While we were showing off our mini-hotel guide to Brussels, the TheNotoriousMEG was dropping off shots of her stay at the Sheraton Brussels in the HotelChatter Flickr Pool. While she has plenty of shots of the suite, we liked this snapshot of the bathroom. You gotta love those antiquated European hair-dryer systems.

[Photo: Notorious Meg]]]> juliana 2008-01-17T17:47:30-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/17/133815/028 <![CDATA[<p><i>We can't seem to get enough of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotels/city/be/Brussels"><b>Brussels</b></a> and it seems our readers feel the same way too. One such fan, <b>Elliott</b>, gave us a belated Christmas present by summing up the Brussels Hotel Scene. So here is his mini-hotel guide to Brussels. Any tips, questions, suggestions or Belgian chocolates, <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">send 'em our way.</a></i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/brussel_view.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><i>The view from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/36521980528@N01/175268920/">Hotel Le Chatelain</a></i><p>Basically, when you go to Brussels you have three choices when it comes to location of hotels: Do I want to stay in the city center, around Avenue Louise (upscale shopping/residential area close to the city), or more towards the EU Parliament? <p>All have advantages and disadvantages, overall the city is quite easy to navigate on foot juliana 2008-01-17T14:02:27-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/6/204137/163 <![CDATA[<p> <i>Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? <a href="tips@hotelchatter.com">Send the story our way</a>.<p> In this episode, Hotel Maven <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/ehaile">Emily</a> gets her hotel drink on. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hotelcarolus_3.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>Just because <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/9/17/73833/9074/travel/Bring+on+the+Beer,+Oktoberfest's+Here!">Oktoberfest</a> has come and gone for this year doesn't mean we can't ehaile 2007-11-08T09:30:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/6/61710/9319 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/DominicanBrussels.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>It was meant to open by the end of October, but with confirmation now that it will be coming on the market just a few days late with its November 8 opening, we can't be too strict yet with <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Dominican/ian/258229"><b>The Dominican</b></a> in Brussels. Do ignore the November 5 opening date given on the hotel's web page, though--staff assure us November 8 is the real date.</p><p> A member of the Design Hotels group (the first from Belgium, in fact), the Dominican has already received high praise as the Guardian's hotel pick of the week: they were impressed with its:</p><blockquote><p>sweeping archways, lofty ceilings and an interior courtyard ... its historic look echoes the abbey that stood on the amandak 2007-11-06T10:44:43-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/12/174559/134 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/aloft_rendering.jpg"> <p>starwood's w hotel spin-off, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/aloft%20Hotels"><b>aloft hotels</b></a> has taken the lower-cased hotel hype show abroad, announcing an <b>aloft brussels.</b><blockquote><p>The 150 guestroom aloft Brussels will be located on Rue Belliard, Leopold, in the `European' quarter of Brussels. The property is conveniently located approximately 800 feet from the European Commission and European Parliament buildings, and just minutes away from the Council of Ministers building.</blockquote></p><p>so far, it looks like all of the aloft branding will be taken over to brussels when the place opens in 2009, including the re:mix (community/lobby area), w xyz (the bar) and re:fuel, the one-stop food and beverage area open 24 hours.<p>this is just the first of many alofts expected to open worldwide. while its nice to juliana 2007-03-12T17:45:59-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/