http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T12:43:32Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Joe%20Sharkey http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/10/27/111827/23 <![CDATA[<p><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/ipadsandWiFi.jpg" class="top"><p> <i>Welcome to our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/openthread"><b>OpenThreads</b></a>, a free-for-all forum on a hotel-related topic. This is where you can tell us how you, the hotel guest, operates inside a hotel, not the other way around. So <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/10/20/13107/728/hotels/How_Do_You_Use_Twitter_or_Facebook_During_Your_Hotel_Stay_#comment-block"><b>jump right in and comment away!</b></a></i><p>Perhaps the next time we spy iPads in the guestrooms, we shouldn't geek out so much as these tablet devices might be the reason why a hotel's WiFi network is so slow. <p>NYT biz travel reporter <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/business/ipads-change-economics-and-speed-of-hotel-wi-fi-on-the-road.html?_r=1">Joe Sharkey</a> says that hotels blame the rapid rise of the iPad and other tablet devices for putting a strain on their network's bandwidth capability. That's because people are checking in and logging on not just with their iPad but juliana 2011-10-27T11:56:31-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/13/224045/16 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/joe_sharkey.jpg">Joltin' Joe Sharkey, the NY Times Business Travel columnist, is not excused from hotel cancellation fees. In his <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/business/14roadcol.html?ref=business">recent column</a>, he gripes about having to cancel a business trip to Aspen where he was going to attend an aviation conference.<p>He had booked two nights at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/St.+Regis+Resort/ian/141160"><b>St. Regis Aspen</b></a> which had negotiated good rates for the conference of $414.29 for two nights.<p>Yet when Sharkey had to cancel the day before, the hotel told him that they would have to charge him the "whole enchilada" because he had missed the cancellation deadline which was two weeks prior.<blockquote><p>Had I known that the St. Regis in Aspen confiscated the full two-day rate, I would simply have made a reservation juliana 2008-10-14T09:15:44-05:00 39.1866400 -106.82121 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/7/13/03322/9584 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/joe_sharkey.jpg">In his recent column, Joe Sharkey griped about the outrageous fees the <a href="http://grandwashington.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp"><b>Grand Hyatt Washington DC</b></a> business center which amounted to $43.55 for 22 minutes of internet use and 10 pages of printouts.<p>While we agree these are ridiculous fees that Hyatt is charging at its business centers, we can't help but wonder why Sharkey, a reporter who writes about business travel, is still using a business center?<p>Doesn't the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com">Times</a> pay for him to have a laptop so that he can get wireless access? Since most Hyatt hotels partner with T-Mobile Hotspots, all Sharkey has to do is pay $9.95 for a 24-hour period. Maybe he likes to keep it old school but either way, it doesn't juliana 2006-07-13T09:30:02-05:00 38.899300 -77.026517 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/1/18/112357/754 <![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/joe_sharkey.jpg"><p> We kid, we kid. &nbsp;We just couldn't help oursevles. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Joe+Sharkey&amp;start=0&amp;start=0&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official">Joe Sharkey</a> is a rock star, and we love his MTV ready web video pieces in the NY Times Travel section. <p> Sharkey is always filling our head with great business traveler hotel tidbits, however, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/business/17road.html?oref=login">his newest column</a> fill us in on Manhattan hotel news that we are already way too aware of:<p> New York City hotel rooms will cost you, on average, around $300 a night, and NYC hotels are consistently over 90% occupancy these days. <p> <blockquote><p> People from out of town sometimes ask me in tones of desperation where they can find a hotel for less than $150 a night. </blockquote><p> Dude, we markj 2006-01-18T11:26:25-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/