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Stay a Night at Graves 601, Help a Homeless Child Sleep Tight

Where: 601 1st Ave N [map], Minneapolis, MN, United States, 55403

Minnesota’s Niceguy image scarcely needs polishing, but those ever-friendly Midwesterners have gone ahead and stepped up their do-goodery once again. That’s right, Minneapolis's prairie-chic Graves 601 Hotel recently unveiled a new “Giving Room” package that helps guests give back the community without even lifting a finger.

All guests who book the “Giving Room” promo have to do is, well, pay for a standard room rate. In exchange, Graves Hospitality will donate a night of housing at a local shelter for a needy child or family, with the donation placed in the guest’s name.

Graves Hospitality is working with a local family organization called Perspectives, which works to break the cycle for at-risk families and children. Of course, there's a limited number of packages available each night, but we say kudos to Graves.

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Laid Back: Affinia Hotels Has Its Mind on Comfort and Comfort on Its Mind

We love to be comfortable in our living room at home, and why shouldn't we get just as comfy while we're away from home? The Affinia Hotels group seems to agree with us and they have declared the month of October Comforthon at their hotels in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.

Comforthon means you and a friend can book the Comfort Package, including in-room breakfast, late checkout, a pair of cotton pajamas each (complete with the Affinia Hotels logo) and best of all, two single serves of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Nothing like some comfort food in some comfy clothes to make us feel relaxed, right?

During the Comforthon, each hotel will also provide various "comfort-enhancing activities", such as get-togethers for Sunday night football at the Affinia 50 in New York City, or family movie nights at the Affinia Manhattan.

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Four Points by Sheraton Needs Your Non-Creepy Halloween Costumes

We all know about Christmas toy drives, but Four Points by Sheraton brings a twist to the doing-good field. Four Points has asked guests, hotel staff and communities to drop off new Halloween costumes to be donated to local children's hospitals. The program launched last year and resulted in hundreds of costumes donated to children's hospitals across the country.

Do note they ask for costumes "light hearted in nature," so no creepiness or serial killer masks, please. And costumes must be in their original packaging -- this isn't the time to go green by recycling your kid's Spiderman costume from last year.

We think this is a sweet idea - what kid doesn't like Halloween? And it lets those of us with puppies instead of children still take part in costume-shopping fun.

Visit the Four Points web site for a list of participating hotels.

[Ed Note: This reminds us: you can go ahead and donate that costume you bought, because you can probably use clothes already in your home closet to dress up as the Chief Beer Officer! We hear you don't even need a badge.]

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Fairmont Fit Sending Shoes to the Needy

The Fairmont Fit program has been up and guests have been running since the start of 2007 in most Fairmont Hotels. With plenty of Fairmont President's Club members happily borrowing or buying athletic gear so they can keep fit while staying at a Fairmont, they've decided to go one step further and turn the whole program into a touchy-feely donation thing too.

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