Lots of hotels have presidential suites. Though we can't manage to get a video camera into all of them, we can sometimes get excited when we learn of a particular guest that has stayed in one.

Back in June, in the days leading up to Mandela Day, Michelle Obama visited Cape Town, where she reportedly toured the District 6 Museum and lunched at the Kitchen, a small deli on Sir Lowry Road Woodstock. Her hotel of choice? The Table Bay Hotel, where she, Sasha, and Malia slept in the Table Mountain Presidential Suite.]]> ASchechter 2011-08-12T09:25:02-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/2/11/93621/5934 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/Vogue_ObamaCover.widec.jpg" class="top"> <p>The Obama family really does love the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Hay+Adams+Hotel/local/2">Hay-Adams Hotel</a></b>. Not only did the first fam <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/5/171029/8651/hotels/Obama_Can_See_His_New_Digs_From_His_Hotel_Room">spend the weeks</a> leading up to Barack's inauguration occupying the Presidential Suite at the iconic old-school luxe D.C. hotel, but now <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Michelle%20Obama"><b>Michelle Obama </b></a>has shown the hotel the ultimate love: the opportunity to be forever immortalized with her on the cover of <i>Vogue</i>. <p>According to <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20258388,00.html">People</a>, the new first lady was photographed by famed portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz recently, and the portrait &#151; which shows Mrs. Obama leaning on the arm of a beige Hay-Adams couch &#151; appears on the cover of <i>Vogue's</i> March issue. While almost every first lady has appeared in the mag, only Hillary Clinton Jenna 2009-02-11T10:01:03-05:00 38.9004930 -77.037022 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/17/115234/95 <![CDATA[<p><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/michellewaldorf.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>Talking about Love in an Elevator-style (that's "Living it up, while we're going down" if you don't follow Aerosmith), the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10172008/gossip/pagesix/obamas_fancy_snack_133922.htm">NY Post</a> is reporting that Michelle Obama ordered up a frenzy of room service afternoon treats while Barack was in a meeting the other day:<blockquote><p>While he was at a meeting at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Waldorf+Astoria/local/188"><b>Waldorf-Astoria</b></a> at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Michelle Obama called room service and ordered lobster hors d'oeuvres, two whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar and champagne, a tipster told Page Six.</blockquote></p><p>That's a whole lotta lobster. Also, we knew the Waldorf was swank and stuff but we didn't know they had this kind of fare on the in-room dining menu. Maybe this would please our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/15/17241/949/hotels/Westin_South_Coast_Plaza_Has_a_Confusing_In_Room_Dining_Menu">picky friend?</a><p>But juliana 2008-10-17T12:44:39-05:00 40.7568070 -73.973254 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/