http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T15:25:46Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/In-Room%20Coffee http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/14/95410/5718 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/coffemaker_phoenixmarriott.jpg" class="top"><p> Quite often, hotel guests stay away from the in-room coffee because it either tastes like crap, the machine is difficult to figure out or worse yet, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/5/27/93246/2445/hotels/Have_You_Been_Charged_For_Drinking_the_Coffee_In_Your_Hotel_Room_"> it costs money.</a> But now there could be another reason to avoid the in-room coffee machines--they could really mess your hand up. From the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/08132009/news/regionalnews/brainiacs_bad_break_184334.htm">NY Post</a>: <blockquote><p>Former Columbia University researcher Kristopher Karnauskas yesterday filed a $10 million suit against an Arizona hotel, claiming its percolator shattered in his hand, hurting him so badly he couldn't deliver a speech on global warming. <p> And what's more, the 27-year-old climate scientist claims he can no longer play his trumpet. His conflict with the carafe took place in January at a juliana 2009-08-14T10:59:04-05:00 33.4199860 -111.82836 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/13/104019/273 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/westinbona_room.jpg" class="top"><p> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Westin+Bonaventure+Hotel+And+Suites/ian/105342"><b>The Westin Bonaventure</b></a> has caught our attention as of late for all their frantic <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/3/17/143831/644/hotels/Westin_Bonaventure_LA_Offering_Free_Rooms_for_Twitterers">Twitter deals</a> but it's never really been top on our list of Los Angeles hotels to visit, or even on our list of Downtown Los Angeles hotels to visit. This is despite the hotel being a Westin brand with its relaxing, white tea scents and those coveted SPG points and despite the hotel's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotels%20With%20Revolving%20Restaurants">revolving cocktail lounge</a> at the top of the hotel. <p>Still the Twitter deals had us intrigued so we decided to head downtown the other week and see what was new at the hotel. We are happy to report that there's a lot in the works. But the juliana 2009-08-13T11:32:05-05:00 34.0531660 -118.25605 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/5/27/93246/2445 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/lemeridiencoffee.jpg" class="top"> <p>In this turbulent, unpredictable world, there are a few constants that we've always known to be dependable and unchangeable: the sun will always rise. And when it does, we'll want coffee &#151; and if we don't get it, we get surly. These have and will always be the case, no matter what happens. <p>One thing we also thought to be a constant that is apparently maybe not so much anymore? That the coffee we need so desperately in the A.M. will be free in our hotel rooms. Yeah: maybe not. <p>On his blog, travel expert <a href="http://www.elliott.org/blog/a-fee-for-drinking-coffee-in-your-room-whatll-they-think-of-next/">Chris Elliott heard from</a> a disgruntled hotel guest who stayed at the <b><A href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Intercontinental+The+Barclay+New+York/local/798">Barclay InterContinental </a></b>in NYC. She was disgruntled not Jenna 2009-05-27T09:34:30-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/