http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T19:33:16Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Explora%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/2/5/111735/0173 <![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/chileview.jpg" class="top"> <p>Look at this freaking view. No, just look at it. <p>Can you imagine sipping some tea with your feet up in Jenna 2009-02-05T11:18:50-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/27/33850/0228 <![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/FemmeFatale/stories">Monica Guy</a> returns to Chile. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/atacama.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>Split the cubicle in half: I'm dreaming of two superb hotels at opposite ends of the femmefatale 2008-02-29T09:00:02-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/28/14017/0499 <![CDATA[<p><i>This week our roaming correspondent, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Monica%20Guy"><b>Monica Guy</b></a>, is giving us the low-down on the Chilean Hotel Scene. Today, she has exclusive review of the much-vaunted, just-opened luxury Explora hotel of Posada de Mike Rapu on Easter Island. Enjoy.</i> <p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/easterisland_mg.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><i>Easter Island</i><p>Take one of the <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/tag/Easter%20Island">loneliest islands on earth</a>, cover it in miles of unkempt grassland, teams of wild horses and hundreds of mysterious stone statues. Then drive a kilometer down a bumpy track off the island's single main road and you'll come across the most isolated, luxury, dreamland hotels you've ever read about.<p> We're talking about Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui by the natives, or as Isla de Pascua by the Chileans. It's 3,600 km from femmefatale 2008-01-28T12:49:49-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/11/93638/0294 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/explora_atacama.png" class="imgborder"/><p>We had a little meet-and-greet with a Chile tourism rep yesterday, and he reminded us that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Patagonia%20Hotel%20Guide">Patagonia</a> is home to the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/5/17/121457/221/hotels/Explora_Chile_Alpaca_Style">Explora Patagonia</a>, an all-inclusive resort with killer views of the mountains.<p>But it turns out, there's a new Explora on the scene, this time in Atacama. (You'll remember Chile's northern desert from the latest season of <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/3/4/221751/4616/travel/Amazing+Race+All-Stars:+Rob+Is+Not+a+God">Amazing Race</a>.)<br> <p>Aside from the reality TV tie-in--reason enough to visit!--the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Explora+de+Atacama/local/568">Explora en Atacama</a></b> does its best to put jaded urbanites back in touch with nature. Just check the brochure:<blockquote><p>Its core is a hotel built for linking man with the temporal space--present and past--and the mysteries of nature. To travel is to pass, to arrive and leave. Architecture pbb 2007-05-11T12:12:47-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/