http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-11-22T03:13:33Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Upgrades http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/31/154045/479 <![CDATA[<p><p><i>Every so often we feature a hotel review from one of our readers that we feel should be shared with the rest of you dear hotel guests. These reviews are highlighted because they are timely, about cool hotels in cool places and are relatively level-headed. Think you can submit one just like this? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Send it in</a>. Now, we present you with solid reviewer <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/MichaelSDacko">Michael S. Dacko's</a> review of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/W+Hotel+San+Francisco/local/60"><b>W San Francisco</b></a> which got a new look. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/wsanfran_dacko.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><p> The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/W+Hotel+San+Francisco/local/60"><b>W San Francisco</b></a> was one of the original W's that laid the foundation of what "W" stood for in 1999. Fearing that I was going to spend 2 weeks at a trendy hotel to find juliana 2008-08-01T09:33:42-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/22/13354/3220 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/kemp_munich.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>That seems to be the case with what happened to Flickr member <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/philatkin/2072143354/">Ramones Karaoke</a> (a nickname of course) who has a great collection of business hotel shots. Or as he calls them "Faceless Business Hotels of the World."<p> Ramones spent a night near the Munich airport and here's what went down:<blockquote><p>They ran out of no smoking rooms on a day I was wearing a nice suit and looking hassled, so I got upgraded at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Kempinski+Hotel+Airport+Munich/ian/134070"><b>Munich Airport Kempinski</b></a> into a 'Junior Suite' - what on earth a 'Senior Suite' must be like I cannot guess - the Junior has more toilets than my house, a walk-in wardrobe, 2 TVs, great toiletries in the bathroom.<p> Flippin' heck.</blockquote></p><p>Granted juliana 2008-02-22T09:00:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/6/45154/2927 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/nicehotelroom.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>We all want to get the best hotel room possible when we travel, and the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2007/11/03/et-savvy-103.xml">UK Telegraph</a> just put out an article with some handy tips on making sure your hotel stay is at least as good as you've hoped for.</p><p>Savvy traveler <b>Nick Trend</b> divides his tips into two parts: looking for the best room, and getting the best room when you actually book or check in. And like anything else in this world, you have to ask for you what you want.<p>Before you book, Trend suggests, you should have a chat to the hotelier (or reservations agent) about the merits of each kind of room. You should also avoid rooms near the kitchen (they're noisy, amandak 2007-11-06T10:53:18-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/5/9501/69416 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/venetian1.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>Frequent travelers who live by the maxim, "If you don't ask, you don't get" swear by the $20 room upgrade move. It works like this: when checking in to your ho-hum standard room, you casually slip an extra 20 bucks to the front desk clerk and ask if there's any chance of a "complimentary upgrade." In most cases, one of three things will happen. Either nothing (and you keep your $20), an official upsell at official prices (usually a poor value), or you score and get a much nicer room. <p>Judging by this site devoted to the topic called <a href="http://www.frontdesktip.com/">FrontDeskTip.com</a>, your odds of $20 upgrade success in Las Vegas are far greater than they are at the Tim L. 2007-11-05T12:30:01-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/