http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T10:12:17Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Retro%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2012/1/3/102744/6607 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/carlylepostcard_front.JPG" class="top"><p> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Carlyle+New+York/local/627"><b>The Carlyle Hotel</b></a> in Manhattan is one of our favorite "old luxury" hotels and today we stumbled upon something from its heyday--<b>a postcard.</b> You know, the kind that hotels used to stash in the desks so that you could send your friends smarmy "Wish You Were Here" notes? <p>Sure, lots of hotels are still doing the postcard and stationary thing--probably even the Carlyle still--but in these green days where hotels are eliminating paper waste at every turn (even check-in and check-out!), hotel postcards are a dying breed. <p>And we're pretty sure that today's modern postcards don't say things like, "Transient and Residential Accommodations" and "Telex" numbers. (For the record, the Carlyle still takes transients, aka hotel juliana 2012-01-03T17:15:02-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/4/21/1429/00686 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/pismobeachhotelextfd.jpg" class="top"> <p><i>See what we mean about retro?</i> <p>When it comes to road trips, old school is always best. Which is why, when we tok a ride up Highway 1 last weekend, we decided to make an overnight pitstop at Pismo Beach near San Luis Obispo, having been told by the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/travel/09pismobeach.html?_r=1">New York Times</a> that it's a &#147;throwback to endless summers gone by&#148;. And we plumped for <a href='http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel/local/4857'><strong>The Pismo Beach Hotel</strong></a> seeing as it was, at the time of booking, <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g32894-d279701-Reviews-Pismo_Beach_Hotel-Pismo_Beach_California.html">top of the TripAdvisor list</a> and sounded pretty retro with its 1937 building bang in the middle of town. The photos on the <a href="http://www.thepismobeachhotel.com/">website</a> didn't look too appealing, but hey, we thought, it's only for juliab 2011-04-21T16:02:02-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/1/4/122521/4892 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/The_New_Ritz_Plaza_Ad.jpg" class="top"><p> <b>$6.</b> <p>That's how much it used to cost to spend a night at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+SLS+Hotel+at+South+Beach/local/4744"><b>Ritz Plaza Miami Beach</b></a> when the hotel first opened in 1946. Before that, it had been known as the Grossinger Beach Hotel but it always had air-conditioning! <p>Thanks to our Man in Miami crush, <a href="http://about.me/greggrory"><b>Gregg Rory</b></a>, who sent this ad to us, we learn that the hotel's $6 rate included complete breakfast and a deluxe full course dinner. At no extra cost, guests also had access to "continuous gaiety" such as weiner roasts, entertainment, water shows, movies, dancing, game nights and a free dance lesson.<p> The rooms also included radios, private baths or showers, circulating ice water on every floor and juliana 2011-01-05T16:00:50-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/19/225037/62 <![CDATA[<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --> <div style="display:none"> </div> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js"></script> <object id="myExperience45403598001" class="BrightcoveExperience"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="width" value="486" /> <param name="height" value="412" /> <param name="playerID" value="4862856001" /> <param name="publisherID" value="1321358962"/> <param name="isVid" value="true" /> <param name="@videoPlayer" value="45403598001" /> </object> <!-- End of Brightcove Player --> <p>Sometimes you stay in hotels because you're on a vacation, and other times you stay in hotels because of a business trip or special occasion, but you never plan for emergencies when you <i>need</i> to stay in a hotel, such as in the case of electrical problems at home. During our recent visit to Chicago, this is exactly what happened to friends of ours, and so we ended up next JetSetCD 2009-10-20T09:03:40-05:00 41.8990080 -87.621608 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/