http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T05:42:35Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/878 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/11/3/13218/8082 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/Hazleton_Hotel.jpg" class="top"> <p>With the presidential election looming tomorrow, victory parties are being planned just as much as escapes from whatever the new administration and so Canada re-emerges as a getaway hotspot. In the spirit of political ad detox and recovery, <a href="http://www.urbandaddy.com/jt/1845/The_Hazelton_Jetset_JT_Toronto_Rapture_UrbanDaddy_Archives">UrbanDaddy</a> has pinpointed their favorite spot for going turncoat: Toronto's first five-star hotel, <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Hazleton+Hotel+/local/878">The Hazleton</a></b>. <p>Make sure to stockpile your loonies before heading over the border; The Hazleton boasts a state-of-the-art gym with pool, "technogym" equipment and spa treatments like eyelash tinting, which is sure to help you momentarily to forget the election. If the results really require you to withdraw from society for a bit, why not spring for Suite 502 at The Hazleton, heralded as JetSetCD 2008-11-03T14:45:06-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/8/165924/9897 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/q_n_a.jpg">We now live in a world where every major hotel chain seems to slapping on the description "boutique hotel" to their newest brands like Starwood's aloft hotels and InterContinental's Hotel Indigo, which just opened its <i>16th</i> location in the L.A. suburb of Ontario.<p>Hotel Indigo has (like many others before it) in fact broken one of the cardinal rules of proper boutique hotels: thou shall not exist in suburbia. Also, thou shall never have more than one location with the same name, let alone 16.<p>Even the man who started the boutique hotel business, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Ian%20Schrager">Ian Schrager</a>, is now selling out to the masses by creating a boutique hotel brand, called <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/edition%20hotels">Edition</a>, for Marriott, the biggest big-box hotel chain ChristineM 2008-08-20T14:00:13-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/4/15724/3627 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/thompsontoronto2.png" class="imgborder"><p>The other day we told you that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/thompson%20hotels"><b>Thompson Hotels</b></a> has plenty of other hotel projects lined up now that Six Columbus has finally opened its doors.<p>And they are moving fast. The <a href="http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/263472">Toronto Star</a> reports that ground-breaking is expected today at 550 Wellington St. W. in Toronto's King Street West area, which is described as similar to NYC's Soho neigborhood.<blockquote><p>The modernist condominium and hotel complex at 550 Wellington St. W. is expected to be completed by the summer of 2009. It will feature design by Estudio Mariscal, a Barcelona company that created a cutting-edge look for the hotel across from Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.</blockquote></p><p>The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Thompson+Hotel+Toronto/local/877"><b>The Thompson Toronto</b></a> will also feature condos and four juliana 2007-10-04T15:28:04-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/