http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T11:03:32Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Travel%20Media http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/13/23922/9050 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/deancourt.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p><p>With this week devoted entirely to traveling with kids in tow, The New York Times reminds us that it's family travel season. Which explains why writer Jennifer Colin <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/travel/13check.html?ref=travel">checked into</a> the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/BW+DEAN+COURT+HOTEL/ian/209393/">Best Western Dean Court Hotel</a></b> with her three kids to survey things from the inside out. Despite the chain name--and being there with her "boisterous" family--she found the place to be pretty flash.<br> <p>The staff even helped corral her kids:<blockquote><p>What's more, when our youngest child sleep-walked outside our room in the middle of the night, a friendly telephone call from the reception desk alerted us to our somnambulant son.</blockquote></p><p>But as with so many non-kid-friendly things, only the first one is free: the Hotel also arranges pbb 2007-05-14T09:00:02-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/19/84012/6379 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/xhotelcapetown.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p><p>Ah, that's more like it. After impressing us <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/11/22340/2187/hotels/The+Hautest+Bathrooms+in+Louisville%3F">last week</a> with a great review of a quality property, <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/travel/18check.1.html?ref=travel">this week</a> the New York Times finds plenty wrong with the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Extreme+Hotel+Cape+Town/local/383">Extreme Hotel Cape Town</a></b>. <p>Not that the hotel actually sounds that bad. But reviewer Bonnie Tsui is not impressed by the hotel's ever-present TV screens showing extreme sports and the kitschy decoration. (Skis hanging on the wall, anyone?) She doesn't even like the other guests, including some "decidedly nonadventurous Europeans." <p>But what about the rooms? They don't sound too bad to us:<blockquote><p>Nothing extreme about them. There are two room categories: standard and executive. The price difference is so slight, about $20, that it's worth the upgrade pbb 2007-03-19T09:47:47-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/