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Angry Birds Protect the Golden Egg at the Sand Hill Hotel

Where: 2825 Sand Hill Road [map], Menlo Park, CA, United States, 94025

Angry Birds FTW! This might be one of our favorite hotel pastry concoctions ever.

The pastry chef at the Rosewood Sand Hill in Menlo Park, Calif. created a special Easter display in honor of Angry Birds, the addictive iPad and iPhone time-waster app and video game. Considering that this hotel is in the shadow of Palo Alto and Silicon Valley, the Angry Birds were very apropro.

The birds were put out for the hotel restaurant's, Madera, Easter brunch where ducks, chickens, dwarf goats, turkeys, sheeps rabbits and yes, pot-bellied pigs frolicked on the lawn out front. Although the display is made of edible ingredients, guests were not allowed to get the Golden Egg, er, we mean, eat it.

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Four Seasons Aviara Hatches Giant Chocolate Easter Eggs

Where: 7100 Four Seasons Point [map], Carlsbad, CA, United States, 92011

Our favorite Easter candy is Cadbury Mini Eggs—no, not the nasty fake yolk-filled eggs, but the little chocolate nuggets of bliss. But this year, the Four Seasons Aviara, North San Diego came up with a way bigger and better Cadbury egg replacement.

The hotel has cooked up some ginormous chocolate Easter eggs, all of which are carefully decorated to look like objets d'art. Forget lame dyed eggs; we want one of these in our Easter baskets.

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Hop to These Five Hotels for Easter Brunch

The Taj Boston will serve a view with Easter brunch.

Here's what's fun about Easter: bunnies, holiday candy and good eats. What's not so fun about the holiday is cooking said good eats and, even worse, doing the dishes. This year, get out of the kitchen and let someone else do the Easter cooking.

We rounded up five places you can get a tasty hotel brunch, so that you can focus on chillaxing with family and friends rather than cooking and cleaning.

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Instead Of An Egg, The Cumberland Hotel Gives You Easter At Half Price

Where: Great Cumberland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1H 7DL

Easter in London for half price? Yes please. Guoman Hotels are being quite proactive about getting bums on quilts at the moment, and their latest fad is the simply named 50 percent off this Easter deal.

Expect exactly what the title suggests – half price rooms over the Easter period, with no pesky minimum stay or anything like that.

The only snag? Three of the four hotels have already sold out of availability for the package, but The Cumberland still has room.

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Where Has The Joule Hotel Laid All These Golden Eggs?

Where: 1530 Main St. [map], Dallas, TX, United States, 75201

One of our favorite parts of Easter was the egg hunt. We'd love searching for the colorful eggs and beating out our brother for the big prize. The Joule is making its own Easter Egg hunt for adults, but instead of getting tucked away in your backyard, the eggs will be hidden across nine different cities. Plus, the prize is better than the $5 mom and dad gave us.

The hotel will hide one oversized golden egg in Atlanta; Austin; Houston; Los Angeles; Miami; New Orleans; New York, Washington, D.C.; and Dallas. Successful egg hunters in each city will win a night in one of the hotel's suites, two cocktails from PM Nightlife Lounge, breakfast in bed, dinner at Charlie Palmer, and a $200 American Express gift card to help with airfare.

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Giant Easter Egg on Display at The Dolder Grand

Where: Kurhausstrasse, Zurich, Switzerland, 8032

The Dolder Grand in Zurich is known to do things up big, like their opening party featuring Mary J. Blige and their Grand 100 Suite inspired by the Rolling Stones.So why should Easter be any different?

The hotel has constructed a giant Easter egg made out of 16,834 Chrysanthemums, standing over 8 feet tall and weighing over 2,200 lbs.

Now, if only someone could make an Easter egg out of that much chocolate for us.

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Hong Kong's Landmark Mandarin Will Have a Swanky Easter Buffet

Where: 15 Queen's Road, The Landmark, Central, Hong Kong

Although any excuse for a fancy hotel buffet or high tea service will do, there is nothing like Easter for bringing out all the trimmings. Stop into any nice hotel in the United States this upcoming weekend and you're sure to catch the chefs covered in egg dye and the diners swathed in pastels. What about if you are abroad and have a hankering for some traditional Easter noshing, however? In Hong Kong, leave it up to the Landmark Mandarin Oriental to save the day with an Easter weekend lunch, brunch buffet, and afternoon tea buffet.

On April 11 and 12 only, the 648HKD ($89) lunch at the Landmark's Amber restaurant involves more than just five courses and wine pairings, but also includes something of a babysitting service for your kids: an Easter egg hunt and a side buffet for children (288HKD or $37 for those under 12).

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The Five Best Hotels for Easter Weekend

Don't feel like dressing up as the Easter bunny this April? Not interested in hiding chocolate all over the house while desperately hoping the dog doesn't find it before you children do? Having second thoughts about cleaning up the house to host the in-laws? Our advice: go spend Easter weekend, April 9th through 12th, at a hotel.

Lucky for you, as the flowers begin to burst and bloom, so do some of the sweetest, most family-friendly, keep-the-kids-occupied deals at hotels all over the place. We've rounded up the Five Best Hotels for Easter Weekend; spots to take the whole fam to celebrate the bunnylicious, chocolatey holiday in style.

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The Easter Bunny To Make Appearance at Luxe Hotel On Sunset

Where: 11461 W Sunset Blvd [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90049

Even the Easter Bunny likes to hop to Bel Air for an occasional brunch date, and this Easter he’ll be putting in an appearance at On Sunset’s Jazz Brunch at the Luxe Hotel. While adults graze and groove to the strains of a jazz trio, the tykes can cavort with an Easter Bunny entertainer.

Brunch lasts from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm, though the Easter Bunny will only be there from 11:00 – 2:00 pm. After all, he’s got a lot of places to hit on his busy day.

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Five Hotels in NYC For Under $150

Our newest batch of hotels makes us want to scream "Recession!" from the top of our lungs — you know, if the recession wasn't also costing hundreds of thousands of people their jobs.

But after years and years of watching the rates climb up and up in Manhattan and having to wait until the temperature dropped below 20 degrees to get a sort of decent deal, looking at these cheap hotels makes us want to smile...and pull out our credit cards to start booking.

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San Fran Hotels Get Cheap for the Easter Bunny

Where: San Francisco, ca, United States

So Easter weekend is upon us and if you are looking for a last-minute getaway, fake that you're Catholic and that you need to take off Good Friday for an Easter Vigil and head to San Francisco.

We looked at rates on Expedia.com for Friday to Monday and rates are looking very do-able. Unlike say Miami which is in the midst of a Spring Break/Holiday weekend double-whammy where beachfront hotels are starting at around $550 a night and airport hotels are hovering in the $200 a night range.

The Clift Hotel, which had a very scary incident earlier this month, is going for $150 a night. Since the place got so much bad press about guest safety, we're willing to bet that they are doing all that they can to turn this around. Still, we say women shouldn't travel alone here.

More Bunny-Friendly Hotel Rates after the jump.

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A Scottish Easter at The Gleneagles Hotel

Where: Auchterarder, Pethershire, Scotland, United Kingdom, PH3 1NF

We were lucky enough to stay at Scotland's Gleneagles Hotel just before Christmas (check out the profile pic), and we must say that no hotel does a holiday better than Gleneagles. Which is why you might want to take advantage of the hotel's Easter offer, running from March 21 to 24.

Of course, as the dollar continues to suck (even yen is worth more these days) be prepared for a little sticker shock. But also keep in mind that while Gleneagles is a luxury property, it has so far bucked the trend of unbundling rates to lure you in, only to smack you with the non-inclusives upon check out. With each package, there is no minimum stay restriction and all include use of the hotel's leisure facilities, as well as some meals.

Secure a bed and breakfast for about $641 per night; or dinner, bed and breakfast from $834. There's even a deal for children who share a room: high tea, bed, breakfast and activities from $437. In addition to all this, Gleneagles also is hosting what it calls "an informal" program of Easter events, including special activities for children and young adults, as well as a traditional Easter Sunday lunch for an additional $91 per person.