HotelChatter - Tag: NYT Hotel Reviews

Port of Spain: Hyatt Regency Trinidad is Dreamy Except for the Home Depot Furniture

KatieK — 2008-11-10T10:47:13-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/hyatt_regency_trinidad.jpg" class="top"> The east coast is starting to really feel like fall--or worse yet, winter--and just like clockwork, the New York Times used their travel section this past weekend to go ga-ga for the Caribbean. In addition to an article gushing <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/travel/09carib.html?em">39 reasons to go tropical</a> this year, they wrote a mostly positive review of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hyatt+Regency+Trinidad/ian/262216">Hyatt Regency Trinidad</a> in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. The hotel opened last January, and the NYT reports that the obligatory opening kinks seem to be mostly smoothed out by now. That equals a solid addition to the sparse Trinidad hotel scene, particularly for business travelers, where travelers have long lamented Trinidads outdated hotels and inflated prices. Rooms start at a reasonable $179, the

Seattle: Arctic Club Hotel Forgets the Little Things

jennm — 2008-10-28T09:26:25-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/11725/arcticclub.jpg" class="top"><a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/travel/26check.html?scp=1&sq=check%20in%20check%20out&st=cse">The New York Times</a> checked into the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Arctic+Club+Hotel+Seattle/ian/263402">Arctic Club Hotel</a> this weekend and came back with a review that reads like your girlfriends account of why she finally broke up with that guy who was sooooo good looking, but inattentive. The Times loved the hotels dashing back storyits on the National Register of Historic Places, having been designed in 1916and its handsome, spacious L-shaped rooms, but as the writers mother often says, handsome is as handsome does, and its in the things that matter where the Arctic Club Hotel falls short. The writer and his family arrived to find no one to greet us or take our bags, leaving them to haul their own luggage.

Bordeaux: Futuristic Bordeaux Hotel Functions As If Hungover

ScarlettLion — 2008-08-26T09:15:16-05:00

When in Bordeaux, though some might enjoy more classical or idyllically French things, or wine, some might go avant-garde. But the New York Times wouldn't.

The marginally positive review in "Check-in, Check-out," of the sleek and new Seeko'o Hotel uses most of its word count to list technical, um, difficulties, that were not addressed during the course of the reviewer's stay. Seth Sherwood writes:

My room, No. 101, a “junior suite” was really just a semispacious hotel room (for 180 euros). The “business center,” similarly, was a lone Internet-linked computer in the lobby. Moreover, the room smelled of cigarettes and looked out on a row of decrepit buildings.

Barcelona: The NYT Kinda Sorta Digs Hotel Murmuri in Barcelona

jennm — 2008-08-06T12:05:12-05:00

This weekend, The New York Times asked, "Does Barcelona really need another understated hipster hotel?"

We don't think any place needs another hipster hotel, but since you asked about Barcelona--the epicenter of all things hip in Spain--we're gonna go ahead and say no.

But the Times answers its own question with an "apparently, yes," even though the reporter is very wishy-washy about Hotel Murmuri. She writes that despite the hotel possessing all the "requisite elements for urban hotel chic," such as a black-clad staff and an in-house Asian restaurant, "the accommodations are lovely enough that the clichés don't irritate."

And how cliché they are.