http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-25T19:15:34Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Shangri-La%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/2/7184/86841 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/overview.jpg" class="top"><p> Here&#146;s some skewed logic to start your week off. You&#146;re a soon-to-be-open hotel, you&#146;re not sure exactly how long it&#146;s going to take for your paint to dry and your air con to get whirring, and you&#146;re watching other new hotels around the globe getting <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/29/122752/97/hotels/Mandarin_Oriental_Barcelona_Will_Now_Open_on_November_26th">called out</a> for opening late. What&#146;s the solution? <p>Well, if you&#146;re <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Shangri-La%20Hotels"><b>Shangri-La</b></a>, your solution is to hedge your bets. The bizarrely named <b>Shangri-La China World Summit Wing</b> in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotels/city/cn/Beijing"><b>Beijing</b></a> was originally slated to open <a href="http://asia.businesstraveller.com/news/shangri-la-to-open-hotel-in-beijings-china-worl">"at the end of the year"</a>. And even now, despite Shangri-La just having appointed a GM, they&#146;re not quite sure when it&#146;ll be ready for us to bed down, announcing this weekend that it&#146;ll juliab 2009-11-02T09:59:20-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/25/6499/24826 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/viewfromshangrilabar.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>Sydney's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Shangri-La+Hotel,+Sydney/ian/131394"><b>Shangri-La Hotel</b></a> already serves up drinks in a bar we approve of - its <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/16/3205/84802/hotels/Shangri_La_s_Blu_Horizon_Bar_Rocks_The_Rocks">Blu Horizon Bar</a> which has amazing views over Sydney Harbour and the Opera House. Downstairs, the all-day dining spot <a href="http://www.shangri-la.com/en/property/sydney/shangrila/dining/restaurant/cafemix"><b>Café Mix</b></a> has just had a revamp and earlier this month relaunched with a new look and a new menu.<p>The new look includes extra seating and Café Mix now seats over two hundred guests. You can get nearly anything you want here: there's Indian, Japanese, Chinese and Australian cuisine, plus (something we really like) a <b>dessert buffet</b> which includes a chocolate fountain.<p>To celebrate the new look there's a special on every Friday night until October 16. It's a seafood buffet amandak 2009-09-25T09:08:48-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/24/121842/355 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/shangrilashanghai.jpg" class="top"> <p>Although properties in New York and Chicago are out of the picture for now, <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/shangri-la%20hotels">Shangri-La Hotels</a></b> are continuing to expand in Asia, just opening a new fancy high-rise is the Chinese city of Ningbo. The <b>Shangri-La Ningbo</b> would be your typical five-star property, if it weren't boasting of special introductory <b>rates as low as $120</b> and a residential community of 60 apartments. <p>Available until December 31 for stays in a deluxe room, the $120 opening deal will hopefully attract tourists on a sidetrip from visiting Shanghai, as Ningbo is just across the Huangzhou Bay. For that $120, you'll get a whole bunch of free stuff: <b>free buffet breakfast, free broadband internet access</b>, free use of hookups JetSetCD 2009-08-24T14:55:45-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/24/10428/9034 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/tatumshangri.jpg" class="top"> <p>Mmm, Channing Tatum. Mmmm, shirtless dudes in GQ. Mmmm, <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Shangri+La+Santa+Monica/ian/272343">Shangri-La Santa Monica</a></b>. <P>The August issue of GQ features one of the most kickass photoshoots ever: a shirtless Channing Tatum gallivanting around the Shangri-La Santa Monica. He's in the hallways; he's in Suite 700 (and, uh, he's kinda messy in an endearing, manly kind of way) which has two bedrooms and a wrap-around terrace with one of "the best views in the world." <p>Photographed by Mario Testino, the hotel is, admittedly, sort of background for the Channing Tatum hotness here &#151; and, though the property is not as prominently featured in the images as heavily as the hotel spotlighted in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/22/231553/869/hotels/Annie_Leibovitz_Captures_Unexpected_Portraits_At_The_Peninsula">Annie Liebovitz's Peninsula photos</a>, we think Jenna 2009-07-24T10:08:25-05:00 34.0154450 -118.49910 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/16/13415/9219 <![CDATA[<p> <i>We are suckers for a room with a killer view. &nbsp;We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.</i> <p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/petronasmalaysia.jpg" class="top"> <p>It sounds kind of dirty to say that you can see the world's biggest twin buildings without even leaving your hotel Jenna 2009-07-16T13:44:53-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/