HotelChatter - Tag: Toronto Hotels

Toronto: After the Election, Escape to Toronto's Hazleton Hotel

JetSetCD — 2008-11-03T14:45:06-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/Hazleton_Hotel.jpg" class="top"> With the presidential election looming tomorrow, victory parties are being planned just as much as escapes from whatever the new administration and so Canada re-emerges as a getaway hotspot. In the spirit of political ad detox and recovery, <a href="http://www.urbandaddy.com/jt/1845/The_Hazelton_Jetset_JT_Toronto_Rapture_UrbanDaddy_Archives">UrbanDaddy</a> has pinpointed their favorite spot for going turncoat: Toronto's first five-star hotel, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Hazleton+Hotel+/local/878">The Hazleton</a>. Make sure to stockpile your loonies before heading over the border; The Hazleton boasts a state-of-the-art gym with pool, "technogym" equipment and spa treatments like eyelash tinting, which is sure to help you momentarily to forget the election. If the results really require you to withdraw from society for a bit, why not spring for Suite 502 at The Hazleton, heralded as

Markham: Room With an Anti-View: Centrally-Located Holiday Inn Markham in Toronto

amandak — 2008-09-11T10:35:25-05:00

<![CDATA[You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-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>. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view. <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/AntiView_Holiday_Inn_Markham.jpg" class="imgborder"> When the hotel's own publicity chooses the opening words of its

Toronto: Eat Opera-Style at The Hilton Toronto

amandak — 2008-09-10T15:45:25-05:00

The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, where the Canadian Opera Company performs.

If you like the history and culture of opera but can't stand that high-pitched singing, the Toronto Hilton has a nice alternative for you with its Appetite for Opera program. You don't have to listening to foreign squeals all night, but instead you get to eat a whole lot of great food.

The Toronto Hilton's Tundra restaurant is working in combination with the Canadian Opera Company to run three Appetite for Opera evenings over the next nine months: to get exact, on September 25, January 22, 2009 and May 6, 2009.

Toronto: WiFi Hell for Toronto Film Festival Guests at Sutton Place

Jenna — 2008-09-08T12:37:48-05:00

We cannot imagine anything worse than being a journalist covering the Toronto Film Festival right now, staying at the Sutton Place where there are, apparently, some serious WiFi issues happening.

Imagine having an assignment to do and no Internet-ical resources to tap into. Worse: imagine no way to send emails (because we're in Canada and out of our domestic cell coverage area, obvi) and a burning need to blog about the horrible films we've watched -- and the amazing/equally horrible celebrities we've just seen. Disaster.

Toronto: Gansevoort Hotel to Open in Toronto in 2011

juliana — 2008-09-03T15:03:47-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/gvoorttto.jpg" class="imgborder">We had heard the rumblings and now we have confirmation: Gansevoort Toronto is in the works. This will be the fourth property from the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/gansevoort%20hotel%20group">Gansevoort hotel Group</a>--there's the flagship in NYC, Gansevoort South in Miami Beach and the upcoming Gansevoort Park on Park Ave South--and it will include residences. The hotel will also be very green as it's expected to be Toronto's first ever LEED-certified hotel/residence. Indeed, Gansevoort Toronto is hoping to be the model for "environmentally building and living."But don't worry! It won't be like totally boring or anything. For starters, look at that crazy design. If you look closely, you can make out the vertical hanging gardens. The hotel also will have a rooftop pool