http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-11-22T15:58:17Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/morgans%20hotel%20group http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/11/17/233737/49 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/FTR_Morgans2.jpg" class="top"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/morgans%20hotel%20group"><b>Morgans Hotel Group</b></a>, whose boutique collection includes the Mondrian Hotels, the Delano and Shore Club in South Beach and hip NYC spots like the Hudson and Royalton, has officially won a "Love in An Elevator" award for dealing with the recession.<p>If you aren't familiar, <i>Love in An Elevator</i> is an Aerosmith song that talks about "loving it up while we're going down." This is pretty much how we feel about the hotels that are attempting to convince consumers to blow thousands of dollars on extravagant hotel packages in a recession. <p>While layoffs abound and the holiday season is going to be somber, hotels are out there doing their best to persuade people to part with their severance juliana 2008-11-18T09:00:15-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/11/12/13350/103 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/tivomondrian.jpg" class="top"><p>Taking hotel technology to the next level, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Mondrian+South+Beach/local/734"><b>Mondrian South Beach</b></a> has just announced a partnership with <b>TiVo</b> to put TiVo recorders in all the guest rooms at the hotel. From the press release for those of you who somehow don't know what TiVo does: <blockquote><p> Mondrian guests will be able to use the Emmy® award-winning TiVo user interface to record, pause, and rewind live TV, as well as set-up recordings of their favorite shows, and even use WishList® searches to find programs with their favorite actors or directors. The benefit of the TiVo experience doesn&#146;t end there, as guests will have the option of recording two shows at the same time, while watching a third previously juliana 2008-11-12T13:12:22-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/29/114027/70 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/delanostbarts.jpg" class="top"><p>Much like the spin-offs of their popular Mondrian flagship in places like Scottsdale, Miami Beach, Chicago and New York, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/morgans%20hotel%20group"><b>Morgans Hotel Group</b></a> is eager to do the same with the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Delano+Hotel/local/16"><b>Delano Hotel</b></a>. <p>The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/19/121433/055/hotels/Snapshot_Echelon_s_Construction_Ghost_Town">Delano Las Vegas</a> project was started and then stopped and is now indefinitely on hold. A <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/5/92714/58659/hotels/The_Delano_Says_Sorry_Vegas_We_re_Headed_to_Dubai_">Delano in Dubai</a> was announced back in September but that won't open until 2012. <p>However, it looks like a project in St. Bart's has received the greenlight and will be the second Delano to open. We were tipped off that Dutch designer Piet Boon would be in charge of the Delano St. Barts design (the original was done by Philippe Starck) and on Boon's <a juliana 2008-10-29T11:50:17-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/23/12048/028 <![CDATA[<p><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Mondrian_South_Beach_Bed.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p>While <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/hotel%20delays">hotel delays</a> are expected to be more and more frequent in these gloomy economic times, we kinda hope/thought that the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/18/231512/134/hotels/Mondrian_South_Beach_Officially_Taking_Reservations_for_November_18th"><b>Mondrian South Beach</b></a> would be beyond all that.<p>The hotel was expected to open on <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/21/235342/281/hotels/Mondrian_South_Beach_Will_Indeed_Open_on_November_17th">November 18th</a>, even listing rooms on its website. However, a tipster emailed us late last night with this bit of info:<blockquote><p>The Mondrian South Beach isn't opening as scheduled. I had a reservation there and received an ominous phone call from one of the corporate reservation managers. He was reluctant to explain why. I did some more digging. According to a source at the hotel, the postponement is due to construction delays.</blockquote></p><p>We headed on over to the website and it juliana 2008-10-23T11:00:49-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/29/21241/5814 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/funny_pictures_sad_cat_blackandwhite.jpg" class="imgborder"><br><i>You know it's never good when <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/31/155044/158/hotels/In_These_Dark_Times_An_Aloft_Hotel_Might_Be_Hard_But_Not_Too_Hard_To_Find">we bring out</a> the "I has a sad" kitty.</i><p>Remember those <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/starwood%20hotels">Starwood</a></b> stocks you bought a few months ago? Yeah. You might want to get rid of those -- or buy them up, depending on how you like to play the market. <p> The AP <a href="http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/09/29/ap5485396.html">reports</a> that shares of hotel companies dropped on Monday morning and even more so following the House's rejection of the $700 billion bailout plan later that afternoon. Analysts all over -- wait, who are we kidding? There's only a few financial firms left -- are lowering their expectations for travel in 2009, with one Goldman Sachs analyst predicting that revenue per available room in the jennm 2008-09-30T14:56:07-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/