http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T13:13:33Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Geek%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/21/85042/858 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/hotelrafa.jpg" class="top"><p> Watch out Paris! You may be all smug with your Left Bank but you have a pretender to your throne. London is about to get its own Left Bank. <p>Ok, so maybe the French shouldn&#146;t be doing any boot-quivering yet. Because the London&#146;s Left Bank is currently under construction, and is going to be tucked away in Battersea, in south-west London. And last time we were in Battersea, there wasn&#146;t a whole lot going on. At all. <p>Still, the new <b>Hotel Rafayel on the Left Bank</b> is hoping to up the vibe, and it sounds pretty nice. Opening in December, it&#146;s going to be a five star hotel complete with bakery, champagne bar and Thameside restaurant. So juliab 2009-10-21T12:48:41-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/14/125322/385 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/hotelavatar.jpg" class="top"><p> You don&#146;t have to be a &#147;Second Life&#148; fanboy to take advantage of the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Avatar+Hotel/local/1560">Avatar Hotel&#146;s</a></b> $99 opening rate. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/jdv%20hotels">Joie De Vivre&#146;s</a> sixth Silicon Valley property is opening in a former Holiday Inn this month with 168 rooms, and claims to be the only boutique hotel in Santa Clara. For you non-geeks, Santa Clara is home to Yahoo!, Cisco, Intel, Sun Microsystems, and McAfee.<p>The hotel is targeted toward &#147;tech road warriors,&#148; with a network of techie amenities &#147;designed to appeal to start-up entrepreneurs as well as established technology gurus.&#148; Rooms come with complimentary wired and wireless internet access, laptop tables for working in bed, iPod docking stations and 37-inch flat screens.<p> There&#146;s also a new EricRosen 2009-09-14T14:07:51-05:00 37.3915770 -121.97701 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/8/125854/5155 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/22421/2009_09_07_HC___HighTechRooms.jpg" class="top"><p>The good folks at <a href="Http://www.designhotels.com"><b>Design Hotels</b></a> have put out yet another of their special list, this time focusing on international high-tech hotel rooms. Three of these futuristic hotels are in Mexico and most of the rest are scattered throughout Europe. All told the list has 11 different cutting edge hotels from three continents, plus more elaborate descriptions behind each entry. <p>Some of the hotels don't seem so much technologically saturated as just sleek and painted white (hey, it works for Apple!). But other options involve all kinds of crazy high-tech amenities, from absurdly slick TVs to Xbox 360s. We don't think we're giving away any secrets when we assure you that iPods also figure heavily. We'll go Omri 2009-09-08T17:11:59-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/29/11127/3217 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/stereobluetooth.jpg" class="top"><p> Hey there tech geeks: next time you find yourself in need of a hotel room in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/city/houston">Houston</a>, consider spending the night at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Sorella+Hotel/ian/277348"><b>Hotel Sorella</b></a> which will open on <b>August 16.</b> That's because the hotel promises to have a plug panel that includes bluetooth stereo for guests in-room--meaning they can play music from their iPhones or other Bluetooth-enabled devices through the rooms's TV speakers. <p>We got the tip from someone who works for the plug panel technology. Here's how it all went down: <blockquote><p>I work for a hotel technology supplier and we are installing our first MediaHub panel with stereo Bluetooth at the Hotel Sorella in Houston. I know I've seen a few people chatting juliana 2009-07-29T11:42:25-05:00 29.7530260 -95.558835 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/13/233311/852 <![CDATA[<p> <img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/geekhotels09.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p><p>As we near the end of the first decade of this new millennium, we are tempted to reflect on just how far technology has come since the panic days of Y2K back in the late nineties. The Newton is dead; long live the iPhone. Geocities beget Friendster beget MySpace beget Facebook. And of course, everyone is adding a "tw" prefix to absolutely everything. <p> What hasn't changed in ten plus years is the fact that the hotel industry has done its best to keep up with the latest technological advances, upgrading rooms with flat-screen TVs, offering guests gaming systems like the Wii or the Playstation in-room or poolside and, in some very awesome cases, placing HotelChatter 2009-04-20T11:54:11-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/