They're at it again. The ever-busy Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau have a new marketing toy to play with--a promo and website called MiamiRomanceMonth.com, which plays up June as the month of brides and grooms.

But how are the hotels involved? For starters, next week five crazy loved-up couples will battle it out for a chance to win a $150,000 wedding at the fancy Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables.

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This Thanksgiving, forget about spending hours shopping, the day cooking in the kitchen and then the evening doing sinks full of dishes. There are a number of Miami hotels that will serve up the traditional meal, with no fuss or mess for you.

Check out our six Thanksgiving hotel picks after the jump.

]]> MsRebecca 2010-11-19T12:53:11-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/21/131150/522 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/JacksonAdlon.jpg" class="top"> <p>Before we stayed at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/19/84715/8901/hotels/Inside_The_Hollywood_Roosevelt_s_Tower_Rooms">Hollywood Roosevelt</a> last week, we jotted down the property's few haunted room numbers in the hopes of avoiding them (Marilyn Monroe in 246 and Montgomery Clift in 928). Still, infamous hotel rooms aren't restricted to the ghosts of Hollywood; they're to be found all around the world, and <i><a href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-most-notorious-hotel-rooms">Travel + Leisure</a></i> wants to direct you to their list of the <b>Most Notorious Hotel Rooms</b>, which features mostly US properties (with one exception for Michael Jackson). <p>Mimicking previous lists like the truly international one from <a href="http://au.askmen.com/top_10/travel_200/236_travel_top_ten.html">AskMen</a>, the T+L rundown is entertaining, but a bit weak&#151;where is the <b>Lorraine Hotel</b> where Martin Luther King Jr was murdered, or room 552 at JetSetCD 2009-06-22T09:55:41-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/28/11599/413 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/blue_door.png" class="imgborder"><p>If you're headed to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/art%20basel">Art Basel</a> next week, we've got the latest on the culinary scene. The newest Zagat ratings for South Florida restaurants are out, and the survey says the <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Biltmore+Hotel+-+Coral+Gables/ian/148417">Biltmore Hotel's</a></b> <b>Palme d'Or</b> restaurant in Coral Gables has the best service in the region. (It surpassed last year's winner, 28-seat Italian spot Romeo's Cafe.) <p>The haute cuisine palace won't surprise you with its classical French technique, but the menu has gotten a little more fun lately, encouraging you to mix and match your way through more adventurous dishes. Look out for the baby conch salad and other seafood like langoustine with wild mushrooms and sweet potato. Three plates go for a surprisingly affordable $42 pbb 2007-11-28T12:35:39-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/7/26/32124/9574 <![CDATA[<p> <i>We are suckers for a room with a killer view. &nbsp;We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.</i><p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Killer_View_Biltmore_Florida.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>This Killer View was snapped from a room in the tower of the eleventh floor of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Biltmore+Hotel+-+Coral+Gables/ian/148417"><b>Biltmore Hotel Coral amandak 2007-07-26T09:02:46-05:00 25.741485 -80.278806 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/