It was a Tuesday morning just like any other in Homewood, IL. Birds were chirping. Cereal was being poured. Toxic pool chemicals were left exposed.

After showing up for a scheduled inspection at the Homewood Hotel, authorities discovered improperly-stored pool chemicals on the property, and quickly had to evacuate all 36 occupied guest rooms. At 7:30 in the morning. After shuffling sleepily onto the front lawn, guests were understandably irked. And even more so when the Fire Chief announced that it would take another four to eight hours for the hotel to be deemed safe again. ]]> ASchechter 2011-08-24T09:00:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/6/29/10270/3382

For the third time in just two weeks, the W Austin shed more glass panels from its increasingly hazardous steel frame. The 36-story building, which houses both the hotel and condominiums, lost several of its window panes on two separate occasions throughout Monday and Tuesday, and now has evacuated all of its guests to a separate hotel until further notice.

Local reporters were all over the story yesterday and this morning, and we enjoyed a particularly well-angled candid photo from FOX reporter Sara Talbert (@saratalbert, see above), taken this morning—can you spot the missing three panels? ]]> ASchechter 2011-06-29T10:28:59-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/27/02942/5464 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/ahwahneerocks.jpg" class="top"><p> Staying at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Ahwahnee+Hotel/ian/216235"><b>The Ahwahnee Hotel</b></a> in <b>Yosemite National Park</b> will always be a memorable experience. For the folks that can cough up $500+ for a night's stay, they will have the memories of waking up to killer views of the park's granite Half Dome, Yosemite Falls and Glacier Point. Guests will also be sleeping inside a historic hotel, first built in 1927 (nearly prehistoric days for California) and designed during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_Movement">Arts & Craft movement</a> where everything had to be homemade. ("Machines are evil!" was the prevailing thought of this movement.)<p> Oh and if the hotel gets evacuated because of falling rocks behind it, that's even more memorable. Kinda. Three hundred guests at the hotel juliana 2009-08-27T09:14:41-05:00 37.7705963 -119.51077 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/