http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-13T03:27:07Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Greece%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/3/31/122446/209 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/killerview_carpediem.jpg" class="top"><p> <p> <i>We are suckers for a room with a killer view. 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>It's not quite spring yet with most of the U.S. still getting dumped with cold, rainy weather which is why we're juliana 2011-03-31T13:31:49-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/8/4/11228/50550 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/westincostanavarino_suite.jpg" class="top"><p> What we love more than <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/hotel openings">hotel openings</a> are hotel openings in sun-drenched resort destinations and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/westin hotels"><b>Westin Hotels</b></a> are fulfilling our cubicle dreaming for the day with their two new properties---<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Westin+Costa+Navarino+Rst/local/4689"><b>The Westin Resort Costa Navarino</b></a> (above) in Greece and the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Westin+Siray+Bay+Resort+%26+Spa/local/4690"><b>The Westin Siray Bay Resort and Spa</b></a> in Phuket, Thailand.<p>The Westin Siray Bay brings the amenities and services you love in a Westin (breezy rooms, Heavenly beds, clean scents, green practices) to the East Coast of Phuket along with three main pools, beach and water activities, a Heavenly Spa, and six restaurants and lounges.<p> The Westin Costa Navarino, which opened last month, bills itself as a "peaceful retreat" near Pylos, Messinia. But juliana 2010-08-04T14:05:52-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/2/22/17650/0916 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/sani.jpg" class="top"> <p><i>The harbor at the Sani Resort</i> <p>If you needed any further proof that going green was de rigeur, this is it &#150; <i>the Europeans are doing it </i> (gasp). The latest to unveil its green credentials is the posh <b>Sani Resort</b>, which owns four hotels in Halkidiki, Greece. <p>They&#146;re planting 3000 trees this month to help reforest an area damaged by fires (funded by guests paying &#128;1 at checkout, and the hotel matching their contributions) and the eco stuff goes inside your room as well &#150; for this season, they&#146;ve instsalled low energy lightbulbs, solar panels, have started recycling everything from water (which goes in the garden) to cooking oil (for biofuel). They&#146;ve even just started an juliab 2010-02-22T17:12:14-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/1/21/215615/422 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/32083/grandresortgreece.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>Is that the theme to <i>Chariots of Fire</i> we hear swelling in the background? In an earlier edition of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Lust">Hotel Lust</a>, our preoccupation with the upcoming Olympics led us to track down a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/12/4/153731/802/hotels/This_Week_in_Hotel_Lust_Hastings_House_British_Columbia">sprawling resort</a> outside of Vancouver, this year's host city. Paying homage to the sporting event, this week we're heading to Greece, where the games originated. <p>In our search for Athens' best, we found a hotel whose name does the advertising for it: <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Grand+Resort+Lagonissi/ian/183523"><b>Grand Resort Lagonissi</b></a>. Most of its rooms have names that hint to some of the sweeping views you'll be privy to as a guest: "Panoramic Resident Suite," "Vista Suite," and so on. <p>Even among these impressive surroundings&#151;marble fixtures, sea Heidi Atwal 2010-01-22T13:00:04-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/23/125234/471 <![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/petramareview.jpg" class="top"> <p>Have you ever wanted to have a young-celeb-lady freakout? Trash a room, tip off the paps to your crisis, storm the Jenna 2009-07-23T12:56:18-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/