http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-23T18:42:29Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Baltic%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/19/235553/573 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Baltic_Beach_Hotel_Jurmala.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>All Latvians know that the place to have a seaside holiday is the resort town of <b>Jurmala</b>, stretching along the coast just half an hour away from the capital, Riga. Even Brezhnev and Khrushchev thought it was the place to be, back in the day.<p>Our pick for a cool place to stay on the Latvian coast is the architecturally challenging <a href="http://www.balticbeach.lv/eng/"><b>Baltic Beach Hotel</b></a>, not least of all because it looks like it could topple over at any second. In fact, we weren't even quite sure if it was still open. Yet it's been standing long enough now that we feel pretty comfortable with the construction so perhaps we could be brave enough to request a room amandak 2009-01-21T09:18:26-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/14/3827/6756 <![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/amandak/stories">Amanda K</a> visits Latvia...in her mind. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/GrandPalaceRiga.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>In the Latvian capital of Riga, a very special Christmas market will run right amandak 2007-12-14T10:54:43-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/11/21/7159/9682 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/reval_central.jpg"><p>Tallinn, the gorgeous capital city of Estonia (home to exotic looking fashion models on runways worldwide), recently made it onto <a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/bluelist/">Lonely Planet's Bluelist</a> of the hottest up-and-coming destination cities for 2007.<p> On our last overnighter through Tallinn we picked the <a href="http://www.revalhotels.com/eng/central/"><b>Reval Hotel Central</b></a> and if you're not a fashion model who has a sugar daddy paying the bill, this is a pretty good budget stop.<p>Neat and clean rooms, internet access, a decent bar and a more-than-adequate restaurant made it one of the better value hotels in Tallinn, a city where everything's heating up and old Soviet blocks are being converted to 4 and 5 star hotels. Reval Central only chalks up three stars, but it's definitely at amandak 2006-11-21T10:15:31-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/