http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T22:52:22Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Kuala%20Lumpur%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/10/17/171334/28 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/YES_huddle_in_KL.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>Are wireless hot spots the next hot hotel amenity? Judging by these two recent reports from luxury hotels in Asia, they just might be! <p>First up, a guest sent in this snapshot, above, and description, below, of the YES personal 4G station called the <a href="http://www.yes.my/v2/say-yes/huddle-hotspot.do">Huddle</a> found at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Jw+Marriott+In+Kuala+Lumpur/ian/109536"><b>JW Marriott in Kuala Lumpur</b></a>. He writes: <blockquote><p> YES has a table in the lobby, adjacent to the Front Desk, where guests can borrow (deposit, but no rental charge) a 4G station, called a &#147;Huddle&#148;. Then, for RM50 per day (USD15/day) you get all the wifi data you can eat. That includes downloading their app and turning your iPod Touch or iPhone, or iPad, into a VOIP juliana 2011-10-18T08:50:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/5/8197/98262 <![CDATA[<p> <i>Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving company's dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway; at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? <a href="tips@hotelchatter.com">Send the story our way</a>.</i><p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Mandarin_Oriental_Kuala_Lumpur.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>With some friends hanging out in <b>Kuala Lumpur</b> this week, without me, pretty much the only revenge I can get is by daydreaming of staying amandak 2009-08-05T09:02:30-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/16/13415/9219 <![CDATA[<p> <i>We are suckers for a room with a killer view. &nbsp;We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.</i> <p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/petronasmalaysia.jpg" class="top"> <p>It sounds kind of dirty to say that you can see the world's biggest twin buildings without even leaving your hotel Jenna 2009-07-16T13:44:53-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/1/91331/48827 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Kuala_Lumpur_Pavilion.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>Management at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Raffles%20Hotels"><b>Raffles Hotels</b></a> continue to sit in a room and throw darts at a globe &#150; in other words, they've just announced yet another new Raffles in another new corner of the world. This time the dart has landed on Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.<p>The <b>Raffles Kuala Lumpur</b> won't be ready until 2011 but they're promising to bring "unparalleled service" to KL. This new hotel will include 200 rooms and suites and will be found in the main business district of the city, within the Pavilion Kuala Lumpur, one of KL's enormous shopping mall complexes. <p>Six different restaurants and bars sound like you won't need to leave the hotel for your entertainment at all &#150; and amandak 2009-06-02T13:29:00-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/3/17/124254/562 <![CDATA[<p><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1321361467" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=17299532001&playerId=1321361467&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="400" height="300" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed><p><i>So <a href=&#148; http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/uniq&#148;>uniq</a> isn&#146;t a fan of the <a href=http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Tune%20Hotels><b> Tune Hotel </b></a> in Kuala Lumpur. But it must be doing something right, because it&#146;s about to open three more branches, and then some, across Malaysia. Here&#146;s what we thought.</i> <p><a href="http://www.jaunted.com/tag/tony%20fernandes"><b>Tony Fernandes</b></a> is a clever man. Not only has he pioneered low cost flying in Asia and now cross-continent to Australia and <a href=&#148;http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/3/14/124455/125/travel/Inside+The+No-Frills%2C+Long-Haul+Flight+on+Air+Asia+X &#148;>the UK</a>, but he&#146;s also started the Tune hotel brand &#150; a bit like an even more budget <a href=&#148;http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/EasyHotels&#148;><b>easyHotel</b></a>. <p>The idea is simple &#150; charge rock bottom prices for a room (current offers range from 0.05 Malaysian ringgits, or $0.01) to a juliab 2009-03-23T16:59:26-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/