Hotels

Travel tip: snap a pic of your hotel room number

TRAVEL TIP | Ever got in the hotel lift in the middle of a long business trip and realised you do...

Travel tip: always ask for two hotel key cards

"How many key cards would you like?" Many solo business travellers just ask for one, but here's w...

Refurb'd rooms for Shangri-La Sydney

It'd be hard to improve on the view from Sydney's Shangri-La Hotel, perched as it is atop a hill ...

How to shine your shoes without shoe polish

Do your dress shoes desperately need a polish mid-trip, but you're stuck in a hotel room without ...

New MGallery Hotel Lighter Quay for Auckland

Auckland's waterfront Hotel Viaduct Harbour has been taken over by MGallery and will now be calle...

Grand Hyatt Melbourne: room redesign complete

The Grand Hyatt Melbourne has just completed the refurbishment of all of its guest rooms, with wh...

A|Club program renamed to Le Club Accorhotels

Hotel group Accor -- which runs business travel hotels Sofitel, Pullman, Novotel, Mercure and MGa...

How to avoid taxi confusion in China

If you're heading to China for business for the first time, don't make the mistake of assuming Ch...

New Marriott iOS, BlackBerry, Android apps

Marriott has fleshed out its suite of hotel apps for iPhone/iPad, Android and Blackberry, which l...

Swissotel's circle frequent guest program

The upmarket Swissotel hotel group is providing frequent guest benefits in a new loyalty program ...

How much ground coffee do you use per cup?

In Brief | Who hasn't thrown coffee into the hotel machine, gone for a shower and come back to a ...

More business traveller hotel hates

We took our pick of the most frustrating things about hotels last week, and invited you, our read...

Business travellers' top five hotel hates

As business travellers ourselves, we stay in a lot of hotels in a lot of different cities and cou...

Virgin frequent flyers now getting hotel extras

A surprising and innovative addition to Virgin's revamped Velocity Rewards frequent flyer program...

Move over Yotel: Sleepbox is even more minimalist!

Weary travellers in transit or arriving at unsociable hours after long flights could have another...

Crowne Plaza Canberra takes on apartment hotels

Crowne Plaza Canberra is muscling in on the niche Quest Apartments has carved for itself, with th...

Business travellers want "bed and broadband"

A large survey of 10,437 business travellers by Accor Asia Pacific has found that travellers don'...

Sofitel opens luxury hotel in Guangzhou, China

Travellers to the capital of Southern China, Guangzhou (formerly Canton), now have a new hotel op...