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Giant Easter Egg on Display at The Dolder Grand
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
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
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
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
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.
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Berlin Hotels Not Great At Celebrating Easter Properly
We've been looking around for a Berlin hotel at Easter time, and we've learned just one thing: Easter's just an excuse for a pretty unexciting hotel deal. We're looking for something with chocolate and bunnies and heaps of Easter spirit, but we can't find it. The good news is, however, that plenty of Berlin hotels are keen to lock us in to a German Easter break, and there is at least the chance to save some Euros.
At the Steigenberger Hotel on Los-Angeles-Platz, for example, you get one night, free use of the pool and "an Easterly three-course meal", from €191 (US$295) for a double (cheaper, ironically, for the weeks either side of the actual Easter break).
At the Grand Hyatt Berlin, they're tenuously grabbing on to the Easter tag by including an "Easter egg" at breakfast, by which they mean you'll get the choice of having your egg cooked exactly how you want it. They also say that fresh bread and brewed coffee are "must-haves at Easter", although we strongly suspect they're available every day of the year. Double room prices start from €175 (US$270) between March 20 and 30.
And just to prove that boring Easter specials are all over Berlin, the Hotel de Rome in Berlin has an Easter deal that's completely free of Easter eggs or Easterly meals. They do, however, want you to stay three nights for the price of two, the kind of deal we rather like, and that means you could have a double from €560 (US$860) for three nights. But bring your own Easter eggs.
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Oh Ladle, Ladle, Ladle...
There may be nothing the Spanish are more faithful to than God and food, and the weeks between Ash Wednesday and Easter (otherwise known as Lent) are a wonderful time to visit Seville--perhaps the one Spanish city most steeped in religious history--to experience both of those things.
Not only is this when Seville's famous Semana Santa festival takes place, it's also when about 20 hotel restaurants there offer more varied menus every Thursday through Easter. The event is called Jueves de Cuchara... y Gloria Bendita, which loosely translates to "Thursday Ladle and Blessed Glory," or at least so says Google's translator tool.
Participating hotels include the Hotel Alfonso XIII and its Restaurante San Fernando, Hospes' Las Casas Del Rey's Restaurante Senzone and Hotel Inglaterra's Restaurante La Galería, which offers a break from the regional cuisine with traditional Irish and English meals.
It seems these Sevillian chefs know devout Catholics want to get their fill of meat before abstaining on Friday, offering such dishes as stewed lentils with sausage and potatoes. Some of the hotels are offering three-course prix fixe meals that are no more than 40 euros.
Hotelesdesevilla.com will provide you with the full list of properties and contact information, though if your Spanish is rusty, you might also want to put Google's translator tool to work, as the page is only available in español.
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Hoopla Happenings at Sydney's Darling Harbour
Easter's coming early this year, and in Sydney as well as hunting for chocolate Easter eggs or greeting the Easter bilby (the Australian animal version of the Easter bunny), they'll be celebrating the Darling Harbour Hoopla Festival as well.
Hoopla is a circus and acrobatic festival that will see performers juggling, busking, abseiling and doing aerial stunts and slapstick comedy routines at many locations around the Darling Harbour precinct, all for free, and it sounds like a good laugh and a lot of fun.
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Easter in London at the Baglioni: Third Night Free Plus an Easter Egg
[Update: We just realized the prices are in GBP and not Euros. We've adjusted the prices accordingly. Our apologies!]
Dearest HotelChatter readers, Forgive us for we have sinned and during the season of Lent! Hail Mary, Mother of God, pray for our soul.
We were so tempted not to tell you about this deal because we wanted to keep it all for ourselves. See, we are headed to London over Easter weekend and have been scouring the hotel rates. Until today we didn't see anything that we really liked. That is, until we received our Tablet Hotels newsletter and spied this deal at the Baglioni Hotel near Hyde Park.
For a two-night stay at 230 GBP night ($456), you get the third night free, along with unlimited broadband internet access, unlimited movies on demand, breakfast and our fave, a personalized Easter egg. Yeah, that probably locked it up for us.
Thus, we couldn't resist. And at the same time we didn't want to publicize it for fear that you would snatch it up as well. Seriously, we need to go mass and repent today.
Then when we looked at the cancellation fee and learned we had up until two days before our check-in date to cancel, we decided to go ahead and book it. Details are after the jump.
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