HotelChatter - Tag: WTF Hotel News http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T18:19:57Z HotelChatter HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/WTF%20Hotel%20News Mother Claims Hotel Pool Got Her Daughter Pregnant http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/9/131057/2254 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/rehabtedmurphy.jpg" class="top"> <p>Oh noes. A mother in Poland is suing a hotel in Egypt. Why? Because she <b>thinks her 13-year-old daughter got pregnant from swimming in the hotel's pool</b>. Seriously. <p>According to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1198596/My-daughter-13-got-pregnant-using-hotel-swimming-pool-claims-mother.html?ITO=1490">the Daily Mail</a>: <blockquote><p>Magdalena Kwiatkowska says the 13-year-old conceived after coming into contact with 'stray sperm' in the water of an Egyptian resort. <p>'The mother is adamant that her daughter didn't meet any boys while she was there,' a travel industry source said. 'She is determined to go ahead with the case.'</p></blockquote> <p>You know, little things like this serve as a reminder that the world is a lot different than we all like to think it is. <p>You know what else? We know for sure that Jenna 2009-07-09T13:12:59-05:00 Palm Beach: Stealing Shampoo From Hotels is Fine; Stealing a Parrot is Not http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/16/93526/4604 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/greenchekparrot.jpg" class="top"> <p>Yeah, we'll confess: sometimes we steal stuff from hotels. Like the little baby soaps and shampoos and things (which are ours for the taking), and one time we swiped a monogrammed washcloth and a tea packet and the binder that held the roomservice menus because we thought it looked nice. But do you know what we have never stolen from a hotel? A bird. <p>Though this is not as bad as the time some guy ripped the head off of one of the ducks in a hotel lobby (and yes, that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/28/112228/63/hotels/Worst_Hotel_Hell_The_Duck_Chomping_Guest">really did happen</a>), this is still sort of sad and mean: someone stole a couple of parrots from <A href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Breakers/ian/112199"><b>The Breakers</b></a>. <p>According to <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5igqN8ZYRiqhthEgj9vKVsSHRcEPwD98ROUE00">the Jenna 2009-06-16T09:37:58-05:00 26.7144500 -80.033865 Midway: Zermatt Resort Asks Facebook Fans to Help Name Their Goats http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/5/26/204451/665

More Swiss Family Robinson meets Sound of Music than stereotypical Utah ski lodge, Zermatt Resort in Midway, UT (about 50 minutes from Salt Lake City International airport and minutes from Park City and Deer Valley) is multi-tasking with its social media efforts. The Rocky Mountain resort has a blog and posts regularly to Flickr, Twitter (@Zermatt_Resort) and Facebook.

We especially dig the resort’s creative use of Facebook. The photo and event updates and frequent comments are well worth a look see for curious travelers, but unlike a lot of Facebook pages that are skewed to a strictly out-of-town market, Zermatt Resort’s efforts also appeal to the local clientele.]]> globetrotting gourmet 2009-05-27T10:34:48-05:00 40.5247720 -111.48832 Casper: Harboring Stolen Candy in Your Hotel Room Will Get You Arrested http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/4/30/111943/092 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/cinnamon_bears.jpg" class="top"> <p>Let this be a lesson to all of us: stealing a barrel of candy and then hiding it in your hotel room will get you in serious trouble with the law. <p>A young lady in Wyoming has found her name splashed <a href="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/04/29/Police-find-stolen-candy-in-hotel-room/UPI-75591241034892/">across headlines</a> today after she was arrested on suspicion of possessing stolen property because she "had a pilfered barrel of cinnamon bear candies" in her hotel room. Headlines. This has made headlines today. <p>And the worst part? Police had come to her hotel room because of an accidental 911 call when they noticed the stolen cinnamon bears in question: <blockquote><p>Investigators said they responded to a 911 call from a Days Inn hotel room in Casper Jenna 2009-04-30T11:30:35-05:00 St.Gallen: Zero Desire to Stay at Switzerland's Zero Star Hotel http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/20/10033/5972 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/zerostardormnoppl1.jpg" class="top"> <p>Well, we suppose this is cool and ironic in the way that wearing a 4-year-old's Puff the Magic Dragon t-shirt is ironic: two brothers in Switzerland have built literally a "zero star" hotel, the most bare-bones of bare-bones hotels, and are touting it as an "anti-luxury hotel" and selling nights for less than the cost of most cheap motels. <p>From the <a href="http://www.dwell.com/daily/blog/37722464.html">Dwell blog</a>: <blockquote><p>The<b> Null Stern ("Zero Star") Hotel </b>occupies a subterranean Swiss air raid shelter outside Zurich, which has served little purpose since the Cold War. Few updates were made to the place in order to ready it for guests. It costs less than a room at a Motel 6 (around $25/night), and you certainly Jenna 2009-01-20T10:15:19-05:00 Search HotelChatter Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/