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How To Get a Room In Miami For the Super Bowl (Game Tix, Too)
While most folks are focused on the MLB World Series, down in Miami hotels have the Super Bowl on their minds. Room rates for the weekend of the February 7 game were already laughable when we checked back in August, although today Quikbook still has some reasonably priced rooms in the $200-a-night range. (The W South Beach, however? That’s $999 a night.) But thanks to yet another Facebook promotion, the best deal in town so far is to win the Loews Miami Beach Super Bowl contest. The SoBe hotel is giving away a four-night stay valid February 4–7, 2010—and they’ll also throw in two tickets to the big game.
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Get a $50 Hilton Caribbean Hotel Credit Just For Becoming a Facebook Fan
If you're obsessed with finding new places for hotel deals (and let's face it, aren't we all?) then consider joining Facebook and Twitter to follow hotels for special deals. Like this one we just learned about from Hilton Hotels in the Caribbean.
Simply become a fan of a Hilton Caribbean hotel and download a $50 resort credit which is then redeemable at check-in. You can find a list of the hotels here. The hotels include Hilton Barbados, Caribe Hilton, Hilton Curacao, Hilton Kingston Jamaica and the British Colonial Hilton Nassau.
Unfortunately, you just missed your chance to catch the Jonas Brothers who were recently shacked up at the Hilton Santo Domingo which was swarmed by rabid teenage girls. Might be best to give that hotel some time to recover.
After becoming a fan, go to the hotel's BOXES tab. There you will see the resort credit which you can print out. Just remember you must book a minimum 2-night stay and only one coupon per room can be used. The offer is good through January 2010 and cannot be combined with other promotions or offers.
[Photo: Hilton Curacao Facebook page]
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Sleeping By The (Red) Sea in Bir Suwair's Bamboo Shacks
We learned several things from our visit to Egypt last week. First, five star there does not necessarily mean the five star that you would be accustomed to. We stayed in three five star properties in the Sinai peninsula – the Four Seasons and the Concorde in Sharm El Sheikh, and the Intercontinental in Taba Heights, and, unless you count all inclusive buffets and slightly tired decor as desirable five star attributes, only the Four Seasons was up to scratch.
Second, do not trust the buffets. They will make most likely you ill.
Third, you may tire of the resorts after a week of the buffets and the activities and the enforced gaiety and being surrounded by what seems like half the inhabitants of Britain and Russia, comparing sun burn and complaining that the guy at breakfast overfilled the coffee cup.
This is when you need to escape. And this is where you should escape to: Bir Suwair, in northern Sinai, between Nuweiba and Taba. It’s a settlement on a lovely sandy beach (this is important because not all the beaches in Sinai are lovely and sandy; most are rocky and have to import sand that’s a bit chunky and scratchy, although they have awesome coral reefs to make up for this). And by “settlement”, we mean a group of about 30 campsites made up of bamboo and wooden shacks. Robinson Crusoe eat your heart out.
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Thanks to Facebook, We Get a Sneak Peek at the W Barcelona
There are still six days to go till it opens, but the folk at W Barcelona have stuck up some sneak peek photos on their Facebook page. The teases!
Up top is the the sundeck at the Altitude Terrace. Then there’s the WET Deck (loving the water all over the place)
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The Lorien Hotel Wants Us To Give Up Facebook and Twitter
We have definitely admired Kimpton's new Lorien Hotel and Spa since it opened up earlier this year. But their new special package is one we're finding a little bit confronting – although we suspect it's our fault, not the hotel's.
The thing is, the Lorien Hotel and Spa wants us to relax, and is worried that our addiction to social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook (we do mention them occasionally) might be bordering on a social dysfunction (they even found therapists who agree). So they are offering a Social Media Detox Program for the rest of this year.
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Barbados Posts Deals Galore on Facebook and Twitter
We all know that hotels have gotten hip to Facebook, offering their new fans and friends special deals through the social networking site. But sometimes it also pays to be a fan of a tourism agency on Facebook if you're looking for some vacation deals.
Fans of the Barbados Beat on Facebook can log in daily for promotional codes to stay, spa and dine at the best destinations on island or access different deals via status updates. And like any other "savvy" social media plan, the hotels know to also tweet their deals on Twitter.
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Rio Mar Beach Resort Gives Hefty Discount to Facebook Pals
We can't promise you this pool will have empty lounge chairs when you get there.
Here's a status update you won't mind getting on your Facebook news feed: Wyndham's Rio Mar Beach Resort and Spa in Puerto Rico is giving its FB fans 40 percent off on stays during August and September.
Sign up on its Facebook page and you'll get a room for $119 per night. The deal can be booked through Aug. 31 by calling (866) 624-7926; just be sure to mention the fan discount. The fine print is that rates are subject to availability, blackout dates may apply and, obvs, you must be an FB fan.
There's a lot to be a fan of at this hotel, since it sits between the lush El Yunque National Rainforest and the scenic Atlantic shoreline. And its Facebook page says it just got a new beachside fire pit, where you can partake in everything from salsa lessons to eating s’mores. Now back to Facebook—we have to update our status to “Wishing we were in Puerto Rico.”
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MGM Grand Now Superpoking 7,000 People on Facebook
There's tons of hotel news flying around this week and we don't have time to give each and every story the love and attention it may deserve, so you will have to settle for some news briefs.
· MGM Grand Las Vegas Facebooks: And not only that, it has 7,000 fans. Now they can officially hold a Facebook Fans Only night in the hotel's 5,000 rooms. [Facebook]
· Hotel Chelsea Gets a Film: All the management drama and shenanigans at the Hotel Chelsea has gotten them a film from documentary-maker Abel Ferrara. [Page Six]
· Suspicious Hotel Reviews?: Still-under construction Hotel Shangri-La Santa Monica gets two glowing reviews on the same day. We are cynics over here so we wonder who really wrote these? [TripAdvisor]
· Hyatt Place Opens in Wyoming, Michigan: It's the only hotel in the area. We are wondering who will ever go there. [WZZM13]
· Fargo Hotels Sell Out for AC/DC Concert: It turns out, aging rock bands are good for the stagnant hotel economy. Fargo hotels are filling up fast for AC/DC concert. [Grand Forks Herald]
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Aloft Dulles Opens For Inauguration But All Rooms Are Booked
Standard Aloft Signage (Not from Aloft Dulles North.)
It's been a while since we reported on an Aloft Hotel opening but that's because those hotels are opening up seemingly every week across the country. However, the most recent opening in Washington D.C. (ok, scratch that. We mean Ashburn, Virginia) has us wondering if there are any rooms open for Barack Obama's Inauguration.
The Aloft Dulles North opened its doors to guests just before Christmas and will hold it's officially opening party on January 15th. Unfortunately, when we plugged in prime inauguration stay dates (Jan. 18-21st), the online reservations system had nothing for us. Null, in fact was the term that came up.
Still the Aloft might be a cool place to stay one day...if you're ever stuck near the airport. One thing we kinda like about the hotel is something that you can't see. It's the time capsule they created and promptly buried. The time capsule is called DNA which can stand for either the scientific DNA or for Dulles North Aloft and it will be unsealed on the hotel's ten year anniversary.
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Kor Group Woos Facebook Friends with Freebies
The Viceroy Santa Monica
The Kor Group is ringing in the New Year with a little help from their friends — uh, Facebook friends, that is. Offering diners at the Viceroy Santa Monica’s Whist free appetizers and the Avalon Beverly Hills’ Blue on Blue discounted drinks with proof of Facebook fan status, Kor is presumably hoping to ratchet up Facebook friends. Especially considering the two pages have a combined force of just 33 friends.
Starting yesterday, any restaurant guest who ponies up the hotel’s Facebook page via printed copy or mobile device can enjoy nine whole days of food and drink savings (through Jan. 9).
At Whist, Facebook fans score “Freebie Fritters” — lump crab fritters with chives, aioli, and caviar, normally priced at $15 — from noon to 6 p.m. Meanwhile, Blue on Blue diners are treated to a progressive happy hour with cocktails and beer for just $1 each yesterday, $2 today, increasing by a dollar each day through Jan. 9. (To get the deal, there’s a two-drink minimum, four-drink maximum.)
Um, yes please.
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High Peaks Resort Has Some Fun on The Internet
High Peaks Resort in Lake Placid, New York, is nothing if not, uh, placid when it comes to navigating Web 2.0. Like all the cool kids, the new hotel Twitters! And Facebooks! And Flickrs! And if you text message the code MYVIPTEXT HPR to 368638, you’ll get exclusive offers and specials on your phone.
We like seeing new hotels that snap to action when it comes to social networking, so we salute the newly launched pages. So much so that we’ll extend a little holiday cheer their way while critiquing their efforts.
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The Jane Hotel Down for Poking, SuperPoking and Status Updates
We've already talked about hotels blogging and new hotel iPhone apps today so we might as well talk about hotels Facebooking.
The Jane Hotel has joined the ever-increasing group of hotels on Facebook. So far the hotel only has about 20 fans which we understand as it's in the beginning stages of Facebooking. The two wall posts advertise the $99 rates at the hotel and a YouTube series of clips from the movie Barton Fink. So far, no fan photos or videos but we'll be watching for those in the future.
Creating a Facebook page is something we actually discussed over the summer with hotelier Sean MacPherson who was keen on attracting younger guests--specifically those who wanted to experience a "grittier" version of NYC on a budget. And indeed this is the hotel's mission statement on FB:
To provide a stylish and affordable travel experience for explorers with "more dash than cash."
Know of any other hotels with Facebook pages? Poke us.
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