http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-26T05:40:06Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/VCH%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/23/103451/437 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/chatwalinterior.jpg" class="top"> <p>From the depths of a late-afternoon delirium, our emotions got the best of us and we were <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/22/16285/3547/hotels/Has_VCH_Given_Up_On_The_Chatwal_After_All_">moved to write a poem</a> about how upset we were that we couldn't find<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/vikram chatwal"> Vikram Chatwal's </a>ten-years-in-the-making <b><A href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Chatwal%2C+New+York/local/1402">The Chatwal</a></b> &#151; <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/8/161956/3411/hotels/Lamb_s_Club_Hotel_10_Years_in_the_Making_and_Still_Not_Open">slated</a> to open this year &#151; on the official roster of VCH's open or in-development hotels. However! Thanks to a fairly confident commenter and an official hotel rep, we are happy to learn that The Chatwal is indeed on the way. Supposedly. <p>Says <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/comments/2009/4/22/16285/3547/1#1">BVCH</a>: <blockquote><p>Because of the more traditional nature of the product and slightly different demographic that The Chatwal will [we feel] ultimately will appeal to, it is being marketed outside of the Jenna 2009-04-23T10:36:58-05:00 40.7567070 -73.984559 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/22/16285/3547 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/vchhotels.jpg" class="top"> <p><i><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/vikram chatwal">Vikram</a> had a little <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/8/161956/3411/hotels/Lamb_s_Club_Hotel_10_Years_in_the_Making_and_Still_Not_Open">Lamb</a>, <br>little Lamb, little Lamb, <br>Vikram had a little Lamb, <br>Whose name was changed, we know. <br>He named his Lamb <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/11/12/141824/49/hotels/The_Lamb_s_Club_is_Now_The_Chatwal_and_Might_Actually_Open">'Chatwal'</a> one day, <br>'Chatwal' one day, 'Chatwal' one day, <br>But we checked the VCH website and &#151; <br>Oh wait, where did it go? </i> <p>We were sitting around <i><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/dream%20hotels">Dream</a></i>-ing (ha! See what we did there?) of Vikram Chatwal when we realized that it's been a mighty long time since we'd heard anything about <b><A href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Chatwal%2C+New+York/local/1402">The Chatwal</a></b>, the "upcoming" Times Square hotel formerly known as the Lamb's Club Hotel which has, so far, been a decade in the making. What gives? Isn't that bad boy supposed to be opening Jenna 2009-04-22T16:50:19-05:00 40.7567070 -73.984559 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/7/73841/66444 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/dreamcohinbig.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>While the opening of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/3/16/101453/910/hotels/Dream_Downtown_NYC_Delayed_to_2010_">Downtown Dream Hotel</a> in New York is, pardon the pun, still just a dream, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/vikram chatwal">Vikram Chatwal's</a> VCH group seems to have managed to get their act together with another Dream hotel at least: the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Dream+Cochin/ian/308798"><b>Dream Cochin</b></a> in Kerala is now up and running.<p>Per <a href="http://www.luxist.com/photos/dream-cochin/1470961/">Luxist</a>, The Indian tourism ministry has apparently already awarded the Dream Cochin five stars, although the Dream gang seem to think their new hotel is even better than that; they promise it "offers a glimpse of the future of deluxe accommodations." <p>The future is apparently going to be blue in color, which the Dream people think will give us the feeling of floating on amandak 2009-04-07T09:38:36-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/3/4/134350/3675 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/vchlogo.jpg" class="top"> <p>You know what's the worst? The music on hotel websites. It's a vicious cross-breed of elevator music, lounge beats and a "grown-up film" soundtrack &#151; and since we spend an inordinate amount of time on hotel websites every day, our patience for said music is, well, thin. Very thin. On more than one occasion, we've left a tab on our browser open to the <a href="http://www.thompsonhotels.com/">Thompson site</a> for hours without realizing it &#151; with the sound on &#151; and we're certain that the music both infiltrated our dreams and kick-started a slow descent into crazytown. <p>However! One of us was on <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/vikram%20chatwal">Vikram Chatwal's</a> <b><a href="http://vikramchatwalhotels.com/">VCH Hotels' website</a></b> the other day and, inexplicably, caught herself doin' a Jenna 2009-03-04T13:45:19-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/12/8/134028/255 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/chatwalroomssizes.jpg" class="top"> <p>It's official: <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Chatwal%2C+New+York/local/1402">The Chatwal</a></b> will, indeed, open. Well, according to the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Leading%20Hotels%20of%20the%20World">Leading Hotels of the World</a> website, anyway: <a href="http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2008/12/chatwal_hotel_t.php">NewYorkology</a> has stumbled upon an opening date! A <i>date</i>! Not just a nebulous time period like "early 2009" or "this winter"! <p>A bit of backstory: we've been watching this 88-room hotel for a while now. It sits in the Times Square space that was once the iconic Lamb's Club and has been in the works for <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/8/161956/3411/hotels/Lamb_s_Club_Hotel_10_Years_in_the_Making_and_Still_Not_Open"><i>ten</i> years</a>. It was originally supposed to be called the Lamb's Club Hotel, but it will finally make its debut as The Chatwal (<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/4/161138/4722/hotels/Lamb_s_Club_Hotel_Update_Actually_It_s_quot_The_Chatwal_quot_Now">named</a>, of course, for the one and only <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Vikram%20Chatwal">Vikram Chatwal</a></b>, the oh-so-modest hotelier behind Jenna 2008-12-08T14:05:25-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/