Yale students donned their caps and gowns this past weekend for graduation. To celebrate the Ivy Leaguers, the Study at Yale gave away a graduation present. Unfortunately, it wasn't a new car. But it was still pretty cool: The hotel handed out Moleskine notebooks embossed with the Study logo and with the Yale commencement 2011 insignia.

Moleskine, of course, is the mother of all travel notebooks/journals/etc. It's a favorite for its simple design, durability and infinite uses. All guests who stayed at the New Haven, Connecticut, hotel this past weekend got a big black Moleskine—a big upgrade from the usual hotel pad that falls apart when you use it.]]> Jennifer Kester 2011-05-23T11:32:22-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/3/31/125555/222 <![CDATA[<p> <p><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/1425/hiltongardeninn_aview.jpg" class="top"><p><p>While the internet charges at Hilton Hotels vary in price, you can juliana 2011-03-31T13:03:50-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/1/6/234817/6494 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/high_rollers_hero_3.jpg" class="top"><p> It turns out you don't have to go to Vegas, Dubai or Macau to experience some high roller fun--you can just go to Connecticut! <p>That's because the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Foxwoods+Resort+Casino/ian/259029"><b>Foxwoods Resort and Casino</b></a> has completed a brand new <a href="http://www.foxwoods.com/highrollersent.aspx">High Rollers Luxury Lanes and Lounge</a> with 20 bowling lanes (six of 'em for VIPs), billiards tables, a two-level lounge with a piano and 50-seat marble bar, two full-service bars and more than 60 HDTVs. Already this place, which actually opened back in October, is fulfilling our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/12/27/114048/44/hotels/10_New_Year_s_Resolutions_We_d_Like_Hotels_to_Stick_To_in_2011">New Year's Resolutions list for 2011 (see #4.)</a><p>In an article from <a href="http://www.hospitalitydesign.com/hospitalitydesign/projects/Online-Exclusive-Hi-3053.shtml">Hospitality Design</a>, we learn that the inspiration for the bowling lanes was actually "evoking the glamour of Las Vegas juliana 2011-01-07T08:56:04-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/8/4/112154/5645 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/studyatyalebellstaff.jpg" class="top"><p> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Study+at+Yale/local/1367"><b>The Study at Yale</b></a> is settling in for the 2010-2011 academic year in New Haven, Conn., but could the 124-room Ivy League hotel be gearing up for new locations as well? That's what it sounded like when we chatted with <b>Paul McGowan</b>, the Study at Yale's creator and owner. <p>The Study at Yale has already impressed us with their spacious rooms, complete with reading chairs and ottomans as well as with their seersucker bathrobes, gingersnap cookies at the front desk and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/9/23/03041/7556/hotels/The_Study_at_Yale_Lets_You_Be_More_Studious_Looking_with_Eyeglass_Rental">reading glasses on loan</a>. But there are even more little touches at the hotel that we learned about from McGowan. <p>For instance, during reunion weekends, the hotel's bellstaff will wear hats commemorating the years juliana 2010-10-04T14:05:56-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/9/23/03041/7556 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/amysackseyeglasses.jpg" class="top"><p> When the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Study+at+Yale/local/1367"><b>Study at Yale</b></a> opened near the Ivy League campus two years ago, we got all excited about the fun perks at the hotel like complimentary WiFi,leather reading chairs and the bathrobe which featured a seersucker design stitched with the hotel&#146;s logo--<b>a pair of reading glasses.</b><p>Speaking of reading glasses, the hotel has another fun perk, well, actually it's more of a necessity. If you've forgotten your reading glasses on your trip, you can borrow a stylish pair from the hotel who has partnered up with designer <a href="http://www.amysacks.com"><b>Amy Sacks</b></a>.<p> And if you like them, you can end up purchasing them from the front desk or ordering a new pair from the Amy Sacks catalogue (Frames juliana 2010-09-23T15:56:41-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/