http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T00:10:01Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Crime http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/19/343/03349 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/wirelesscameras.jpg" class="top"><p> We were just starting to get over the uncomfortable idea that the creepy stalker of ESPN reporter <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/erin andrews">Erin Andrews</a> was actually helped on his perv mission <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/5/82010/0084/hotels/Erin_Andrews_Stalker_Asked_For_and_Received_a_Guest_Room_Next_to_Hers">by a hotel staffer</a> when we came across this news last night--a family staying at a <b>TownPlaces Suites Hotel</b> outside Denver were also the victims of a hidden camera placed inside their hotel room. <p>Robert Reams and his family checked into their hotel room during a vacation in August. But while they were there, they had no idea that someone was watching them. <a href="http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/64712382.html">WOWT TV</a> reports: <blockquote><p> From a hole nearly invisible to the eye, David Fugate was in the room with the family. The hole caught juliana 2009-10-19T08:43:40-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/5/82010/0084 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/erinandrewsstalker.jpg" class="top"><p> Last Friday, the creepy stalker who videotaped sexy ESPN reporter <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/21/172752/926/hotels/The_Erin_Andrews_Peeping_Incident_Isolated_Creep_or_Common_Occurrence_">Erin Andrews</a> through a peephole in her hotel room was found, arrested and charged with one count of interstate stalking using harassing and intimidating surveillance. But it turns out, Michael David Barrett wasn't just a clever predator on the hunt for his prey. Oh no, he had some help from the <i>hotel.</i><p> A lawyer for ESPN blasted the management at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Marriott+Vanderbilt/ian/198032"><b>Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University</b></a> for failing to protect Andrews. The reason why? Computer records show that Barrett requested and was given a room next to Andrews and that their rooms were located in an alcove off the main hallways. It even shows up on juliana 2009-10-05T08:58:53-05:00 36.1452740 -86.809209 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/25/81042/3084 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/randyquaidsanysidro.jpg" class="top"><p> Two things are for certain concerning the reports that <s>former?</s> actor <b>Randy Quaid</b> and his wife, Evi were arrested for allegedly stiffing the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/San+Ysidro+Ranch+A+Rosewood+Re/ian/173131"><b>San Ysidro Ranch</b></a> in Calif, out of a nearly $6,000 hotel bill. One, Randy and Evi are most likely crazy. They posed for their mugshots like it was a Facebook profile photo shoot and then scribbled off some letter to TMZ about how they in fact did pay the bill. Two, <a href="http://www.tmz.com/tag/randy+quaid/">TMZ</a> got way too excited about their mugshots.<p>But we still aren't sure if they actually did skip out on their hotel bill on August 20th. TMZ says the couple have done this sort of thing before at the Hotel Bel-Air but juliana 2009-09-25T08:43:48-05:00 34.4452110 -119.62630 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/20/234649/444 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/essexhouseext.jpg" class="top"><p> A sad and ugly truth about hotels is that they are often unwilling hosts to murder scenes. But the murder of a woman at the posh <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Jumeirah+Essex+House+On+Central+Park/ian/106394"><b>Jumeirah Essex House</b></a> hotel off Central Park over the weekend has us rattled because the hotel's housekeeping chief has been charged with the crime. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/nyregion/21essex.html">The New York Times</a> reports: <blockquote><p>The suspect, Derrick W. Praileau, 29, of 1521 White Plains Road, in the Bronx, was taken to Manhattan Criminal Court on Sunday afternoon and later charged with second-degree murder in the death of the woman, Andree Bejjani, whose body was found on Saturday in a 10th-floor apartment at the Jumeirah Essex House, where Mr. Praileau worked. He was ordered held juliana 2009-09-21T09:04:55-05:00 40.7666480 -73.978479 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/10/113135/930 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/HotelSafe.jpg" class="top"> <p>Watch you put in your hotel room safe in Italy this summer as a wave of high-profile robberies have taken place, with one becoming a diplomatic incident. <p>This weekend, an unidentified Saudi princess&#151;perhaps the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/5514600/Saudi-princess-runs-up-15-million-shopping-bill.html">same</a> who defaulted on all those shopping bills in London&#151;had <b>15.6 million dollars worth of jewelry stolen</b> from her hotel room safe. They actually took the whole safe, as it was only affixed to the wall with silicon, and they managed to do it in a period of ten minutes while everyone was at dinner. <p>Although the hotel has been identified as the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Colonna+Resort+Country+%26+Sporting+Club/ian/249967">Colonna Hotel</a></b> in Porto Cervo, one of the many Iti Resorts on Sardinia's Costa Smeralda, we'd continue to JetSetCD 2009-08-10T12:04:11-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/