HotelChatter - Tag: travelodge hotels

Travelodge UK Doing A-OK with $25 Room Rates

ced138 — 2008-10-30T09:32:16-05:00

<![CDATA[Weve told you <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Travelodge%20Hotels">time and time again</a> about the wacky antics of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Travelodge%20Hotels">Travelodge Hotels</a>, with its surveys about nude sleepwalkers and hotels built from garbage. Turns out, they know what theyre up to, and the unique brand theyve built for themselves, paired with room rates slashed from $115 to $25, makes the company a standout winner during the current economic apocalypse. The budget chain plans to open 22 new hotels before Christmas in the United Kingdom alone, focusing on tourist cities like Stratford-upon-Avon, Torquay and Edinburgh. Its also hiring 450 employees, choosing from what is surely a plentiful pool of unemployed workers. Next year, the company plans to double this expansion, with plans for 40-plus hotels. This

Palm Springs: Update :: Ace Hotel Palm Springs Closer to Opening

abigailmschilling — 2008-10-07T12:04:35-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/acehotelscreenshot.png" class="imgborder"> The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Ace+Hotel+Palm+Springs/local/1253">Palm Springs Ace Hotel & Swim Club</a> is gearing up for its (hopefully, cross-your-fingers) January opening. They now have a <a href="http://www.acehotel.com/palmsprings/reservations">reservations page</a> up! Isn't it pretty? Of course you can't actually make reservations yet. But soon. Pretty soon, in fact. Stay tuned. Interestingly enough, the sizzle factor of this new hotel is raising expectations for other remodels and updates. The Desert Sun <a href="http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080926/NEWS05/809250358/1011/news05">recently reported</a> that renovations for the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Travelodge+Palm+Springs/ian/111328">Palm Springs Travelodge</a> were rejected by the Palm Springs Architectural Advisory Committee because they were too boring. Awesome, right? Who knew there were other crusaders out there marching for our cause? <blockquote>[Committee member Doug] Hudson said the hotel is a good example of 1950s

Travelodge Releases Annual List of Most-Discarded Books in Hotel Rooms

KatieK — 2008-09-04T13:46:38-05:00

<![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/gentleman7days.jpg" class="imgborder">You have to feel sorta bad for the unfortunate dude who leaves behind both The Kama Sutra for Dummies and How to be a Gentleman in Seven Days at a Travelodge. (So many unanswered questions!)Leave it to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Travelodge%20Hotels">Travelodge Hotels </a> to monitor -- and report -- such activity (and, ahem, leave it to us to poke fun at it). Indeed, the U.K. budget chain just released its annual list of books abandoned in hotel rooms at 336 properties, and while this year's 7,000 discarded titles were mostly autobiographies (John Prescott's memoir tops the list), chick lit, and thrillers, a healthy sprinkling of sex manuals also made the list, like The Best 50 Love Making Positions for

Uxbridge: Travelodge's Recycled Hotel :: The Final Result

Jenna — 2008-08-19T11:17:41-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/shippingcontainerfinished.jpg" class="imgborder"> We told you all about <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Travelodge%20Hotels">Travelodge's</a> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/10/104944/692/hotels/Travelodge_UK_Aims_to_Build_First_Recyclable_Hotel_">recycled hotel</a> -- you know, the one with steel shipping containers stacked up together like legos -- and we brought you news last week that the property <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/15/12179/3856/hotels/Travelodge_Opens_Recyclable_Hotel_Made_of_Shipping_Containers">was open for business</a>. But what we were envisioning here wasn't quite this...well, boring. We've got to give Travelodge props for making the interior feel homey and look just like any other hotel, but we kind of not-so-secretly wished this hotel would have looked like a big stack of shipping containers for the novelty of it. <a href="http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10217">World Architecture News</a> had some fun facts about the green benefits of going the recycled-hotel route: <blockquote>A traditional 100-bed hotel costs Travelodge around £5

Uxbridge: Travelodge Opens 'Recyclable' Hotel Made of Shipping Containers

Jenna — 2008-08-15T12:26:06-05:00

Oh Travelodge Hotels, you so crazy.

First it was those insane pajamas. Then came the nude sleepwalkers study. Let's not forget the free rooms for people who happen to be named Mary and Joseph when Christmastime comes around, or the option to have the sweet aroma of grass wafted into guestrooms overnight.

And then there was that recyclable hotel you told us you were building. And, like, we knew you were into some crazy stuff -- but it seems you've actually gone and done this thing because we hear your hotel made out of recycled modified steel shipping containers is now open.