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King Tut Still Sleeping Around

June 30, 2009 at 1:46 PM | by | Comments (0)

King Tut is still sleeping around — it seems like every hotel puts together a King Tut package when he comes into town — but he's on the road again, and visiting San Francisco for the first time in 30 years. You can catch him at the de Young Museum during the day, but this isn’t Night at the Museum, so when the doors close, you can find discount rooms and dining deals across the California-based boutique hotel chain, Joie De Vivre Hotels local properties.

JDV has 21 hotels in the Bay Area, including 16 hotels in San Francisco itself, two in the East Bay, and three in Marin. All of them are offering special Explore Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs packages and restaurant deals starting June 27, and running until March 28, 2010.

The packages include the “best available rates” (ranging from $79-249) for standard rooms and suites, and VIP tickets to the actual exhibit. These VIP tickets just might be worth it because they are unrestricted and will allow guests to visit the exhibit even if it is already sold out.

JDV is also partnering with the museum to offer King Tut exhibit ticket holders discounts at many of the chain’s San Francisco restaurants, including Americano, Café Andrée, O Izakaya, Custom Burger and midi. Guests receive a “Pharoah’s Gold Card” with each exhibit ticket they purchase, and the card allows them to take advantage of one of the restaurant deals.

For you amateur Egyptologists out there, we’re told that Tut’s era over 3,000 years ago was the golden age of Egyptian political power and artistry. The exhibit contains more than 130 artifacts from Tut’s tomb and other sites, including his royal diadem, and even some of his mummified organs. Creepy.

You can visit JDV’s web site to find which Bay Area property is right for you, and then go book the package.

[Photo: Peter DaSilva for The New York Times]

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