HotelChatter - Tag: Philadelphia Hotel Reviews

Philadelphia: Loews Philadelphia Gets a $9 Million Spruce Up

alyshabrown — 2007-06-11T16:59:02-05:00

This March, the Loews Philadelphia wrapped up a year long, $9 million dollar renovation job that saw the upgrade of all 581 of the hotel's guest rooms. Intrigued by both the sum and the timing -- the hotel only opened in 2000 -- we popped by to see how far a cool $9 mill' goes these days.

MORE

Philadelphia: Four Seasons Philadelphia Gets Greener and We Don't Mean Richer

juliana — 2007-04-02T12:05:57-05:00

<![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/fourseasons_philycompost.jpg" class="imgborder"/>Perhaps bored with the usual hotel green policies like the note cards to remind you to keep your electricity and water use down and those that encourage you not to ask for new towels or linens, a hotel in Philadelphia is taking a different route in being green--composting.<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/FOUR+SEASONS+PHILADELPHIA/ian/115080">The Four Seasons Philadelphia</a> takes all leftovers to Pennsylvania farmer Ned Foley who turns it into compost. <blockquote>In a waste audit of the Four Seasons last year, [a consultant] found that the hotel was doing a good job of recycling paper, cardboard, bottles and cans. But that amounted to only 3 percent to 5 percent of its waste by weight, because so much of what was going into the

Philadelphia: Inn at Penn Offering King Tut Packages

juliana — 2007-01-08T14:50:42-05:00

<![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/kingtut_penn.jpg">Now that the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+Inn+At+Penn/ian/153607">Inn at Penn</a> has a brand-spanking-<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/11/3/125334/569/hotels/Hilton_Inn_at_Penn_Gets_A_Makeover">new look,</a> the hotel has put together a museum package for those coming to Philadelphia to check out the King Tut exhibit at the Franklin Institute Science Museum. From February 3 to September 30, the package includes: · Deluxe accommodations for one night · Full American breakfast for two in University Club · Two VIP tickets to the exhibitHaving seen King Tut when it was in Los Angeles, we can vouch for the importance of a VIP ticket which allows you to avoid long pointless lines. This package starts at $247 and is available Sunday through Saturday nights.If you want a more special King Tut experience, book the Amarna and

Philadelphia: Open Thread: It's Not Always Sunny in Philadelphia

juliana — 2006-11-13T16:26:28-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hate_mail.jpg"> [HotelChatter OpenThreads are a place for readers to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/newuser">get in here</a> and talk about hot stories and issues of the day in an open forum. If you are already a HotelChatter member log in comment away.] The internet is funny. We were just starting to warm up to Philadelphia again after a quite a long time recovering from the four years we lived in the "sixth borough" in the late 1990s.Our brother site, <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/tag/Philadelphia%20Field%20Trip">Jaunted</a> took a nice little trip there the other weekend, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/11/3/125334/569/hotels/Hilton_Inn_at_Penn_Gets_A_Makeover">Inn at Penn</a> got a pretty sweet top-to-bottom renovation and even though the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/11/2/123837/962/hotels/Philly_Hotels_Cover_Stories_About_Murder_Don_t_Work_Well_in_Our_Rooms">city's own journalists</a> are disgusted by the growing murder rate, we felt that Philadelphia was still

Philadelphia: PhillyStyle: Penn's View Hotel

juliana — 2006-11-06T16:25:31-05:00

<![CDATA[<object width="325" height="268"><param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tacBpvQ7BLs" name="movie"></param><embed width="325" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tacBpvQ7BLs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="268"></embed></object>At behest and via the courtesy of the <a href=" http://www.gophila.com/">Philadelphia Tourism Board</a>, our baby bro <a href="http://www.jaunted.com">Jaunted</a> spent the weekend in 6th Borough for a sleepover and tour--meaning this trip was on Ben Franklin, Rocky, and the Boyz II Men--or something like that. However, Jaunted kindly found the time to send us this hotel video for your enjoyment.This is room 503 in the <a href="http://www.pennsviewhotel.com/make_reservation/index.aspx">The Penn's View Hotel</a> in Philadelphia where Jaunted's contributing editor <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/user/djk/stories">DJK</a> stayed for the weekend. And here's what she had to say:<blockquote>The room is a little grandma-y but not TOO much. FREE wifi!!! small but adequate bathroom. cute non-balcony, but some people here have told me