http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-09-07T02:27:15Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/250 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/3/5/161135/7782 <![CDATA[<p><i>We now present you with our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/VIP%20Hotel%20Reviewer%20Series"><b>VIP Hotel Reviewer Series</b></a> in which we hand-pick experts in the travel and media worlds and beyond to tell us what are their favorite hotels and why. Once a week, we'll feature a hotel review from said VIPs about their favorite leisure or business hotels. Pay attention: These VIPs are experts at what they do and they don't mess around when it comes to their hotels.<p> The next VIP in the series is <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/johnnyjet"><b>Johnny Jet</b></a>, aka John DiScala, the man behind the extremely popular travel website and newsletter <a href="http://www.JohnnyJet.com"><b>JohnnyJet.com</b></a>. If there's ever a question you have about airlines, airfares, hotels, resorts and travel in general, Johnny Jet is the man to johnnyjet 2008-03-05T17:01:29-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/2/16/35815/0610 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/longitude_131_tent.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p><br>We've already whet your appetite for an Australian luxury tent holiday with our daydreaming about a stay at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/LONGITUDE+131/ian/223709"><b>Longitude 131</b></a>: a relaxing stay with the best views in Australia. Luxury tents seem like the best of both worlds to us, since you can do the whole communing with nature thing but without having to, well, commune with nature too much. It's the fresh air and great views without the ants in your sleeping bag (or worse).</p><p>It seems like these luxury tents are starting to sprout all over Australia, as there are a number of advantages, not least that they don't require such environmental destruction as setting up a regular hotel does. Plus:</p><blockquote><p>New safari-style camps come with amandak 2007-02-16T09:58:33-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/12/26/212355/82 <![CDATA[<p> <i>Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? <a href="tips@hotelchatter.com">Send the story our way</a>.<p> In this episode, Hotel Maven <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/amandak/stories">Amanda K</a> lets us know where she would go in her homeland of Australia. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/long31.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p>Take me right into the dead center amandak 2006-12-27T09:25:03-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/