HotelChatter - Tag: Flickr Photos

Mingalaba Kimpton! Now Kimpton Knows How To Greet People in Burmese on Flickr

Jenna — 2008-06-03T11:36:42-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/kimptonflickr.png" class="imgborder"> While the New York Times may have been <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/6/3/85352/41418/hotels/Hoteliers_Still_Loving_Their_Boutique_Hotels">a bit late</a> to the boutique hotels party, they also managed to totally overlook the fact that boutique hotel chains have utilized the web to market their brands in new and innovative ways. The latest boutique chain to impress us with their web-savviness? <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Kimpton%20Hotels">Kimpton</a>. The <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/kimpton-boutique-hotels">Kimpton Flickr page</a> features cool tags, descriptive captions with links to each property's homepage and excellent photos of different aspects of all of their properties. Some of the photos even have rollover notes to explain the different features of the pic you're checking out. Hotel chains (and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/3/28/113657/334/hotels/Bill_Marriott_Turns_76_at_the_Camelback_Inn_Uploads_Photos_onto_Flickr">Bill Marriott</a>) that cater to Flickr geeks like us will always have

Oxford: Morning 'Prison Grub' at the Malmaison Oxford

amandak — 2007-06-22T09:07:30-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Malmaison_Breakfast.jpg" class="imgborder"> Since we learned that sometimes booking a breakfast-inclusive package can <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/6/11/65727/6417/hotels/When_Breakfast_Included_Is_Cheaper_Than_a_Standard_Room_Rate">be cheaper</a>, we've paid a lot more attention to the morning meals on offer around the hotel world. So when Flickr photographer <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mildlydiverting/75346965/">MildlyDiverting</a> posted this pic of breakfast at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Malmaison+Oxford/local/664">Malmaison Oxford Hotel</a> we were a bit more than mildly diverted.This attractive-looking basket is home to the breakfast-in-bed option at the Malmaison and it rather looks like something we'd like to souvenir, if we had a suitcase big enough. But since the Malmaison is housed in a former prison building, we're not actually recommending this course of action. To get this great breakfast there's a deal going there at the moment:<blockquote> From £255 per

Taipei: Meaningful Rice Dumplings Served for Breakfast at Grand Hotel Taipei

amandak — 2007-06-15T09:30:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Grand_Taipei_Breakfast.jpg" class="imgborder"> Thanks to an <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/withoutsound/75393368/">obsessive labeler</a> on Flickr, we can give you a rundown on the breakfast at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Grand+Hotel+Taipei/ian/143924">Grand Hotel Taipei</a> in some detail. This version vaguely resembles a Western breakfast--in so far as there's tea, juice and some food--but then the similarities end, and the interesting cultural influences we go on holidays for begin. Some of the less-easily-identified components include the cucumber gelatin concoction (bottom left of the plate) and in the second cup from the left, the Thousand-Year-Old Egg (which we hope is not too accurately named).Then there's a few versions of rice, starting with the congee in the far left cup (a kind of porridge), the fairly standard riceball and the Zong-zi

Carlsbad: Hotel Star Ratings Not Always Truthful

juliana — 2006-05-17T16:57:28-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/cracked_door.jpg">Sometimes you can score amazing deals booking through online travel sites but sometimes those "star ratings" that hotels have aren't always telling the truth.Take for instance this man's experience at the Great Western Inn in Carlsbad, New Mexcio. <blockquote>According to <a href="http://www.hotels.com">Hotels.com</a> [this] is a three-star hotel. I've never seen a three-star hotel with a crack in the door that one can see street lights through. The room also didn't have hot water. It was only luke warm, and there were hairs on the pillows. Three-star hotel my ass.</blockquote>In fairness to Hotels.com, we saw that they now have a <a href="http://www.hotels.com/property.do?property=316445&PSRC=G21&displayAd=false&googlekw=Great_Western_Inn&js=1&zz=1147897805458">one-star rating</a> for the place. But either way, you should avoid this one. We also happen to agree with

New York: Flickr Photo Pool: The Library Hotel

juliana — 2006-05-15T16:45:01-05:00

Hotel Maven Mnot recently stayed at the Library Hotel in New York and snapped this shot of the Native American Religion room on the 12th floor.

Each room in the hotel has a unique theme, falling under a different Dewey Decimal category such as Religion, Math and Sciene, History, and Technology. The room's decor is then built around the theme/category. Of course, the hotel has books--6,000 of them throughout, all arranged according to the Dewey Decimal System.

If you don't know what this system is, then you obviously weren't paying attention in middle school.

Related Stories:
· Library Hotel Review [HotelChatter]
· Mnot's photostream [Flickr]
· Library Hotel reviews [TripAdvisor]