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Extra Room at the Inn as Hotel Biz Slows Down 

Demand may be checking out as new rooms keep opening

Mar 19, 08 10:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - The hotel business is heading for a downturn just as thousands of new rooms are about to open, the Wall Street Journal reports. One expert sees a .9% fall in demand for hotel rooms this year as the slowing economy keeps travelers at home—the first significant slump since 9/11.... More »

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Holiday Inn • hotel • Intercontinental • luxury hotels

TRAVEL

Get Creative at Top Artsy Hotels

Pitched tent, disco balls enliven lodgings on Budget Travel list

Mar 2, 08 3:50 PM CST
(Newser) - A good hotel provides comfort; a great hotel ... inspiration? Artists touched up the staid look of these hotels, selected by Budget Travel for their fake-fur tapestry, psychedelic mazes, and speckled French graffiti:
  1. The Winston, Amsterdam: This avant-garde hotel once displayed dead leaves; check out the Playnation room's trippy ceiling
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Berlin • art • list • Amsterdam • Singapore • hotel • art hotels • Winston • New Majestic • Arte Luise Kunsthotel • Daddy Long Legs Hotel • Windsor • Cape Town • Nice, France

Hotel Pays Staff to Sniff Out Smoking Guests

Chicago's Swissotel turns its housekeepers into detectives

Feb 25, 08 7:20 PM CST
(Newser) - That chocolate on your pillow may be a bit of a Judas kiss: Chicago's Swissotel isn't the first hotel to fine sneaky smokers who break its puff-free policy, but it is the nation's first to pay staff to sniff out offending guests, reports the Chicago Tribune. Spraying air freshener... More »

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Chicago • smoking • cigarettes • Marriott • smoking ban • hotel • Swissotel • fines • housekeeper

Guests Want It All at Lux Hotels

Rising prices, competition, encourage heroic feats of service

Feb 13, 08 1:57 PM CST
(Newser) - Luxury hotels don't bat an eye at charging $500 a night, and guests are responding with increasingly zany requests, W reports. Concierges, once downright neglected by the average customer, are now routinely tasked with the impossible: Deliver an unspecified amount of breast milk, or procure a rub-down for a dog.... More »

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hotel • luxury travel • luxury hotels • resorts • One and Only Palmilla • service industry • Barbados • concierge

OPINION

Travel Costs Rise, But for What?

2008 is the 'year of the fee,' but one writer demands more in return

Feb 13, 08 12:30 PM CST
(Newser) - We can't duck travel fees imposed by air carriers, hotels, and Uncle Sam, so let's demand more in return, Christopher Elliott writes on MSNBC. Airlines are adding $25 baggage fees and "probably illegal" fuel surcharges, and the TSA will add a “temporary” bump in security fees—so can't... More »

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travel • airline industry • fossil fuel • luggage • airport security • TSA • hotel • resorts

Beatles Hotel Opens in Liverpool

'Interest has been unbelievable,' says manager

Feb 2, 08 3:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Move over, Penny Lane: Liverpool’s latest draw is the Hard Day's Night, a Fab Four-styled hotel that boasts 110 rooms and two swanky penthouses near the fabled Cavern Club, the BBC reports. The hotel also displays rare band photos and art by Beatles painter Shannon. “The bookings are... More »

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Paul McCartney • United Kingdom • John Lennon • hotel • Beatles • George Harrison • Liverpool • Britain • Ringo Starr

Saudis to Let
Women Behind the Wheel

Driving ban lifted to pre-empt growing protest movement

Jan 22, 08 6:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Saudi Arabia’s Royal Court has decided to allow women to drive. The move is calculated to stem growing activism, including protest convoys of women drivers, reports the Daily Telegraph. "If girls have been in schools since the 1960s, they have a capability to function behind the wheel when... More »

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Saudi Arabia • King Abdullah • women's rights • driving • hotel

Your Hotel Bill? That'll Be
$18K, Please

10 celebs who wreaked historic havoc on innocent rooms

Jan 1, 08 10:45 AM CST
(Newser) - No bad-boy or bad-girl celeb's resume is complete without a trashed hotel room, and Budget Travel has checked into 10 wrecked rooms:
  1. London's Sanderson hotel: Amy Winehouse and her husband did $18,000 in damage and left behind blood-splattered walls.
  2. Flint, Mich., Holiday Inn: Keith Moon instigated $24,
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Keith Richards • Lindsay Lohan • Johnny Depp • Hyatt • Kate Moss • hotel • Amy Winehouse

TRAVEL

9 Hotels With Incredible Perks

At these lodgings, you can expect more than a mint on your pillow

Dec 16, 07 7:11 PM CST
(Newser) - Some hotels will go out of their way to guarantee guests a memorable experience. Forbes Traveler picks nine that break into "outrageous" territory:
  1. Helicopter transfers, Hilton Sao Paulo Morumbi, Brazil
  2. Sleep concierge, The Benjamin, New York City
  3. Custom scents, Palazzo Magnani Feroni, Florence
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list • Hilton Hotels • hotel • luxury hotels

TRAVEL

8 Hotels With Fab Room Service

Delicious food means you don't have to leave the hotel

Dec 8, 07 8:32 AM CST
(Newser) - With this sort of room service, why leave the hotel at all? Forbes lists eight hotels that are stand-outs for room service offerings:
  1. Four Seasons Washington, DC: Gourmet in-room dinner for two served by personal butler.
  2. Ritz-Carlton Chicago: Get whatever you want, whenever you want from the kitchen—
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travel • Washington DC • list • hotel • room service • Mandarin Oriental Miami • One and Only Palmilla • W Hotels • The Metropolitan, Bankok • Rosewood Hotels and Resorts • The Peninsula, Hong Kong • Ritz Carlton Chicago • Four Seasons Washington, DC

Top 10 Hidden
Hotel Fees

Secret ways hotels gouge you when
you're not looking

Nov 25, 07 11:24 AM CST
(Newser) - If you're hurrying to catch a plane, you might sign that hotel bill without a second glance.  Avoid unpleasant surprises by looking out for Forbes Traveler's list of hidden fees:
  1. Resort fee: Some resorts tack on a $10 to $25 fee per day for use of their facilities.
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travel • list • hotel • travel tips • hidden fees

World Gets Wise to Jetsetters

Hotels, airports, work to please mobile businessmen

Nov 20, 07 12:17 PM CST
(Newser) - With laptops roughly as common as toaster ovens, business people are ready to work anywhere. Now, hotels and airports are scrambling to make sure anywhere is ready for them, the Times reports. Studying jetsetter habits, hotels are putting outlets in easy reach, attaching desks to beds and chairs, and most... More »

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airport • hotel • travel trends • laptop • business travelers

World's Best Green Hotels

Leave a footprint as small as your carry-on at a luxurious eco-hotel

Nov 5, 07 10:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Solar-heated pools, energy-conserving lights, composted food scraps . . . hotels aren't all bastions of consumption and waste. Travel+Leisure teamed up with Conservation International to assemble a list of 20 eco-friendly hotels:
  1. Spice Island Beach Resort, Grenada
  2. Soneva Fushi Resort & Six Senses Spa, Maldives
  3. Heritance Kandalama, Sri Lanka
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Australia • green building • ecotourism • Sri Lanka • Switzerland • Tanzania • Egypt • list • ecology • Philippines • hotel • spa • Bahamas • Colorado • green travel • LEED • Maldives • Zanzibar

Seriously Spooky Hotels

Brave travelers can bed down with ghosts at these creepy locals

Oct 29, 07 10:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - These hotels are known for more than complimentary breakfast. Tripso.com gets in the Halloween spirit with its rundown of haunted accommodations:
  1. The Myrtles Plantation, St. Francisville, La.: An abused slave poisoned her master with oleander cake; a host of ghosties now appear at guests' bedsides.
  2. Hotel Monteleone,
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travel • list • hotel • Halloween • haunted locations • ghosts

Sofitel to Go (Even More) Upscale

Owner Accor will take top properties into luxury market

Oct 28, 07 10:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Add Sofitel to Louis Vuitton, Cartier, and Hermès—France's most luxurious brands.  At least that is what its owner, Accor, wants to do.  Accor plans to take the best of its 182 Sofitels up market, dumping 35 of the less felicitious Sofitels into a new brand called... More »

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France • hotel • luxury hotels • Sofitel

Luxury Hotels for the Fiscally Challenged

Even a pauper can feel pampered
at these posh getaways

Oct 8, 07 10:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Even upscale chains like Ritz-Carlton will rent you a room for a reasonable price—if you seek out a favorable exchange rate, an independent hotel, or an off-the-beaten-track domestic destination. Forbes finds 10 luxury lodgings that are affordable even in peak season:
  1. Ritz-Carlton Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  2. Domaine
... More »

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travel • Italy • list • hotel • luxury hotels • cheap travel

Plaza Hotel Celebrates 100 Years

Fireworks and giant cake honor renovated icon

Oct 2, 07 4:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York's iconic Plaza Hotel overlooking Central Park threw itself 100th birthday party last night, complete with fireworks and a one-ton, scale-replica cake. The celebration comes as a $400-million renovation to the dowager hotel, home to the fictional Eloise and star of  dozens of movies, is nearing completion. More »

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hotel • luxury hotels • Plaza • Yitzhak Tshuva • Eloise

10 Hotels With a Wild Streak

Sep 24, 07 5:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - For travelers bored with the conventional comforts of most hotels,  MSNBC offers some more creative choices:
  1. Al Maha Desert Resort and Spa, Dubai—desert conservation preserve
  2. Anatolian Houses, Turkey—five adjoining volcanic caves
  3. Baron Island—nature reserve on volcanic island
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travel • list • top travel destinations • hotel • travel tips

10 Most Expensive Hotel Suites

Where you can shell out $53K a night (breakfast not included)

Aug 29, 07 11:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - When New York's Four Seasons opened a new penthouse suite costing a cool $30,000 a night, they boasted that it was the world's most expensive hotel room. Think again. The Times of London lists the world's most astronomically priced hotel rooms.
  1. Royal Penthouse Suite, Hotel President Wilson, Geneva
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travel • New York • Las Vegas • list • vacation • hotel • Four Seasons • Geneva • Sardinia

It Really Is
Too Good
to Be True

When is an online review the real
thing, and when is it a plant? 

Aug 26, 07 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - You want to find a new place to stay/eat/visit, but how can you trust the online reviews when they could be faked by the owner? Travel + Leisure has a few suggestions for filtering out the self-interested imposters:
  1. Ad copy clichés like "affordable elegant serenity."
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travel • list • hotel • reviews • online review

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