HotelChatter || Best Hotels for Fireworks 2008

Get your hot dogs, sunscreen and beer guts ready: Independence Day is just over two weeks away! If you're headed to a big city for some fireworks fun, we'll be taking a look at hotels with prime fireworks views. Have a favorite hotel for gawking at bombs bursting in air? Send it our way.

Hey there, hot wheels: we already gave you our hotel recommendation for a straight up easy (read: lazy) Manhattan Fourth of July, but for those of you who are looking for a cheaper and more do-it-yourself experience, check out Apple Core Hotels.

July 1st through August 3rd, the Apple Core family (Red Roof Inn Manhattan, La Quinta Manhattan, Ramada Inn Eastside, Comfort Inn Midtown and The Hotel at Times Square) is offering -- get this -- a package that includes a bicycle rental in Central Park.

You can bike to the fireworks! Well, kind of.

The "Bicycle Package Built for Two" starts at a totally decent $279.99 and includes:

Two-hour bicycle rental for up to two guests in Central Park, hot dog/french fries/soda combo for two at the Express Cafe at Central Park's Boathouse Restaurant [and] complimentary breakfast and in-room coffee.

Since the bike rental place closes at dusk, you can schedule out the perfect day: taking a little afternoon bike ride through Central Park and a quick dinner from the Boathouse before snagging a bench for fireworks-watching.

And the day would be made even more perfect if you left the kids back at the hotel ... kids 13 and under stay for free, so you can pretend they're not there at all. (Just kidding. Kind of.)

There's still availability for Fourth of July weekend; reservations can be made here.

[Photo: Seth W.]

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