We’ve already talked about how the old Yankee Clipper Beach Resort has had a makeover to become the fresh-faced Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel, but today we’re taking a closer look at one of our favorite topics: Hotel Carpets. See how modern and geometric and nautical this carpet in the Sheraton’s Beach Tower hallway is?

]]> MsRebecca 2010-03-19T16:35:08-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/3/15/114758/863 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/thompresidences1.jpg" class="top"><p><i>The Thompson Residences, which will open across the street from the Thompson Hotel.</i><p>With the news yesterday that <b>Virgin America</b>, the boutique hotel version of an airline, would begin flights from <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/3/18/044/22955/travel/Virgin+America+Will+Begin+Flying+to+Toronto+and+Orlando+This+Summer">LA and SFO to Toronto</a>, we immediately thought of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Thompson+Hotel+Toronto/local/877"><b>Thompson Toronto</b></a>, which is expected to open sometime next month.<p>Thompson Hotels co-owner <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/stephen brandman">Stephen Brandman</a> tells us a May 1 opening date is being thrown around but he's trying to finalize an earlier date than that. However, there is some bigger news with Thompson Toronto. <p>A new set of residences branded <b>Thompson Residences</b> will open <i>across the street</i> from the hotel. The building will feature 300 residence units, in a neat sort of boxy arrangement, along juliana 2010-03-19T15:14:45-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/3/16/11952/0964 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/simonandalexrhonyc.jpg" class="top"><p> So says his <a href="http://twitter.com/SimonvanKempen">Twitter</a> stream. <p>Even if <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/3/12/10740/6232/hotels/Is_Simon_Van_Kempen_Still_the_General_Manager_of_the_Hotel_Chandler_#comment-block">no one cares</a> whether or not "Real Househusband" <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/simon van kempen"><b>Simon Van Kempen</b></a> works at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Chandler/ian/197983"><b>Hotel Chandler</b></a>, we're still committed to finding some evidence that he really does work at the hotel and that it's not a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/8/29/141317/345/hotels/Tori_and_Dean_Inn_Love_Addressing_the_Ownership_Rumors">Tori Spelling</a> sort of sham.<p>The online evidence is slim but it's there. In fact, Simon even <a href="http://twitter.com/SimonvanKempen/status/10719584796">tweeted</a> about "work" today saying: <blockquote><p>Heading off to work where #Realhousewives is banished for the day while the real work happens.</blockquote></p><p>We're hoping work is his work as General Manager at the hotel but it could always mean work on his book promotion or his house renovation out in Brooklyn. Yet juliana 2010-03-19T14:25:25-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/3/10/0415/76578 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/monkeywinsanoscar.JPG" class="top"><p> We've gotten over our obsession with the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+London+West+Hollywood/local/1151"><b>London West Hollywood's</b></a> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/2/23/175352/680/hotels/The_London_West_Hollywood_is_a_Bully_The_Dog_Not_The_Meanie_">bulldog</a> but now we're totally into the monkeys swinging on the walls. Yes, monkeys swinging on the walls...er actually, the wallpaper. <p>When we had lunch at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/23/133748/01/hotels/We_Do_Lunch_at_Gordon_Ramsay_s_Boxwood_Cafe_at_the_London_WeHo">Boxwood Cafe</a> last November, after Gordon Ramsay handed over culinary but not creative control to the hotel, we noticed the monkeys on our way out. And they are plastered all over the walls on this gorgeous-looking wallpaper, doing all sorts of monkey things like holding utensils, smoking cigars, applying make-up and carrying an Oscar statue. You know, monkey things.<p>Anyways, looking through the rest of our hotel photos, we realized we have some interesting wallpaper and wall-art. Like juliana 2010-03-19T14:08:14-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/