HotelChatter - Tag: Geek Hotels

Las Vegas: Luxor Las Vegas Twitters About New Nintendo Wiis

juliana — 2008-09-05T11:00:22-05:00

The Luxor Las Vegas is undergoing a much-needed renovation and we got the tingles when we saw this tweet from their Twitter feed.

Nintendo Wiis at the Luxor? Sounds kind of amazing. Note the tweet says "some of our rooms" so we're guessing they are probably going to be in the suites. Can't have people playing Wii Tennis in one of those pyramid rooms.

Marriott Twitter Keeps Us Up to Date on Hurricane Gustav

Jenna — 2008-09-02T13:38:18-05:00

For all those that hate on Twitter with any frequency, you have to agree with us when we say the Marriott Twitter deserves some serious props for keeping us up to date on the happenings around Hurricane Gustav. They linked to a list of closed hotels, too, and assured already-booked guests of the status of their reservations and explained how cancellation fees would be handled.

Hotel News Briefs :: Microsoft Surface Computers Debut at More Sheratons

Jenna — 2008-08-14T17:00:10-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/mssurfacesheraton_2.png" class="imgborder">There's tons of hotel news flying around this week and we don't have time to give each and every story the love and attention it may deserve, so you will have to settle for some news briefs.· <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/08/11/daily53.html">Starwood Exec Migrates to Marriott</a>: Former Starwood exec Tina Edmundson was named senior vice president of Marriott's lifestyle brands and Renaissance operations. [Washington BizJournal]· <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/374884_msftsurface14.html?source=mypi">Microsoft Surface Computers Come to Sheratons</a>: 5 Microsoft Surface Computers made their debuts in Sheraton lobbies in Seattle, New York, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. [Seattle PI]· <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/content/business/stories/2008/08/14/acvb_hotel_occupancy.html">Rough Times for Atlanta Tourism</a>: Hotel occupancy is down almost 5% in Atlanta -- so low that the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau had to make some

Amsterdam: CitizenM Launches Social Network Thing for Moody People

Jenna — 2008-08-01T10:00:02-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/citizenmsocialnetwork_pic.png" class="imgborder"> Lately, we've been pondering the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/17/16043/7510/hotels/Hotels_and_Social_Networking_Sketchy_or_Seriously_Innovative_">utility, acceptance and sketch-potential</a> of social networks within hotels. It's not necessarily hotels' Facebook or MySpace pages we're concerned with here (although some hotels are doing good stuff with those things, and hooray for them!). We mean hotels who set up their own networks -- sort of like the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Pod+Hotel/local/189">Pod Hotel's</a> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/24/144612/104/hotels/Best_Geek_Hotels_in_the_World_2_0">Pod Community</a> Blog -- where people who are staying in a particular hotel at a given time can communicate with each other and find other same-time guests to meet up with, hang out with, or "et cetera" with. Will people buy into the concept? Will it turn out to be a sketchy Craiglist-esque collection of people advertising for

Las Vegas: Play Craps While You Crap? Maybe Soon!

Jenna — 2008-07-31T12:07:01-05:00

We hope to never set foot in a high stakes gambling lounge (because let's be real, that's just financial ruin waiting to happen). But now that we've heard a certain Las Vegas hotel/casino's high roller HQ is the place we might be able to get our hot little hands on a possibly-addictive new gadget, we're reconsidering...

Behold the Cantor Gaming eDeck, a WiFi-equipped handheld device that lets players walk around gambling with real money. They "interface directly" with servers in Las Vegas casinos and are currently being tested in The Venetian's high stakes gambling lounge.