HotelChatter - Tag: Olympics Hotels

Whistler: Pan Pacific Hotels in Whistler Still Have Rooms Open for The Winter Olympics

juliana — 2009-10-15T14:21:06-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/vancouver2010gear.jpg" class="top"> The 2010 Winter Olympics will kick off in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada in just a few short months and we fer sure thought that the city's and ski resort's hotel rooms would be long gone by now. In fact, wasn't someone planning to dock a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/11/8133/61259/hotels/Vancouver_is_So_Hard_Up_for_Hotel_Rooms_That_a_Cruise_Ship_Is_Stepping_In_">cruise ship</a> in Vancouver to increase the hotel room supply? Well, thankfully you won't have to train your sea legs. You just have to dip into your savings. The <a href="http://www.panpacific.com/WhistlerMountainside/Overview.html">Pan Pacific Whistler</a> has released a limited supply of suites for "public consumption." (Yes, that's what the press release actually said.) The rooms are open from February 11 to February 28, 2010 at both the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Pan+Pacific+Whistler+Mountainside/ian/220704">Pan Pacific Whistler Mountainside</a> and

Vancouver: Vancouver is So Hard Up for Hotel Rooms That a Cruise Ship Is Stepping In

juliana — 2009-06-11T08:57:09-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/norwegiangem.jpg" class="top"> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/city/vancouver">Vancouver</a> has already sold-out its hotels rooms for the 2010 Winter Olympics next February but there is a way to create some extra inventory without having to build a new hotel---use a cruise ship! From the <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/407096_hotels10.html">Seattle PI</a>: <blockquote>A company is bringing in a Norwegian Cruise Line luxury ship for February's Winter Games to help accommodate visitors. Dennis Laliberte, Newwest Special Projects LP president, said the Norwegian Star can fit almost 9,000 people.</blockquote>Much like a regular hotel, the cruise ship has different room sizes ranging from simple staterooms to bigger suites. But it's also got 13 restaurants, eight lounges, a spa, a fitness center and "sensational nightly entertainment." There will also be live satellite coverage

Holiday Inn Declared Official Hotel of the 2012 Olympics

Jenna — 2009-06-05T13:30:31-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/holiday_inn_logo_detail.jpg" class="top"> Remember how we told you that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/3/10/1741/48169/hotels/What_the_World_Needs_Now_is_a_Giant_Budget_Hotel">What The World Needs Now is a Giant Budget Hotel</a>? Well, someone may have read that post (or, um, agreed with our sentiments and wisely suggested that maybe an ultra-luxe, spendy-spendy chain was not the way to go with the world's economy lookin' like it's been lookin' lately) and has declared wallet-friendly chain <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/holiday inn hotels">Holiday Inn</a> to be the official hotel of the 2012 Olympics. According to <a href="http://www.citmagazine.com/channel/news/article/909739/Holiday-Inn-named-London-2012-hotel-provider/">Conference and Incentive Travel</a>: <blockquote> Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express have been named as the official hotel services providers to London 2012 by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). The Intercontinental Hotels Group-owned

Vancouver: Is it Time to Start Booking Rooms for the Vancouver Olympics?

JetSetCD — 2009-02-25T12:50:44-05:00

Ohmigosh people: there's only another 352 days to book your hotel stay for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics! We're totally kidding; don't freak out yet along with the local Vancouver press. Although technically you should get your Olympic itinerary sorted out as early as possible, we think the National Post is just trying to fake us out by quoting some area hotels' rocketing room rates a year in advance: "Potential Olympic visitors searching for the best online hotel deals might be shocked at the prices quoted at the Executive Inn Express in suburban Richmond. Rooms currently available for $61 to $160 a night will cost $550 to $795 a night during the Games."

Beijing: Beijing Hotels Suffer in Olympic-Sized Rut

JetSetCD — 2009-02-23T14:41:10-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/BeijingOlympics.jpg" class="top"> If you're intrigued by all of the crazy vacation and airfare deals to <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/city/beijing">Beijing</a> of late, then rest assured that they won't be going away anytime soon as the city struggles with a dearth of tourism despite last summer's Olympics. Combine the low visitor numbers with Beijing's glut of newly-opened luxury hotels with high nightly rates, and it seems that they've got a case of the Dubai disease--whereby the recession hits new development hard enough to stabilize room rates at a more affordable level. Although since it's only been a few months of low occupancy, don't expect to roll up into Beijing's Park Hyatt for $150 a night quite yet; they still have their pride. This