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Charity Hotels, Amsterdam, and Fiddy?

Charity Hotels is the brainchild of Ed van Thijn, the President of the Dutch Association of Travel Companies and former Mayor of Amsterdam, so it is hard to figure out if it is genius, or one of those half-baked ideas that comes after an afternoon of overindulgence in the local brownies.

According to the site, the idea is this:

5% on every reservation booked through www.charityhotels.com is automatically donated to charity. You as a customer will NOT pay any extra for this good cause and as such, your hotel reservation will NOT become more expensive.

Charityhotels.com donates to the Red Cross, Stop Aids Now, the Heart Fund, the Cancer Fund, World Wildlife Fund, Amnesty International, UNICEF, Memisa, Oxfam and many more.

We haven't played around with the site much yet, but seeing if heartstrings play a part in hotel reservations is an experiment we are all for.

Oh, and our favorite part? Scroll down to "site sponsors".  Look who is first on the list--none other that Fiddy.  We knew about G-Unit's legendary hotel antics, but we had no idea they were big softies for pandas. Of course it is no doubt an advertising text link anomaly, but nonetheless.

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