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'Billy Elliot' Star to Dance the Nutcracker at the Occidental Grand Aruba
Just because Aruba is a warm-weather holiday travel alternative doesn't mean you can't still partake in traditions while you're there. The Occidental Grand Aruba is really trying to get you in the spirit by offering Nutcracker performances at the resort starring Kiril Kulish, the Tony Award-winning actor who was one of the original boxer-turned-ballet-dancer title characters in Broadway's Billy Elliot.
Having the 15-year-old Broadway vet in the Aruba resort is rather random, but nonetheless pretty cool. You can see how his ballet chops have fared since he left the Great White Way at the all-inclusive resort on December 29. His free performance as the Nutcracker prince will be exclusively for hotel guests as part of a holiday package.
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The Clift Offers a Holiday Shopping Package That Doesn't Suck
Shop 'till you drop, then toast to a job well done at The Clift's Redwood Room.
You had us at free parking.
Well, free parking, along with a bevy of discounts at major retailers in San Francisco's Union Square. With the holiday season steadily creeping upon us, we've been receiving tips about more "room-plus-shopping discount" packages than we can count. The problem being that most of them are less than noteworthy, and some are downright lame.
The Clift Hotel, however, is wise to what discerning consumers are looking for. Their Happy Shopping Package is available now through January 9, 2010, and offers guests who book it major price cuts at some Union Square's upscale stores—the places where you could really use an extra 20% off, or a comparable deal.
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Se San Diego Offers a Naughty Holiday Package for a Nice Price
The holidays are all about Santa, cookies, snow and all that cheery goodwill toward others, but sometimes during the chaotic season you need to just get away with your honey for some coal-worthy behavior. All you bad boys and girls can head to the Se San Diego for its Naughty and Nice holiday package.
The one-night package allows you to get dirty in a Moroccan Rasul steam room. There you'll get the Se Spa's mud bath for two—the mud treatment is the spa's signature service, so it should be good. Then you and your sweetie can clean yourselves off with a soak in in a couple's tub.
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The Holidays Are Here, Let's Celebrate With Some Hotel Cocktail Cheer
You know how much we love our cocktails here at HotelChatter. We'll find any reason to celebrate with a cocktail and fortunately for us (but not for our liver), hotels feel the same way. We've slurped down Summer Cocktails and Halloween Cocktails and now we're ready for the main event, Holiday Cocktails. We'll be taking a look at these concoctions all season long. If you have a suggestion, don't hold out on us. (Photos, recipes and prices are helpful too!)
The weather outside is (nearly) frightful, but indulging in a warm cocktail is always delightful. The Summit at The Broadmoor is getting into a bone-warming state of mind their Hot Holiday Cider. With good reason, too – overnight temperatures in Colorado Springs have been dipping into the teens. Brr....
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Perfect Your Iron Lotus at These Hotels' Ice Rinks
The Pond at Bryant Park.
In anticipation of winter, we told you about five hotels where you can sleep and ice skate earlier this week. For those of you who are jonesing for some cold-weather fun, here are other hotels that have rinks nearby so you can lace up and hit the ice.
Find out three more skating-hotel picks after the jump.
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Five Hotels for The Holidays That Go Beyond Dinner and a Room
Scotland's Balmoral Hotel
Hotels getting gussied up for holiday time is hardly something new, nor is the deluge of "Super-Amazing-Can't-Miss-It" packages that accompany tinsel being hung. Trust us; we'll be hearing (and writing) about them ad infinitum.
Finding metallic ornaments and maybe even a Christmas goose dinner is easy enough at any number of establishments, so today we're highlighting five that go beyond dinner and a room. There's something special shaking at this quintet of hotels, and it's up to you to experience the good tidings in person.
The Balmoral Hotel
At this high-end hotel in Edinburgh, guests get a "home away from home" vibe with a complimentary in-room Christmas tree for decorating. Also comped by the Balmoral are breakfast, use of the Balmoral Health Club, and an adjoining room for children for much-needed adult privacy.
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The Viceroy Miami's Illy Espresso Machine Will Make You Happy Morning and Night
We are continuing to geek out over in-room coffee makers. Yesterday, we showed you how the folks Down Under do it and today we're including an in-room coffee maker that we forgot to include in our original round-up--The Illy Espresso machine at Viceroy Miami.
The Francis Francis X8 espresso machines from Illy are found in all rooms at the hotel and there is no grinding of beans or scooping of ground espresso to deal with here. Just plop in a pod into "Frank" (we can call it that, right?) and steaming hot espresso is yours in a matter of seconds. There is milk and as you can see, oranges to accompany your drink as well.
We actually used Frank in the evening when we arrived at the hotel to give us a quick jolt so that we could stay awake to do some work. And when we awoke in the morning, Frank was ready and waiting to serve us again.
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Five Hotels Where You Can Sleep and Ice Skate
The Hotel Del Coronado.
Forget free wifi or yoga classes, it looks like the hot hotel amenity for winter is a private ice rink. Hotels all over are going all Ice Capades and putting up rinks—even if they are in a warm-weather locales. So you Michelle Kwans and Brian Boitanos can lace up your skates and practice your double axel—or if you're like us, teeter and fall on your booties—even when you're traveling.
Find out where you can sleep and skate this holiday after the jump.
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Embassy Suites Wants to Hear Your Embarrassing Holiday Party Stories
Already, we're seeing an avalanche of holiday-themed promotions and packages at hotels, but here's one that goes beyond turkey dinners and a big Christmas tree in the lobby. In fact, this promo from Embassy Suites seems almost public-service like.
The chain's Office Holiday Party No-Nos Contest is designed to promote good behavior at that most awkward of holiday events, with a pretty decent incentive for doing so. All red-faced office workers with an embarrassing holiday party story up their sleeves have to do is tell the world—well, the folks at Embassy Suites, anyways—all the messy, juicy details of said slip-up.
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Omni San Diego Tries to Offer Holiday Cheer with New Packages
Spending the holidays in a hotel may not seem very homey and warm, but the Omni San Diego, next to Petco Park in the downtown Gaslamp Quarter, wants to give it a go with several holiday packages.
The Stuff Your Stocking package starts at $99 a night. As you can guess from the package's name, the hotel will give you a personalized holiday stocking filled with coupons to stores and restaurants near the hotel. You'll also get a voucher that entitles you to stay in the hotel for the same rate in 2010.
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Galleria Park Hotel Helps Visitors Experience a Faux Snow Day in SF
San Francisco natives know that the closest thing the city gets to snow, sleet, or anything of the sort during the holidays is Union Square's perilously crowded ice rink. You can either hightail it out of town—to Lake Tahoe or Big Bear, for instance—for a taste of the real thing, or you can fake it with the "Snow Day" package being offered by the Galleria Park Hotel. Its perks are a far cry from being caught in a bonafide flurry, but when you're a coastal Californian or holiday visitor, faux is the best you can hope for.
The Galleria Park is located in Union Square, whose holiday decorations are really impressive, despite their kitsch: a fully tinsel and wreath-beckdecked MACY*S, a gigantic Christmas tree in the main plaza, and even more lights than usual. What the package offers in addition to being squarely in the middle of these surroundings are complimentary valet parking, which usually runs for $35 per night, two tickets and skate rental to said ice rink, and two cups of Valrhona (a.k.a. the way high-end version of Swiss Miss) hot chocolate upon returning to the hotel at midi.
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The Signature at MGM Grand Keeps Both Naughty and Nice Lists
We regularly cover Sin City happenings on our sister site VegasChatter, where the X-to-G-rated ratio often tips in favor of lascivious activities. This isn't to say that there aren't perfectly innocent things to do in Las Vegas—we reported on gelato last Friday, for Chrissakes—but finding them may take more work than wandering into any one of the Strip's neon-lighted strip joints.
Just in time for proverbial "list checking" season, The Signature at MGM Grand is offering a "Nice" alternative for those of a prim persuasion. Deviant travelers will have their requisite "Naughty" option, so fear not.
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