HotelChatter - Tag: Sofitel Hotels

Want To Get Your Name In The Credits Of A DSK Hotel Porno? Here's How

ASchechter — 2011-11-04T09:35:58-05:00

Trust, us, we're as sick of hearing about the gosh-darned DSK hotel maid sex scandal as the next person, but this new item caught our attention. Fast on the heels of yesterday's saucy tidbit about the W London porn story, we bring you possibly the worst—or best? we can't quite tell—hotel sex news we've heard yet: My Porn Production is working on a porn film about the infamous Sofitel scandal, with the working title DXK.

Think we're making it up? French news outlet The Local alerted us to the imminent production, which will reportedly cost €200,000. And the best part? With a simple €50 donation, you can have your name in the credits!

Hanoi: Metropole Hotel in Hanoi Discovers Its Vietnam War Bunker

juliana — 2011-10-19T10:36:51-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/metropolehanoibunker.jpg" class="top"> Today's cool hotel history lesson for today involves the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/SOFITEL+METROPOLE+HANOI/local/2795">Metropole Hotel</a> in Hanoi which recently discovered a Vietnam War-era secret bunker that once housed Jane Fonda, Joan Baez and a few others during the 1972 Christmas bombings by American forces. After the bombings and the war, the bunker had been sealed and forgotten. And while the hotel always knew of the shelter, they could never find it. Until over the summer, when during renovations of their poolside bar, a worker's drill hit a piece of concrete. The seven-room, five-foot high bunker had finally been uncovered. <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ipBcFOV6WXEU7_E2GshysbEKRtEw?docId=daf41a75d75e44d39738dfea2e7a8128">Associated Press</a> reports: <blockquote>Since then, workers have been excavating the flooded and low-ceilinged space. Not much has been found in

Miami : Miami's Sofitel Gets Evacuated But a Bomb Threat, Not a Storm, is to Blame

juliana — 2011-08-29T13:10:22-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/sofitel_miami.jpg" class="top">UPDATE: The hotel has gotten an <a href="http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21005233237666/">"All Clear"</a> from the bomb squad and guests have been allowed back in their rooms. Phew!Miami Beach hotels are no strangers to evacuations at this time of year when tropical storms and hurricanes are swirling all around but at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Sofitel+Miami/ian/115396">Sofitel Miami</a> near the airport was evacuated this morning due to something far more sinister--a bomb threat. <a href="http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21005233168850/">WSVN-TV</a> reports: <blockquote>According to Miami-Dade Police, the threat was phoned in to the hotel located at 5800 Blue Lagoon Drive, and people inside the hotel, including staff and guests, were evacuated at around 11 a.m. Monday. Officers and firefighters went door-to-door at the hotel to make sure everyone had been evacuated. Blue

New York: Not Even The Swankiest Suites are Free From Disgusting Carpet Stains

juliana — 2011-08-24T11:48:57-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/sofiteny_exterior.jpg" class="top"> As we all kind of expected the Manhattan DA's office is asking the judge to dismiss the rape charges against <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/dominique strauss-kahn">Dominique Strauss-Kahn</a> claiming that the witness, a housekeeper at <a href="">The Sofitel New York</a> was an unreliable witness for several reasons. (Of course, that still that doesn't change the fact that DSK, a married man, admitted the sex was consensual.) Nevertheless what really, um, stood out for us was this bit in the prosecution's filing and highlighted by <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/dsk-seman-soaked-hotel-453627">The Smoking Gun.</a><blockquote>In a motion to dismiss rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Manhattan prosecutors today reported that an analysis of carpet stains in the Frenchmans $3000-per-night Sofitel hotel room contained the semen and DNA of

New York: Budweiser Commercial Reverses the Roles in the Strauss-Kahn Case

JetSetCD — 2011-05-23T09:17:22-05:00

<![CDATA[<iframe width="500" height="400" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JOhSCdbZMaU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> By now you're already totally aware of the shake-ups at the International Monetary Fund, as the former chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned after being indicted in New York for sexually assaulting a housekeeper in his tony $3,000-per-night suite at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Sofitel+New+York/local/172">Sofitel</a>. The story gets creepier as more of Strauss-Kahn's history is unveiled, but let's put all that aside for the moment. In early 2010, Budweiser released a commercial that depicts a humorous version of events, if the roles were reversed. We're not making light of the Strauss-Khan accusations, just pointing out this ad, which flips the players and makes the maid into the provocateur, with the guest as the innocent. Currently Strauss-Kahn is under