http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T05:42:01Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/425 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/7/30/155040/561 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/cccheap.jpg" class="top"> <p><i>Not what you imagine from Circus Circus. Or for $25, either</i> <p>Over on our sister website <a href="http://www.vegaschatter.com/">VegasChatter</a>, we&#146;re constantly shacking up at the cheap hotels in the hope that among the bedbugs and between the tissue-thin, we will find a diamond nestling quietly away. <p>And now that we&#146;ve spent the last six months doing that, we&#146;re pretty sure that we know which are the bargains on the Strip and which are $25 too much, even if you only <a href="http://www.vegaschatter.com/story/2010/7/14/152712/121/vegas-travel/If_You_re_Staying_at_Imperial_Palace_We_Suggest_You_Bring_a_Hazchem_Suit">paid $25 for the room in the first place</a>. <p>So we&#146;ve put together a list of our <a href="http://www.vegaschatter.com/story/2010/7/29/121634/192/vegas-travel/The_Five_Best_Budget_Hotel_Rooms_In_Vegas">top five Strip rooms</a>. Topping the list (as much as a surprise to us as to you) is <a juliab 2010-07-30T15:57:14-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/4/16/92338/3900 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/4sqday416.jpg" class="top"><p> Today is the <b>First Annual Foursquare Day!</b> Yes, the newest social media darling already has its own "day"! You can learn more about the Foursquare Day (aka "4sqDay") movement by reading its <a href="http://blog.4sqday.com/">blog</a> but what we're most excited about are the specials that hotels are offering Foursquare users for checking in on 4sqDay. <p>But don't get your hopes up too high. Most of these specials are simply food and beverage discounts and not any room rate deals. But hey, it is Friday so think of it as a way to get drunk faster. <p>For example in Chicago, at the <a href="http://foursquare.com/venue/2245152">Four Points Chicago Downtown Mag Mile</a> if you check-in (in the Foursquare sense) you can receive juliana 2010-04-16T10:31:19-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/6/113342/042 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/Sapphire_Pool_at_the_Rio_LVW.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p>A <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Rio+All-Suite+Hotel+and+Casino/local/425">Rio Hotel and Casino</a></b> staffer was quoted by <a href="http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/travel/story.html?id=c74932a7-e214-4e46-be11-53189b524fed">a Reuters reporter</a> as saying, "My life now is, if I'm not stripping or at the pool, I'm sleeping." <p>Well, wait. She's <i>kind of</i> a Rio staffer. Technically, she's part of a fleet of strippers that the Rio now stocks poolside. <p>See, the property has established a partnership with the nearby Sapphire gentleman's club -- the first hotel/stripclub partnership of its kind. Essentially, Sapphire strippers are offered incentives by the club and perks by the hotel to take off their tops and sit by the adults-only pool to lure dudes to the Rio (and probably to the strip club later on). <p>Sigh. Where to even begin... Jenna 2008-10-06T11:35:31-05:00 36.1156028 -115.18832 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/6/11/232716/174 <![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/surface.jpeg" class="imgborder"> <p>The future of dating is looking bleak. First there was the explosion of online dating (which cannot be stopped) -- and now flirting via computer while you're <i>in the same bar</i> is a reality. We can thank Bill Gates. &nbsp; <p>After the Microsoft Surface computer <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/6/12/231159/697/hotels/Microsoft_Surface_Tested_Out_at_the_Sheraton_NYC">debuted</a> at the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Sheraton+New+York+Hotel+And+Towers/ian/105816">Sheraton NYC</a></b> this fall, the technology made its way out west and into in an "iBar" in the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Rio+All-Suite+Hotel+and+Casino/local/425">Rio Hotel and Casino</a></b> in Las Vegas. <p>Six of these $10,000 (!) machines are in the bar, essentially turning tabletops into touchscreen controlled computers with Harrah's <a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g5ta2_Fat38VD1YKSc1U8nZJAiDA">custom software</a>: <blockquote><p>A "Flirt" feature in the Surface computers lets people exchange original messages or choose from suggested come-on lines. Jenna 2008-06-12T09:00:01-05:00 36.115595 -115.18853 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/9/25/155240/646 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/luxor_ad.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>Upon landing in Las Vegas on Saturday we couldn't help but wonder if the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Luxor+Las+Vegas/local/56"><b>Luxor Hotel</b></a> was hurting for money. Why? Because the whole building has been covered in black and features a huge advertisement on one side for Absolut Vodka.<p>Things get a little more down-market over the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Rio+All-Suite+Hotel+and+Casino/local/425"><b>Rio</b></a> which sports an ad for Jim Beam liquor on a side of its hotel. <p>The <a href="http://www.lvbusinesspress.com/articles/2007/09/21/news/iq_16753390.txt">Las Vegas Business Press</a> noted, as did we, that while wrapping the buildings is not new, the advertisements for products with little to no association with the hotel are.<p>Case in point: last May we noticed the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/25/125330/710/hotels/Snapshot_Toni_Braxton_at_the_Flamingo">Flamingo wrapped in an ad for Toni Braxton.</a> Similarly the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Venetian/local/38">Venetian</a> has plastered juliana 2007-09-25T15:59:33-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/