http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-25T04:13:02Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Heaven http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/12/22/193937/18 <![CDATA[ <p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/hbhyatt.jpg" class="top"><p>When our friend told us this story, we just knew we had to share, because it's stuff like this that takes the chill out of a cold, cold day.</i> <p>One night, while on business in Huntington Beach, CA, our friend* proceeded to get absolutely wasted, lose her wallet and arrive at her hotel a sobbing, disoriented mess. <p> <p>It was in this state that the front desk of the <a href=" http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hyatt+Regency+Huntington+Beach/ian/183368"><b>Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa</b></a> came to her rescue, calling every bar she had been to that night in search of her wallet, even calling the airline to see how she could board the plane for her flight home sans ID. (The wallet eventually jennm 2008-12-23T10:50:35-05:00 33.6483500 -117.98904 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/12/3/9548/72576 <![CDATA[<img src="/files/5957/bath_buttled.JPG" class="top"><p> <p>Staying at a luxury resort can sometimes feel like falling through a rabbit hole of helplessness. Even if you're accustomed to, say, setting an alarm clock or parking a car, why should you when someone is at the ready to do it <em>for</em> you? It's like being a baby who can drink. <p>We thought we'd seen the best of this before we encountered the Bath Butler at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Ritz-Carlton%2C+Half+Moon+Bay/ian/194200"><b>Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay</b></a> in California. A Gatsby-esque mansion blown up to Size XL along the foggy coast, the property, which opened in 2001, advertises such amenities as a cart for returning joggers offering towels and water (chilled or room temperature?) and a bagpiper who plays on the egw 2008-12-03T09:55:24-05:00 37.4301076 -122.43636 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/29/11216/2595 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/metrohotelext.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>Have you heard about <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotels/city/kp/Seoul"><b>Seoul's</b></a> hotness? South Korea's hipper-than-thou capital is gaining street cred due to a recent opening of a 10 Corso Como, a Fashion Week growing quickly in international regard, and not to mention the popularity of Korean TV dramas around the world. <p>The development of Seoul as a sort of new Tokyo (albeit slightly more affordable) is creating a distinctive thirst among tourists and locals alike: for luxury and high design.<p> This is why, in a city where women wear high heels everywhere, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Metro+Hotel+Myungdong/local/985"><b>Metro Hotel Myungdong looks</b></a> and feels so good. So it <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/14/2108/1092/hotels/Room_With_an_Anti_View_Aesthetically_Unpleasing_Architecture_in_Seoul">doesn't have the best views</a>, but then what is a great view in a city planned without much JetSetCD 2008-04-30T10:58:45-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/21/165625/530 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/vietnam_evason.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> Beach Villa or Hill Top Villa? That is your choice at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Evason+Hideaway+at+Ana+Mandara/local/398"><b>Evason Hideaway Ana Mandara</b></a>. Whatever your French villa preference this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Cromulent_and_Embiggen">cromulent</a> resort in Dalat has you covered.<p> You still have a chance to hit this place in April before the mercury jumps to possibly unbearable levels in Vietnam. Thing is, as the temperature rises the prices go down, so you may be able to score a deal if you can stand the heat.<p> Top notch service, plenty of snorkeling, a bit of windsurfing, a beach, which is cleaned daily, and a brand spankin' new spa-- pretty much all the upscale resort prerequisites.<p> Oh, and there are wild monkeys on the premises who are markj 2007-03-21T17:07:04-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/5/215814/1166 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hotelFox_copenhagen.png" class="imgborder"/><p>Most people rave about a great hotel after they've stayed there, but some get all excited just knowing it exists. At Susan Connor's <a href="http://susanconnordesign.typepad.com/spiralbound_/2006/03/pretty_much_the.html">Spiralbound</a> blog, she's practically started hyperventilating after discovering Copenhagen's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Fox/local/106"><b>Hotel Fox</b></a>. Susan says: </p><blockquote><p>When I was skimming through some back-issues of Artichoke magazine, I just couldn't help but drool all over the article about Hotel Fox ... I can definitely see staying here and never even going out to any museums. This place looks like heaven. There should be more visionary, profit-making projects like this in the world. Fun for all.</blockquote></p><p>Of course we'd prefer Susan checked in first before publicly claiming the Fox is the place, but there's something else new this month amandak 2007-03-06T09:15:02-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/