http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-08-22T04:05:43Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Embassy%20Suites%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/27/23389/4119 <![CDATA[<p><i>You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-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>. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.</i><p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/el_segundo_embassysuites.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p> Ok, this has to be one of the craziest anti-views markj 2008-07-31T10:00:02-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/3/95815/77331 <![CDATA[<p><i>You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-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>. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.</i><p><p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Anit_View_Emb_Suites_Alb.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>According to previous guest <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/bk1bennett/2224364921/">bk1bennett</a>, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Embassy+Stes+Htl+Albuquerque/ian/224652"><b>Embassy Suites Hotel</b></a> amandak 2008-04-03T11:50:01-05:00 35.090258 -106.63709 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/18/102222/497 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/embassy_doorsigns.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Embassy%20Suites%20Hotels"><b>Embassy Suites</b></a> has announced the five winners of last year's <a href="http://www.embassysuitesdndcontest.com/winners/">"Do Not Disturb" sign design contest</a>, and, if this was the best of the lot, we imagine that the other 7,000-plus entries must have been truly and excruciatingly unfunny. &nbsp;<p> The winners, who came up with slogans like, "Aww Mom, just five more minutes. Please?" and "Shh... I'm hatching a plan to bust some little soaps out of here," receive a three-night stay at select Embassy Suites locations and, beginning March 5, will see their designs displayed at the hotelier's 190 properties. <p> But not all of the winning slogans are as embarrassingly childish for a grown adult to hang on his or her door as jennm 2008-02-18T11:00:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/11/163912/12 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hc_icon2.png" class="imgborder">&#183; While <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Trump+Soho+/local/274"><b>Trump Soho</b></a> rises, Donald Trump and his spawn are presenting the <a href="http://sev.prnewswire.com/travel/20071010/NYW03810102007-1.html">Trump Hotel Collection</a> which includes properties in Chicago, Las Vegas and Dubai. Each will come with a Trump Spa, Trump Attache service (think butler/concierge) and superior accommodations. And don't forget Trump Steak, Trump Water, Trump Vodka and Trump Suits.<p>&#183; <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN1028131420071010"><b>Room rates are on the rise.</b></a> Smith Travel Research reports that rates increased 12.1 percent to an average of $108.90. Sadly, all the hotels we want to stay in cost quadruple that.<p>&#183; <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_county/bal-hotel1011,0,5386967.story"><b>Disaster</b></a> at the Embassy Suites in Baltimore. <blockquote><p>A glass roof covering the interior atrium fell approximately eight floors to the center of the hotel.</blockquote></p><p>Fortunately, no one was hurt but juliana 2007-10-11T16:40:47-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/9/14/72041/7566 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/embassy_suites_doors.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><i><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel%20contests">The hotel contests</a> just keep coming.</i> <p>So, we already give kudos to the Embassy Suites Hotels for changing their boring "Do Not Disturb" sign to ""There's a Good Reason for you NOT to Knock Right Now." But now they're wanting us to all get creative and dream up a few more.</p><p>The Do Not Disturb Door Hanger contest began last week and you have to get your entry in by October 31 at the <a href="http://www.embassysuitesdndcontest.com/"><b>Embassy Suites Do Not Disturb Sign Contest</b></a> website. Winners with the most "clever, outrageous and inspiring" door hanger mottos will receive a 4-night stay at an Embassy Hotel. And the honor of seeing your own clever door hanger being pinched by tons of amandak 2007-09-14T09:28:06-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/