http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-08-22T03:50:43Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/bill%20marriott http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/6/161055/3283 <![CDATA[<p><p><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/marriott_blog.png" class="imgborder"><p><i>Not sure how we missed this last week but we blame it on the traveling!</i><p>So it is widely known that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Bill%20Marriott"><b>Bill Marriott's</b></a> doesn't actually blog his blog posts himself. We knew that for quite some time and Bill even went public with it on <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25786242#25786242">NBC.</a><p>The biggest reason why Bill doesn't blog? <b>He doesn't know how to type.</b> Normally, we would think that was egregious of him. A CEO of a huge company who blogs but doesn't know how to type? Ridiculous! Yet we are obsessed with the show <i>Mad Men</i> on AMC and it's given us plenty of insight into office life in the 1950s/60s when Bill was just starting out in his career.<p> Long story juliana 2008-08-06T16:26:06-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/17/14531/4951 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/billmexioc.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>After releasing some scary second-quarter earnings reports this week, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/marriott%20hotels"><b>Marriott Hotels</b></a> have decided to counter the bad news with some muy bueno news: Bill Marriott and co. plans to triple their presence in Mexico over the next five years.<blockquote><p> The deal would add 29 branded Marriott hotels in Mexico for a total investment of more than $1 billion by the owners of the properties, the company said in a statement. There are currently 16 hotels and resorts in Mexico operating under Marriott brands such as Courtyard, Residence Inn and JW Marriott.</blockquote></p><p>So what does this mean for hotel guests? Well, if you have a penchant for Mexico (which is way cheaper than Europe), join up for the juliana 2008-07-17T15:12:14-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/16/133653/271 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/ashley_alexandra_dupre_hotel.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><i>There's tons of hotel news flying around this week and we don't have time to give each and every story the love and attention it may deserve, so you will have to settle for some news briefs.</i><p><p>&#183; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/nyregion/16spitzer.html?ref=nyregion"><b>Spitzer and the Mayflower Return</b></a>: As if it weren't bad enough that the former NY governor Eliot Spitzer cheated on his wife with a call girl in a DC hotel, he charged other stays at the hotel in early January 2008 to his campaign. [NY Times]<p>&#183; <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/olympics/wires/07/15/2090.ap.oly.china.hotels.0593/"><b>Beijing Hotels Still Barren</b></a>: Beijing is still having problems filling up for the Olympics. Bookings in hotels with three-star ratings or below were also under 50 percent, says the Beijing Tourism Bureau. juliana 2008-07-16T17:15:18-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/6/20/133933/806 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/8580/EditionWashingtonDC.gif" class="imgborder"><br> <p> After hearing <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/10/231621/203/hotels/In_The_Name_Of_The_Father_Son_and_Edition_Hotel">rumor</a> after <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/3/31/163747/967/hotels/For_Unto_Us_An_Edition_Hotel_in_DC_is_Born_">rumor</a> that Ian Schrager's <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Edition%20Hotels">Edition</a></b> will rise in what was a former church in the Adams Morgan section of DC, the Washington DC Business Journal has <a href="http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/06/23/story8.html">confirmed</a> it will really happen. But you just have to wait until 2012 for it's opening.<p>DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commission has approved the plans from developers Brian Friedman (Friedman Capital) and Beztak Properties who are working with Marriott and Schrager to build this Edition. <blockquote><p> Friedman will present his concept for the First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Euclid and Champlain streets NW, to the Historic Preservation Review Board on June 26. The property is up for historic landmark designation later this AndrewC 2008-06-20T13:58:00-05:00 38.922801 -77.041712 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/6/9/164221/5928 <![CDATA[<p> <img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/hc_reader_deals.jpg">For spontaneous travelers and hotel geeks like ourselves, there is some good news in all of this recession and economic woes talk: hotels won't be raising room rates as much or as frequently in the near future. In fact, there may be some discounts abound!<p>Many hoteliers and CEOs sounded off at the NYU Tisch Hospitality Center conference last week, which <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/6/5/1813/47620/hotels/Inside_the_30th_Annual_NYU_International_Hotel_Investment_Conference">Andrew Gindy dutifully reported on</a> for us.<p>According to <a href="http://www.btnmag.com/businesstravelnews/headlines/frontpage_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003813531">BTN Online</a>, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/bill%20marriott"><b>Bill Marriott</b></a> even said that discounting will probably start happening. Yet it was <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/barry%20sternlicht"><b>Barry Sternlicht</b></a> who seemed to have the bleakest outlook on the hotel market:<blockquote><p>Barry Sternlicht, chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, said to expect the softening to continue for at juliana 2008-06-09T16:48:56-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/