HotelChatter - Tag: SXSW Hotels

Austin: Visual Goodness from Austin's Hotel St. Cecilia

markj — 2011-03-28T16:56:21-05:00

Austin: Ashton Kutcher Leads Fans on a SXSW Scavenger Hunt to Austin's Driskill Hotel

cmb — 2011-03-14T11:12:53-05:00

Our brother site Jaunted happens to be down in Austin, Texas this week for the SxSW Festival. Over the next few days, they'll be filling us in on the hotel scene and what celebs are disco napping where.

Yesterday, Ashton Kutcher sent his Twitter followers on a scavenger hunt through downtown Austin. Between 10am and 2pm, he tweeted four clues referencing four different Austin landmarks where you could check into location-based social networking app Foursquare, culminating with a live appearance by @aplusk himself at The Driskill Hotel downtown.

@aplusk: Last stop! Ghostly apparitions of the Colonel make this the most haunted place in Austin http://twitpic.com/48xvjp #SXSWNikon

Austin: SXSW 2011 Just Started and Already It's Time to Start Planning Your Hotel for 2012

JetSetCD — 2011-03-10T13:16:39-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/OmniAus.jpg" class="top"> The Omni Austin has a massive atrium with a bar that gets majorly packed Well, it's officially that time of the year when warehouse loft spaces around the country go empty, as bands, film and tech companies make the big pilgrimage to the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. Of course the biggest hotels closest to the panel action have been sold out for some time, but let us recommend learning from this year to start thinking about next year's SXSW already. Just as you may find yourself at many of the events at the <a href="">Hilton Austin</a>, you'll likely sidle up to the atrium lobby bar at the <a href="">Omni Downtown</a> at some point or another.

Austin: How Courtney Love Acts in Hotel Rooms (Attn: A Certain Hotelier)

juliana — 2010-04-06T09:00:18-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/courtneylovehole.jpg" class="top"> We really wouldn't expect any different sort of behavior from the wackness that is <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/courtney love">Courtney Love</a> but we do think her recent hotel stay at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Driskill/local/382">Driskill Hotel</a> for South by Southwest last month is interesting in light of her <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/3/30/102641/412/hotels/Unforgivable_Andre_Balazs_Dating_Courtney_Love_And_Giving_Her_Free_Rooms_">recent love interest.</a>Here's how a <a href="http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/article/790451--talk-smoke-and-a-trashed-hotel-room-an-audience-with-courtney-love">Billboard magazine</a> reporter describes meeting with Love to discuss her new album with her band, Hole: <blockquote>In six hours at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, the day after two excellent, return-to-form performances at South by Southwest (SXSW), she will do the following: show off all her clothes; explain her new style, which she calls kook; display financial documents on her battered laptop which, she says, prove shes

Austin: Guide to the Hotel Lobby Scene at SXSW

markj — 2010-03-17T14:15:56-05:00

<![CDATA[Holy growth spurt. HotelChatter had not graced the halls of the Austin Convention Center for SXSWi in six years, but when the opportunity knocked to head to Austin for 36 hours of south by madness we jumped on a plane, and my has the interactive portion grown. No longer confined to the closets of the convention center the 2010 gathering was spread out over three hotels and the convention center. Of course, this made for a crazy hotel scene, the bell of the ball, Foursquare, even offered a <a href="http://foursquare.com/user/ranajune/badges/1230836">"hookup" badge</a> if you hit enough hotels late at night. As far as price, let's get this out of the way up front, any hotel on this list is going