http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T08:10:25Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Leading%20Hotels%20of%20the%20World http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/18/152610/35 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/sanclementelobby.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>Who says you can&#146;t spend Valentine&#146;s Day in a luxury hotel on a Venetian island? Not us! We know it&#146;s not even Thanksgiving yet, but our minds are already in February, thanks to a new promotion from <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Leading%20Hotels%20of%20the%20World"><b>Leading Hotels of the World</b></a>. <p>Their <b>Save the Date</b> deal is designed to encourage early-bird reservations (LHW are <i>so</i> not fans of this pesky last-minute booking trend), and if you can commit to early 2010 dates now, there are deals to be had at more than 70 Leading Hotels around the world. </p> <p>Romance, too, if you go with the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/San+Clemente+Palace+Hotel+&+Resort/ian/211063"><b>San Clemente Palace Hotel & Resort</b></a> in Venice. Once a monastery, the hotel takes up an entire private MsRebecca 2009-11-18T15:44:29-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/4/12356/1698 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/ritzparisdeal.jpg" class="top"><p> It used to be something of a tradition for Londoners to hop on the Eurostar for a quicky weekend in Paris &#150; especially when it came to winter romance. But it obviously isn&#146;t going so well at the moment, thanks to the insanely strong euro: Eurostar is currently bombarding London with ads, and Parisian hotels seeing to be flinging out special offers by the day. <p>Anyway, if you can bear the dreadful exchange rate, there are deals to be had. This week the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Leading%20Hotels%20of%20the%20World"><b>Leading Hotels of the World</b></a> group have jumped on the bandwagon, offering up to 30% off &#150; which, when you&#146;re talking hotels like the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Ritz+Paris/ian/109294"><b>Ritz</b></a> or the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+De+Crillon/ian/112507"><b>Crillon</b></a>, is a pretty juliab 2009-11-04T12:19:14-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/19/53134/768 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/libertylobby1.jpg" class="top"><p> <p><i><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/25/15324/3996/hotels/HotelChatter_Checks_Out_Boston_s_Liberty_Hotel">The Liberty Hotel</a>, Boston.</i><p>If you've stayed at any hotel belonging to the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Leading%20Hotels%20of%20the%20World"><b>Leading Hotels of the World</b></a> group in the past two years, and enjoyed it, then the news today is good: you've got a chance to win another Leading Hotels stay. They've got a competition running with the grand name of <a href="http://www.questofalifetime.com/"><b>Quest of a Lifetime</b></a> and Americans and Canadians who've stayed in a Leading Hotel recently are all eligible to enter.<p>Entry involves writing a short 150-word essay on your "extraordinary travel experience" while staying at a Leading Hotel. The judging criteria include creativity, originality and how well your story fits the "quest" theme. Entries close on November 20, 2009 and during December, the amandak 2009-10-19T09:23:03-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/29/94611/7101 <![CDATA[<p><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 companies 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>.<p> In this episode, Hotel Maven <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/amandak/stories">Amanda K</a> visits Rome...in her mind. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Hotel_Lord_Byron_Rome.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>There are two reasons I want to stay in the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Lord+Byron+-+Leading+Hotels+Of+The+World/ian/105442"><b>Hotel Lord Byron</b></a> amandak 2009-05-01T13:41:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/28/21232/4582 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Rayavadee_Krabi_Thailand.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>With the state of emergency lifted and <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/4/13/2423/71775/travel/Bangkok+Protests+Continue%2C+Thailand+Warnings+Start+Again">mid-April's unrest</a> easing, it's time to start looking at Thailand again. And one of the things we love about it is that it can be a shopping paradise as well as an R&R-on-the-beach vacation destination.<p>We got tipped off about a clever "joint venture" hotel deal, put together by the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Sukhothai+Bangkok/ian/127957"><b>Sukhothai Bangkok</b></a> and the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Rayavadee/ian/143926"><b>Rayavadee</b></a> resort in Krabi. They've picked up on our shopping and beach combo desires and put together a five-night deal including two nights in the city at Sukhothai and three nights on the beach at Rayavadee. The package includes all kinds of extras like breakfast, a dinner at each location, shopping coupons in the amandak 2009-04-29T14:03:47-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/