It's beginning to feel a lot like...a tropical Christmas? Hotel delays exasperate us. Booking last-minute hotels sometimes stresses us out. So excuse us while we take a minute and just focus on the one thing that's guaranteed to bring us some joy: big, bright, colorful, and unnecessarily elaborate hotel Christmas...
December 13, 2012
We're in Florida this week and we made a trip to Fort Lauderdale yesterday to check on all the action that's happening there for this weekend's NFL Pro Bowl as well as next weekend's Super Bowl.The Westin Beach Resort right across from the beach, has recently unveiled giant posters...
January 29, 2010
The Whitelaw Hotel, Miami Beach As you can imagine, most hotels in Miami and Fort Lauderdale are sold out for Super Bowl weekendor have ridonkulous rates around $1,000 a night. But there are still rooms available for less. Hard to believe, we know, but look what happened yesterday: the Jets...
January 18, 2010
Football season hasnt officially kicked off yet, but already NFL execs are scaling back the Super Bowl splurge. The Miami Herald reports that the league recently dropped 17 hotels in Miami and Miami Beach for the February 7 event. The Mandarin Oriental on Brickell is the only property being...
August 20, 2009
Ah, imagine waking up on your semi-late Spring Break vacay in Ft. Lauderdale to fire alarms. Annoying. Except imagine there was a real fire in your hotel. Scary. According to the Miami Herald, 250 guests were evacuated this morning after a fire broke out at the Harbor Beach Marriott...
April 14, 2009
We know that Bill Marriott and his wife like to spend half of January at the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort & Spa in Fort Lauderdale, but could that rate-free stay be affecting the hotel's business? Why else would they try to lure guests with one of those "stay two nights,...
January 28, 2009
It turns out the holiday season is not the only cover-up for drinking ourselves into oblivion--the recession is another great excuse to defend your penchant for drinking a little more than usual. Americans are cutting back their spending on seemingly everything but the mortgage and the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort...
December 23, 2008
Snooze alert in effect for Fort Lauderdale: The troubled St. Regis Fort Lauderdale will stop operating under the St. Regis brand on August 11th and become a Ritz-Carlton. Great. Like as if we didn't already have enough Ritz-Carltons in South Florida. Oh, you think we are just exaggerating? Lookie...
July 22, 2008
We've been under some rock and failed to realize that July is National Ice Cream Month--how distressing since we're half way through the month already. They were in the know at the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort & Spa in Fort Lauderdale, though, and have an ice cream special happening...
July 14, 2008
Move over shopping and nightlife concierges. The newest kid on the block is the Cocktail Concierge and you can find him or her at the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort & Spa. Newly-appointed cocktail concierges mix up martinis (shaken or stirred), muddle mojitos and craft any number of guests' favorite libations...
April 15, 2008
The Mancation trend is alive and well at the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort & Spa in Ft. Lauderdale, which has the latest tempting deal for the male species: The Fishing Mancation Package.The guys getaway includes a two night stay, an chartered offshore fishing expedition,complete with "saltwater-savvy captain," equipment and lunch....
November 01, 2006
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