Learn Which Hotels Around The World Will Go Dark For Earth Hour

March 22, 2010 at 12:15 PM | by MsRebecca | Comment (1)

The Four Seasons Hotel Sydney prepares for a previous Earth Hour celebration.

Forget your brackets for one second. This month is not all about March Madness�there's also a little thing called Earth Hour going on. It happens on the 27th at 8:30 p.m. local time around the globe, and yet again hotels are all over it. So if your hotel goes dark this Saturday night, don't be alarmed.

Apart from the novelty of seeing a big building dim, you could do well out of this display of environmental awareness�plenty of properties are hosting special events to celebrate Earth Hour.

Here are just a few of the hotel chains participating�but feel free to add to our list by sharing details about other hotel Earth Hour events in the comments below.

Fairmont Scottsdale during last year's Earth Hour.

· FAIRMONT HOTELS
All 60 of Fairmont's hotels and resorts worldwide will turn their lights off for one hour and many will serve candlelit dinners in their restaurants. Guests at the Fairmont Orchid in Hawaii will receive complimentary hot chocolate and s'mores roasted over an oceanside fire pit; while at the Fairmont Mara Safari Club in Kenya, guests can hear a talk by naturalists and watch a Massai dance performance. At the Fairmont Turnberry Isle, there will be a $12 Glow in the Dark Solar Drop cocktail available at the lobby lounge, and outside a 2.9-mile Earth Hour run benefiting a local non-profit supporting environmental issues and earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.

· FOUR SEASONS HOTELS
Candlelit dinners will be served at 47 properties worldwide, including Seattle, Miami, and Chicago, where the four-course locally-inspired menu at Seasons Restaurant will cost $55 per person. The Four Seasons Hotel Sydney (the city where Earth Hour started, in 2007) will use specially designed carbon-neutral candles for their celebration.

· SHANGRI-LA HOTELS
More than 60 hotels will turn of their lights in most back-of-the-house areas and dim the lights in public areas, restaurants, and outside the hotels. The hotels will also encourage guests to turn off the lights in their rooms.

· STARWOOD HOTELS: Aside from encouraging lights-out in more than 90,000 hotel rooms, Starwood properties will turn off their exterior signage lighting, go with candlelight in restaurants and bars, serve "green" cocktails, and host community walk-a-thons and "unplugged" concerts.

· RELAIS & CHATEAUX HOTELS
The Hotel Heritage in Bruges, Belgium, is being a bit of a show-off. Instead of the standard one hour without lights, this property will go dark for six hours, from 6pm until midnight. There will also be a special four-course, candlelit BBQ bash for 45 euros per person (or 60 euros per person with wine pairing).

· VEGAS CASINOS
Harrah's, MGM Mirage, and Wynn Resorts have all committed to turning off their neon, and other properties planning to mark Earth Hour in some way include Trump, Treasure Island, Tropicana, Riviera, Sahara, and the Stratosphere.

[Photo: Helen Nezdropa/Sydney Morning Herald ]

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For the second year in a row during Earth Hour, Marquis Los Cabos Resort (http://www.marquisloscabos.com) will turn off a majority of the hotel´s lights and hold an Astronomy Night. The resort's Astronomy Nights, which began during Earth Hour last year but were subsequently adopted as an event held during every full moon, include a lounge party with live Latin jazz and Mexican music and fire pit on the beach, Mayan astronomy lessons with two local naturalists Maria Elena Muriel and Julio Cesar Mendez and Mexican canapés. Marquis will also host this even on Earth Day next month.

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