HotelChatter - Tag: travel and leisure

Los Angeles: Hotel Bel-Air Has Been Closed for a Year But It Still Made T+L's Best Hotels List

juliana — 2010-12-13T15:00:52-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/belair_sign.jpg" class="top"> Once again, we find ourselves confused by a World's Best list from Travel + Leisure. The magazine has just released its 2011 T+L 500 guide which always makes us giddy as we love seeing which hotels are hot and which are not. But when we noticed that the best hotel in Los Angeles is the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/HOTEL+BEL+AIR/local/1625">Hotel Bel-Air</a>, it felt like someone popped the pretty balloon we had been holding. And then knocked over our ice cream too. That's because the Hotel Bel-Air has been closed for over a year for extensive renovations. It is not expected to reopen until <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/10/25/142352/42/hotels/Brides_Get_Ready_The_Hotel_Bel_Air_Will_Reopen_in_July_2011">July</a>. So, how did this happen? According to T+L, the 2011 T+L 500 guide is

Sedona: Honeymooners Beware: T+L Lists The World's Best Hotels for Families

Heidi Atwal — 2009-08-25T15:24:40-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/enchantmentpool.jpg" class="top"> The list-makers at Travel + Leisure don't strictly cater to single jetsetting types. There's an active sect of family travelers out there, and those that don't consider Disneyland the Alpha-Omega of getaways. Sorry, Mickey. Their survey of the "World's Best Hotels and Cruises for Families" in the U.S. and Canada is topped by the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Enchantment+Resort+Mii+Amo+Spa/ian/184988">Enchantment Resort of Sedona, Arizona</a> (which, coincidentally, sounds Disney-esque). It's no rough-it campsite orshudderComfort Suites, but a luxury resort where adults are known to enjoy playtime as much as their young counterparts. The hotel's site explicitly tells prospective travelers not to "worry about the kids," citing activities like Camp Coyote exploration as a selling-point. The Camp is an educational program designed for

Travel + Leisure Picks Out the 'Most Notorious' Hotel Rooms

JetSetCD — 2009-06-22T09:55:41-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/JacksonAdlon.jpg" class="top"> Before we stayed at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/19/84715/8901/hotels/Inside_The_Hollywood_Roosevelt_s_Tower_Rooms">Hollywood Roosevelt</a> last week, we jotted down the property's few haunted room numbers in the hopes of avoiding them (Marilyn Monroe in 246 and Montgomery Clift in 928). Still, infamous hotel rooms aren't restricted to the ghosts of Hollywood; they're to be found all around the world, and <a href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-most-notorious-hotel-rooms">Travel + Leisure</a> wants to direct you to their list of the Most Notorious Hotel Rooms, which features mostly US properties (with one exception for Michael Jackson). Mimicking previous lists like the truly international one from <a href="http://au.askmen.com/top_10/travel_200/236_travel_top_ten.html">AskMen</a>, the T+L rundown is entertaining, but a bit weakwhere is the Lorraine Hotel where Martin Luther King Jr was murdered, or room 552 at

T+L Releases Best 500 Hotels List; Usual Suspects Appear

juliana — 2008-12-16T15:03:22-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/tl5002009.jpg" class="top">And we thought the Telegraph's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/12/16/25313/727/hotels/The_Telegraph_Overwhelms_Us_With_Cozy_British_Hotels">Best 50 Cozy Hotels</a> had us dizzy this morning. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/travel%20and%20leisure">Travel and Leisure</a> has released their annual <a href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/tl500/2009/">T+L 500 list</a> for 2009. We are always a bit mystified by these lists. Are they the best hotels? Or are they the most expensive hotels? For instance, take a look at the New York City winners. These are old-school luxury hotels. Granted, we love <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Carlyle+New+York/local/627">The Carlyle</a> so much <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/22/17158/390/hotels/Hotel_News_Briefs_Add_This_To_Our_Bucket_List">we want to die there</a> but this list just reads like the phonebook for luxury hotels in the city. It's as if some rich man asked his butler for hotels in New York that cost more than $400 a night. Are they great

Seattle: Perfect Pike's Place Views at the Inn at the Market

abigailmschilling — 2008-09-02T10:05:04-05:00

If you're heading to Seattle this fall and looking for a cool place to stay, then consider the Inn at the Market, a small boutique hotel located right at Pike's Place Market. The Inn at the Market was the only Seattle hotel on T+L's Top 100 World's Best Hotels 2008 list and we can see why.

From fantastic views from nearly anywhere in the hotel--city skylines, gardens, waterfront, Pike's Place, and on and on--to the intimacy of a home base with only 70 guests rooms we suddenly can't imagine staying anywhere else.