HotelChatter - Tag: Wisconsin Hotels

Lake Geneva: What to Do With Your Lego-Obsessed Kids This Summer? Send 'Em to Timber Ridge Lodge

Jennifer Kester — 2011-07-15T11:30:02-05:00

You have plans to take the kiddies to the final Harry Potter installment today, but you're tapped out of ideas on how to keep them busy for the rest of the summer. One option is to bring them to Timber Ridge Lodge and Waterpark to study under a Lego Certified Professional.

The Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, resort will have Lego-themed Artitecture events August 14 to 16. These interactive seminars will offer hands-on building sessions and discussions for the children from LEGO Certified Professional Adam Reed Tucker.

WI: NYT Shows Us How to Make Like a Mobster in Wisconsin

KatieK — 2009-06-29T11:46:00-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/barkerlodge.JPG" class="top"> By all stereotype-riddled accounts, Midwesterners should be laidback and genial. Too friendly, even. And nowhere might that be truer than Wisconsin, a gentle respite of summer camps, lake cabins, and farmers markets. Of course, not all Midwesterners fit that bill, epitomized best in the 1920s and 30s by the likes of Al Capone, John Dillinger, and Baby Face Nelson. Their refuges of choice? When the heat was on, <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/travel/escapes/26Gangster.html?ref=travel">writes the NYT</a>, bad guys on the lam headed for Wisconsins north woods. Some of their spots of choice have stuck around, and Wisconsin travelers can make like a mobster and disappear down the states back roads for a few days. The NYT details three resorts and lodges

Green Bay: Brett Favre's Family Has The Best Western on Lockdown for November 1

juliana — 2009-06-09T10:09:05-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/brett_favre_jersey_1.jpg" class="top"> Brett Favre...are you in or are you out? Active or retired? Healthy or injured? QB for the Minnesota Vikings or not? Whatever it is, please make up your mind soon. That's because your whole family has a huge block of rooms reserved at the Best Western Midway Motor Lodge near Lambeau Field in Wisconsin reserved for November 1 when the Vikings play your old team, The Greenbay Packers. Favre is expected to sign with the Vikings soon, unless a recent surgery on his arm has some undesirable consequences. But even if it does and Brett decides to choose retirement once and for all, the Midway Motor Lodge has a fairly flex cancellation policy.<blockquote>The group isnt required to

Green Bay: Hotel Sierra Opens in Green Bay; Packers Fans Will Be Pleased

annie0007 — 2008-06-06T09:49:28-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hotelsierragb.jpg" class="imgborder">Packers fans: put down that pigskin and forget the primal urges of football. Now you can get some refined Starbucks and Sharper Image iPod docking stations with your fourth downs and offsides, at a new hotel in Green Bay. LodgeWorks has just put the $7 million-dollar touch on <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Sierra+Green+Bay/local/1242">The Hotel Sierra Green Bay</a>, formerly the Regency Suites, and within spitting distance from Lambeau Field and nearby the city's anticipated promenade called CityDeck. And it's more upscale business traveler hotel than a football lover's hang: "...an open eight-story atrium filled with lit palm trees, porcelain tiles, warm rugs, oversize lamps, zebra woods and other natural elements." We can't really see Packers fans snuggling into the those animal patterns,

Lake Geneva: The Abbey Resort Gets a New-ish Look

juliana — 2007-04-11T16:53:57-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/abbey_resort_renov2.jpg" class="imgborder"/>The 40-year-old <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Abbey+Resort+%26+Fontana+Spa/ian/119336">Abbey Resort</a> on Lake Geneva in Wisconsin has undergone a $40 million makeover and after two years of renovations, the hotel is nearly complete as well as under new managment by HostMark Hospitality Group.The updates include LCD TVs in the 334 guestrooms, outdoor patios or balconies, and wireless internet in the common areas. The TVs (on the wall on the left in the photo) look sweet but we're not sure we agree with the choice of bedspreads. It's not quite floral but it has some greenery on it. Then again, this is Wisconsin not New York.The resort also features the 35,000-square-foot Fontana Spa which has more than 40 different types and a fitness center. More