HotelChatter - Tag: Hotel Tech

Peninsula Hotels Want to Have the Best Hotel WiFi in the World

JetSetCD — 2011-11-28T17:27:14-05:00

They've got helipads and helilounges, BMW Minis and even special macarons, but now Peninsula Hotels is making moves to have the best hotel internet network of all.

The big news comes from our buddies at Australian Business Traveller, who note that that first Peninsula to enjoy "gigaspeed Internet" and " 99.99% coverage – no dark spot or black spots" will be the Peninsula Beijing. Why China? Think about that for a second. China makes complete sense, though we admit we're surprised it's not their flagship property in Hong Kong getting all the special tech first.

Palm Springs: Hotel Plug Panels are Finally Popping Up As the Necessary Amenity They Are

JetSetCD — 2011-08-15T15:52:27-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/Rivplugpan.jpg" class="top"> At this point, we're kind of collecting instances of plug panels showing up in hotel rooms. The latest is an unexpected find, at a hotel that's probably one of the last where someone would choose to do business: <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Palm+Springs+Riviera+Resort/local/2704">The Riviera Palm Springs</a>. Basically if you're staying at The Riviera, you're more than likely just using your room as a place to sleep, dry your swimsuits, and occasionally nap to cool off in the air conditioning. Regardless, the hotel is surprisingly up on its techas we saw with this outlet and A/V panel built into the mirrored TV table, just above the minibar. Thumbs up...except for one huge problems we're beginning to notice when hotels get proactive

Hong Kong: The Case of the Hotel Room Door with No Doorknob

JetSetCD — 2011-01-18T16:50:57-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/Rm1502East.jpg" class="top"> WIth a hotel like the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel/ian/333623">East</a>, one of the newer additions to the Hong Kong hotel scene, you've just got to set yourself apart. Thus, they've adopted the tagline "A business hotel with a life." While it's true that the East, where we stayed for two nights, is ideal for the business traveler so long as they don't mind being 20 minutes from Central (but easily reachable on the subway), the hotel is also one we'd hugely recommend to those who appreciate modern technology and good design, because this hotel is bringing it in spades. Not to mention that it's a sister hotel of our recent crush, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/1/13/43611/4134/hotels/Inside_The_Upper_House_Hong_Kong_Jaw_Dropping_from_Every_Angle">The Upper House</a>. For another thing, there's the

Are Your Internet Activities Illegal? Radisson Blu is Watching You

JetSetCD — 2010-04-01T16:30:15-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/HarrahsBlueBed.jpg" class="top"> Have you ever been staying at a hotel with fast and free WiFi only to find that when you sit down for some internet time at night, that the speed of the connection has slowed? This is usually due to other users in the hotel downloading porn or accessing other streaming video content. It's sad, but it's true and we wish it was rarer. Hotel chain <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/radisson%20blu%20hotels">Radission Blu</a>, like many others, turn a blind eye to what guests do in their rooms within reason, unless it involves accessing child pornography. They'll be the first chain in the world to pioneer use of NetClean's "child abuse-free zone," where software will monitor files for such illicit content. Radission

Still Not Sold on Yotels? Maybe This Jetsons Bed Will Do the Trick

MsRebecca — 2010-01-18T09:55:02-05:00

With all the gadgets we haul around these days, we get excited when we check into a hotel that caters to our tech obsession. Things as simple as a charging station for all our phones and cameras and iPods makes us very happy. So you can imagine how we felt when we saw this teched-out multimedia hotel bed.

It’s called the Somnus-Neu (which is something to do with the god of sleep), and it may soon be coming to a pod hotel near you. The creator, Grier Govorko, tells Fast Company magazine that he is in talks with Yotel and hopes to have the beds in production later this year.