Happy Hotelier

Only 7 days after Happy Hotelier is airborn and thanks to the intro of Willem on Weekendhotel, the search term “Happy Hotelier” gives this weblog a Google search rank rank # 2 after Willem’s intro as # 1
Usually it takes a lot more time until Google spots you.

Thanks to Hotelchatter and The Observer I came across this new 205 rooms Urban Lodge that will open 1st September, 2006.Opening promotions included rooms for just an amazing one (1) UK pound per night - sold out off course, but the Hoxton site promises more similar promotions for the near future. Normal rates start […]

If I hadn’t seen it, I wouldn’t believe it: For many people the ultimate experience of a hotelroom is the first jump in the plush luscious bed, according to Hotel Bed Jumping HQ:
This Site Celebrates Hotel Beds. And we poke fun at them too.
There is something completely intoxicating about today’s hotel bed. Plush, deep, […]

This is the first official post of Happy Hotelier.
Since June, 2004, I act as co author on the Dutch language weblog Weekendhotel.
Happy Hotelier’s aims are:

Making interesting Weekendhotel’s Blog posts available in the English Language.
Addressing issues not suitable for Weekendhotel’s Blog.
Giving our foreign guests a bit more insight in Dutch accommodation.
Having a place to publish Happy […]

I am not sure whether now 60 years young New Yorker Ian Schrager is into yachts and yachting, but I do know for sure that Philippe Starck is (as is the other famous hotel creator Anouska Hempel, or Lady Weinberg). Ian has created a couple of hotels together with Philippe Starck. Hence the title.
In any […]

After the previous post I couldn’t help but Google with the search term “Bath with a view” and find this Scuol Tarasp Warm Whey Bath.
Like Cleopatra’s usual practice:

An experiences you will one day tell your grandchildren about: Sitting in a wooden tub, high up in the mountains, while the soothing warmth of whey water […]

A bathroom in a suite of the Seoul Park Hyatt in South Korea gives this variation on the theme “A Room with a View”.
Apparently the rather puritan journalist who coined it The Best place to get naked in Time Asia is more concerned whether you can be seen from the outside on this umpteenth floor […]

After downloadable Ipod format Audio City Tours some hotels in Amsterdam now have the hand held City Navigator Guide available for rent. It is preferable to a bulky paper guide or card or guidelines of the concierge you’ll not easily remember.
I hope more cities follow fast and that those guides become downloadable for free so […]

The Suite opened after a renovation of Euro 2,3 mio on 1st June 2006.
It is located in the Amsterdam Okura Hotel.
It:

was designed by the London based firm RPW Design;
takes up the 17th and 18th floor of the hotel with a total of 485 sq meter;
thus covers an area that 4 average […]