http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T07:08:20Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/431 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/22/163954/31 <![CDATA[<p><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/eow_deals2.jpg" class="imgborder"><br><b>A steal in San Fran. But is it worth it?</b><br><b>$<a href="http://www.travel-ticker.com/details.jsp?inputId=tbug-details&amp;slotid=2&amp;cid=aec299112e751db91d7de0c1e96c171a&amp;tid=T-TTK-0117&amp;zid=Z-3303&amp;encId=l03ptunrlgix3a4xzmdd&amp;subLinePosId=3&amp;did=D0401&amp;tracking=deal-title">69 a night</a></b><p>This deal comes straight from the <a href="http://www.travel-ticker.com/details.jsp?inputId=tbug-details&amp;slotid=2&amp;cid=aec299112e751db91d7de0c1e96c171a&amp;tid=T-TTK-0117&amp;zid=Z-3303&amp;encId=l03ptunrlgix3a4xzmdd&amp;subLinePosId=3&amp;did=D0401&amp;tracking=deal-title">Hotwire Travel Ticker</a>. It's $69 a night at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Cathedral+Hill+Hotel/local/431"><b>Cathedral Hill Hotel</b></a> in San Francisco.<p>The deal is good any night of the week through February 28th. We put in dates for the weekend before Thanksgiving and sure enough, the $69 room rates prevailed. That was for a superior queen room, which is the smallest category at the hotel. Still, bumping up to a superior double room was only $99.<p>The hotel used to be part of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/JDV%20hospitality">JDV Hospitality chain</a> but is no longer. According to reviews on <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g60713-d80784-r20688308-Cathedral_Hill_Hotel-San_Francisco_California.html">TripAdvisor</a>, the rooms could use a refurbishment and the juliana 2008-10-22T16:41:19-05:00 37.7860720 -122.42170 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/4/2/123354/5908 <![CDATA[<P> <i> Hotelier. The word is so romantic, so eccentric, so...French. However, run-of-the-mill real world hoteliers don't always live up to the etymology. Many hoteliers tend to talk about their rooms as commodities that they hope to sell by the click to you, hotel mavens. Others constantly complain that the online hotel review game has made it extremely difficult to get their hotel message to guests. <p>Always looking to bring you the most pertinent information on the worldwide hotel scene, we figured when we found hoteliers that were worthy of the French pronunciation of the word, we would let them speak to you directly. Besides, before you dropped a bunch of cash to stay at someone's house, wouldn't you want juliana 2007-04-04T16:39:06-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/28/233739/588 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/cathedral_hill_hotel.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>So yesterday we ran a story about a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/28/13432/2933/hotels/Second_JDV_Hotel_Accused_of_Racial_Profiling_">second incident</a> of racial profiling that occurred at a JDV Hospitality hotel, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Cathedral+Hill+Hotel/ian/140312"><b>Cathedral Hill Hotel</b></a> in San Francisco.<p>The incident was sent to us by the guest and we posted his side of the story as well as JDV's official response. We wrote that we hadn't heard back from the guest, who goes by Solomon Jones (not Smith as we initially reported) after we emailed him. However, as luck would have it, he responded to our email yesterday afternoon. Not much has changed since his initial submission but we thought we would post his email response, after the jump, so you can draw your own conclusions.<p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/28/233739/588/hotels/JDV_Racial_Profiling_Incident_Update"><i>Full juliana 2007-03-29T09:10:07-05:00 37.786039 -122.42233 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/28/13432/2933 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/cathedral_hill_hotel.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p><b>A HOTELCHATTER EXCLUSIVE</b><p>And now we interrupt your regularly schedule hotel infotainment programming, with some breaking news where we get all serious and stuff. Sorry for the buzz kill.<p>Last fall, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Vitale/local/85"><b>Hotel Vitale</b></a> in San Francisco, a JDV Hospitality hotel, was hit with a very public accusation of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/12/8/93317/5171/hotels/Chip+Conley+Apologizes+for+Racial+Profiling+at+Hotel+Vitale">racial profiling</a> of an African-American professor, prompting hotelier Chip Conley to place a personal apology in a San Fran-area newspaper (for which he paid $450) as well as to pledge $7,500 to the <a href="http://www.coloredgirls.org/"> Women of Color Resource Center</a>. Additionally, JDV implemented additional diversity training at the Hotel Vitale with plans for more classes at other hotels.<p>As any hotel corporation would be, JDV was eager to juliana 2007-03-28T15:36:50-05:00 37.786039 -122.42233 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/28/15187/6631 <![CDATA[<p><b>[Ed. Note: This is the official response from JDV Hospitality about the racial profiling incident at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Cathedral+Hill+Hotel/local/431">Cathedral Hill Hotel</a>. For the full story, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/28/13432/2933/hotels/Second_JDV_Hotel_Accused_of_Racial_Profiling_">see our exclusive report</a>.]</b><p><i>Thank you for contacting Joie de Vivre about the incident that occurred at Cathedral Hill Hotel.<p> This guest was involved in an unfortunate incident with a newly-hired security agent. The situation was quickly diffused and the guest who was holding a one-night reservation was immediately upgraded and offered priority check-in. We then extended his stay five additional days, with room, food and beverage accepted on a complimentary basis. After immediate suspension and further review of the incident, the Joie de Vivre employee involved in the incident was terminated.<p> Upon departure, the guest juliana 2007-03-28T15:18:07-05:00 37.786039 -122.42233 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/