http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T11:47:36Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/352 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/3/6/155725/6226 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/deathstarhotel.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>Maybe this planned hotel will make our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/24/144612/104/hotels/Best_Geek_Hotels_in_the_World_2_0">Best Geek Hotels</a> in the World list for the year 2020.<p>Architects are presenting renderings for this unusual-shaped hotel which some are already calling the <b>Death Star Hotel</b>. <blockquote><p>Heerim architects are looking to build the Star Wars staple in, of all places, Baku, Azerbaijan. They're hoping to bring this design, called the Hotel Full Moon, and another, the Hotel Crescent, to one of the fastest growing economies and will rightly call the area Full Moon Bay.<p> </blockquote></p><p>According to <a href="http://www.skyscrapernews.com/news.php?ref=1357">SkyScraper News</a>, the Death Star hotel will be a 35-story luxury hotel with 382 rooms. The pod-shaped structure on the bottom will be residential apartments called Palace of Wind 1 and 2.<p>Both juliana 2008-03-06T16:09:49-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/5/23/84112/8338 <![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/sidi_driss_hotel.jpg"><p> Does all this Star Wars hype have you feeling a little nostalgic? If so, and you didn't make it to the London Star Wars <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/5/16/15413/2981/Title/The_Complete_Star_Wars_Hotel_Experience_Is_In_London">sextuplet showing</a> last week, maybe it is time to plan your trip to Hotel Sidi Driss in Matmata Tunisia.<p> Sidi Driss not only sounds like the perfect name for some sort of Sith apprentice, but also is a 5 pit dwelling of underground labyrinths and vaulted rooms. Parts of the Star Wars set still exist in the hotel, but mostly it's just a giant Berber cave, indistinguishable from the hundreds around town - half sunken into the desert.<p> Both the original Star Wars and The Phantom Menace were filmed in and around markj 2005-05-23T08:43:37-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/