tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84252068404447432452024-11-01T06:39:38.071-04:00This blog is for anyone that has an interest in luxury hotels all over the world. The purpose of this blog is not to rate and review every hotel or hotel chain, but to discover and explore only those that offer a certain degree of luxury and design. I have a great interest in seeing what the best hotels have to offer and hope you enjoy!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425206840444743245.post-43421987804677850862010-05-17T21:52:00.000-04:002010-05-17T21:52:28.361-04:00

Hey everyone, I'd like to introduce a new feature on Hotel Hopper: On My Radar.  From time to time, I will highlight a few hotels that I have come across that I will make the effort to visit in the future and share my experience.  Hopefully, these will be places you will want to visit and share your experience as well.  Things may change as I discover new, exciting hotels, but

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I am happy to announce that a new Photowall page has been added to Hotel Hopper!  The photowall was embedded onto the site using Cooliris, which is a great tool that provides a 3-D capability for browsing various types of media.  The photowall uses Flickr to search for images of luxury hotels.  Honestly, the search isn't as good as I would like it, but it's still pretty good for

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That's right....it's true!  You can now follow Hotel Hopper on Twitter @luxehotelhopper.  Twitter will be used to update members about new posts, to retweet stories I find from other members that are maybe not substantial enough for blog posts (i.e., interesting articles or hotels to which I don't have much to add or comment about), and also just to post short thoughts I have related to

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Hey people, I came across this ongoing list of hotels offering iPads to their guests on Hotel Chatter.  These hotels are probably much less expensive than the Berkeley Hotel in London that was first mentioned in the post from May 4 (updated May 8).  Check back often to see if iPads are coming to a hotel in a destination you're heading. .sb06

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Travel and Leisure (T + L) has released its It List for 2010, which profiles 45 of the best new luxury hotels across the world.  This is a great list because it provides awareness about fresh, new, and exciting places versus the well-established places that we hear about all of the time.  There are still some familiar names (e.g. W, Mandarin Oriental, Four Seasons, Willard, Ritz-Carlton

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I have now populated the Gallery Links page with links to all of the hotels featured in a post on Hotel Hopper.  For those of you who just want to browse the luxury hotels, you can do so on that page, which connects you with a photo gallery of each hotel.  I will continue to update the gallery from time to time with hotels that are featured in posts.  I will be sure to let you know

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Hey everyone, As I continue to find interesting stories and hotels, I come across a lot of sites that are useful in searching for a luxury hotel for your vacation.  I don't want to overwhelm you with too many sites, so as Hotel Hopper evolves, I will try to to keep the resources listed at the bottom of the page to an optimal set of sites that you can explore for your personal needs.  I

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-- Updated May 8, 2010 -- Just saw this article on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) that shares the story of The Berkeley Hotel in London, which will soon offer the use of an iPad to guests staying in qualifying suites (Berkeley, Conservatory, and Chelsea) priced at an estimated $2000/night and higher.  I'm a big fan of the iPad (don't have one yet but I will someday), but I think if I

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I've seen this article re-posted a few times now, so I figured I would share it as well.  This link is to the TrendHunter version of the post, which shows the newly converted underwater hotel room available at the Hilton Maldives on Rangali Island (aka the Conrad Rangali Island Maldives Hotel).  The room used to be part of the Ithaa Underwater hotel restaurant and was converted over to

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Set up a new poll today.  Vote on your favorite style of luxury hotel!  Once the poll closes, I will post a feature on a chosen hotel in that category.  Here are the choices (as you can see in the poll) with an example of a hotel that fits that description: Grand: Willard Intercontinental Washington Boutique: Lorien Hotel & Spa Spa/Beach Resort: Hotel Hana-Maui and Honua Spa

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Oyster recently posted its 2010 list for the Best Luxury Hotels in the selected locations of Boston, Dominican Republic, Hawaii, Jamaica, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Orlando, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.  The feature ranks 90 of the best hotels in terms of their rooms, service, food, and many other features.  The list is a bit Four Seasons heavy, but hey, they are great hotels

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From time to time, I will feature articles from other sites and blogs as I come across interesting ones.  For the most part, I will try to share articles that feature a particular category of luxury hotels or an in-depth look at a particularly interesting hotel.  This week, I'd like to share with you an article from the The Suite Life Blog, which features some suggestions for nice

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Google has just released a new capability on YouTube to create Search Stories.  It's basically an easy tool that allows you to make short videos about a series of Google searches, which include the web, maps, images, news, blogs, product search, and books.  You can add one of the categorized soundtracks to your video and...there it is!  You now have your own personal search story

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Hey everyone, I took a trip to Atlanta a couple of weeks ago and stayed at the brand new Hilton Garden Inn, located on Baker Street in Centennial Park near the Aquarium and new World of Coke.  This is the first review for Hotel Hopper, so as a guideline of how I intend to look at things, be sure to check out the rating guidelines page for a more detailed explanation of the review process.&

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Hey everyone, Sorry it's been a while, life has been hectic!  But anyway, I have a great experience to share with you so hopefully the wait has been worth it.  Last Sunday, my fiance and I attended the first annual Engaged! in Washington event.  This event featured tours of 5 of the best grand luxury hotels in D.C. as they were set up for an actual wedding.  The 5 hotels we

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Looking to visit a luxury hotel in the near future? If you have flexible travel dates or if you are willing to take a trip on somewhat short notice, check out Luxury Link.  The site offers various packages at luxury hotels around the world in two different ways.  First, you can participate in an auction for an extra discounted package or you can choose the 'Buy Now' option at a higher

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You may be wondering what made a regular person like me (I am a regular person, I promise) become so interested in luxury hotels.  I think I always knew there were really nice places out there, from TV and movies and whatever else, but of course, regular people financial constraints has always prevented me from being able to go all out and splurge.  As a result, I never paid too much

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More additions! I've just added two more resources to the link list at the bottom of the page.  I thought about adding a separate list for hotel reviewing sites, but figured most of you were already well aware of the Kayak, Expedia, etc. type of sites so I figured I wouldn't crowd the page with commonly known resources.  I also didn't want to add too many review sites because they can

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Hey everyone, While I continue to get the site up and going with content, layout changes, and so on, I want to let you know that I've found some really great sites out there for exploring various types of luxury hotels around the world.  I've posted a growing list of these sites at the bottom of the page, so check them out.  I haven't had a chance yet to take a thorough look through

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Another interesting article I just happened to come across....lots of new places to check out! .sb06

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An interesting article a friend of mine sent me (thanks K!), check it out and let me know what you think! Personally, I wouldn't want to mix and match from everywhere, but hey, to each his own :p .sb06

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Hey everyone, welcome to my new Hotel Hopper blog!  I encourage you to browse through all of the content on the different pages.  I am NOT a professional in the hotel industry, but just a consumer who appreciates quality products and wants to create a personal and realistic online community about exceptional hotels.  The site will feature all types of hotels, ranging from luxury

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