We know how Barry Sternlicht loves to surprise and create puns and play around with words: he named W Hotels because it's the only letter of the alphabet with more than one syllable, and W's whole marketing is based around putting W's in their promotions and creating words based on W.

So we shouldn't have been too surprised when 1 Hotels updated their website to remove the Paris and Mammoth Mountain locations, but left the Seattle, NYC, Washington DC and Scottsdale locations and added a new page about One - even though we've heard numerous rumors about the brand being put on indefinite hold. ]]> AndrewC 2008-09-29T16:41:55-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/29/7632/19204

The Langham Hotels group have never given us cause to complain, and we've just come across another neat thing they do that's a bit above the rest.

Head to their website and you can find their personalized eBrochure where you can literally make your own brochure. There are all kinds of options including which Langham Hotel(s) you want included, what destination info you'd like (events on in your city of choice during your stay, for example--you just have to input the dates), plus details of the business and leisure facilities at the hotel. ]]> amandak 2008-09-29T09:00:36-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/16/154256/110

We at HotelChatter are utter hotel geeks. That's why we often type in domain names for new hotels and hotel brands, cross our fingers and hope that maybe just maybe, a new website will appear.

Today we hit jackpot!

Edition Hotels, the new hotel brand being created by Ian Schrager and Marriott, finally launched a teaser website. While its a little light on the content and pictures - it gives all of the proposed initial Edition Hotels locations.

You ready for this? Take a deep breath...You will need it.

]]> AndrewC 2008-09-16T15:54:51-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/22/132313/736 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hyattplaceettiquette.png" class="imgborder"><br> <p>We are too busy trying to keep Cheeto dust from falling into our keyboard to worry about silly things like <b>etiquette and manners</b> (ha, kidding about the Cheetos), but we recall our mothers telling us to remove our elbows from the table one time. And, of course, we've learned a few social etiquette rules after getting yelled at for double-dipping a chip during our latest soiree featuring margaritas and guacamole.<br> <p>But when it comes to business etiquette, we don't know so much. Like, is it rude to leave your cell phone on during a meeting? How does one go about mingling with people at a big conference without coming off like a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scott_(The_Office)">Michael Scott</a>-type? <p><b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hyatt%20Place">Hyatt Jenna 2008-08-22T13:28:28-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/7/155826/9605 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/iphoneHOtels.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p>Back in July when the <b>iPhone 3G</b> was released, we got our hot little hands on the new Hotels.com <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/15/16118/5456/hotels/The_iPhone_Application_for_Hotels_com_Is_Not_All_That">iPhone application</a> through the Apps store. <p>We downloaded it and checked it out on our phone -- before we'd even read all the first reviews in the Apps store -- and we thought it kind of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/15/16118/5456/hotels/The_iPhone_Application_for_Hotels_com_Is_Not_All_That">sucked</a>, and got the impression that everyone agreed with us. <p>We noticed it was slow as hell, and all it really did was pinpoint our location and then open up a search in Safari. Whatev. <p>But an <a href="http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/08/when-a-native-iphone-app-is-re.html">Inside iPhone blogger</a> totally disagreed with us and posted a love letter to the Hotels.com app today: <blockquote><p>The Hotels.com application is an Jenna 2008-08-07T16:01:01-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/