HotelChatter - Tag: Rocco Forte Hotels

Munich: It's Time to Start Prosting Again

juliana — 2009-09-14T17:50:47-05:00

Oktoberfest 2008.

Yes, Oktoberfest is back! Or will be back on September 19 with the Lord Mayor of Munich cries, "Ozapft is!" ("It's been tapped"). But if you're planning on making your way to Munich for the festivities, we recommend doing two things.

First, read our tips for Surviving Oktoberfest. We attended it last year and if you'd like not awake the morning after with rain-soaked pants and vomit-covered sneakers, then you'd do well to heed our advice.

Second, checkout the Oktoberfest Package from the Charles Hotel, a Rocco Forte property, in the city's old Botanical Gardens.

Berlin: Three For Two With The Rocco Forte Collection

juliab — 2009-06-22T15:54:32-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/hotelderome.jpg" class="top"> Not going to Europe this summer? This might tempt you. Stay two nights at a Rocco Forte Collection hotel (with 12 to choose from in places youd like to be anyway, like Rome, Prague, Berlin and St Petersburg), and theyll throw in a third for free. The only caveat the offer is only valid for stays during high summer, between July 27 and September 4. Unfortunately, thats also when most of the locals will have deserted places like Rome for the seaside but hey, at least the buses will be a little less crowded. With this offer, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+De+Rome+Berlin/local/266">Hotel de Rome</a> in Berlin costs $861 per room for the three nights not so

Prague: Make Friends With Monks at Prague's Augustine Hotel

amandak — 2009-04-24T11:18:03-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/The_Augustine_Prague.jpg" class="top"> The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Rocco%20Forte%20Hotels">Rocco Forte</a> people are busy right now if it wasn't enough to open their first resort with the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/23/7104/31411/hotels/Verdura_Resort_Brings_a_Bit_of_Swank_to_Sicily">Verdura Resort</a> in Sicily, they're also hitting eastern Europe for the first time when the Augustine Hotel in Prague opens on May 14. This place is a 101-room hotel overlooking the Wallenstein Gardens, and the hotel itself is made up of seven historical buildings, including the 13th century St. Thomas Monastery. The coolest part is there are still monks using parts of this monastery and hotel guests might glimpse them going about their monkly tasks.The décor and furniture are all in the good taste you'd expect for such a respectable-sounding area; in fact, the whole

St. Petersburg: Russian Hotels for Ballers: Rocco Forte Hotel Astoria

HotelChatter — 2008-04-07T17:18:52-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/astoria_room.jpg" class="imgborder">Our Super Secret Hotel Maven network extends far and wide and thanks to another SSHM, we have a mini-guide to Russia's luxe hotels--perfect for ballers, high-rollers and Russian mobsters. It's a mini-guide because it's really only a few hotels in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Up first: <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Rocco+Forte+Hotel+Astoria/ian/240457">The Hotel Astoria</a>. Enjoy.It's not easy to travel to Russia if you're a picky Angeleno with the sniffles. Recently, though, I did the difficult and braved the subzero temperatures. I saw the two main cities, St. Petersburg and Moscow, and explored the cultural treasures of each. More importantly, though, I made stops at each of the city's key hotels for tours of the facilities and rooms, and have smuggled my reports