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Hotel for Sourdough Bread Hits Sweden

Where: Skånegatan 76 , Stockholm, Sweden

Hotel Chatter admits a soft spot for Swedes, what with the bounty of pop culture gifts with which they've furnished the world (like, you know, Robyn, IKEA, and The Fun Theory campaign). The notably upbeat Scandinavians harbor a mutual love for aspects of American culture, such as…sourdough bread?

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If It Actually Gets Built, The Star Trek Theme Resort Will Be the Ultimate Geek Hotel

Sorry Vegas, in a few years, no one will be holding their Star Trek conventions in your town anymore. No, instead they will beam themselves to the new Star Trek Theme Resort being built in Jordan.

Hotels Mag reports that construction on the $1.5 billion theme park and resort will start early next year and when it's completed in 2014 will include four hotels. Four! Details are scant on what else the project, known as the Red Sea Astrarium, will include but there is mention of a Star Trek-themed "space-flight adventure."

Also King Abdullah II is apparently a Trekkie, having made a cameo appearance on “Star Trek: Voyager” in 1995. Ahh...so that's what it's going to take to get our idea for the Battlestar Gallatica adults-only resort off the ground.

Well, we'll still keep our fingers crossed (or open Spock-style?) that the Star Trek resort actually gets built.

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How to Get to Bollywood By Way of Switzerland

Where: Höheweg 41, CH-3800 , Interlaken, Switzerland

If you want to check into a cool-looking Bollywood suite, you'll have to visit, um, Switzerland. The Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa in Interlaken has a new suite dedicated to famous Indian film director Yash Chopra.

It isn't as random as it seems; the director has shot a number of his movies in Switzerland. Bollywood fans will want to stay in the 915-square-foot Yash Chopra Suite—which comes with a living room, bedroom and two bathrooms—to gaze at framed posters from the director's romance Veer-Zaara on its walls.

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Will The 'Harry Potter Hotel' Really Be a Harry Potter Hotel?

Nearly two years ago, we we asked for a Harry Potter Hotel and we got our hopes up this morning that our dreams may have come true.

PropertyWeek.com reports that Warner Brothers is investing £100 million redevelopment of Leavesden Studios, located just outside of London, where the Harry Potter movies have been filmed. The redevelopment plans include a walk-through Harry Potter-themed tour where visitors can walk onto sets used in the movie such as the Hogwarts Great Hall and Professor Dumbledore's office. It will also include a 120-room hotel.

But does that mean the hotel will be a Harry Potter-themed hotel?

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Disney's Animation Resort to Open in Spring 2012 with 'Finding Nemo' Suites

Expect some Nemo sheets!

It seems that there can never be too many hotels at Disney World and the more thematic these hotels can get, the better.

Which is why Walt Disney World is planning its first family-suites hotel that will be centered around the animated Disney movies everyone knows and loves. It will be called Disney's Art of Animation Resort and yes, expect to find Nemo here, as well as Ariel and Simba.

The 2,000-room hotel will open in May 2012 with 866 standard rooms but also 1,120 of these family suites which can fit up to six people.

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