HotelChatter - Tag: Jail Hotels

Boston: 'Meet Your Maker' at The Liberty Hotel

juliana — 2009-12-02T16:34:36-05:00

<![CDATA[You know how much we love our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/hotel cocktails">cocktails</a> here at HotelChatter. We'll find any reason to celebrate with a cocktail and fortunately for us (but not for our liver), hotels feel the same way. We've slurped down <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/summer cocktails">Summer Cocktails</a> and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/halloween cocktails">Halloween Cocktails</a> and now we're ready for the main event, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/holiday cocktails">Holiday Cocktails.</a> We'll be taking a look at these concoctions all season long. If you have a suggestion, <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">don't hold out on us</a>. (Photos, recipes and prices are helpful too!)<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/meetyourmaker.JPG" class="top"> When your hotel used to be a jail in a former life, the jokes and puns never get old. We loved the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Liberty+Hotel/local/794">Liberty Hotel's</a> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-photos/full/28/The+Best+of+The+Do+Not+Disturb+Signs">Do Not Disturb</a>

Boston: The Liberty Hotel: A Jail You Don't Want To Bust Out Of

markj — 2009-11-12T16:51:07-05:00

<![CDATA[ <object id="flashObj" width="486" height="412" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/4862856001?isVid=1&publisherID=1321358962" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="@videoPlayer=49981915001&playerID=4862856001&domain=embed&" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/4862856001?isVid=1&publisherID=1321358962" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="@videoPlayer=49981915001&playerID=4862856001&domain=embed&" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object> Welcome to our regular feature, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/pitch your hotel">Pitch Your Hotel</a>, where we let hoteliers, general managers and other hotel execs tell us on-camera what makes their hotels so different from all the rest. And believe us, the competition is fierce these days. So sit back, relax and listen to them explain why their hotels are worthy of your hard-earned dollars or rewards points. Speaking from the uber cool Ebersol Suite atop the

Sultanahmet-Eminönü: Turkish Delight: A Former Prison is Now a Four Seasons Hotel

shiralevine — 2009-05-28T17:03:03-05:00

Last week Shira Levine spent a few days getting her Turkish Delight on in Istanbul, Turkiye ("Turkey is a bird; Turkiye is the country") and checking out the transcontinental Eurasian city's hotel scene. Any questions about where to stay in Turkiye? Send 'em to us and we'll have Shira answer them for you.

By director Oliver Stone's "Midnight Express" film portrayal, if there is one notable Turkish site to skip over it's the inside of a Turkish prison. But if it's the inside of a Neoclassical jail conversion and that jail conversion happens to now be a Four Seasons, we learned that staying a few night doesn't compromise sanity, just bank accounts.

Sydney: Stay In Sydney Harbour, Literally, at the Cockatoo Island Houses

amandak — 2009-02-26T10:26:12-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Arriving_at_Cockatoo_Island_Sydney.jpg" class="top"> When in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/city/Sydney">Sydney</a>, you might well be craving harbor views, but we've got a new alternative--just stay in the middle of Sydney Harbour itself.Weve experienced the camping version of a stay at <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/1/8/65157/43186/travel/Seeing+Sydney+Without+Being+In+Sydney">Cockatoo Island</a>, but if you want to stay overnight in more style on this island in the middle of the harbor--with clear views to the Sydney Harbour Bridge--you're in luck. The Cockatoo Island Historic Houses are available for up to ten guests per house, and according to a <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-feature/once-a-prison-now-the-perfect-escape-20090219-8c8d.html">Sydney Morning Herald review</a>, these two historic houses (formerly prisons) have been elegantly refurbished and include three plasma TVs per house. The digs are available for A$400 ($260) a night during the week or

Stockholm: The Gray Lady Tells You How to Waste Your Hard-Earned Money

jennm — 2008-07-14T11:35:00-05:00

Would you pay $200 or more to stay at a 228-year hotel that once was a brewery, then headquarters for Stockholm's guards (a.k.a., "sausages," earning the building the enviable moniker of "a sausage pot"); next as a jail of sorts, housing thieves and beggars; and later as a temporary hospital during the city's cholera epidemic in 1834, before finally becoming a hotel with no room service and very few individual bathrooms in 1976? The New York Times thinks you should.