December 06, 2012

Hotel retail turns trendy with pop-up shops, 'libraries'
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/hotels/2012/12/03/designer-boutiques-popup-shops-charity-shops-top-ways-hotels-are-bring-life-to-retail/1738005/
"Hotel retail isn't just convenience oriented anymore," says Ann Natunewicz, who runs U.S. retail research for Colliers International and travels frequently for her work. "It's an amenity because hotels have to differentiate themselves from competitors.


The Old Bell hotel, Malmesbury, Wiltshire: review
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hotel/90840/The-Old-Bell-hotel-Malmesbury-Wiltshire-review.html
Fiona Duncan, Telegraph Travel's hotel expert, reviews the best and worst of Britain's hotels and bed and breakfasts, from boutique to budget, countryside to city centre. It calls itself the ?oldest hotel in England?. Perverse of me, I know, but on ...


5 Ways Hotel Staffs Get Back at Customers
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/hotel-confessions-ways-hotel-staffs-back-customers/story?id=17818150
Whether visiting family or taking a vacation, the winter holiday season is one of the busiest and most stressful travel times of the year. But guests beware, don't take your frustrations out on the hotel staff. It may make your stay very unpleasant. In ...


Finding amazing travel deals: $150 for air, hotel
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Finding-amazing-travel-deals-150-for-air-hotel-4093744.php
A bit of luck, some quick thinking and lots of flexibility landed her an amazing travel deal: a four-night Carnival cruise to Mexico plus two nights in a Miami hotel for just $275. Purton, 30, found the cruise online in January, shortly after the Costa ...


Confessions of a hotel insider
http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/travelkit/confessions-hotel-insider-1C7428578
Maybe you're the hotel guest who refuses to stay in any room where the digits don't add up to nine. Or the one who will flash a bit of flesh for an upgrade. Or the one who brings along his own winged, multi-legged ?evidence? to score a free room.


DC hotels have availability for inauguration
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/hotels/2012/11/16/washington-dc-hotels-rooms-still-available-for-obama-inauguration-2013/1707313/
USA TODAY's writer and editor of Hotel Check-In, the blog that tracks hotel travel around the US and world. Expect the latest info and talkers about new hotel openings and renovations, travel trends, safety tips, the best hotel bars and restaurants ...


Hotel guests face carbon monoxide risk
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/hotels/2012/11/15/hotels-carbon-monoxide/1707789/
2012 - Eight people have died and at least 170 others have been treated for carbon monoxide poisoning in the past three years in hotels, which rarely are equipped with CO alarms, a USA TODAY investigation finds. And a review of state and local laws ...


The Dundas Arms, Berkshire: hotel review
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hotel/89818/The-Dundas-Arms-Berkshire-hotel-review.html
Fiona Duncan, Telegraph Travel's hotel expert, reviews the best and worst of Britain's hotels and bed and breakfasts, from boutique to budget, countryside to city centre. It's not often that I wake in the bedroom of a hotel having seen nothing of the ...