http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-11-21T04:44:29Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Country%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/14/235439/200 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/theresidencebath.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>Simply called <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Residence/local/1188"><b>The Residence</b></a>, there's a hotel in Bath, England, that seems to hark back to Jane Austen days of exclusive clubs and high society--except that if we've got the cash, we can stay there too. There are just six rooms for guests but they are part of a larger complex inside an old Georgian house, with a restaurant, bar and gardens also accessible to members of the private club.</p><p><a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g186370-d618897-r14962403-The_Residence-Bath_Somerset_England.html">Recent guests</a> at TripAdvisor can't speak highly enough of The Residence, with everyone loving the luxurious rooms and a few mentioning the "adults only" drawer, too! But a <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hotels/1308278/The-Residence,-Bath-hotel-watch.html">UK Telegraph</a> review over the weekend was not quite as over-the-top impressed, citing short showers, erratic bar amandak 2008-04-15T09:15:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/20/15130/418 <![CDATA[<p> <i><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/monica%20guy">Monica Guy</a> is fed up with the old guard hotels of the U.K. that may have entertained her grandparents when they were tripping all over the world in their youth but have since been lasting on reputation and little else. In this new feature, she pits her grandma's favorite hotel against some of the new hip hotels popping up across the rainy motherland. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/bathpriory_hotel.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>So you'd won in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/18/143144/10/hotels/Oxford_Hotels_Grandma_Versus_the_Rest_of_Us">Oxford </a>and won in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/18/143656/05/hotels/Cambridge_Hotels_Grandma_Versus_the_Rest_of_Us">Cambridge</a> - your slick boutique hotels were a hundred times smoother than gran and granddad's choice. Proves you can't sleep on a bed of reputation.<p> <p>But your grandparents excelled themselves in Bath with the much discussed (in upper-class circles) <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Bath+Priory+Hotel/ian/184989"><b>Bath Priory</b></a>. The femmefatale 2007-12-21T09:29:25-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/6/24/214942/051 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/nythotel.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p><p>This week's New York Times <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/travel/24check.html?ref=travel">hotel report</a> has nothing but good things to say about <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+K/local/668"><b>Hotel K</b></a>, a food-lovers haven attached to the three-Michelin-star L'Arnsbourg in northeastern France.<br> <p>Though Sarah Wildman's story is ostensibly about the hotel, she spends plenty of time discussing the real reason you'd stay the night: the food. Then again, when the food is some of the world's best, we can't blame her for talking it up:<blockquote><p>All guests are encouraged to take the 25-euro breakfast. No one refuses. The night before diners create a wish list, obsessing over selections including interesting cheese plates, charcuterie, soft-boiled eggs, baskets of fresh pastries, baguettes and preserves, yogurts, omelets, the list goes on. In the morning pbb 2007-06-25T10:16:53-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/4/12/91035/4632 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/littlewashInn.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p>We first told you about <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Inn+at+Little+Washington/local/474">The Inn at Little Washington</a></b> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/2/24/0183/77495/hotels/Inn_With_a_Certain_Crowd">last year</a>, but ever since <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/4/11/12214/1479/travel/Eatin%27+Steak+in+the+Virginia+Mountains">our little trip to rural Virginia</a> we can't stop thinking about it. The ultimate getaway retreat, it's a <a href="http://www.relaischateaux.com/page.php3?lang=en">Relais &amp; Chateaux</a> property less than 70 miles from Washington, DC.<br> <p>When a place gets real reviews like this one, it only makes us want to go more:<blockquote><p>This place is simply wonderful and I cannot imagine how anyone could give it less than a top rating. I've been to other larger five-star properties but they cannot match the service this intimate little Inn can...the dinner is the highlight of the stay. It is the best meal I have ever had at pbb 2007-04-12T10:22:43-05:00 38.708845 -78.161229 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/