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Seoul: Thompson Hotels Looking to Get Some Seoul

juliana — 2008-08-28T12:11:23-05:00

That's right. Thompson Hotels, having finished with their monopoly on New York, is expanding overseas to Seoul, Korea.

We have to say, this destination is shocking. We thought for sure a London property was in the works. Yet today a press release was making the rounds of the interweb that Jason Pomeranc and co. are heading off to Seoul.

Vancouver: Coming Soon :: Poetic Skylines Courtesy of the Fairmont Pacific Rim Vancouver

Jenna — 2008-08-28T11:02:51-05:00

We love coming across creative use of words in unexpected places -- pretty sentiments carved into cement or deep thoughts scrawled on bathroom walls -- so it made us smile to see that the new Fairmont Pacific Rim in Vancouver is almost literally building their hotel with poetry.

The text of an original poem by Liam Gillick (a British artist) will wrap around the exteriors of the building all the way up to the 23rd floor.

Grand Gaube: Room With a Killer View: Palm Trees at Mauritius's Legends Hotel

amandak — 2008-08-28T11:02:28-05:00

<![CDATA[We are suckers for a room with a killer view.  We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view. <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Killer_View_Legends_Hotel_Mauritius.jpg" class="imgborder"> Idyllic summertime luxury with palm trees, perfectly turquoise water, a beach and a great spot to sun ourselves is what we're craving

Wanchai: Room With an Anti-View: Satellite Dishes from the Charterhouse Hotel, Hong Kong

amandak — 2008-08-28T09:23:38-05:00

<![CDATA[You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view. <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Anti_View_Charterhouse_Hong_Kong.jpg" class="imgborder"> So perhaps a satellite dish manufacturer might be interested in having

Fairmont: Fairmont Scottsdale Asks, "Got Grease?"

ChristineM — 2008-08-28T09:20:17-05:00

Hats off to the Fairmont Scottsdale for their new initiative to convert the hotel's kitchen grease to low-emission alternative fuel.

In making the announcement, the hotel claimed that the effort will help to prevent more than 100,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere thanks to 700-plus gallons of used cooking oil that local manufacturer AZ BioDiesel will use to create almost 600 gallons of biodiesel each month.

It doesn't take a Beautiful Mind to do the math; the Fairmont Scottsdale is making a concerted effort to minimize their carbon footprint and certainly, we like that.