HotelChatter - Tag: Business Hotels

New York: Have A Sleepover, Every Week For A Year, At Affinia Manhattan

ASchechter — 2012-01-19T11:00:15-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/AffiniaManhattanGuestroom.jpg" class="top">Affinia lovers, get out your checkbooks. After debuting the new look <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/7/13/182951/143/hotels/New_Rooms_Blossom_At_The_Affinia_Manhattan">last summer</a>, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/AFFINIA+MANHATTAN/local/2396">Affinia Manhattan</a> is now putting one of its pretty, flower-themed rooms up for auction. But rather than long weekend-ers or tourists, the deal is actually aimed at business travelers and commuters, who visit the city on a frequent basis. Every Sunday night for a year, the auction winner can come home to a 1-bedroom suite inside the Affinia Manhattan. And every week, it will be exactly the same (you can even leave your stuff in the closets!). Which is why, for a wide-eyed tourist hungry to see all the sights, this situation wouldn't be that ideal. But for tireless business travelers, who benefit

Falls Church: Would You Live In A Hotel If You Could?

ASchechter — 2011-11-01T09:40:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/BestWesternPlus.jpg" class="top">Making the internet rounds yesterday was the story of Joy Bricker, a 79-year-old woman who has spent the past ten years living at the <a href="">TownePlace Suites Falls Church</a>. And not 'living' as in, she commuted every week between the Virginia hotel and her home. No. The hotel itself was her home, and she loved it. As she numbered off to the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-hotel-room-of-her-own--every-day-for-10-years/2011/10/26/gIQAawkuJM_story.html">Washington Post</a> the perks of living in a hotelno utility bills, free breakfast, free wi-fiwe were suddenly struck with the idea that we, too, might enjoy the prospect of life in an extended stay property. For starters, the cleanliness! We'd never have to do another house chore in our life. And if we chose our

West Montreal: Get Comfortable While You Enjoy New Art At Le Centre Sheraton Montreal

ASchechter — 2011-10-12T09:06:13-05:00

Le Centre Sheraton Montreal has acquired the rights to 40 archival photographs from the city's nearby McCord Museum, and the photos are to be displayed exclusively in the hotel's meeting rooms. A recent $40 million renovation enabled the artsy purchase, as well as the addition of some swanky new banquet chairs.

Designed with fidgety, conference-bound business travelers in mind, these aerodynamically-configured chairs provide laptop storage space underneath the seat and a hook on the back of the chair (for backpacks, umbrellas, fruit cornucopias). In short, the hotel is doing away with beds completely, and now asking frazzled business travelers to get cozy in their banquet chairs for the duration of their stay.

Bangkok: Inside the Anantara Bangkok Sathorn

JetSetCD — 2011-10-03T16:25:13-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/AnanBKKSa2.jpg" class="top"> If there is one easy way to get someoneah hem, a hotel geek, ideallyto think about a trip to Bangkok, Thailand, it's by listing some of the room rates for the city's four- and five-star hotels. They are low three digits, or, in some nice cases, even two digits, like at the <a href="http://bangkok-sathorn.anantara.com/">Anantara Bangkok Sathorn</a> where a deluxe regularly goes for $98 per night, and you have a small apartment with two balconies overlooking the city. This is not your typical Anantara; it's business-focused, and situated just off the pulsating vein (and sometimes clogged artery, if it's rush hour) that is Sathorn Road. We were only at this hotel for a sleep-and-dash, so although we can't

London: What's the Little Metal Thingie in the Bathrooms at Heathrow Airport's Sofitel?

JetSetCD — 2011-05-05T09:17:11-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/sofiopening.jpg" class="top"> Hmmwhat's that metal thing stuck low on the wall just inside the bathroom door of a room at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/SOFITEL+LONDON+HEATHROW+T5/local/4433">Sofitel Terminal 5</a> at London's Heathrow Airport? Well, this is a hotel that caters to weary travelers just off British Airways flights and this is a room designed with the frequent flying business traveler in mind, and what might both of those sorts want after a long day? Aha cold beer. Yep, that little metal thingie is a beer opener. The Sofitel at Heathrow's T5 is one of the area's newer hotels; having opening in 2008 it boasts most of the newish amenity bells and whistles, like plug panels at the desk, flatscreen TVs and nice telephones,