http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-11-22T03:22:30Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Tubs http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/9/124936/228 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/royalton_bath.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>With <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Six%20Columbus">Six Columbus opening</a> last Monday we totally forgot about the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Royalton/ian/120829"><b>Royalton Hotel</b></a> which reopened the same day after a few months of major renovations. Luckily, Amy over at <a href="http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2007/10/royalton_and_ba.php">NewYorkology</a> was on the scene. <blockquote><p>In this case it's the Royalton, which re-opened as scheduled on October 1 after renovations, according to the call NewYorkology just made to the hotel's front desk. <p> Also open, its Bar Forty Four. (Drinks only, save for breakfast from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.)<p> Closed since June, the hotel website says the new Royalton has been "invigorated with handcrafted African touches, graphic fabrics, original murals and the warm glow of a cast-bronze fireplace."</blockquote></p><p>A while back we got a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/9/11/15740/7130/hotels/Snapshot_A_Sneak_Peek_at_the_Royalton_Hotel_Renovations">sneak juliana 2007-10-09T13:02:26-05:00 40.755647 -73.982027 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/30/16276/2354 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/goldentub.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p>A hotel in Japan is very very sorry today. Sorry that they ever allowed a bathtub made of 18 karat gold and worth nearly $1 million to sit in one of their shared bathrooms for men unguarded and unprotected, thus allowing some clever thieves to haul it out of the place.<p>The golden tub weighing 176 pounds (pictured above in 2005) was stolen from the 10th floor of the <b>Kominato Hotel Mikazuki</b> in Kamogawa, just south of Tokyo: <blockquote><p> But police said they found no signs that the heavy bathtub had been dragged out of the hotel. "The door to the room had been locked with chains, but the chains were found cut off this morning," a police spokesman juliana 2007-05-30T16:32:20-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/