HotelChatter - Tag: Marathon Hotels

Portland: Portland's Hotel Fifty Will Be About Five Seconds Away from the Pirate Festival

JetSetCD — 2011-08-17T16:07:13-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/1Hotelfiddy_1.jpg" class="top"> Have you ever seen such a stunning hotel? Okay okaywe've seen better, but can you deny that the evening lighting on a modernist building such as Portland, Oregon's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Fifty/local/1351">Hotel Fifty</a> really brings out the magic of the architecture? The updated propertywhich boasts amenities like Free WiFi and Simmons Beautyrest mattresses (oh, fancy), is not in the Pearl District as you'd first think, but instead right down along the Willamette River and Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Now here's why we're bringing it up now: if you're planning on watching or running the Portland Marathon on October 9 or heading to the Portland Pirate Festival which falls just after the marathon, you've got to scout hotels like now.

London: Cheap Massages for London Marathoners at Park Plaza Hotels

juliab — 2010-04-22T09:03:22-05:00

It’s a bit of a niche offer, this one, but if you happen to be running the London Marathon this Sunday, there’s a sweet deal going down at Park Plaza hotels for your recuperation period.

Bring your medal (wot, you have to finish it?) to the spa at PPs Baker Street, Victoria or County Hall, and they’ll knock 20 percent off a sports massage or a ‘destress muscle release’ massage, meaning you can get 30 minutes for �28 or an hour for �52 (and less than �1 a minute by London rates is pretty good).

New York: In NYC for Halloween or The Marathon? There's a Hotel Package for That

juliana — 2009-10-23T16:52:30-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/nycmarathon.jpg" class="top"> Next weekend is a big weekend in New York. Not only is it Halloween but it's also The New York Marathon which will be held on Sunday, November 1st. If you're in town for costumes, candy, tricks and the Halloween parade, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/70+Park+Avenue/local/745">70 Park Avenue</a>, a Kimpton Hotel, is offering a special Drop Dead Rate. Guests will get "trick or treat" buckets of candy, two cocktails at the silverleaf tavern and a map of the Greenwich Village Halloween Day parade route. On Halloween day, the hotel will also host a pumpkin carving competition with the staff. Use code DDR to book. We found rates for next weekend starting at $237 a night for a queen deluxe room.If

Singapore: Swissotel Gets Guests To Take The Stairs

amandak — 2009-09-08T09:11:44-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Swissotel_Vertical_Marathon_Winners_2008.jpg" class="top"> Some people go on vacation to shop or relax by the pool. Some people go on vacation to run insanely up the stairs of their 73-storey hotel. And if you're staying at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Swissotel+The+Stamford%2C+Singapore/ian/105303">Swissotel Stamford</a> in Singapore in late November, you're likely to encounter some of the second type.On Sunday November 22, at the much-too-early time of 7.00am, a bunch of people will begin the <a href="http://www.swissotelverticalmarathon.com/">Swissotel Vertical Marathon 2009</a>. This involves getting up to the top of the hotel the fastest, except taking the elevator doesn't count. The Men's Open and Women's Open champions will both win trips to New York but not just to sightsee, they'll then compete in the similarly crazy Empire

London: Ease the Burn of the London Marathon in a Posh Hotel

juliab — 2009-04-22T13:43:27-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/threadneedles.jpg" class="top"> The London Marathon is happening on Sunday. Usually we'd be yawning by now, but it just so happens that two hotels have some rather nice packages available for us to do it up in style, should we choose to lace up our trainers. The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Capital/ian/164604">Capital Hotel</a> in Knightsbridge (let's hope they've called in the decorators since the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/6/63557/9487/hotels/The_Capital_Hotel_is_Simply_Overrated">last time</a> we visited it) is encouraging us to carb up by offering all you can eat pasta at its Le Metro Brasserie the night before, and helping us wind down with a complimentary 90 minute massage at Urban Retreat in Harrods post-marathon. It costs £260 for one person, or £365 for two (although you'll only get one