Where does Gwyneth Paltrow rest her head when she heads to Lisbon? Subscribers to Paltrow's weekly guide to detoxes and cleansing lifestyle newsletter found out when a guide to Lisbon hit their Inboxes on Thursday. As you might expect, the hotels which received the G.P. Stamp of Approval are grand in stature, with the requisite clean living retreat included in the roundup.]]> Heidi Atwal 2012-01-27T13:00:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/10/18/1665/1698

For the latest update in our Boozy B&B’s we traveled to the sunny climes of Portugal to visit the UNESCO World Heritage city of Oporto, and the ridiculously picturesque hills of the Douro River Valley where we tasted the famous fortified Port wines as well as Douro DOC wines (we’re talking Touriga here) as well as to sample the local hotel scene.
]]> EricRosen 2011-10-19T12:19:26-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/7/9/14534/28088 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/yeatmanview.jpg" class="top"> <p><i>Will your eye be drawn to the apple-colored walls or the UNESCO-rated view outside? The choice is yours</i> <p>We love hotels and we love wine here at HotelChatter, so a wine hotel is a pretty much guaranteed win for us. So we&#146;re hoping that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Yeatman/ian/352428"><b>The Yeatman</b></a> &#150; which opens July 15 in the port-making district of Oporto, Portugal &#150; will live up to our hopes. <p>It's sounding solid: for a start, there&#146;s a 25,000 bottle-strong wine cellar (including, of course, a mammoth selection of port) with a restaurant run by a Michelin-starred chef to sop up the alcohol. <p>But perhaps most exciting is the vinotherapy (or vinotherapie, seeing as it&#146;s French) <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/hotel%20spas"><b>spa</b></a>, which is going juliab 2010-07-09T12:56:23-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/30/125528/50 <![CDATA[<p><p> <i>Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? <a href="tips@hotelchatter.com">Send the story our way</a>.<p> In this episode, Hotel Maven <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/eric rosen/stories">Eric Rosen</a> visits Madeira...in his mind. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/reidspalacebalcony.jpg" class="top"><p> I&#146;ve always been intrigued by the emerald isle of <b>Madeira</b>, a strange whalers&#146; EricRosen 2009-10-30T14:02:49-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/19/93236/3412

Astute winos of the sniff, swirl and spit (during marathon tasting sessions) family might snub their noses at splashing about in a Cabernet-spiked bath. Thankfully, that's not what Madeira's The Vine hotel is suggesting. The hotel is taking a favorite alcoholic beverage and using it in unexpected ways, namely in spa services that make use of wine's many antioxidant properties. ]]> Heidi Atwal 2009-08-19T09:39:05-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/