http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-25T04:21:31Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/985 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/29/11216/2595 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/metrohotelext.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>Have you heard about <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotels/city/kp/Seoul"><b>Seoul's</b></a> hotness? South Korea's hipper-than-thou capital is gaining street cred due to a recent opening of a 10 Corso Como, a Fashion Week growing quickly in international regard, and not to mention the popularity of Korean TV dramas around the world. <p>The development of Seoul as a sort of new Tokyo (albeit slightly more affordable) is creating a distinctive thirst among tourists and locals alike: for luxury and high design.<p> This is why, in a city where women wear high heels everywhere, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Metro+Hotel+Myungdong/local/985"><b>Metro Hotel Myungdong looks</b></a> and feels so good. So it <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/14/2108/1092/hotels/Room_With_an_Anti_View_Aesthetically_Unpleasing_Architecture_in_Seoul">doesn't have the best views</a>, but then what is a great view in a city planned without much JetSetCD 2008-04-30T10:58:45-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/14/2108/1092 <![CDATA[<p><i>You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/AntiViewMetroSeoul.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>Before we talk about the view from Seoul's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Metro+Hotel+Myungdong/local/985"><b>Metro Hotel Myungdong</b></a>, amandak 2007-11-15T10:00:59-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/