HotelChatter - Tag: Travelodge Hotels

Travelodge Releases Annual List of Most-Discarded Books in Hotel Rooms

KatieK — 2008-09-04T13:46:38-05:00

<![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/gentleman7days.jpg" class="imgborder">You have to feel sorta bad for the unfortunate dude who leaves behind both The Kama Sutra for Dummies and How to be a Gentleman in Seven Days at a Travelodge. (So many unanswered questions!)Leave it to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Travelodge%20Hotels">Travelodge Hotels </a> to monitor -- and report -- such activity (and, ahem, leave it to us to poke fun at it). Indeed, the U.K. budget chain just released its annual list of books abandoned in hotel rooms at 336 properties, and while this year's 7,000 discarded titles were mostly autobiographies (John Prescott's memoir tops the list), chick lit, and thrillers, a healthy sprinkling of sex manuals also made the list, like The Best 50 Love Making Positions for

Uxbridge: Travelodge's Recycled Hotel :: The Final Result

Jenna — 2008-08-19T11:17:41-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/shippingcontainerfinished.jpg" class="imgborder"> We told you all about <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Travelodge%20Hotels">Travelodge's</a> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/10/104944/692/hotels/Travelodge_UK_Aims_to_Build_First_Recyclable_Hotel_">recycled hotel</a> -- you know, the one with steel shipping containers stacked up together like legos -- and we brought you news last week that the property <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/15/12179/3856/hotels/Travelodge_Opens_Recyclable_Hotel_Made_of_Shipping_Containers">was open for business</a>. But what we were envisioning here wasn't quite this...well, boring. We've got to give Travelodge props for making the interior feel homey and look just like any other hotel, but we kind of not-so-secretly wished this hotel would have looked like a big stack of shipping containers for the novelty of it. <a href="http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10217">World Architecture News</a> had some fun facts about the green benefits of going the recycled-hotel route: <blockquote>A traditional 100-bed hotel costs Travelodge around £5

Uxbridge: Travelodge Opens 'Recyclable' Hotel Made of Shipping Containers

Jenna — 2008-08-15T12:26:06-05:00

Oh Travelodge Hotels, you so crazy.

First it was those insane pajamas. Then came the nude sleepwalkers study. Let's not forget the free rooms for people who happen to be named Mary and Joseph when Christmastime comes around, or the option to have the sweet aroma of grass wafted into guestrooms overnight.

And then there was that recyclable hotel you told us you were building. And, like, we knew you were into some crazy stuff -- but it seems you've actually gone and done this thing because we hear your hotel made out of recycled modified steel shipping containers is now open.

Sydney: HotelChatter Questions :: Travelodge or Goldsborough Apartments in Sydney?

amandak — 2008-08-15T11:45:18-05:00

<![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/q_n_a.jpg">HotelChatter Questions: In which, the intrepid HotelChatter editors and our hotel maven readers answer hotel questions that pop into our inbox. Have a question for us? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Send it along</a>. Think you have a better answer than we gave, or better yet, want to give a vote of confidence to our answer? <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/8/154448/9653/hotels/What_s_The_Best_Room_to_Book_at_the_Tides_Zihuatanejo_for_Honeymooners_#postform">Comment away</a>. We love to be here to help, and HotelChatter reader Jamie has a quandary: where to stay in Sydney? He's trying to choose between the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Travelodge+Hotel+Sydney/ian/187477">Travelodge Sydney</a> or the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Oaks+Goldsbrough+Apartments/ian/123591">Oaks Goldsborough Apartments</a> and says: "We're most concerned about location!"The Travelodge is on Wentworth Avenue, really close to the true downtown center of Sydney, while the Goldsborough Apartments are on Pyrmont Street

Travelodge UK Smells Kinda...Good?

juliana — 2008-06-17T09:35:01-05:00

Travelodge Hotels in the UK are known for their sort of wacky offerings and promotions. Remember the spacey new age pajamas or the nude sleepwalkers study? Let's not forget the free rooms for folks named Mary and Joseph over Christmastime.

This time around Travelodge has announced that guests will now be able to choose a fragrance to have wafted about their room overnight while they sleep.

So this doesn't sound too crazy but then we read the choices for the fragrances. They are the smell of the sea, freshly cut grass, baby powder and chocolate.