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The PDX Aloft Hotel Introduces New 'Bike and Fly' Program

Where: 9920 NE Cascades Parkway [map], Portland, OR, United States, 97220

Aloft Portland Airport at Cascade Station is trying to make transportation even easier for PDX residents with the country's first ever “Bike & Fly” program. With the purchase of a one-night stay (starting at $130), guests departing Portland International Airport can stash their bikes in a secure bike parking storage area for up to 14 days. The city’s MAX light rail line conveniently stops right in front of Aloft.

This all sounds good and green, but we’re having a hard time wrapping our head around why anyone in the Portland area would want to plunk down $130 to store their bike and what instances would require an overnight stay on an outbound itinerary? Wouldn’t it be more economical (and easy) to simply take MAX light rail line straight to the airport, suffer through TSA and call it a day?

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Go On Your Own 'Tour de Hyatt' With Park Hyatt's Bike Program

Next month, Park Hyatt hotels will be launching a "Bicycle Valet" program that offers free rentals for up to four hours. Surely you can picture the possibilities here: Perhaps a 'lil date action? Some picnic fun? Scenic tours of new cities? Some re-learning how to navigate the mean streets on two wheels after your twenty-year hiatus that you took when you grew too old to ride the bike with the pink tassels hanging off the handlebars?

Starting in August, guests at Park Hyatt properties will be able to hit up the hotel's concierge to get hooked up with a city biking map, a bike lock, a helmet, a kickstand, and even some bottled water.

Where your two-wheeled tours will be (i.e. where the participating Park Hyatts will be): Moscow, Sydney, Beaver Creek, Beijing, Toronto, Paris, Milan, Dubai, Mendoza, Goa, Hamburg, Zurich, Washington DC, Saigon, Istanbul, Seoul, Melbourne, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Tokyo and Canberra.

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Marriott Marina del Rey Rolls Out the Bicycle Valet Service

Where: 4100 Admirality Way [map], Los Angeles, California, United States, 90292

Amazing weather often encourages bike riding which in turn breeds bike thieving. Not at the Marriott Marina del Rey.

Come May 1 the hotel will start their free bicycle valet service! Those valet guys who previously were parking CO2 emitting wheels, are now safely parking and watching those of the two-wheeling variety. (We're guessing parking a Schwinn is a lot less fun than parking a Lamborghini.)

The hotel's bike valet is their attempt at reinventing the "biker bar," alleviating LA traffic and of course luring Angelenos into their destination bar, Glow (above). Patrons can cool off in the pool and chow down on free appetizers. Just be sure to wait 20 minutes before jumping in the pool.

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Paris Hotel Scene :: Le Meurice Lets You Ride Le Bike

Where: 228 rue de Rivoli, Paris, France, 75008

While the Hotel de Crillon in Paris might not let you peek around its lobby unless you are a bonafide, paying, well-heeled guest, the Hotel Le Meurice just a few blocks away on Rue de Rivoli, is a bit more accommodating.

That's not to say that a guard's watchful eye did not follow us around carefully as we peeked into the Restaurant le Dali and Le Bar 228, both designed by Phillipe Starck.

The Le Meurice is a very overdone, stylized, type of luxury hotel and it should comfort the rich and fashionable who want a central location in Paris. It might also be a great hotel for parents who want to spoil their children.

But we kind of liked the Le Meurice bicycle that was hanging out front. We can't tell if it's a service for guests or it's for the hotel employees. Either way, it's kind of cute. Rates here start at around 620 Euros.

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The Raleigh Hotel Says You Can Be Chic and Green At The Same Time

Where: 1775 Collins Avenue [map], Miami Beach, FL, United States, 33139

Surround yourself in art-deco luxury while you pat yourself on the back for being green - and saving some green. The Raleigh Hotel in Miami Beach is offering a last chance for summer fun rate of $175 (for an ocean view room!), a $20 gas rebate, and use of their bicycles to explore South Beach.

This is seriously your last chance - the rate is good only through September 30. Use the code SUMMER when you book online.

If you can tear yourself away from the pool scene--complete with the waterfall, the bar and the lovely pool attendants and their cool scented towels--you can tool around South Beach without putting out any of those ugly emissions. Bicycling the day away, you'll also work up an appetite for dinner, which you must take under the moon in the Upper Terrace.

By the end of your day biking the beach, sipping martinis by the pool and feasting in the night air, you will no doubt be exhausted, so it's a good thing you can fall into your bed dressed with 400 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets and linen duvet. And while you're in there, you should order the in-room massage. You know you've earned it.

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Get Sartorialized at the Maritime New York

Where: 363 W. 16th Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10011

Fancy a breezy spring bike ride around Chelsea? Hop one of the Schwinn Cruisers for rent at The Maritime Hotel, but be sure to dress your best as photoblogger populaire The Sartorialist might be lurking `round the corner.

Last week one such lucky(?) guest found himself posing for the entire blogosphere on one of the rented rides just outside the Maritime entrance at 363 West 16th Street. He should be happy that the silver beach cruiser is so photogenic, because it has the je ne sais quoi needed to push his look into the rare realm of international-chic.

If you find yourself hankering for some of The Sartorialist's treatment, a sure bet is to hang around outside of the Mercer or Gramercy Park Hotel during Fashion Week. Practice assuming an unaffected air for hours straight, and you might just get your 15 seconds of blog stardom until you're archived. At least you'll have finally worn those spats again from last Halloween.