http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-25T22:34:14Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/UK%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/24/131218/85 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/queen_elizabeth.jpg" class="top"><p> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/holiday inn hotels"><b>The Holiday Inns</b></a> and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Holiday%20Inn%20Express"><b>Holiday Inn Expresses</b></a> in the UK are offering monsters-in-law, er, excuse us <i>mothers</i>-in-law 25 percent off at their hotels from <b>December 23-29</b> as a way to give everyone in the family a reprieve from her incessant nagging about your culinary skills, your "expensive" lifestyle, your unwillingness to visit her more often and the real reason why your kids are acting out. <p>Considering that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/9/125345/4463/hotels/The_Five_Worst_Budget_Brands_In_Europe">Holiday Inn</a> is one of our picks for the worst budget brand hotels in Europe because they are so "bland and boring," we think this is a fitting punishment for "Mom." Who knows? Maybe she will like it. <p>There's no word on how you juliana 2009-11-24T13:23:04-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/19/103847/14 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/plymouth.jpg" class="top"><p> Know anyone called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes"><b>Guy Fawkes</b></a>? Or <b>Catherine Wheel</b>? No? Us neither. Funny, because from the offer that <b>Future Inns</b> has announced this morning, there&#146;d be quite a few. <p>Here&#146;s the offer, in all its resounding, poor-grammared idiocy: <blockquote><p>There is hope for <i>some</i> Guys Fawkes&#146; [sic] this November: Whilst many will be hoisted to the top of bonfires as people across the UK prepare for fifth of November celebrations, leading hotel brand Future Inns has pledged to protect other &#145;Guys&#146; around the UK by offering a free room for the night.&#148;</blockquote> <p>Neat idea, you&#146;re thinking. You&#146;ll probably tell your friend Guy about this one. Except, no you won&#146;t. Because the offer isn&#146;t open to people called Guy. juliab 2009-10-19T11:43:40-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/9/16315/1918 <![CDATA[<p><p> <b>Ed. Note: Usually we do these feature on Thursdays but we couldn't get to it yesterday.</b><i>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 juliana 2009-10-09T16:34:00-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/6/144514/839 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/22421/2009_10_05_HC___VisitLondon.jpg" class="top"><p><b>VisitLondon.com</b>, the web home of the capital city's visitor organization, has long offered links to events, sites, and whatever else tourists might find interesting. It developed the same way that most of these sites do, where a bunch of London companies got together to partner up and showcase the city.<p> We only recently discovered, though, that it has a pretty robust section on <a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/offers/">all kinds of deals,</a> including an entire page turned over to scoring <a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/offers/where-to-stay">hotel bargains.</a> <p>The main "Specials" page is loaded with links to shows, restaurants, and travel packages, with box office offerings marked down as much as 50%. Be careful though: the top of the page has what seem to be unmarked ads Omri 2009-10-06T15:49:18-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/30/6952/38571 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/33752/fish.jpg" class="top"> <p>Excuse us for being persnickity, but isn&#146;t it still summer right now? And we&#146;d quite like to carry on thinking that until the hot stuff stops. <p>So we won&#146;t be thinking about the &#147;Autumn calendar of events&#148; that <a href="http://www.fishmorehall.co.uk/"><b>Fishmore Hall</b></a> in Shropshire has just launched quite yet. But for those of you who like to plan ahead, October and November will see in a <b>Colour Me Beautiful</b> day, when you can see whether you&#146;re wearing the right clothes or need to invest in a new wardrobe (October 2, pencil it in ladies). It costs £25, and includes luck and a glass of wine (and the restaurant is a goodie &#150; we stayed there when it opened londontown 2009-07-30T14:42:46-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/