http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T12:41:26Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Bonnie%20Tsui http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/19/84012/6379 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/xhotelcapetown.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p><p>Ah, that's more like it. After impressing us <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/11/22340/2187/hotels/The+Hautest+Bathrooms+in+Louisville%3F">last week</a> with a great review of a quality property, <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/travel/18check.1.html?ref=travel">this week</a> the New York Times finds plenty wrong with the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Extreme+Hotel+Cape+Town/local/383">Extreme Hotel Cape Town</a></b>. <p>Not that the hotel actually sounds that bad. But reviewer Bonnie Tsui is not impressed by the hotel's ever-present TV screens showing extreme sports and the kitschy decoration. (Skis hanging on the wall, anyone?) She doesn't even like the other guests, including some "decidedly nonadventurous Europeans." <p>But what about the rooms? They don't sound too bad to us:<blockquote><p>Nothing extreme about them. There are two room categories: standard and executive. The price difference is so slight, about $20, that it's worth the upgrade pbb 2007-03-19T09:47:47-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/9/18/10941/1730 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/courthouse_kemp.jpg"><p>London hotels either ooze with history or are so new that the locals may not even know they exist. The <a href="http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/">New York Times</a> checked into one with the history; a hotel that holds onto the intrigue of the English Court, not royal though. The <a href="http://courthouse-hotel.com/"><b>London Courthouse Kempinksi Hotel</b></a> was once the "it" court with a "defendant list [that] read like a who's who of bad-boy rockers." From Mick Jagger to Keith Richards the courthouse was a hot place.<p> Today the hotel is sleek and cool with an urban and international crowd. Touches of the building's older days reveal themselves as prison cells-turned lobby booths. But this is about as exciting as the place gets. Bonnie Tsui's write-up Courtney 2006-09-18T10:44:40-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/