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Attention Tweens Over 21: Celebrate Twilight's 'New Moon' at Whiskey Blue Nola
Do you love, like really love "Twilight"? Have you read all the books front to back, twice? Are you holding countdown parties to the "New Moon" movie at your house? Would you turn immortal forever for Edward Cullen? And more importantly, are you over the age of 21?
Because that's how old you will need to be to attend the New Moon mania that's going on at Whiskey Blue New Orleans inside the W Hotel. All week long the trendy hotel bar will unabashedly embrace the "Twilight" craze and it's not entirely about Edward, Bella, and Jacob. There is an actual new moon happening on November 16th.
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Droppin' It Low at Hotel Victor's 'Frost Bite Thursdays'
Temperatures may be dipping in some parts of the country, but the scene is still steamy in South Beach, where Hotel Victor the forecast is always cool on Frost Bite Thursdays.
Since its July launch, the weekly event’s been such a smashing success that the hotel recently added Garden Zen Thursdays for low(er)-key party hoppers. The way it works is Frost Bite goes on downstairs in the lobby, while Garden Zen takes place on the Vue Terrace right across from the pool. Feeling pepped up or played out -- there's a party for whatever your Thursday mood at Hotel Victor.
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Cocktails Are Cheap If You Make Them Yourself at The Cumberland
We’re liking Guoman Hotels’ "cold weather means booze" approach this winter. Last week they announced the launch of their charity cocktails at their four London hotels; this week, it’s the news that The Cumberland are starting up private mixology classes at their trendy Carbon Bar.
Hoxton Pony founder and BBC mixologist Andy Pearson is the man behind it again – he’s devised the classes and "trained the bar team" (though we hope they wouldn’t need much training, what with being professional cocktail mixers in the first place).
Anyway, sign up and they’ll whip through the history of cocktails over a Bellini, before letting you loose on eight cocktail recipes: four classic, four contemporary, including the gin-filled Park Lane, that’s launching this November in aid of Help for Heroes charity.
It costs £75 per head – which sounds like a pretty good for eight cocktails to us – and you’ll need six of you to book it. Available Tuesday to Saturday, day or night – they take place upstairs in the VIP area. To book, call bar manager Ben Martin on +44 207 479 5050.
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Get Drunk for Charity at London's Guoman Hotels
We’ve had London hotels getting literary, arty, and now it looks like they’re getting a conscience. Guoman Hotels, which owns four in the centre of town – the Royal Horseguards, The Cumberland, Charing Cross and the Tower – have commissioned one of the UK’s top mixologists, Andy Pearson (co-founder of the ever-trendy Hoxton Pony), to create a new list of cocktails for their hotels. And 100% of the profits will go to charity.
The charities in question are The Household Cavalry’s Charitable Fund and Help for Heroes, both of which help injured British servicemen. And the drinks? There’s one for each hotel. The Cavalry Cocktail at The Royal Horseguards has port, cognac, Grand Marnier and burgundy (a recipe for a hangover if ever we heard one), and the Tower Cocktail (at the Tower Hotel, obvs) mixes Beefeater gin (Beefeaters live at the Tower of London next door, see?) with nutmeg and comes served in a jewellery box, like the Crown Jewels.
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The W New Orleans is Now Serving Witches Brew
We were quite sad when summer ended, for all the obvious reasons, but also because we missed featuring Summer Cocktails that were being mixed, shaken, stirred and poured in hotels around the world. Plus, we even got our hands on the recipes for these drinks allowing us to make some crazy concoctions at home.
While Starbucks might be serving pumpkin spice lattes, we think it's a little too early to start up our Holiday Cocktails coverage. But Halloween is just around the corner and we know of a few hotels that are choosing to celebrate our favorite holiday with a special drink, like The W New Orleans.
The Witches Brew is being served in the hotel's Whiskey Blue bar and the Living Room for $35. It's made with bacardi light, Meyers Rum, Bacardi 151, pineapple juice, orange juice, sour mix and grenadine and it's garnished with gummi worms and silly straws. We love it.
The full recipe is after the jump.
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This Halloween, Get Spooked Then Sloshed with Omni Hotels
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We have to admit, we’re total suckers for a good haunted hotel tale. As such, we may just have to check in to an Omni hotel this month. In addition to offering spooky signature cocktails, the chain has a “ghost-folio” of spirited suites. And if that pun isn't enough to make you gag, perhaps a spooky stay might.
At Boston’s Omni Parker House Hotel, the ghost of the hotel’s founder, Harvey Parker, is said to pop up in guest rooms to inquire about their stay. Good customer service never dies! Plus, the elevators have “been known to” travel to the third floor, former (and current?) stomping grounds of novelist Charles Dickens, with nary a button pushed.
Meanwhile, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel’s “Ghost Suite” in DC, TVs and lights reportedly flicker on and off in the middle of the night, and sometimes guests in adjacent rooms hear loud noises coming from the suite — while unoccupied.
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Cocktails for a Cause at Viceroy’s Whist
Everybody likes happy hour, but what we love even more than drinking discounts is drinking for a cause. Luckily, we can now feel philanthropic as we sip and swig thanks to the Viceroy Santa Monica’s new Cocktails for a Cause happy hour at Whist.
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, every Tuesday from 6:00-9:00pm throughout the month of October, when drinkers, uh, we mean guests, order a specialty “Strawberry Vice” cocktail, 100% of the proceeds will go to the Beautiful Day Foundation.
The Strawberry Vice will cost you $10, and we got our hands on the top secret recipe: half an ounce of homemade strawberry jam, 1.5 ounces of Remy Martin VS, and 1.5 ounces of champagne put into a shaker with ice, stirred and served I a champagne flute. The pink cocktail should match your pink breast cancer awareness ribbon perfectly. We’ll cheers to that.
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Canine Cocktails: Dogs Get Their Own Happy Hour at Hotel Indigo San Diego
We love dogs. And if we’re not traveling with our own in tow, we like to stay at hotels that have their own dogs-in-residence. Which means we have to plan a doggy-friendly trip to San Diego immediately. Not only does the Hotel Indigo San Diego have a mascot/puppy ambassador—that’s Sandie greeting guests in the photo—but the property also has a regular Canine Cocktails evening, on Tuesdays from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
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Mondrian Shakes It Up with a 'Goodbye Summer' Cocktail
We've kicked off our Summer Cocktails series where we profile fun new summer drinks that hotels are making. Got one we should know about? Send us the recipe with a photo of the drink. Otherwise, enjoy and @reply us when you're wasted!
The Mondrian Hotel West Hollywood has a plan for how you can say goodbye to the summer: drink a Goodnight Kiss cocktail at their Skybar. The Mondrian's really been getting into the summer cocktail theme this season and the Goodnight Kiss is its third special creation.
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The Bacara Resort's Acai Berry Drink
We've kicked off our Summer Cocktails series where we profile fun new summer drinks that hotels are making. Got one we should know about? Send us the recipe with a photo of the drink. Otherwise, enjoy and @reply us when you're wasted!
Acai berries seem to rate a lot of mentions in the junk mail that passes our desk – you know, the Brazilian superfood from the rainforest which is supposed to be healthier than, like, a whole field of spinach – but we've learned today that not all acai berries are annoying.
In the Bacara Bar at the Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara, they're serving up a Bacara Acai cocktail and rather than sounding much too healthy, it actually sounds rather delicious. It features Veev Acai Spirit and Chambord Raspberry Liqueur, and very importantly, eleven blueberries – not ten and not twelve, so get it right if you try to mix it at home! Check the recipe after the jump.
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The Hilton Sedona's Prickly Pear Magarita
We've kicked off our Summer Cocktails series where we profile fun new summer drinks that hotels are making. Got one we should know about? Send us the recipe with a photo of the drink. Otherwise, enjoy and @reply us when you're wasted!
Summer is sadly winding down and this weekend is probably your last weekend to indulge in Summer Cocktails at hotels. But while folks at the Jersey Shore and The Hamptons will be mourning this unofficial end of Summer, we prefer to mark the passing of summer by the Autumnal equinox which means we have about three more weeks left to down some drinks.
At the Hilton Sedona in Arizona, they've been celebrating the desert heat with their Prickly Pear Margarita. The drink can be (probably should be) enjoyed poolside where you can admire the famous Red Rock formations of Sedona. The drink usually costs $10.37 but sometimes the hotel makes it their special Drink of the Day for $6.75 so you can splurge for a few.
Just make sure you don't drink and drive the Red Rock Scenic Byway. Save your margs for after the road trip. Room rates here begin at $189 a night.
Recipe is after the jump.
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The Biltmore's Historical Tequila Sunrise
We've kicked off our Summer Cocktails series where we profile fun new summer drinks that hotels are making. Got one we should know about? Send us the recipe with a photo of the drink. Otherwise, enjoy and @reply us when you're wasted!
The last news we heard from the Arizona Biltmore was about the not-in-a-hurry renovations (dates like "sometime before 2020" were getting tossed around) so we're happy to have something more concrete to report: the Biltmore's got a special summer cocktail, and it's a classic.
Something we didn't know is that the Tequila Sunrise was apparently invented at the Biltmore, back in the 1940s when a frequent guest asked the bartender to make him up a refreshing drink to sip by the pool. So to help celebrate the Biltmore's 80th anniversary this year, they've brought their classic cocktail back to life for the summer. Of course, the price is a little more than that first guest paid back in the 1940s – these days you can get a Biltmore Original Tequila Sunrise for $14.
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