Links:
· Hotels are not just for fashion designers. Jewelry designer John Hardy gets in on the game [Luxist]
· America Inn wants to know whose neighbors are noisier? [Budget Travel]
· Leona Helmsley gets put in the ground [NY1]
· Luxury hotels keep popping up in Ireland. The latest is the Fitzwilliam Hotel [Belfast Telegraph]
· Peninsula Chicago's pool is voted best indoor hotel lap pool [Chicago Tribune]
· No W Hotel for Long Island's Patchogue [NY Newsday]

]]> juliana 2007-08-22T16:55:23-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/3/222549/1956 <![CDATA[<p> <i>Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? <a href="tips@hotelchatter.com">Send the story our way</a>.<p> In this episode, Hotel Maven <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/pbb/stories">PBB</a> dreams of an exotic golf getaway. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/Bali_amanusa.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p>I was out of the cubicle the other day, chatting with some other drones pbb 2007-05-04T09:04:51-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/2/26/54837/5335

[Ed. Note: Hotel Maven GEOmbfl is back from an unhappy stay at the Ritz-Carlton Bali and thinks you should pass on this spot and instead hit up the Bulgari or Aman hotels. Let's just say there were a few problems getting a club-level room.]

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]]> GEOmbfl 2007-02-26T14:32:55-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/2/22/34253/7637 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/como_shambhala.png" class="imgborder"> <p>When it's not enough to provide benefits for the holidaymaker's body like herbal wraps, ayurveda, fancy massage therapy and yoga galore, you have to start dealing with your guests' minds. That's the message we're getting from the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Como+Shambhala+at+Uma+Ubud+/local/290"><b>Como Shambhala at Uma Ubud</b></a> on Bali, which has just started offering the services of a counselling psychologist.</p><p>It'd be nice if being on holiday was mental therapy enough, but perhaps some people have trouble adjusting to the lack of tightly scheduled routine, the excess of time spent lying by the pool or the presence of delicious foods prepared by somebody else. It mightn't be long before psychological travel becomes the new catch phrase of hotel and spa stays.<p> amandak 2007-02-22T10:12:54-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/2/1/103353/7930 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3930/fourseasons_sayan.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p>Can a Luxury Hotel be only four-tenths of a point shy of perfection? The Conde Nast Top 100 says that's the case with the <a href="http://www.fourseasons.com/sayan/"><b>Four Seasons Bali at Sayan</b></a>.<p> <p>It takes a while to get through all the travel magazines stacked up under the coffee table, especially when we know we've got a lot of purse and watch ads to slog through to find the articles. So we're just getting around to digesting the Top-100 hotels list Conde Nast Traveler published a few months back. Fortunately you can find it <a href="http://www.concierge.com/bestof/readerschoice/top100_1/top100_1">here on Concierge.com</a>, without your hands smelling like perfume afterwards. <p>We take these reader's polls with a huge grain of salt, because it's obvious from the Tim L. 2007-02-01T12:33:22-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/