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HotelChatter - DE http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T04:24:18Z HotelChatter HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ There's a Delaware Hotel That Tries and Fails to Look Like the White House http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/8/6/123855/1577 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/Heritage2.jpg" class="top"> While driving down the highway on the way to the popular Delaware weekend destination of Rehoboth Beach, you'll end up passing a stream of Comfort Inns, Rodeway Inns and various other "Inns," but it's this one that caught our eye. First, it was the "Best Buy on the HWY" sign that made us turn our heads, but then the faux-White House structure set just back from the highway had us intrigued. It looked like some sort of dressed up old brick apartment building, and yet it was a Golf Club as well as a hotel? This, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Heritage+Inn+And+Golf+Club/ian/241712">Heritage Inn and Golf Club</a>, where nightly rates starts at $129 during the summer, is a perfect example of JetSetCD 2010-08-06T13:15:56-05:00 Up Next in Room Key Technology: Proximity-Based Keycards? http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/19/93739/7853 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Hotel_Key_Card.jpg" class="top"> Most of our talk about <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Key%20Cards">hotel key cards</a> lately has concerned whether they're <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/18/174531/358/hotels/Just_Because_Your_Keycard_is_Recyclable_Doesn_t_Mean_It_Won_t_Work">recyclable or not</a>, but the whole "ease of use" factor is a pretty important to us, too. They can be fiddly things when you have to insert them a particular way or swipe them at just the right speed, and we've been frustrated by them more than once.Thankfully, over at the X Room at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Courtyard+Newark+Univ+Delaware/ian/224870">Courtyard Newark University of Delaware</a>, the prototype room where they try out lots of new gadgets on real guests, they are looking carefully at proximity-based keycards. With these, we won't need to worry about inserting them in the right direction or even finding them in our amandak 2009-06-19T11:56:25-05:00 39.6886880 -75.759179 Hotel Blue: 'Unpretentious Luxury' on the Delaware Beach http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/2/91348/57067 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/Studio_Suite_RED_Bed_on_ang.jpg" class="top"> Every so often, we showcase hotel tips from readers that we think deserve a little attention. Now it's important to note that in this case, the tip was from, uh, the actual hotel owner. But! After checking the hotel out on TripAdvisor and elsewhere, we deemed it worthy of our ever-precious time and thats even in spite of the owners self-praise, in which he described the <a href="http://www.hotelblue.net/">hotels website</a> as the bomb! So without further ado, we present Delawares <a href="http://www.hotelblue.net/">Hotel Blue</a>, which professes to be the tiny states first boutique hotel, located in beachy Lewes on the Eastern Shore, near the livelier Rehobeth Beach. From its website description, which also calls itself a simple palette KatieK 2009-06-02T09:37:48-05:00 38.7772806 -75.137777 Tampa Bay Devil Rays Forced Into Swankier Hotel After Philly Rainout http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/28/164337/19 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hoteldupontnologo.jpg" class="top"> Whoops! After Game 5 of the World Series was postponed in the sixth inning as Philadelphia got pounded by rain, the visiting Tampa Bay Devil Rays were forced to go back to their hotel -- the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Westin+Philadelphia/ian/124326">Westin Philadelphia</a> -- until the game could be rescheduled. But oh noes! According to <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=6473880">reports</a>, the team had already checked out for the evening (the plan was to hop on a plane and go home to Florida after the game) and their Westin was booked for the night. And, apparently, so were the other hotels in Philly. What's an entire Major League baseball team to do? After what we can only imagine was an unpleasant series of hours for Jenna 2008-10-28T16:43:37-05:00 39.7464440 -75.547161 Coming to Future Hotel Rooms: Alarm Clocks That Run Away From You http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/3/224328/0218 <![CDATA[<object width="399" height="317"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8-LWSkZkjr8&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8-LWSkZkjr8&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="399" height="317"></embed></object>There's a very special room at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Courtyard+Newark+Univ+Delaware/ian/224870">Courtyard Newark - University of Delaware</a>, part of the Marriott brand: it's called "the X-room". That sounds a bit scary, but in fact it's really fun, because this room contains the new hotel technologies and gadgets of the future.As part of a research project, potential new products for hotel rooms are trialled here for between 6 and 12 months, with real guests. You can book this room specifically or end up there by chance, but in exchange for being able to try out all these new toys, (like the universal battery charger, digital picture frame, touch-screen climate control) you'll need to amandak 2008-01-04T09:30:01-05:00 39.688688 -75.759179 Search HotelChatter Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/