http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-25T06:10:08Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Scandic%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/7/145630/4475 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/Creators1.jpg" class="top"> <p>Want a free (and chic) hotel room during your stay in <b>Stockholm, Sweden</b>? If you're a creative&#151;meaning an artist, writer, designer (whether graphic, web, fashion or other) or musician&#151;then the <b>Creators' Inn By Elvine</b> is for you. <p>A concept from the Swedish fashion brand Elvine, the Creators Inn has taken over a space within the <b><a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g189852-d229359-Reviews-Scandic_Malmen-Stockholm.html">Scandic Malmen Hotel</a></b> in downtown Stockholm and transformed it into a 3-room suite with interior design and amenities based on answers to two questions: <br><br> 1. "What are the most important needs of a traveling creator? How do they differ from &#147;regular&#148; guests?"<br> 2. "What would your ultimate room for creators look like? What kind functions, products and services would be JetSetCD 2009-08-07T16:36:06-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/9/62133/52218 <![CDATA[<p><i>This week our roving correspondent <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/femmefatale"><b>Monica Guy</b></a> is writing about an oft-overlooked aspect of hotels and travel: <b>disabled access.</b> Monica knows a lot about this subject as she works and travels frequently with <a href="http://www.hawking.org.uk/text/about/about.html">Stephen Hawking</a>. However, feel free to chime in with your thoughts and experiences too. Got a question? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com"><b>Let us know</b></a> and we'll get it answered for you.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/scandicwheelchair.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>For disabled travellers outside of the US, perhaps a better option than designated specially-designed <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/9/61428/00134/hotels/Would_You_Want_to_Stay_in_a_Special_Hotel_">accessible hotels</a> is to go for ordinary hotel chains who take access seriously. <p> Three cheers in this department go to the Swedish-owned <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Scandic%20Hotels"><b>Scandic Hotel</b></a> chain. They recently won two prestigious awards for their efforts in the field of disabled femmefatale 2008-05-16T14:30:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/4/6114/46051 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Water_Bottles_With_Cat.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>As part of their big pledge for <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/16/73111/023/hotels/Scandic_Hotels_Pledge_Environmental_Purity_by_2025">environmental purity</a> by 2025, the European <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Scandic%20Hotels"><b>Scandic Hotels</b></a> chain has just announced they're going to help the environment even more by stopping their use of bottled water.</p><p>In the future, if you want a drink of water in a Scandic Hotel, you'll be able to quench your thirst using tap water that will be chilled and filtered as it comes through the faucet. Scandic says their filtering process will leave in the good minerals and take out any nasty chemicals, and you'll be able to choose from still or carbonated.</p><p>The move will save about 160 tons in carbon emissions a year, both by saving in the use of plastic amandak 2008-04-04T11:33:54-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/16/73111/023 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/ScandicHotelsRecyclingBin.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>Scandinavians seem to be renowned for a bit of a social conscience and the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Scandic%20Hotels"><b>Scandic Hotels</b></a> chain has long had a reputation for doing things green.</p><p>In the last decade or so, Scandic has already done a lot to be environmentally friendly across their 140 hotels: introducing recycling bins into guest rooms, replacing chlorine bleach with oxygen bleach in the laundry, and renovating rooms with recyclable and renewable materials.</p><p>Last week Scandic made a very big promise: their goal is to be "100% green by 2025", which means eliminating all carbon-emitting activities and basically being super, super-environmental, including:</p><blockquote><p>thermo steered heating, usage of renewed energy, cars driven by renewed fuel, water efficient water taps, showers and toilets, KRAV-labelled food amandak 2007-11-16T09:15:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/4/10/165952/694 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/handheld_bible.png" class="imgborder"><p>A tipster let us know that <a href="www.scandic-hotels.com/"><b>Scandic Hotels</b></a> will no longer be carrying bibles in their guestrooms. Per the aptly-named <a href="http://scandichotelbibles.blogspot.com/">Scandic hotel bibles blog</a>:<blockquote><p>The whole sad process began with a complaint by a guest who had found a Bible in a drawer in his hotel room. He wrote to Mona Andersson, the head marketing executive at Scandic hotels. She wrote back [my translation]: "Thank you for your e-mail and your views. Yes, we have traditionally had the Bible/New testament available at our hotel rooms. But all religions are welcome at Scandic so as of today we encourage all our hotels to remove the Bible from their rooms. The Bible will be available at the reception as juliana 2007-04-10T16:59:52-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/