HotelChatter - Tag: Music Festival Hotels

Oxford: Le Manoir Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary With a Mini-Music Festival

juliab — 2009-09-23T14:58:47-05:00

Music festivals – scruffy affairs where you sit on the floor, hopefully in the sun, and drink your own bodyweight, right?

Not any more, they’re not. Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons - chef Raymond Blanc’s uber-posh country pile just outside Oxford – is 25 years old this year, and it’s celebrating with a mini-music festival.

But it’s no ordinary music festival. Oh no. This is Le Festival aux Quat’Saisons: an uberposh, gastro music festival and although it’s going on for three days, you’re only meant to attend for one night (presumably your stomach would give way, as would your bank balance, if you stayed any longer).

Zurich: Plush Digs for Dolder Grand's 'Live at Sunset' Festival

juliab — 2009-05-13T14:50:23-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/tdg_outside2_sept08.jpg" class="top"> Summer's here, Europe's calling, and it's music festival season. But the downside to festivals is all that grubby camping. Obviously the folks at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Dolder+Grand+Hotel/ian/252888">Dolder Grand</a> outside of Zurich feel the same way, because they're offering up some decent digs for Dolder's very own Live at Sunset Festival from July 8-19 this year. True, they're probably aiming for a different kind of clientele from the usual festy types they've got Jamie Cullum (July 18th), Katie Melua (19th) and Simply Red (9th) on the festival books. But we're thinking the Cyndi Lauper gig on the 17th would make a pretty fine girly break. There are two festival packages to choose from. The Live at Sunset Festival

Liverpool: The Hard Days Night Hotel For the New Liverpool Music Festival

juliab — 2009-04-03T10:18:08-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/harddayhotel.jpg" class="top"> Heres a confession: we havent heard of Liverpool SoundCity music festival before, and weve had enough already of all the spurious tiny festivals cropping up in the UK and Europe to part us with our summer cash. So based on name and circumstance alone, we're not inclined to go. However, we have heard of The Zutons, White Lies, Arctic Monkeys and Little Boots. And weve definitely heard of Babyshambles (with crackhead Pete Doherty as the lead singer.) So were swiftly packing away our skepticism. If you're like us and are considering a night in Liverpool for the Liverpool SoundCity festival, it's taking place at 30 venues across the city from May 20-23 this year. The Zutons are

Austin: What Hotel Rooms Can You Get for SXSW?

juliana — 2009-03-09T10:33:33-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/sxsw.jpg" class="top"> Despite the recent reports that signal music festivals might be <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/3/3/124754/6543/travel/Spain%27s+Summercase+Music+Festival+Bites+the+Dust">dying</a>, everyone's favorite Texan music fest--<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/sxsw%20hotels">South by Southwest</a>--is still very much on again this year. If you have the time to get to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/city/austin">Austin</a> (perhaps the downfall of our economy has freed you up a bit, eh?), hotel rooms are available but not quite affordable. We have a feeling Austin is trying to milk this event even harder in the wake of the economy's collapse.We checked our <a href="http://hotelrates.hotelchatter.com">hotel rates search engine</a> for March 13-16--prime festival time and found the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hyatt+Place+Austin+North+Central/ian/124384">Hyatt Place Central Austin</a> for $109 a night. This hotel is about five miles from downtown and it involves a freeway ride. But

Austin: Hilton Austin Still Has a Few Rooms Left For SXSW

Jenna — 2009-02-05T12:52:29-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/hiltonaustin.jpg" class="top"> If you're planning to go to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/SXSW%20Hotels">South by Southwest</a> in Austin this year, we have some news for you: <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/SXSW%20Hotels">hotels</a> are gettin' pretty full already. You need to get your game up and start booking. We started checking individual hotels' websites for stays that ran March 12-23 (the festival runs March 13-22), but the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+Austin/local/825">Hilton Austin</a> came back with absolutely no availability on any of those dates which was curious, but not impossible since the hotel is adjacent to the Austin Convention Center, where many of the SXSW activities go down so we investigated further. According to <a href="http://www.expedia.com">Expedia</a>, if you're really set on the Hilton Austin (it's nice and it's convenient;