http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-11-22T03:12:39Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Religion http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/3/25/164332/055 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.jaunted.com/files/admin/nikkikat.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>Little bro <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/3/25/13437/4234/travel/Nikki+Sixx+%2B+Kat+Von+D%27s+Bowery+Hotel+Tattoos">Jaunted tells us</a>, Nikki Six of Motley Crue and Kat Von D, star of <i>LA Ink</i> are in love. In love with themselves, in love with each other and in love with the dapper dandy that is the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Bowery+Hotel/local/220"><b>Bowery Hotel's</b></a> logo. We guess they believe in the religion of Ink. <p>In other religious but tattoo-free news:<br>&#183; Forget the bible in the nightstand. Or the Torah or the Koran. <b>The Hotel Preston</b> in Tennessee is now offering a spiritual menu where you pick what you wanna read. [<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,341310,00.html">FoxNews</a>]<br>&#183; Obama's former preacher Reverend Wright hits up the <b>Ritz-Carlton</b> in Puerto Rico. [<a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/03252008/gossip/pagesix/rev__wrights_sunny_easter_103398.htm">Page Six</a>]<br>&#183; <b>Hotel QT</b> is hosting the "Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel juliana 2008-03-25T16:54:45-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/9/143049/8058 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/gaia_napa_valley.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Gaia+Napa+Valley/local/504"><b>The Gaia Napa Valley Hotel</b></a> made waves <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/3/92726/79917/hotels/Al_Gore_s_Inconvenient_Truth_Replaces_Bibles_in_Green_Hotel">last week</a> for putting copies of Al Gore's book <i>An Inconvenient Truth</i> in its guestrooms and removing the bible from the nightstands. However, the owner Wen-I Chang has said that the hotel's "replacement" of the bible has been overexaggerated.<blockquote><p>Chang, 62, said in a telephone interview that Gaia had not "replaced" the Bible with Gore's book, as has been claimed by some media outlets.<p> Instead, he said, the hotel staff overlooked providing Bibles in their haste to prepare for the official grand opening March 30 and did not intentionally leave them out of the rooms.<p> "I apologize to Christians" who may have been offended, Chang said. "We made an oversight."<p> juliana 2007-05-09T14:34:37-05:00 38.172986 -122.25353 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/4/10/165952/694 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/handheld_bible.png" class="imgborder"><p>A tipster let us know that <a href="www.scandic-hotels.com/"><b>Scandic Hotels</b></a> will no longer be carrying bibles in their guestrooms. Per the aptly-named <a href="http://scandichotelbibles.blogspot.com/">Scandic hotel bibles blog</a>:<blockquote><p>The whole sad process began with a complaint by a guest who had found a Bible in a drawer in his hotel room. He wrote to Mona Andersson, the head marketing executive at Scandic hotels. She wrote back [my translation]: "Thank you for your e-mail and your views. Yes, we have traditionally had the Bible/New testament available at our hotel rooms. But all religions are welcome at Scandic so as of today we encourage all our hotels to remove the Bible from their rooms. The Bible will be available at the reception as juliana 2007-04-10T16:59:52-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/6/15/155750/807 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/gideon_bible.jpg">When was the last time you checked a hotel room nightstand to make sure the bible was there? Yeah, we don't remember either. Hotel guests today are much more obsessed with WiFi access, room views, and cool amenities than religion.<p>But the history of the bible in hotel rooms is interesting. A group fittingly named the <a href="http://www.gospelcom.net/ibs">International Bible Society</a> started dropping bibles in hotel rooms in 1823. Later another Christian group, the <a href="http://www.gideons.org">Gideon Society,</a> began their aggressive campaign for bibles in hotel rooms.<blockquote><p>In the early days, most of the Gideons were traveling salesmen who wanted to be effecitve Christian witnesses while on the road. They decided to place a Bible at the reception desk in each hotel juliana 2006-06-15T16:12:12-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/