HotelChatter - Tag: Hotel TVs

A Germ-Free Remote Control Coming Soon to Your Hotel Room

juliana — 2011-06-21T10:43:18-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/showercapremotecontrol.jpg" class="top"> Is it Christmas? It sure feels like it with yesterday's news that the Satellite TV company DirecTV is working on a germ-free remote control just for hotels. Oh yeah, and they will also be supplying hotels with more than 100 HD channels. <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/directv-release-germ-free-remote-203328">The Hollywood Reporter</a> reports: <blockquote>DirecTV has already offered TV service to hotels, but the clear branding, the germ-free remote, the expanded HD offer and programming and interactive programming guide are new. The new service puts a small receiver into hotel guest rooms rather than putting - as has been the case so far - a range of receivers into the hotel utility room with each tuned to a specific channel. That used to limit

London: This is One Secret The Bentley London Should Keep To Themselves

juliana — 2011-04-14T17:27:34-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/bentleylondontv_2.jpg" class="top"> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Bentley+London/local/4854">The Bentley London Hotel</a> calls itself one of the city's "best kept secrets" but these TVs in their guestrooms should probably remain hidden.Even though the hotel's <a href="http://thebentley-hotel.com/?WT.mc_id=1WA2HHC3SearchResults4Homepage6LHRBLWA7LocalSite">website</a> shows flat-screens in their rooms, it seems a few of these clunkers have stayed on. For a luxury hotel, you'd think they be on the up and up with the latest in TV technology. Why even the budget <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Tune+Hotels+Westminster/local/1789">Tune Hotel</a> in Westminster has flat-screens. Not surprisingly, the hotel is part of the Waldorf-Astoria Collection, whose hotels aren't always "with it" amenity-wise or technology-wise, especially in their flagship hotel in New York. We rather like the rest of the opulently styled rooms with their luxe bedding, chandeliers and

Paris: The Plaza Athenee in Paris Gets Katy Perry and a Panasonic 3D HDTV

juliana — 2010-07-02T08:56:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/katyperryathenee.jpg" class="top"> It's the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/6/14/23722/0204/hotels/Renee_Bradley_Kate_and_Kate_s_New_Man_All_Walk_into_a_Hotel_Bar">Summer of Celebs</a> in the City of Light! In this episode, we have "California Gurl" <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/katy perry">Katy Perry</a> arriving at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/HOTEL+PLAZA+ATHENEE+PARIS/local/1642">The Plaza Athenee</a>. <a href="http://x17online.com/celebrities/katy_perry/katy_perry_tweets_about_the_toilet_paper_in_paris-07012010.php">X17 Online</a> reports that later on Katy tweeted: <blockquote>Drank Jean Paul Gaultier water & used pink rose scented bathroom tissue! Oh frenchies, you are TRES CHIC!</blockquote>Now we're dying to know if this was in the bathroom at the Plaza Athenee or not. If so, we'll be making a pit stop in their bathrooms next trip to Paris.However, in more exciting news for hotel technology geeks, we've learned from the Plaza Athenee's <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paris-France/Hotel-Plaza-Athenee/25794608710">Facebook page</a>, that the hotel has equipped their <a href="http://www.plaza-athenee-paris.com/royal-suite">Royal Suite</a> with a Panasonic 3D

New York: The IC Times Square Will Have Big TVs (But Still Needs a Shorter Name)

MsRebecca — 2010-05-03T10:06:09-05:00

When it comes to the TV in your hotel room, does size matter? While we're much more interested in how fast (and how free!) our in-room WiFi is, we bet there are plenty of travelers who prize a huge TV screen. (And during football season, at least, we'd be one of them.)

Well, the Intercontinental Times Square will make size-ists happy when it opens this summer, with its HDTVs measuring 42 inches. Especially in a room of NYC proportions this seems more than generous.

Who Watches Those TVs in Hotel Bathroom Mirrors?

MsRebecca — 2010-01-08T09:29:57-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src=" http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/30451/Flamingo_bathrTV.jpg" class="top"> We've just landed in Vegas for a shot of warmth and little bit of tech. Today, we'll be hitting the show floor at CES, to see what groovy travel gadgets and other technical bells and whistles and widgets may wind up in our hotel rooms a year from now. After checking in to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Flamingo+Las+Vegas/local/615">The Flamingo</a>, we realized we had a good question for the hotel-geekery folks we might meet: What's next? Because, frankly, we think those TVs embedded in the bathroom mirrors are played out. We love the massive flatscreen TVs that come standard in any good hotel room these daysand we don't even mind the excess of having more than one TV. But,