UK. The new <a href="http://www.jetsetter.co.uk/sales">Jetsetter.co.uk</a> mirrors the US site in style and most reviews, but offers are tailored to the English traveler. Plus they've now got something the US site doesn't: a charity angle, with celebrity endorsement. From now through January 9, book any of <a href="http://www.jetsetter.co.uk/group/sleepsmart?nm=linkbin&cl=6">these 9 London hotels</a> at Jetsetter.co.uk and they'll donate £1 for each night of your stay to the UK charity <a href="http://www.streetsmart.org.uk/sleepsmart/how-it-works.php">SleepSmart</a>, a new branch of the huge charity StreetSmart, which directly aids the homeless. You don't need to stay at the hotel before JetSetCD 2011-12-19T17:15:01-05:00 London: Steve Jobs Hated The Hempel Hotel in London http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/10/31/12822/420 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/thehempel_stevejobs.jpg" class="top"> The world knows Steve Jobs for his creation of the gadgets that have become an everyday necessity in our lives like the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. But thanks to the new biography on the Apple mastermind by Walter Isaacson, we've learned that Jobs would have also made a badass hotel critic. HotelChatter HQ has just finished the book, which pounds home how hard Steve jobs is on design. In fact, he would immediately classify design examples as "the greatest" or "shit". More often than not, he was right in these knee-jerk assessments. And yes, his extreme design assessments extended to things outside the computer world--like hotels. Here's a very telling bit in the book about juliana 2011-10-31T15:00:03-05:00 London: Where to Find Free Hotel WiFi in London http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/12/2/7248/23349 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/mayfair.jpg" class="top"> The May Fair: where WiFi and celeb spots both come free of charge This week, the Sunday Times <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article6935847.ece">called out</a> British hotels charging obscene rates for WiFi. Unsurprisingly, London ones were among the worst offenders, with the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Mandarin+Oriental+Hyde+Park/ian/108769">Mandarin Oriental</a> charging £15 a day, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Dorchester+Hotel/local/5">Dorchester</a> coming in at £19.50 and the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Ritz+London/local/1591">Ritz</a> scamming guests for £25. Yup, $42 for one days access. But dont be afeared if you need the laptop but dont want to see your check out bill rocket, there are places in London that dont charge for WiFi, and theyre just as snazzy as the rip offs listed above. Were happy to report that there are more than we juliab 2009-12-02T13:02:50-05:00 London: London's Hotels Are About to Get Arty http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/30/71724/9507 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/Art_Work_Space_Gallery_Photo_540.jpg" class="top"> We blame <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hyatt+Andaz+London/local/931">Andaz Liverpool Street</a>. Since they started a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/3/27/95259/9820/hotels/The_Reader_In_Residence_is_Back_at_Andaz_London">reader in residence</a> programme with the lush Damian Barr, London hotels have gone literary-tastic. Weve got <a href=http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/12/132736/999/hotels/A_Book_Club_For_Radisson_Edwardian_Bloomsbury">book clubs</a>, weve got <a href=http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/2/10/91552/2062/hotels/Poetry_Corner_To_Open_at_London_s_Goring_Hotel">poetry readings</a>, weve even got <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/5/28/13424/8721/hotels/If_You_ve_Got_The_Dosh_Get_Thee_To_The_Langham_London">book concierges</a>. And, if were being honest, its getting a bit enough already. So well done to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Hempel+Hotel/local/19">The Hempel</a> which is bucking the trend by launching an independent art gallery in what was, until this month, the hotel restaurant (the restaurant has moved upstairs). Its called Art Work Space and it launches tonight with an exhibition by local artist Haslam Fox called A Tale of Two Towers - a socially worthy exhibition based around a posh tower juliab 2009-09-30T09:50:04-05:00 The Anouska Hempel Story: Revenge of the Dominatrix Hotelier http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/1/5/103751/5463 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/anouska_hempel.jpg" class="imgborder"> How do you go from <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1642191,00.html">appearing in seventies soft porn</a> to becoming the godmother of boutique hotels? More importantly how does it take us three years to notice? Anouska Hempel, we have discussed your hotels before, but today is the first day we came across your incredibly interesting story. Let's start from the beginning. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Anouska%20Hempel">Anouska Hempel</a> was an actress in a Russ Meyer film called "Blacksnake", which has a review on a site called <a href="http://www.gleeson0.demon.co.uk/meyerdvd.htm">"Spank the Monkey"</a>. <blockquote> In the film, shot on Barbados, Weinberg (Hempel's married name) plays Lady Susan Walker, a dominatrix who satiates her desires by whipping black male slaves on her 19th-century cotton plantation. Her long leather whip lashes markj 2007-01-05T10:59:33-05:00 Search HotelChatter Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/