http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T23:43:39Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Barack%20Obama http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/27/11224/415 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/30451/FbleauObama.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>Miami&#146;s <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Fontainebleau+Resort/local/998"><b>Fontainebleau Resort</b></a> is no stranger to celebs, from Frank Sinatra to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/20/0279/0446/hotels/Dennis_Rodman_Continues_To_Be_The_Worst_Hotel_Guest_in_Miami">Dennis Rodman</a>. But last night the revamped resort got a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/6/25/153128/654/hotels/Barack_Obama_Stops_In_at_the_Ritzy_Fontainebleau_in_Miami">return visit</a> from the most famous person on the planet: POTUS.</p><p>President Obama has been on a bit of a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/21/82030/525/hotels/POTUS_Dresses_Down_Wall_Street_at_Mandarin_Oriental">hotel tour</a> lately, doing his Democratic Party fund-raising at a series of fancy dinners across the country. Last night, his arrival at one of these events was marked with protests as about 200 people carrying placards lined Collins Avenue across from the Fontainebleau.</p> <p><i>Inside</i>, around 450 people paid between $500 and $15,000 a head to hear POTUS talk, raising an estimated $1.5 million all up. (We&#146;re guessing that&#146;s just a little over MsRebecca 2009-10-27T11:59:17-05:00 25.8166090 -80.122845 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/21/82030/525 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/POTUSmonyc.JPG" class="top"><p> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/MANDARIN+ORIENTAL+NEW+YORK/local/190"><b>The Mandarin Oriental</b></a> in New York is popular with celebrities: in the past, we've seen Bruce Willis and Natalie Portman there. But approaching the hotel close to 5 p.m. yesterday, we encountered way too much security for there to just be someone from Hollywood in the building. The street itself was blocked off and a mix of NYPD officers, generic security dudes, serious-looking men in suits&#151;<i>aha! Secret Service!</i>&#151;and excited New Yorkers waiting by the barricades gave it all away: <b> President Barack Obama</b> was in town. And about to arrive any second.<p><p>We got a bit of a thrill to learn this, too, along with a hint of dread that we may not get into the hotel MsRebecca 2009-10-21T14:53:41-05:00 40.7683010 -73.983279 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/17/03929/0472 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/NaacpObama.jpg" class="top"> <p>There'll be no Broadway play and fancy dinner with Michelle for Obama during this stop in New York. After last week's grueling family trip of international stops including Moscow, Rome and Ghana, <b>President Obama</b> made it back to the States just in time to close off streets in Midtown Manhattan during yesterday's evening rush hour. And what did he do while in The Big Apple? Why, it's our favorite pastime: some good old-fashioned hotel-hopping. <p>After a speech in New Jersey, Obama's big city evening began at the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+New+York/local/299">Hilton New York</a></b> on Sixth Avenue, where he spoke at the NAACP's 100th Anniversary Convention. This hotel is truly the epitome of conference hotels in the city; we can JetSetCD 2009-07-17T08:59:19-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/21/111245/607 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/hippodrome20.jpg" class="top"><p> With President Barack Obama prioritizing issues like the the drug war, trade and immigration with Mexico, he is spreading some good karmic vibration to the hotel industry. In honor of President Obama's stay in Mexico's capital city, a stylish 1931 Art Deco designed boutique hotel called the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hippodrome+Hotel/ian/247377"><b>Hippodrome</b></a> in the hipster neighborhood of Condesa is offering <b>$20</b> a night rate in Room 104 of the 15-room hotel. And the price includes taxes and fees. <p>The recession-friendly rate lasts through the end of the year and is <b>only for Room 103</b>. Get it? The deal applies for a two-day <i>maximum</i> stay. Right now, it's booked solid through the summer but the other 14 rooms start at $150 shiralevine 2009-04-21T16:41:16-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/20/112250/505 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/obamahyatt.jpg" class="top"> <p>This weekend, President Obama headed to the Caribbean islands of <b>Trinidad & Tobago</b> with a US delegation for the Fifth Summit of the Americas, and, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/17/11959/5363/hotels/This_Weekend_Obama_Will_Be_Swimming_at_the_Hilton_Trinidad#commentsection">as we know</a>, he and his ginormous posse shacked up at the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+Trinidad+%26+Conference/ian/113097">Hilton Trinidad</a></b>, renting out the whole place for the weekend. <p>But the three-day summit itself was held over at the <b><A href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hyatt+Regency+Trinidad/ian/262216">Hyatt Regency Trinidad</a></b>, which HC <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/comments/2009/4/17/11959/5363/1#1">commenter thirteenright</a>, who has stayed at both the TT Hilton and the TT Hyatt, mentioned was "a much nicer hotel more suitable for this kind of thing" (we assume "this kind of thing" means hosting bigtime world leaders). The conference was a place for the western hemisphere's leaders to get together Jenna 2009-04-20T11:27:16-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/