http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T05:07:11Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Borat http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/16/111112/642 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/wellingtontwitter.png" class="imgborder"> <p>We give <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Wellington+Hotel/local/183">The Wellington Hotel</a></b> a pretty hard time around here. We refer to it as the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/11/20/104517/26/hotels/How_Borat_Duped_the_Wellington_Hotel">"Borat Hotel"</a> sometimes because the movie star wreaked a bit of havoc when he stayed there a couple of years ago, and last summer we got confirmation that even without a hairy man in an uncomfortably revealing swimsuit, the place is in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/8/23/91459/7861/hotels/Just_How_Gross_is_the_Wellington_Hotel_">pretty gross shape</a>. <p>So we give <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Adam%20Kirby">Adam Kirby</a>, Associate Editor of <a href="http://www.hotelsmag.com/">Hotels Mag</a>, some major props for braving The Wellington and Twittering about it so we don't have to go there ourselves. <p>It seems he scored a good rate on Priceline (though he told us not to tell anyone -- but hello, we're Jenna 2008-09-16T15:36:20-05:00 40.7646482 -73.980645 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/11/20/104517/26 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/borat_wellington.jpg"><p>Well, it looks like the folks at <a href="http://www.wellingtonhotel.com/"><b>Wellington Hotel</b></a>, where Borat crashed for a few nights during his controversial movie, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/11/7/112548/773/hotels/Wellington_Hotel_Talks_Borat">wouldn't speak to us</a> or other outlets but someone inside decided to speak with <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/11202006/gossip/pagesix/guest_from_hell_pagesix_.htm">Page Six.</a><p>And surprise, surprise, Borat and his alter-ego Sasha Baron Cohen are no longer welcomed at the midtown hotel because of the way he duped the place:<blockquote><p>He checked in as a travel writer from Kazakhstan and asked for a special rate, $100 a night, which we gave him - and then he tried to get it down to $30," a hotel insider said. But what really irked management was when, "in the middle of the night, his crew started carrying furniture out juliana 2006-11-20T11:06:32-05:00 40.764637 -73.980652 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/11/7/112548/773 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/borat_wellington.jpg"><p><br> Little brother Jaunted has been <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/tag/Borat">covering Borat's impact on travel</a> for over a year now. Thus, we thought it was time we added our two cents to the worldwide phenomenon.<p> If you saw the Borat movie, and who hasn't at this point, you may have noticed a couple of hotels played a key role in the filming.<p> We focused in on Borat's stay in room 311 at <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Wellington+Hotel/ian/112522">Wellington Hotel</a></b> in Times Square. <p> Yesterday, the Wellington Hotel, who was <a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/hotelhotsheet/2006/11/embarrassed_hot.html"> reportedly</a> none to pleased to be included in the movie, spoke with HotelChatter.<p> A Wellington Hotel employee, who wished to remain anonymous, said:<p> <blockquote><p> I wasn't working the night he came in. He came in markj 2006-11-07T11:38:49-05:00 40.764637 -73.980652 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/