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How We Spent The Morning 'Waking Up in Vegas'
| July 2, 2009 at 2:32 PM | 0 Comments
So you all know by now how we scored this ridiculous suite at Planet Hollywood to spend the night in last week but when we shot the video room tour, it was nighttime and you couldn't quite see how amazing that view was.
Never fear. We made sure to film this killer view when we woke up in the morning so you could Las Vegas in all its sunshine-y glory. For the first time in a while, we spent our time "waking up in Vegas" (cue the Katy Perry song) just admiring the view.
Remember, this was a Panorama Suite on the 26th floor. The price: $72 all in on Hotwire. Someone in hotel heaven was looking down on us. Or else, they just felt bad about our last view at PH.
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Did Guests at The Liberty Have These Views When It Was a Jail?
| June 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM | 0 Comments
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 HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. 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.
Uh, so, question: you know how Boston's Liberty Hotel used to be a jail? Yeah. Think the, uh, guests of the place got to enjoy kickass views of Boston like this one back then? (We're thinking no).
This is a shot we snapped out of the floor-to-ceiling window from our room on the 14th floor of the Liberty; even though Boston was crappy and cloudy when we were around, we still loved the sweeping cityscape. If we looked directly downward from our room, we could also look down into The Yard — which, on Wednesday nights, is the site of the hotel's cute "Yappy Hour."
One complaint, though: the window swept all the way across from one side of the wall to the other, but we couldn't actually get the curtains to go all the way back so we could get the full effect — maybe we were operating them wrong, but the curtains only let us see 2/3rds of the view. Boo.
Rates at the Liberty start at around $345. Check out the video tour of this room (#1405) here.
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A Toronto Budget Hotel View That's Worth the $30 Upgrade
| June 18, 2009 at 3:12 PM | 0 Comments
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 HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. 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.
The photographer who snapped the shot of the Toronto Days Inn with the budget view actually switched hotels in between two conferences — and then upgraded (well, the view at least) to a Holiday Inn with this view.
He reportedly paid $30 more here at the Holiday Inn Midtown than he paid at the Days Inn, and we'd most certainly be happy with a window like this.
But it's possible that all you're really paying for is the location and view; TripAdvisor reviews seem to mostly say positive things about the hotel's area and convenience to U of T (though, to be fair, those are only the most recent reviews — earlier posts say the hotel is "consistently fine").
Rates here look to be startin' at $135.99 CAD ($120 USD).
[Photo: Rick's Pics]
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Can You Really Get This View at the Parc 55 Hotel for $99?
| June 12, 2009 at 3:53 PM | 0 Comments
We clicked through on a recent USA Today article about San Francisco's newest hotel deals because, duh, we love deals. But we were also swayed by the picture that went along with the story.
Taken at the Parc 55 Hotel, the picture shows two things we love the most at HotelChatter: laptops with internet connections and amazing killer views (oh, and wine). USA Today says the hotel is currently running a $99 a night deal for a standard room. But we want THAT room. How do we get it?
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You Can Sorta See the Berlin Cathedral From the Radisson Blu
| June 11, 2009 at 2:41 PM | 0 Comments
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 HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. 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.
Oh, this? Oh, no big thang, just the Berlin Cathedral, a.k.a. the Berliner Dome.
We're sort of on a Berlin high here at HC this summer (since our own JetSetCD just returned from a jaunt out to Germany), and so this shot out the window of room 6111 at the Radisson Blu Berlin made us sorta giddy.
Also making us giddy: the ginormous cylindrical aquarium that runs up the middle of the hotel's lobby atrium — which makes for a pretty fly killer view on the inside of the hotel, too.
Rooms like this are a bit on the pricier side, though: we're assuming this was taken from a business class room (the website shows that only biz class rooms seem to have a view of the Berlin Cathedral), and those go for about 245 Euros — around $245 USD.
[Photo: Wolfgang Jung]
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Room With a Killer (Grand Canyon) View: We Want to Go to There
| June 4, 2009 at 12:00 PM | 1 Comment
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 HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. 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.
Oh man. We don't really talk much about the Grand Canyon 'round these parts. Especially during the summer. It's hot over there right now — and our sights are usually turned to cool mountains or clear blue water and white sandy beaches. But this — well, this photo, in the words of Liz Lemon, makes us say we "want to go to there." Right?
This is a view from the Kachina Lodge, snapped by pfala. Yes, this is the Grand Canyon. And yes, it is gorge-ous.
The Kachina Lodge is one of those specialty lodges around the Canyon — on TripAdvisor, it falls around #8 of the 26 hotels in the region. Reviews are mixed — and the best reviews seem to rave about the view more than the room, but not all rooms have a view like this one. Make sure you ask for a room with a full view when you book. Rates go for around $170.
[Photo: pfala]
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A Perfect View of The Bean From Hard Rock Chicago
| May 21, 2009 at 2:59 PM | 0 Comments
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 HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. 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.
Confession time: one of us here at HotelChatter once thought the giant bean-ish sculpture in Chicago (British artist Anish Kapoor's public sculpture "Cloud Gate") was in Boston. Cause it looks like a bean and 'cause Boston is called Beantown. Anyone else? No? Well, the sculpture sits on AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park and you probably recognize it from dozens of your friends' Facebook albums — surely at least someone you know has held up a camera to take a shot of the reflection of himself or herself in The Bean, right?
Anyway, here's something you may not have known: you can see Cloud Gate from the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago. Like, a perfect view of it. Look.
This photo was snapped by bbchin from a room at the hotel in April — perfect view, no? Perfect for sitting and gazing out the window and counting how many tourists saunter up to the sculpture to take a photo of their own reflection, we think. Endless entertainment.
Rates start around $239 for the last weekend of May.
[Photo: bbchin]
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Hotel 71's View Hits Your Eye Like a Chicago Pizza Pie
| May 7, 2009 at 12:24 PM | 0 Comments
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 HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. 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.
We don't usually serve up a whole lot of big-city hotel views in our weekly Killer Views feature because, well, the buildings in big cities are usually close together and the only thing that typically serves to separate "good" views from "bad" views is the attractiveness of the person in the window across from yours.
However! The boutique-cool Hotel 71 in Chicago has given us a breath of fresh Midwestern air with this view, snapped by scripsi_scriptum earlier this month. Most of the property's TripAdvisor reviews are pretty positive — literally, "Great location, very clean, and helpful staff. What more can I say?" is the most recent review, which, really, what more do we want?
Oh, right, decent room rates. And they're not bad at all: basic rooms start around $149.00.
[Photo: scripsi_scriptum]
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The Beauty Of a Hotel View Is In the Eye Of the Beholder
| April 30, 2009 at 2:24 PM | 0 Comments
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 HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. 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.
You know what? The world is full of people complaining. And mean people. And swine flu. And sadness. And, unfortunately, bad hotel views.
However. Let's all take a minute and polish our attitudes and remember that when it comes to hotel room views, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Right?
Take, for instance, a Manhattan hotel view — and we all know that big city views have the most dangerous potential to go from possibly-killer to impossibly-anti-view due to the crowding of buildings and whatnot — such as this one. This is a shot by Kevin H., who, instead of posting a complain-y caption of his Best Western President hotel view (which, by most standards, would be a certified anti-view), but he captioned it:
View from the window of my room at the Best Western President hotel in New York City's theater district. It made me think of an Edward Hopper painting.
Look at that. A little positivity in such a negative world. A little more positivity: rates here start at only $110 for some dates in May. Hooray!
[Photo: Kevin H.]
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Fontanella's View Seems to Shine Like We've Had Too Much Wine
| April 23, 2009 at 12:06 PM | 1 Comment
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 HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. 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.
If we were going to do our own live-version of Eat, Pray, Love where we traveled to Italy for a good long time, we would be going here. And we would be waking up to this. And we would be eating lots of Italian food and devouring views like this and we would be whole again — so whole that we could write a whole book about it. Probably.
This is the scene out the window of a hotel room at L'Hotel Fontanella, located in Molveno, Italy. This is Lake Molveno and the Dolomite mountains in the very early morning, snapped by GothPhil.
The website has very little English on it, but from what we gather, the hotel has 27 rooms with great views and rates start at 46 Euro. If your translation skills are good, hit up the site yourself for more info.
[Photo: GothPhil]
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'Remarkable' Eye Candy in New Zealand
| April 16, 2009 at 1:03 PM | 0 Comments
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 HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. 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.
Um, we have been ready to go to New Zealand since, um, forever ago — but if we needed further convincing, this photo would have done it for us.
This shot belongs to Flickr user Chewy Chua, who snapped this from a room at BreakFree The Waterfront in Queenstown, New Zealand.
A caption:
We stayed in a place called Breakfree, Waterfront. A well equipped and appointed condo/apartment type hotel. Majestic view of the lake and the Remarkables.
Um, yes. Remarkable indeed. The hotel is located "100 metres from the main street and 30 metres to the lake" — that's Lake Wakatipu — and according to the website, every window and Juliet balcony has a killer view like this.
All rooms here have "kitchen facilities," laundry, an "intercom" and a "security system" and, for a one-bedroom studio, rooms start at a totally decent 99 NZD — about 56 US dollars. Check the place out here.
[Photo: ChewyChua]
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Sip Your Coffee Up Above Melbourne at the Grand Hyatt
| April 9, 2009 at 11:13 AM | 0 Comments
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 HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. 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.
There is something about sitting up really high with a drink in our hands — whether it be a cocktail or a coffee — that sort of makes you feel like a king or queen, no? Just us? Okay.
Whether or not you get a royal vibe from chillin' in front of a window with a killer view, you can probably agree that this particular seat (snapped by vissi87 and dropped into the HotelChatter Flickr Pool) from the Grand Club Lounge at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne makes you feel good inside. Unless you're scared of heights. Or scared of Melbourne.
Rates here start at A$232 (around $165 USD) and booking a Club room will grant you access to this lounge (the lowest rate we found for a Club King was A$312, or $222 USD) — which you may think is worth it to be able to sit here and sip your coffee. Also, this hotel was just renovated (to the tune of $30 million USD), so the place has a stylish new lobby, a new restaurant and bar, and totally updated amenities.
[Photo: vissi87]
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