HotelChatter - Tag: Hotel Sick

New York: New York's Park Central Hotel Has More Problems Than Just a Giant Rat

JetSetCD — 2011-09-06T16:05:03-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/HCNYerrat_1.jpg" class="top"> A giant inflatable black rat sits with pride of place on 7th Avenue in Manhattan, just south of Central Park. What's it doing there? Well, first off this rat is hardly a surprise to real New Yorkers, who fondly know it as the "Union Rat" often employed to silently (but very visibly) protest sites of labor tensions. The Union Rat is a very ugly, very menacing beast with beady red eyes and straggly inflated whiskers, but this rat is effectively pimped out; gold money bags in hand and a cigar jauntily clenched between teeth, it draws attention to a big issue in NYC: bed bugs. Slow your sidewalk stride here to read the sign and be instantly

What Happens in Vegas Actually Comes Home With You, If You Stayed at Aria Recently

juliana — 2011-07-14T17:00:02-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/aria.JPG" class="top">Generally, on a trip to Vegas, you can expect to get wasted, lose money gambling, spend more than you can afford on food, drinks and Chippendales and then go home with a wicked hangover and vow to do it all again next year/month/lifetime. What you don't expect is to get home and receive a letter from the hotel like <a href="http://www.vegaschatter.com/story/2011/7/14/141139/548/vegas-travel/ARIA_Guests_Being_Warned_About_Legionnaire_s_Disease_Risk">this one</a>, saying you may have contacted Legionnaire's disease.That's what is currently unfolding at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Aria+Resort+and+Casino/local/1594">Aria Resort and Casino</a>. Apparently guests who stayed at the hotel June 21 and July 4 are being contacted by the hotel in cooperation with the Southern Nevada Health district after "six former ARIA guests have come down with the pneumonia-like disease which

Puntarenas: The Barcelo Tambor Beach Gets an Outbreak of Diarrhea for Christmas

Jennifer Kester — 2010-12-27T11:51:00-05:00

If you thought you had a crappy Christmas, you don't have anything on guests at Costa Rica's Barcelo Tambor Beach. The hotel had to close after a nasty diarrhea outbreak last week.

The health ministry shut it down after 150 people reportedly sought treatment late last week at a local clinic after suffering from such symptoms as nausea, cramps and vomiting, though the hotel only reported 37 cases of the runs.

New York: Guess What Luxury NYC Hotel May Have Bed Bugs?

JetSetCD — 2010-09-01T15:31:30-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/BedbugUnSq.jpg" class="top"> If you think that paying $400+ per night for a luxury room in a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/manhattan%20hotels">New York City hotel</a> means you don't have to share the pillow with bedbugs, then you're wrong. Not to make you super paranoid, but it's the truth; with a rash of recent bedbug infestations in everything from flagship retail stores to entire office floors, there's no guarantee that the little blood suckers aren't also in your hotel sheets. Pop singer Lauren Hildebrandt tells <a href="http://travel.usatoday.com/hotels/post/2010/09/bed-bugs-attack-pop-singer-lauren-hildebrandt-/110733/1">USA Today</a> that she recently emerged from a stay at a "luxury hotel in New York City's Union Square neighborhood" with bites on her body and noweven though we've never heard of her until this incidentshe wants to

Miami: The Latest On The Epic Case Of Legionnaires' Disease At The EPIC

MsRebecca — 2010-09-01T13:01:30-05:00

It looks like the poor EPIC Hotel can't quite shake off the effects from last year's Legionnaires' bug. Today's Miami Herald has a report on the Miami-Dade County Health Department's study into the case and it turns out that there was Legionella bacteria found in the hotel's water system.

While this was the initial suspicion when guests first became ill last December, the health department subsequently cleared the hotel of any responsibility. The EPIC moved its guests to the Intercontinental during the investigation and reopened two weeks later.