http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-23T08:08:31Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Drugs http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/4/102141/2757 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/camerondouglas_gvoort.jpg" class="top"><p> We knew the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Gansevoort/local/34"><b>Hotel Gansevoort</b></a> was a party hotel but <b>Cameron Douglas</b> was throwing quite a different type of party in his hotel room the other night. The 30-year-old son of actor Michael Douglas was busted by the DEA task force inside his guestroom, where he had been staying for quite some time on his dad's dime. Douglas was reportedly in possession of half a pound of crystal meth, valued at $18,000, which he was intending to sell. <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/08042009/news/regionalnews/manhattan/douglas_son_bust_182936.htm">The NY Post</a> reports:<blockquote><p> He had been staying at the hotel for some time in a room rented by his father, and when authorities barged in, they found the place a mess and Cameron Douglas "very strung juliana 2009-08-04T10:31:01-05:00 40.7401646 -74.005914 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/27/16299/0634 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/rayjdrugs.jpg" class="imgborder">Brandy's little brother, Kim Kardashian's infamous sex-tape partner and one-time Whitney Houson tadpole Ray J was allegedly kicked out of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hyatt+Regency+Washington+Dc/ian/106037"><b>Hyatt Regency</b></a> in Washington, DC because hotel staffers found drugs in his room, specifically weed and a club drug called "Boat". <p>Always the first to smell celebrity drug use, <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2008/05/27/ray-j-high-at-the-hyatt/">TMZ</a> reports:<blockquote><p>We're told Ray J went to his room after partying it up, when hotel management got a complaint. It appears security went up to the room where they allegedly found all the drug stuff. <p> Our sources say the singer tried to bribe hotel security so he could stay but they didn't bite. We're told Ray J went crazy, arguing like a mutha. Eventually, juliana 2008-05-27T16:34:19-05:00 38.895416 -77.011823 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/7/17313/22386 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/purplehotel.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>A hotel just outside Chicago got sold today which normally wouldn't be newsworthy to us but it was called <b>The Purple Hotel</b>, our favorite color! <p> While it was once classy in the 1960s it became a den of debauchery, the site of a mob hit, and home to both sex and rodent parties. (Although not at the same time...we don't think so at least.) In other words, it was like totally hip.<p>The hotel was initially the Lincolnwood Hyatt House, then turned into a Radisson then a Ramada before it became so awful that no franchise wanted to be a part of it. <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/business/roeder/935394,CST-FIN-roeder07.article">The Sun-Times</a> writes of the final hotel name, The Purple Hotel:<blockquote><p>By that name, it juliana 2008-05-07T17:38:49-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/3/7/132058/6930 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/rooseveltpills.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>Wednesday's <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/03/05/2008-03-05_fluffing_pillows_filching_pills_at_las_s.html/"> Gatecrasher</a> had an item that a recent New York female guest, Katy Valentine, at the new <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/thompson%20hotels"><b>Thompson Hotel</b></a> in La-La Land got ripped, er ripped off. Evidently bottles and bottles of her attention deficit/hyperactivity/narcolepsy/depression pills had gone missing from the room. <p>Note: the gossip item said the new Thompson hotel which would make it the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Thompson+Beverly+Hills/local/806">Thompson Beverly Hills</a>. But they posted pictures of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hollywood+Roosevelt+Hotel/local/11">Hollywood Roosevelt</a>. So we aren't sure at which place the incident occurred. <p>Here's what went down:<p> After Valentine complained to the front desk, who reportedly stated the most likely scenario was that the housekeeper "accidentally" knocked the bottles into the trash and later emptied said can, management said mytwocents 2008-03-07T16:03:00-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/7/01034/3389 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/lohanshutters.png" class="imgborder"><p> So says Star magazine. The tabloid reports in its newest issue that serial rehabber Lindsay Lohan is now banned from the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Shutters+On+The+Beach/ian/132437"><b>Shutters on the Beach Hotel</b></a> in Santa Monica after she spent three days in their holed up with her now ex-boyfriend Riley Giles. The terrible twosome reportedly spent their time depleting the mini-bar and leaving dirty towels and cigarette butts strewn about their suite (room 645.)<p>The mag also says:<blockquote><p>"Staffers went into clean and were shocked," says the source. "It was a pigpen. There was filth everywhere and the room stank of cigarette smoke. <p>"There was also a bloody syringe that someone left lying on the bedside tabl on a room service tray. Hotel security photographed juliana 2007-12-07T09:05:01-05:00 34.006495 -118.49176 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/