Sometimes, it seems travel bloggers can’t get no love. Such was the case yesterday over at Hotel Chatter, when Bob DeNiro’s newly opened Greenwich Hotel went so far as to outright cancel one an opening night reservation made by one of the HC bloggers. Scandal! Hiss! Boo! How did this happen? Somehow, the Manhattan hotel caught on to Hotel Chatter’s rather innocent plan to bunk in and give the property free publicity and actually flagged the blogger’s credit card after the reservation was made:

Robert DeNiro’s Greenwich Hotel Canceled Our Reservation

In many ways, this incident is kinda the travel blogosphere equivalent of LiLo getting banned from Shutters on the Beach, only Hotel Chatter probably wasn’t going to spend its evening engaging in a post-rehab, drug-binge smokefest of a bender with its dorky rehab boyfriend that it would then break up with one week later. Of course, we can’t be 100 percent sure on that front. Just our gut instinct.

So why all the hullabaloo? Seems the hotel’s PR peeps were aghast at the possibility that someone might publish unauthorized photos of the new hotel’s interiors (oh, the horror!). Um, hello, 21st century. Just how long do you think it’s gonna take someone to stay there and email their own pics to Hotel Chatter? Oh, you heard that already happened? Exactly.

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