HotelChatter - Tag: Hoteliers

WiF Week Continues: Hotel Execs Sound Off On Offering Complimentary WiFi

juliana — 2008-05-09T13:51:32-05:00

In continuing our Hotel WiFi Week here at HotelChatter we decided to ask some of the hotel groups that made our Best Hotel WiFi list just why they have decided to offer complimentary internet for their guests.

Thus we spoke with the chief operating officers at the Gansevoort Hotel Group, Thompson Hotels and Kimpton Hotels as well as with the hotelier behind Personality Hotels.

Keep on reading to see what they have to say about the WiFi offerings in their hotels.

Hot Hoteliers To Learn More About

juliana — 2007-10-24T17:28:08-05:00

Here at HotelChatter we like to follow the lives--both professional and personal--of some of the world's most well-known hoteliers. So we just decided to list some of the hoteliers that we cover the most for your edification. In doing so, we realized there needs to be some more female hoteliers! If you know of a hotelier that's not on our list, send his (or hopefully her) name our way.

· Bill Marriott
· Ian Schrager
· Andre Balazs
· Steve Wynn
· Barry Sternlicht
· Jason Pomeranc
· Chip Conley
· Vikram Chatwal
· Sean MacPherson and Eric Goode
· Gregory Peck

Starwood Founder Bringing Sexy Hotels Back

pbb — 2007-10-01T15:15:17-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/1hotel_v2.jpg" class="imgborder">After making a mint at Starwood Hotels--including creating the W brand--Barry Sternlicht could've happily rode off into the hotel developer sunset, free from the prying eyes of people like us. But somehow, he decided to get back into the hotel game: He's got three hotel brands in the works. The biggest deal in our mind is the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/1%20Hotels">"1"</a> brand, scheduled to debut in Seattle in 2009. The aim is to make the hotel LEED certified as a green building, as is the plan with other "1" hotels in the future. Other properties are in the works for New York and DC. The NYC project, the New York Times reports:<blockquote>[Will] be called the "1" Hotel and Residences at

New York: Movie Set Hotel: For Love or Money

juliana — 2007-06-12T16:26:11-05:00

<![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/forloveormoney2.jpg" class="imgborder"> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106941/">For Love or Money</a> is perhaps the ultimate Movie Set Hotel of all-time. Michael J. Fox stars as Doug Ireland, a concierge at a snooty luxury Manhattan hotel. Having no wealth of his own, he aspires to one day open his very own hotel. He even has an old and abandoned hotel picked out on Roosevelt Island. The only problem is he needs to find an investor willing to put up the $3 million needed for the renovations. Luckily or not so luckily, he finds an interested listener in financier Christian Hanover. And since this movie is about 14 years old, we don't really care if you've never seen it or not so we are

Mal Pais: Celebrity Hideaway in Costa Rica Unveiled

juliana — 2007-05-29T12:36:45-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/view_from_the_balcony.jpg" class="imgborder"/>A tipster named Charlie from the U.K. let us know that a TV actress named <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004095/">Bobbi Phillips</a> is supposedly the woman responsible for bringing celebs to her hidden hotel in Mal Pais, Costa Rica. Her hotel, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Casa+Chameleon/local/597">Casa Chameleon</a> (named after her most successful TV series) was recognized by Conde Nast in 2006 as one of the Best Hotels in the World.There are <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g309273-d568106-Reviews-Casa_Chameleon-Mal_Pais_Province_of_Puntarenas-m10559.html">TripAdvisor reviews</a> on the place which are all glowing reviews--some suspiciously so like this one, "Let me just say as soon as I walked in our villa tears of joy just filled my eyes." But Charlie is having no luck booking one of the four bungalows. He couldn't even find it on one