http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-09-08T16:15:24Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/222 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/14/10253/4163 <![CDATA[<p><p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/gaspumping_sml.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>It's not just individual hotels that are offering special <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/gas%20packages"><b>Gas Rebates</b></a>. Now <a href="http://www.expedia.com/daily/promos/hotel/Holiday-Weekend-Getaways/default.asp"><b>Expedia</b></a> is getting in on the game.<blockquote><p>All travelers have to do is book three or more nights at a select hotel by this Friday, and they'll receive a $50 gas card. </blockquote></p><p>The Expedia site has a list of suggestions for road-trippin' hotels like the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Kona+Kai+Resort+Formerly+Shelter+Pointe/ian/110062"><b>Kona Kai</b></a> resort in San Diego; the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Zaza+Houston/ian/171206"><b>Hotel ZaZa</b></a> in Houston, and the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Blake/local/222"><b>Hotel Blake</b></a> in Chicago.<p> The gas card actually comes in a prepaid Mastercard that is redeemable at almost any gas station but must be used by August 31, 2008. Travel also must be booked by this <b>Friday, May 16</b> and stays must be juliana 2008-05-14T13:56:50-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/4/11/22032/9601 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/hotel_blake_chicago.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><i>This week we will be looking at some Chicago hotels, largely because we realized that we have New York, Miami, Los Angeles and San Fran well-covered but really nothing on the Windy City. If you have a question about the city's hotel scene, send it our way and we'll investigate. Even better, if you have hotel recommendation, <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com"><b>we wanna hear it.</b></a></i><p>A tipster wrote in to us yesterday with a bunch of recommendations for Chicago hotels, thus earning a gold star <i>and</i> a strawberry scratch-n-sniff sticker for helping us with the Chicago hotel scene coverage.<p> Our friend writes:<blockquote><p>I lived in Chicago for one year, and the James Hotel in the Loop, after the first few months, is an juliana 2007-04-12T09:22:18-05:00 41.875022 -87.629475 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/2/13/9410/42450 <![CDATA[<p><b>[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same city and decide which is better worth your hard-earned benjamins. Rates are changing all the time--this rate was good at time of publication. Good luck out there.]</b> <p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/hotel_blake_chicago.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p>Last July the word was that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Blake/local/222"><b>Hotel Blake</b></a> would become a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/7/17/1912/04649/hotels/What_s_In_Store_for_Nicky_Hilton_s_Nicky_O_Chicago">Nicky O Hotel</a>, but the soap opera has gotten more and more convoluted. Maybe it still will, but with <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/2/13/11644/5797/hotels/Falor_Sues_Nicky_Hilton">today's Nicky O news</a> we kind of doubt it. <p>Meanwhile, $129 double in a nice boutique hotel in downtown Chicago is a deal. Guests praise the Blake's 400 square-foot rooms, comfy beds with nice sheets, radios with an Tim L. 2007-02-13T12:23:41-05:00 41.875022 -87.629475 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/7/17/1912/04649 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/nicky_hilton.jpg">Now that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/7/14/123842/345/hotels/Nicky_Hilton_s_Plans_for_Her_Nicky_O_Hotel">the detes</a> on Nicky Hilton's <b>Nicky O Hotel</b> in South Beach are out, it's time to see what she has planned for her Chicago property on the city's Printer's Row.<p>According to <a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=21335">Chicago Business</a>, Nicky has begun the work on her building: <blockquote><p>The Nicky O Chicago...is a 162-room boutique hotel undergoing renovations in the historic Morton Salt building at 500 S. Dearborn St. The building is currently the Hotel Blake, a condo-hotel property that developer Falor Companies opened last year. Prior to that, it was the Hyatt Regency Printer's Row.</blockquote></p><p>Also in People magazine's latest issue, they give more details on what guests can expect from the Nicky O chain such as mini-cupcakes, not chocolates on juliana 2006-07-17T09:20:02-05:00 41.891230 -87.629965 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/