When Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt need a romantic getaway, they head to Utah. Yes, Utah. Hey, sometimes you have to go to someplace remote for peace and quiet when you live with six kids. The couple cleared their schedules and left the kids with a sitter for some nookie at the Amangiri resort.

There, the two embarked on a 27-hour romantic rendezvous in the desert. After checking into the hotel, the lovebirds had a late dinner and jetted off on their private plane over Lake Powell the next morning. Maybe Angelina has found her latest kinky sex hotel?]]> Jennifer Kester 2011-04-01T09:16:50-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/2/9/205637/6201 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/18481/AlMaha.jpg" class="top"><p> <i>All this week, we&#146;ll be trekking across the globe with HotelChatter contributor Eric Rosen as he tells us about the most exciting new <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Glamping">glamping</a></b> experiences out there. From the savannahs of Africa to the shores of Western Australia to the peaks of Patagonia, this is a full-fledged, five-star adventure to the most thrilling and luxurious camping resorts in the world.</i> <p> Today we&#146;re upping the &#147;glam&#148; in glamping, and taking you to a tented desert resort in broad and barren sands of Dubai that has us dreaming of camel caravans and verdant oases. It&#146;s called the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Al+Maha+Desert+Resort+and+Spa/local/84">Al Maha Desert Resort & Spa</a></b>, and word has it that it&#146;s one of LA-based fashion designer Catherine Malandrino&#146;s EricRosen 2011-02-10T10:31:22-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/11/16/161643/96

Did you watch That Martha Stewart Show yesterday? If not, you missed all the usual hilarity of Martha inviting over a guest who isn't all that adept at cooking, and this time it was American fashion designer Michael Kors.

Kors and Stewart baked his grandmother's pineapple upside-down cake and chatted about various things, from horses to must-have items for fall. But perhaps the biggest revelation was Kors' influence for his Resort 2011 collection.

Michael Kors admitted to Martha that the fashions—which can be viewed online at Style.com—are directly influenced by a vacation he took to the luxury desert retreat of Amangiri, in Utah. ]]> JetSetCD 2010-11-16T16:55:40-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/29/15467/8112 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/Private_pool_in_villa_low_res.jpg" class="top"> <p>Not everyone heads to Dubai with mall shopping and indoor skiing on their minds, or if you do, you quickly get tired of it. For this reason, more and more retreats are being built outside of the city, either in lush green environments like the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/3/2/123150/0498/hotels/Westin_Golf_Resort_Will_Bring_Wellness_to_Abu_Dhabi">Westin Golf Resort</a> near Abu Dhabi or flat out in the desert, like the soon-to-open <b>Anantara Resort at Qasr Al Sarab</b>. <p>Due to open on October 25, the Anantara is 90 minutes away from Abu Dhabi and three hours from Dubai in the Liwa Desert, and boasts 206 rooms, although some are flat-out palatial villas with private pools and commanding views over the sand dunes. Face it: if you're coming all JetSetCD 2009-09-29T16:24:06-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/4/115833/2944 <![CDATA[<p> <i>We are suckers for a room with a killer view. &nbsp;We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.</i> <p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/grandcanyonkachina.jpg" class="top"> <p>Oh man. We don't really talk much about the Grand Canyon 'round these parts. Especially during the summer. It's hot over Jenna 2009-06-04T12:00:53-05:00 36.0613300 -112.18346 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/