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Go Hog Wild with Hard Rock San Diego's Free Bikes
The Hard Rock is king when it comes to gimmick packages, courting guests with guitars and other freebies. This time, the Hard Rock San Diego is dangling complimentary motorcycles to get your motor running.
Buy the Hard Rock and a Hog package and you'll get to ride a Harley during your two-night stay. To complete your biker experience, the hotel includes a map of the best hog rides in the San Diego area and a gift bag of Harley-Davidson goodies. But you'll have to bring your own leather jacket. The Hard Rock also throws in a $40 credit for a breakfast at in-house restaurant Maryjane's and entry to rooftop lounge Float and bar 207.
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The Bangles Burn 'An Eternal Flame' for Pinktober at The Hard Rock
Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling. Do you feel my heart beating, do you understand?
It's always good to see The Bangles are still out there performing their greatest hits from our pre-adolescence. It's even better to see The Bangles performing for such a good cause like Pinktober at the Hard Rock Hotel Orlando.
Pinktober is the Hard Rock's month-long breast cancer awareness program where guests can book special guestrooms that are outfitted with pink sheets (embroidered with little guitars) and pink bathrobes. Twenty-five percent of the room rate will benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
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Who Will Be Marriott's Neighbor at LA Live: Schrager or Rock Stars?
Curbed LA has some great scoop today on the potential hotel that may open up across from the JW Marriott at LA Live (and also attached, a Ritz-Carlton).
Latest rumor about that mystery AEG-funded hotel--planned for right across the street from LA Live--comes courtesy of Karen Englund, director of sales and marketing for Marriott at LA Live: She tells us that the new hotel will likely either be a Hard Rock (as noted before) or an Ian Schrager hotel.
Now we, like Curbed, read the words Ian Schrager and we immediately thought of Edition Hotels. But we have to remember that Ian still can open up his own independent hotel a la Gramercy Park. But we bet Marriott would much rather an Edition Hotel than a competitor like Hard Rock.
We say? While we would love an Edition to open up in our backyard, a JW Marriott and a Ritz-Carlton might be too many luxury hotel rooms. Besides LA Live fits the Hard Rock brand better. Just our two cents. What do you think?
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Move Over Guitar Hero: Chicago Hotels Offer Guests The Real Thing
Rockers will throw up some hand horns for two Chicago hotels' rock-star perks. Hotel Sax and the Hard Rock Hotel offer programs and packages that lend out guitars to guests for rocking out.
Taking inspiration from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea—who infamously played bass nekkid, save for a sock covering his naughty bits—Hotel Sax's "Celebrity Rider" package comes with an acoustic guitar and tube socks. We love it.
The package also offers a two-night stay in a one-bedroom suite, which includes beverages by Heineken and a juice bar with a smoothie tender. Plus, you'll get the VIP treatment in the hotel lobby's Crimson Lounge, where celebs like to party when they are in town.
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Fire at The Hard Rock Disrupts Rehab, Sportsbook and Naptime
Talk about a major party foul. An electrical fire yesterday at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas sent guests scrambling from all parts of the hotel, including the sportsbook during the opening day of the NFL and from Rehab, the hotel's infamous pool party. KTNV reports:
The fire was started by an air conditioning unit overheating in a wall between the existing resort and a new building being built on site. There were no fire alarms in the area where the fire flared up, but the heavy smoke alerted security and guests.
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The Hard Rock to Add Michael Jackson's Glove to Its Memorabilia Collection
The doors of the Hard Rock have guitar handles.
While the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas does have a lot of party-centric activities on site--drinking at Wasted Space, bumping n' grinding at Body English, doing both of those in the water at the Rehab Sunday pool party--the hotel is still true to its original concept and the amount of rock n' roll memorabilia on display is fantastic.
When we were there last month, just off to the reception desk were the sexy outfits used in music videos by Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry and Britney Spears. In fact, Hard Rock actually possesses the outfit Britney used in her "Hit Me Baby One More Time" video. Throughout the property you will also find outfits and property belonging to No Doubt, Bon Jovi, Elvis Presley, Madonna and Michael Jackson. And it looks like the Hard Rock will have some more MJ to show off pretty soon.
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The Hard Rock Chicago Offering Special 'Oprah' Rates of $149 a Night
It's not just the Affinia Chicago that's celebrating Oprah's 24th season kickoff extravaganza with special rates. The Hard Rock Chicago is also getting in on the fun. Room rates for September 6 through September 9 are now $149 (as opposed to $199). The rate also includes free WiFi (so you can Facebook your status and Twitpic your party pics).
Interestingly, the rate is only available online at preferredhotelrate.com/oprah. We hopped on that site to see if those rates were good and indeed they were. Plus the rate comes with 10 percent off coupon at the hotel's China Grill. Wanna splurge for city views? Those rooms start at $179.
If budget is your concern, the Affinia Chicago is now going for $119 a night and it's actually even closer to the extravaganza than the Hard Rock. Oprah will be filming her show on Tuesday night on the Magnificent Mile at the intersection of Michigan and Ohio street. The Black-Eyed Peas and some surprise guests are expected to show. (J-Hud? Michelle O? We hope!)
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Tweet To Win A Night At Hard Rock Chicago For $9
It pays to be a Twitterholic, at least that's what we say to make ourselves feel better. If you're like us and can't stop tweeting or if you want to start the addiction, the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago is offering a Twitter-only contest in which it's giving away nine rooms for $9.
To snag one of the 9-buck rooms, you must have your own Twitter account and retweet the following:
RT to win! @HardRockChicago is giving away 9 rooms for $9. Winners selected 9/9/09! #contest #hardrockchicago09
All retweets must be made by September 8. The nine winners will be chosen at random and will be announced on September 9 (9/9/09, get it?).
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The Paradise Tower Paved Paradise and Showed Guests a Parking Garage
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
We really hate to do two of the same anti-views in a row but this one from the Hard Rock Hotel's new Paradise Tower is worse than last week's construction eyesore.
A recent guest sent us these photos, which not only show the crap view that some rooms get of the Employee Parking lot but also just how much wear and tear the hotel rooms have suffered--and the hotel just opened on July 31st!
The disappointed guest writes:
I checked into a room at the new Paradise Tower at the Hard Rock yesterday, and found it to be a prefect specimen for your "anti-view" segment. Though I’ve never taken photos of a hotel room before, this one I couldn’t resist.
The room number was 30521. It was supposed to be a "mountain/ city view," but I’d categorize it as an "employee parking lot view," or, "some random guy’s Dodge Ram view." They have draconian policies (like a $100 an hour charge for late check-outs beyond 11AM), and they really don’t keep the place up (the old tower is in shambles).
Frankly, the only reason to even consider staying there is to go to Rehab (their Sunday pool party). Otherwise, the place is ridiculously expensive and has horrible service and food options.
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'Paradise' As Seen From The Hard Rock's Paradise Tower
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, home to the world's largest gathering of anti-views in one single city. So we're not really surprised that this was the view from The Hard Rock's Paradise Tower but it was kind of a bummer, considering how sweet how rooms were. (The rest of the hotel we could do without.)
Our room, 738 on the seventh floor, was at the corner of the tower which afforded us views of this and facing the strip, which is a few miles away. That view also had some construction immediately in front of the hotel but once you looked past that, it turned into a killer view.
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Almost Paradise, But Not Really at The Hard Rock's New Paradise Tower
So we took you inside the Hard Rock Las Vegas' new Paradise Tower yesterday and while we liked the rooms in this new tower at the Hard Rock, the rest of the hotel left us a little grumpy.
It all started with check-in. We showed up on Monday at 1pm. Yes, we knew that it was two hours before the standard check-in time of 3pm but we thought we'd try our luck--after all it was a Monday. However, we totally forgot that the folks attending Sin City's rauchiest Sunday pool party, Rehab, would be checking out that day. Thus our room wasn't ready. That we didn't mind. We ended up passing our time in the Starbucks. What we did mind is that we waited nearly 25 minutes to have an agent tell us that.
When the hotel called us to let us know the room was ready, we had to wait in line another 10 minutes to get our key. Grrr.
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Inside The Hard Rock's New Paradise Tower
We knew that yesterday's Guess the Hotel wouldn't be too difficult and we're happy to see that you all managed to guess correctly---The Paradise Tower at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.
We braved the hotel's new tower the day after the festivities of the raunchy pool party, Rehab, had ended, thus on a Monday. We managed to snag a room here for $99 a night which we booked on the hotel's website. However, there is a $7.00 resort fee which as far as we can tell does not include anything worthy although we'd like to think that it's for extensive pool clean-up.
We also got upgraded at check-in to a corner room, meaning we have views of the back of the Hard Rock (some construction and partial shots of the pool) and full-frontal views of the Strip. Hello, Planet Hollywood!* And we have to say the room decor, mostly black and grey with "rock star" touches, is probably the coolest in all of Vegas.
However, all is not well with this new side of the Hard Rock.
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