HotelChatter - Tag: Belfast Hotels

Belfast: A Titanic-Themed Hotel Might Be Coming to Belfast

juliana — 2009-09-17T17:49:20-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/titanicmodel.jpg" class="top"> Hmm...you definitely can't say it's "too soon" for a Titanic-themed hotel to open in Belfast but we're not so sure if we're loving the idea of a hotel that's built around a tragedy. But thanatourists will love this place. According to the <a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/belfast-plans-titanic-hotel-14482199.html">Belfast Telegraph</a>, a five-star 90-room hotel with a swimming pool, a gymnasium and a Titanic theme has been announced for the old Harland and Wolff Headquarters building at Queen's Island in Belfast, near where the doomed ship was constructed. The hotel, if plans are approved, will be part of a larger revitalization project called the Titanic Signature Project, which seeks to restore the Thompson Dock and the slipways where the Titanic and her sister

Belfast: The Fitzwilliam Belfast Now Open For Business

juliab — 2009-03-18T14:07:58-05:00

Another day, another new hotel joining the UK ranks. This time, it’s the turn of the Fitzwilliam Hotel in Belfast – and this time, the hotel has actually opened, rather than just been put on the cards like Nottingham’s mourHotel.

If you're still nursing a hangover somewhere in Dublin, perhaps a change of hotel will help you out. Just don't stare to hard at the rug.

Belfast: Room with an Anti-View: The Merchant Hotel's Rooftop

juliana — 2008-02-14T14:30:01-05:00

<![CDATA[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.<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/aviewmerchat.jpg" class="imgborder">Rooftops are never pretty (with or without <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/13/231826/336/hotels/Matt_Moss_Thinks_Tenement_Laundry_is_Something_You_Want_to_See_When_Paying_500_A_Night">tenement laundry</a>) and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Merchant+Hotel/local/951">The