Is The Lazy Man's Thanksgiving A Redundancy?

11/08/2007 at 5:45 PM
Tags: Hotel Restaurants, Thanksgiving Hotels

It's almost Thanksgiving, the day when relatives who avoid each other all year pack into a grandmother or an aunt's house to feed around a crowded table. Why go through all the trouble of basting and baking when you can pay someone to do it for you. And with a hotel restaurant, you can avoid as much movement as possible, crawl upstairs to watch football and let the tryptophan take hold.

· Millenium Knickerbocker in Chicago will be serving Thanksgiving dinner from noon to 9 p.m. Cost: adults, $48 and children, $18

· Owyhee Plaza Hotel in Boise hosts its low-price feast that is famous for its high quality throughout Idaho. But there's only a brief window to gorge, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Cost: adults, $17.95 and children, $9.95.

· At the Soho Grand in Manhattan, guests can wash down turkey and pie with steaming hot apple cider. From noon to 8 p.m. Cost: adults, $65.

· Guests of the Hyatt Regency Princeton in New Jersey dine at the Crystal Garden. It's the type of gaudy Jersey opulence where Tony Soprano would dine, complete with Koi fish ponds and waterfalls. A la carte thanksgiving meals range from $31 to $50.

[Photo: cailisse]