HotelChatter - Tag: Best Western Hotels

Take Advantage Of These 11-11-11 Deals Now

ASchechter — 2011-11-08T09:15:01-05:00

<![CDATA[If wearing corduroy pants was all you had planned for 11-11-11, think again. The auspicious once-in-a-century date is prompting hotels all over the country to go 11-11-11 crazy, and in a good way. Weddings have been <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/8/24/192914/556/hotels/Crowne_Plaza_Wishes_You_Long_Love_And_Good_Fortune">planned</a>. <a href="http://www.vegaschatter.com/tag/Carlos%20Santana">Carlos Santana</a> tickets have been set aside. Scenic <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Best%20Western%20Hotels">Best Westerns</a> in coastal California are even getting in on the action! <h3>If you wanna rock</h3> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/carlos_santana.jpg" class="top">Big spenders can reap the full rewards of Vegas' <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hard+Rock+Las+Vegas+Hotel+and+Casino/local/595">Hard Rock Las Vegas Hotel and Casino</a> with a VIP "Extravagant Package." Though of course the trip would be ideal as a getaway (as in, get away into a giant bathtub and stay there forever), this package will be keeping you busy. Included are:

Atlanta: An Old Best Western Gets Reinvented In Atlanta

ASchechter — 2011-10-27T09:20:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/Artmore3.jpg" class="top">Welcome to our newest new feature, Design Thursdays! Thursdays are now our day to focus on hotel design through photo tours, video walkthroughs and interviews with hotel designers. Got a cool hotel design story we should know about? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Let us know</a>!When you look at the above photo, the first thing that comes to mind probably isn't "<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Best%20Western%20Hotels">Best Western</a>". And yet that's exactly what the Artmore Hotel's owners faced when they bought the building in 2009. Since then, the place has been a little spruced up: a central courtyard now features a fountain of fire and water, and the building's facade has been restored to its original brightly-colored Spanish Colonial design (the structure itself has been around

Moscow: For The Biggest Best Western, Head East

ASchechter — 2011-08-15T08:45:44-05:00

The "world's biggest hotel family" just got a little bigger. The Phoenix, Arizona-based mega franchise recently opened Best Western Vega Hotel & Convention Centre in Russia—the largest Best Western so far, out of 4,000 hotels worldwide in 95 countries.

Comprised of 970 rooms, the hotel was actually built for the 1980 summer olympics, but got remodeled in 2007. Certainly this will provide a welcome low-budget alternative to the extravagances of certain other Moscow hotels. But if we remember correctly, Holiday Inn was also planning to open their largest hotel in Moscow too. Oh, the indecision.

Guests at Best Westerns May Be a Whole Lot Sexier, Thanks to Virgin Atlantic

JulesLdn — 2011-04-22T09:27:03-05:00

<![CDATA[<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="500" height="400" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Tp8ecwyR06g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Now this is an interesting partnership. The stylish <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/tag/virgin atlantic">Virgin Atlantic</a> has teamed up with not-so-stylish <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Best%20Western%20Hotels">Best Western Hotels</a> brand to offer guests up to 500 Flying Club miles when they stay at any Best Western Hotel in the world.High-low fashion senses aside, since there are over 4,000 Best Western International in 90 countries worldwide, there are plenty of opportunities for you to earn Flying Club miles. Some of the hotels arent bad either, even <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/10/25/94821/422/hotels/Carey_Mulligan_Snubs_LA_s_Luxury_Hotel_Scene_Stays_in_a_Best_Western_Instead">Carey Mulligan</a> stays in them. To celebrate this partnership Best Western have created a cheeky modern remake of Virgin Altlantics <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS_6HHQ7jOA">25th anniversary video</a> which played homage to the 1980s when the company

Milton Keynes: Watch Where You Sit at This Hotel or You Could Get Pregnant

juliana — 2011-04-04T08:46:52-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/moore_place_hotel_grounds_and_hotel_05_83775.jpg" class="top"> This might just be the hardest-working hotel, um, chair in the business. Seven women claim that the receptionist's chair at the <a href="http://www.bestwestern.co.uk/Hotels/Moore-Place-Hotel-Milton-Keynes-83775/Hotel-Info/Default.aspx">Best Western Moore Place Hotel</a> in Milton Keynes, England got them pregnant over 18 months. Not "got them pregnant" in a bizarro errant sperm-on-the-seat sort of way but rather, with its mysterious fertile powers." <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371863/Hotels-fertility-chair-sees-seven-staff-fall-pregnant-just-18-months.html">The Daily Mail</a> reports: <blockquote>Elaine Ledster, Kim Gidley, Laura Burchill and Gina Ripley were the first to fall pregnant while working as receptionists at the Best Western Moore Place Hotel. They were swiftly followed by the three remaining receptionists, Alyce Grisley, Claire Fitchett and Seran Daines. General manager Giles Shaw said: 'The chair is just a typical office