http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-23T14:41:48Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotels%20Behaving%20Badly http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/30/93046/324 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/wscottsresident.jpg" class="top"><p>Things are getting heated between the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/W+Scottsdale/local/1078">W Scottsdale</a></b> and its neighboring residents who are still pissed off that the hotel's outdoor bar keeps them awake at night. But that's not all they are mad about. Apparently, the hotel's partying guests are leaving trash in the 'hood too. From the <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2008/10/30/20081030Wnoise1030.html">Arizona Republic</a>: <blockquote><p>Resident Jim Anderson said bass from the music creates a beat of thumps that shake the walls of his property. And when the party shuts down, he says, people trash the neighborhood. On a recent Monday afternoon, Anderson combed through the lawn outside his home, filling an empty Milwaukee's Best beer carton he found on the street with garbage "from the pigs this weekend." He juliana 2008-10-30T09:45:50-05:00 33.5022115 -111.92379 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/24/22116/073 <![CDATA[<p><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/wscottsdale.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>While us hotel geeks and a few Starwood Stalkers were eagerly anticipating of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/W+Scottsdale/local/1078"><b>W Scottsdale</b></a>, which finally opened last month after several delays, it seems as if the surrounding neighborhood could care less.<p>According to the <a href="http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/128765">East Valley Tribune</a>, the hotel has been a pain in the ass for the neighbors.<blockquote><p>Since its "soft opening" on Sept. 5, some residents living near the hotel said they have been upset about noise levels and what they believe are patrons parking and littering on their streets.</blockquote></p><p>And when the hotel held their official grand opening party last night, they sent out a letter to their neighbors forewarning them that a band would be playing music outdoors until about midnight. This juliana 2008-10-24T11:03:41-05:00 33.5022115 -111.92379 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/5/74235/23438 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/Metro_Hotel_Woking.jpg" class="imgborder">It seems the politeness of the English doesn't extend to soldiers who want to stay the night at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Metro+Hotelwoking/ian/242023"><b>Metro Hotel Woking</b></a> near London, and we're a bit surprised. <p>This week the news came out that back in June, Corporal Tomos Stringer tried to check into the Metro Hotel while he was visiting a fellow soldier but he ended up sleeping in his car because the front desk told him the hotel had a "no military personnel" policy. <p>A spokesman said they'd had "some rather serious incidents" involving soldiers in the past, but then said the front desk clerk had made a mistake and apologized. <p>We're pretty curious, of course, about the "rather serious incidents", but amandak 2008-09-05T11:30:22-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/6/5/171723/0564 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/coffee_cups.jpg"><p>Let's face it. We need more people like Kevin, who may or may not have a mild case of OCD when it comes to clean coffee cups. <p>But whatever his reason, Kevin is on a mission to teach Atlanta-area hotels that they need to clean the coffee cups in the guest rooms.<blockquote><p>About a year ago, I started marking my coffee cups with the hotel supplied ink pen every day that I used the cup. It invariably seems to be the same cup when I return to the hotel after the cleaning staff finishes. I have made a point to bring this up to the hotel managers in every hotel I find this happening. One manager of a <a href="http://www.sheraton.com"><b>Sheraton</b></a> juliana 2006-06-05T17:20:27-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/5/26/93955/4828 <![CDATA[<p><b>[Ed. Note: This is an extremely hellish Hotel Hell. As always this is just one side of the story, but seeing as local authorities allegedly escorted the guest and family out of harm's way and Visa backed up this person's claims well, you know. But as always, we invite the inn owner to respond with the other side of the story.]</b><p><i>On the night of July 14, 2004, the proprietor of Les Chenes Blancs, a downscale inn in rural France where my family and I were staying en route to Avignon, got drunk, went on an anti-American screaming rampage against my wife and three small children, attempted to extort 2,000 Euros (= 2,500 US$) from me by holding my family's passports juliana 2006-05-26T11:50:02-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/