http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T05:18:43Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Elvis%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/6/14736/6036 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/32083/elvishotel.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>Don't call the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Loews+Vanderbilt+Hotel/ian/122733"><b>Loews Vanderbilt Nashville</b></a> the "Heartbreak Hotel." At least, don't plan on it unless you're booking their <b>"Elvis in the Music City"</b> package in celebration of The King himself. Elvis Presley's 75th birthday falls on January 8th of next year, and in honor of the music icon, the Nashville hotel has cobbled together a over-the-top package that's all glitz, glam, and calls to mind images of gold lame jumpsuits. Expect plenty of royal extravagances to be included, with a price to match: <b>$3,975 for accommodations and a host of Elvis-themed activities</b>. <p>We're still "All Shook Up" after hearing the price, but if you're an Elvis-lover, this hotel news couldn't have come at a better Heidi Atwal 2009-10-06T14:28:42-05:00 36.1506580 -86.802246 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/25/1300/74185 <![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/jennm/stories">Jennifer Merritt</a> puts on her blue suede shoes and heads to Graceland. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/11725/myroomoverlookingthe.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>I'm not much of an Elvis fan, but for jennm 2008-07-25T13:39:46-05:00 35.1610959 -90.054799 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/21/134939/573 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/elasvegas.jpg" class="imgborder"><a href="http://www.trademork.com/the-elvis-las-vegas/">TradeMork</a> a funny site all about "trademark oddities, information and news" reports that Elvis Presley Enterprises recently filed paperwork to protect the trademark <b>"The Elvis Las Vegas"</b> and <b>"The E Las Vegas."</b><p>The protections are for three categories which include these goods and services: resort hotel, hotel, restaurant, bar as well as real estate services for residential apartments, condominiums and retail establishments. <p>We've been following the plans for a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/8/10/132151/065/hotels/The_Riviera_Hotel_and_Casino_May_Turn_into_Elvis_Themed_Casino">Las Vegas Elvis-themed hotel</a> for a while now but TradeMork also speculates that a hotel could go up near Graceland in Memphis. <p>While we don't doubt that will happen someday, we are guessing the Elvis Las Vegas is the actual hotel that will go up in Las juliana 2008-02-21T13:53:15-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/8/19842/27840 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/454/andre_balazs_scarf.jpg">Somehow we got caught up in reading Robin Leach's Luxe Life Vegas blog the other day. Normally, we would chide ourselves for breaking our 2008 resolution of not being so celeb-obsessed but this bit of ADD internet surfing actually paid off. <p>A post from <a href="http://blogs.lasvegasmagazine.com/VegasLuxeLife/foreigners%e2%80%94including-the-russians%e2%80%94bankroll-new-mega-hotel-projects-real-life-vegas-monopoly/">the end of December</a> details some enormous Vegas project that's happening behind the strip.<blockquote><p> Over 60-acres of land stretching down Harmon between the Planet Hollywood resort and condo towers to the Hard Rock hotel has been packaged together by the Africa-Israel Investment Bank, which is controlled by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev.</blockquote></p><p>Several boutique hotels are planned for this parcel, so says Robin. Giuseppee Cipriani will plan a boutique hotel and the planned <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/7/23/13317/1557/hotels/An_Elvis_Themed_Resort_is_Planned_for_Las_Vegas">Elvis juliana 2008-01-09T09:15:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/8/14/123543/292 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/elvislives_hilton.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>As evidenced by our earlier post today on getting married <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/8/15/94735/0682/hotels/Get_Hitched_Like_Elvis_at_Planet_Hollywood">Elvis-style</a>, we think it's safe to assume that most self-respecting hotel geeks have a soft spot for Elvis Presley in their hearts.<p> Few cultural icons have had hotels figure so prominently in their careers. Even The King's first hit, in 1956, had a hotel theme: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreak_Hotel"><em>Heartbreak Hotel</em></a>, a blues-influenced number that catapulted Elvis to top-of-the-charts stardom. <p>After Memphis, where, by the way, the Elvis Presley Estate runs a <a href="http://www.elvis.com/epheartbreakhotel/">Heartbreak Hotel</a>, Las Vegas is the city most often associated with Elvis. He started performing in hotels there at the (love me) tender age of 21, mainly in what is now <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+Las+Vegas/local/67"><b>Hilton Las Vegas</b></a>. He lived barbarab 2007-08-15T11:00:02-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/