http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-25T12:42:23Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Porn http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/20/94226/776 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/hyattadutltv.JPG" class="top"><p> <i>Porn jammers! Old men in the club! Fergie! Hotel Strikes!</i><p>It always seems that no matter how much <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/celebrity scoop">Celebrity Scoop</a> we write about in a given week, there's also lots more that we didn't have time to get to. So from now on, every Friday we'll be rounding up the week's <b>Infamous Hotels</b>. This weekly list will include hotels that celebrities visited (and it made the news) but also hotels that really up the "Eww" factor. This can easily done by manipulating the WiFi connection for guests.<p>The Sports Guy aka <b>Bill Simmons</b> recently offered up his take on <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/hotel wifi">Hotel WiFi</b></a> after spending four weeks on the road promoting his new book. According to Bill, juliana 2009-11-20T17:11:38-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/30/131627/816 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/Motel.jpg" class="top"> <p>Just because the holiday season is over doesn't mean you have to stop reminiscing over the warm and fuzzy family memories, and for us that most definitely involves road trips around the United States. Back in the olden days when <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Holiday%20Inns">Holiday Inns</a></b> hosted the Rat Pack and <b>Howard Johnson</b> was the closest thing to a boutique chain, motels began their rise to cult status and their way into our hearts. <p>Just as it is today with all the hottest properties, motels back in the day were decorated with the latest hip furniture and trendy colors. Thankfully, the look was often times more Eero Saarinen Tulip chairs and Alexander Calder mobiles than grandma's powder room. Of course JetSetCD 2009-01-30T15:22:12-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/12/8/22619/3121 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/11725/224390719132dbe154f7.jpg" class="top"><p>Sometimes in life, it&#146;s the little things, and it appears that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Chic-Basic%20Hotels"><b>Chic&Basic</b></a> hotels in Barcelona and Amsterdam truly gets this. <p> <p>For starters, their toiletries are funny. (Don&#146;t deny that that soap didn&#146;t make you chuckle.) It could be the crappiest soap you&#146;ve ever used&#151;something that smells like feet and dries out your skin&#151;but who cares?! The packaging is so darn basic it&#146;s unavoidably cute. <p> <p>Second, the Chic&Basic web site is like free porn! Well, <i>kinda</i>. The site features a photo of two chicks lying in bed together, one with her arm suggestively draped over the other and another with two men and one woman in bed together. How chic! <p> <p>However, you&#146;ll have to click jennm 2008-12-09T16:00:16-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/28/191636/24 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/kit.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> Forget school prayer, the hotel room nightstand is turning into the new battleground between conservatives and liberals. Will lonely business travelers find comfort in a Gideon Bible hidden inside, or a package full of condoms and lube? Seems placing them side-by-side is in poor taste, so hotels are forced to choose teams.<p> Hilton Hotels, Ritz-Carltons, New York's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hudson+Hotel/local/58"><b>Hudson</b></a>, San Francisco's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Clift+Hotel/local/988"><b>Clift</b></a>, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Six+Columbus+Hotel/local/25"><b>Six Columbus</b></a> and of course plenty of hotels in Canada have jumped on the pro-sex bandwagon.<p> And the movement is spreading overseas. In communist China there's less debate on whether to lube or not to lube. Last week, Beijing ordered hotels to provide condoms in all bedrooms, in an attempt to prevent soaring ced138 2007-11-29T09:05:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/7/25/12359/6548 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/maupin_blog.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.armisteadmaupin.com"><b>Armistead Maupin</b></a> if you don't know him, is the author of the <i>Tales of the City</i> series about life for a group of eclectic individuals in San Francisco. Basically, he was Candace Bushnell (the author of <i>Sex and the City</i>) of the late 1970s except he's a gay man who doesn't seem to have a Manolo Blahnik obsession--that we know of. He even had a character named Connie Bradshaw. Hmmm...draw your own conclusions. <p>Maupin is also a pioneer for the LGBT community because during a time when these topics were still considered taboo, he wrote about the random sex, gay men, lesbian socialites, transsexuals, and AIDS. Yet he always made love--searching for it, having it, losing it-- juliana 2007-07-25T12:43:47-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/