http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T08:36:17Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/jeff%20klein http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/12/30/232540/99 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/454/nickjoneshotelier2010.jpg" class="top"><p> <p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/454/hc_2010.jpg"><i>It's what you've been waiting all year for--<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/hotelchatter 2010 awards"><b>The 2010 HotelChatter Awards</b></a>! We'll be bringing you the best and worst of the year all day today and part of tomorrow. Agree or disagree with our picks? Air your thoughts in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/12/30/232540/99/hotels/Hotelier_of_the_Year_Nick_Jones_of_Soho_House_Hotels#comment-block">comments below</a>.</i><p>In looking at our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/hot hotelier news">hot hotelier coverage</a> from the past year, just three names consistently come up--<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/andre balazs"><b>Andre Balazs</b></a>, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/ian schrager"><b>Ian Schrager</b></a> and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/steve wynn"><b>Steve Wynn</b></a>, who is really a casino mogul than a hotelier. <p><b>Where have all the hoteliers gone?</b> Have bigger hotel brands finally pushed out the hip, cool, trendsetting, modelizing, jetsetting hotelier? That's what it seems like.<p> Just looking at six new HotelChatter 2010-12-31T12:46:38-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/11/29/1753/6120 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/sunsettower_videocard.jpg" class="top"><p> <i>Hmm...we can't really classify this under <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/holiday hotel decorations">Holiday Hotel Decorations</a>. Perhaps we need to start a new series, Holiday Hotel Cards? </i><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Sunset+Tower+Hotel/local/76"><b>The Sunset Tower</b></a> in West Hollywood is known to bow down to every request put forth by their celebrity clientele. (Want an <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/11/30/8910/4014/hotels/Jessica_Simpson_Gets_an_Oven_Delivered_to_Her_Suite_at_the_Ritz_Carlton_Central_Park">oven in your suite?</a> No problem! Just ditch that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/12/18/133555/77/hotels/The_Sunset_Tower_Hotel_Won_t_Tolerate_Drunk_Make_Up_Artists">drunk make-up artist.</a>)<p>But for the holiday season, hotelier <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/jeff klein">Jeff Klein</a> decided to reach out to a few regular celeb guests for some help. <a href=" http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/a-very-s-n-l-greeting/">The NY Times'</a> Media Decoder blog reports that Klein enlisted the help of "Lonely Island" aka SNL writers/stars <b>Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone</b> to create a holiday video greeting to send juliana 2010-11-30T11:23:46-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/3/3/91536/22629 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/sunsettowerfromandaz.jpg" class="top"><p> For all that talk that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/5/142826/804/hotels/Don_t_Try_Any_Funny_Business_at_the_Sunset_Tower_Hotel_Hollywood_Business_is_Ok_"><b>Jeff Klein</b></a> gives about how his <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Sunset+Tower+Hotel/local/76"><b>Sunset Tower Hotel</b></a> is the most private of private celeb-friendly hotels and that his staffers are held to the highest of high non-disclosure standards, there's really nothing he can do about this view into his hotel, taken from the rooftop pool at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Andaz+West+Hollywood/local/1415"><b>The Andaz West Hollywood.</b></a><p>We're thinking that Klein, a very savvy hotelier, probably would never put any of his celeb clientele in a strip-facing room but if they insist on the view, he should probably warn them to close the drapes at night. That goes for you too <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/jennifer aniston">Jennifer Aniston</a> up there in the penthouse suite! Kidding. We didn't see juliana 2010-03-03T09:59:59-05:00 34.0950650 -118.37207 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/5/142826/804 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/sunsettowerroom_above.jpg" class="top"><p> According to a recent article in the <i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/business/04hotel.html?_r=1&8dpc">New York Times</a></i>, the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Sunset+Tower+Hotel/local/76">Sunset Tower Hotel</a></b> has become not only the latest haunt of entertainment industry heavyweights and deal-brokers, but has also changed the rules and raised the standard about how such a venue should operate.<p>The illustrative anecdote provided by the <i>Times</i> was about the recent firing of a room-service waiter for leaking a story to <i>US Weekly</i> about Renée Zellwegger champagne-ing it up in a suite with a man. Not only did hotel-owner <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/jeff klein"><b>Jeff Klein</b></a> hire a private detective to find out who had leaked the story, but he has made it an ironclad directive that any staff member who does something comparable will EricRosen 2009-10-05T15:06:10-05:00 34.0950650 -118.37207 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/23/154853/074 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/heath.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>We were looking forward to reading hotelier <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/jeff%20klein"><b>Jeff Klein's</b></a> blog posts at the NYT <a href="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/for-the-moment-jeff-klein-on-heath-ledger/">The Moment</a> blog. But unfortunately his third post had to be about something so tragic--yesterday's passing of actor <b>Heath Ledger</b> at age 28.<p>Klein writes that Heath, then-girlfriend (wife?) Michelle Williams and their newborn daughter Matilda spent four months living at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Sunset+Tower+Hotel/local/76"><b>Sunset Tower Hotel</b></a>. Some tidbits that Klein shares about Heath as a hotel guest.<blockquote><p>My dealings with Ledger began when his agent called me personally -- they often do -- to make a reservation. Ledger was shooting a movie and wanted to stay in the Sunset Tower for four months. It was one of my first celebrities at the hotel and juliana 2008-01-23T16:27:33-05:00 34.095050 -118.37214 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/