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Droppin' It Low at Hotel Victor's 'Frost Bite Thursdays'

Where: 1144 Ocean Drive [map], Miami , Florida, United States, 33139

Temperatures may be dipping in some parts of the country, but the scene is still steamy in South Beach, where Hotel Victor the forecast is always cool on Frost Bite Thursdays.

Since its July launch, the weekly event’s been such a smashing success that the hotel recently added Garden Zen Thursdays for low(er)-key party hoppers. The way it works is Frost Bite goes on downstairs in the lobby, while Garden Zen takes place on the Vue Terrace right across from the pool. Feeling pepped up or played out -- there's a party for whatever your Thursday mood at Hotel Victor.

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InterContinental Tampa Sizzles With Hot Deal During Hottest Months

Where: 4860 West Kennedy Boulevard [map], Tampa, Florida, United States, 33609

While summertime in Tampa, Florida is hot as hell, so are the hotel rates at the InterContinental Tampa hotel. The nearly two-year old luxury hotel is offering a "Buy One, Get One" (BOGO) free deal where guests can pay as little as $159 for two nights. The BOGO package also includes a disposable camera and a 5x7 picture frame, "so guests can document their fabulous summer escape to Tampa."

We have to say this is a pretty unreal deal for an Intercontinental Hotel, even when you're down their sweating your huevos rancheros off. BOGO! And especially when you consider that part of the luxury of living in the free world is that you are indeed free to blast in-room air conditioning at no extra cost. However some things to beware of are its location inside an office building that's close to the airport, say TripAdvisor reviewers. The pool is also kind of small.

The deal lasts from May 1 through September 30, 2009. Just in time for most of the rest of the country to start getting cold again! BOGO! (Sorry, this marketing term is growing on us.)

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Miami's Eden Roc Makes a Classy Comeback

Where: 4525 Collins Avenue [map], Miami Beach, Florida, United States, 33140

Too much and perhaps, too late? Hotels around the globe are completing renovations just as travelers start to rethink their vacation plans. On the bright side, you will probably be staying in new rooms for less. This week we'll be looking at some of the new-old faces out there and telling you what these spiffed up joints will cost you. Any suggestions? Let us know.

Perhaps afraid of looking like the cougar in the club, the iconic 21-story, 283-room Eden Roc Hotel will officially join the ranks of shiny, newly renovated A-List resort hotels along the Miami shoreline.

This time the magic wand will be waved by David Siguaw, who has put the vamp into revamp in the Hollywood Roosevelt and also the Marriott Marina del Rey, although we hardly think a Marriott can be any sort of vampy.

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The Standard Miami Offers Better Sex and Karma

Where: The Standard - 40 Island Ave [map], Miami Beach, Florida, United States, 33139

Since this week is American Heart Month, we here at HotelChatter are profiling Fitness Hotels--hotels that make it feasible for you to keep up with your fitness regime, or start a new one, while you are on the road or on vacation. Know of any fitness hotels to spotlight? Get physical with our tipline.

Years ago, yoga aficionado and hip hop mogul Russell Simmons once said he first got into yoga at the Jivamukti Center in Manhattan because he liked admiring the tushies in front of him during downward dog.

"I would first go to yoga because there were so many hot girls. It is so typical when you are in downward dog to have some cute girl in front when you gotta keep your mind on god," Simmons said.

Men with a similar fondness for derriere will be delighted to learn that The Standard Miami is hosting a soul-searching weekend of bootie and beans.

February 24th to 26th, The Standard is hosting author and Jivamukti yoga co-founder Sharon Gannon for a workshop discussing vegetarianism and the art of far east body movement. Gannon will lead a yoga class as well as have a book signing for her newly penned Yoga and Vegetarianism: The Diet for Enlightenment. Yep, another celebrity book hawking! Donna Karan is a fan and so is Sting! But do note: This book pimping is all in the name of low impact planet destruction.

Guests can enter into a transcendental reality starting at $225 a night for a missionary room and climax starting $925 a night for the full spread room. The book is $14.95. Consider the better sex and good karma your instant rebate.

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Get "Whatever You Like" at the Gansevoort South This New Year's Eve

Where: 2377 Collins Ave [map], Miami, Florida, United States, 33139

On the heels of the Gansevoort T&C news, we now have some party updates.

We sincerely hope the only police needed will be the fashion police at the Gansevoort South this New Year's Eve as fashion disaster Chloe Sevigny will be hosting the party. But when it comes to rapper T.I., you can't be sure what you will get (although he promises "you can have whatever you like.")

T.I. will tear it up (musically) while guests chillax in the main pool plaza and the rooftop pool. Top DJs like Cassidy, Jus-Ske, Lee Kalt and Behrouz are slated to scratch their records (or rather, point and click on their Macs) during the six-hour open bar from 10-4am.

That's not even the illest part of the night. There will also be a live private fireworks show, STK-catered food and some sexy Wilhelmina Models languidly lounging around sipping some bubbly.

If you want to celebrate at a Gansevoort but won't be in Miami, the original Gansevoort in the Meatpacking District will have gossip blogger Perez Hilton hosting their bash. Last year, yours truly was there and got a marriage proposal from the one and only Kid Rock! With the crapping out of the economy, perhaps this year we will say yes. That would be the financially wiser move!

For tickets and info on the Gansevoort South party go here.