June 26, 2009
There’s a rather acidic email exchange going on between a one Julie Kobayashi and the famed Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. Ms. Kobayashi claims that the Stanley gave her, her fiancé, and their home a rash of bedbugs, which has in turn racked up cleaning and replacement fees in the thousands of dollars. The Stanley—inspiration for Stephen King’s The Shining, incidentally—maintains that they did not, in fact, send Ms. Kobayashi home with any sort of infestation. Read on for the war of words.



Finding an honest review of hotel can sometimes be tough. The best recommendations tend to be from people you know and trust, but those people don’t usually have the skinny on every hotel around the country or the world. So far,
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Russian billionaire Telman Ismailov is thumbing his nose at the very idea of a recession happening anywhere in the world. He’s so confident in the oodles of money that must be floating around somewhere, he’s pushing forward with the opening of his hotel, located on the Turkish Riviera. This $1.4 billion property (built with TI’s own money, natch) will have the honor of being the
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Joie de Vivre Hotels is ramping up for a
Forget the Hamptons this summer,