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Where Not to Celebrate Valentine's Day This Year

Last week we rounded up some hotels for lovers this Valentine's Day but if you're not currently attached, that doesn't mean you can't hit up a hotel for V-Day. Quite a few hotels have put together some fun packages and events for singletons. In fact, we're kind of jealous. These are waaaay more exciting than champagne and rose petals. Here's where you can let your single flag fly high and proud.

· Four Seasons Miami: The downtown Miami hotels is hosting a "Lonely Hearts Club group dinner on Valentine's Day. Served in a communal table in the Hotel’s new restaurant, Edge Steak and Bar, the prix fixe dinner will serve singletons Love Sucks (stacks of east coast seafood), Burnt Bitter and Bleu (bitter greens salad, burnt almond praline, blue cheese and balsamic), Home Alone TV Dinner (whole roast prime rib, truffle macaroni and cheese and vegetable succotash) and the Broken Hearted Napoleon with passion (less) fruit sauce. The cost is $65 per person but the hotel says in case a love match is made at the dinner, rooms are available starting at $469 per night. Call 305-358-3535 for reservations.

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Pounce On These Leap Year Hotel Deals Now, Before They Leap Away

Yes, it's a Leap Year! An entire day added to the month, an entire extra day for some hotel-lovin'. And the hotels are pretty excited about it too! We've hunted around for the best Leap Year deals from San Antonio to New York to London. Unsurprisingly, several of them overlap with Valentine's Day festivities—but as they say, bargains make the heart grow fonder...

Grand Hyatt New York, fresh from its recent $130 million renovation, is feeling generous. So they're singling out people who are either turning 29 this year or who were born on a leap year. While the 29-year-olds actually make out with something cool (free appetizer or dessert at New York Central, pictured above), leap year babies (anyone born in 2008, 2004, 2000, 1996, etc), as usual, get the short end of the stick. That would be a "free" Dylan's Candy Bar cupcake...-shaped tin (not even an actual cupcake!) from the hotel's 24-hour convenience store, Market.

With a purchase of $9 or more. Seriously. These guys only celebrate their birthday once every four years. Can't we just give them a free cupcake and call it a day? Rates from $309.

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Love These LA Hotels Like a Love Song on Valentine's Day

There's less than two weeks now until Valentine's Day and if you haven't made plans with your schmoopie, well then you better get started. We've been inundated with a ton of Valentine's Day hotel deals and promotions and we're trying to keep up with them all. Here are a few more romantical options for Los Angeles Hotels as well as Orange County and Palm Springs. Got a particular location in mind for V-Day? Let us know and we'll tell you what sort of love connection is happening there.

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· Peninsula Beverly Hills: The luxury hotel is offering a Romantic Retreat which includes a three-course candlelight dinner in a private pool cabana, a 60-minute couple’s massage at The Peninsula Spa, one bottle of Nicolas Feuillatte Champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries upon arrival and daily American breakfast for two. Package rates start at $745 a night for a deluxe room and is available from February 1-May 31st.

· Mondrian Los Angeles: The Morgans hotel on Sunset in West Hollywood is offering a pretty straightforward sweetheart package that includes complimentary upgrade, a split bottle of champagne, early check-in, late check-out, continental breakfast for two and free WiFi. Rates start at $315 a night. The offer is good from February 12-24, use code PKLOVE to book.

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Which Hotels Are Doing Good For Heart Disease Awareness Month?

It's National Wear Red Day, and across the country, the American Heart Association is urging everyone to raise awareness about women's heart disease by wearing the color red. And since we've already done our work pointing out the best Valentine's Day hotels (for both NYC and Miami), here's a look at some heart-conscious hotel efforts happening this month.

First stop: Kimpton's Hotel Palomar, which is offering a new gluten-free minibar to provide guests with healthy snacks when they get back to their rooms. Our favorite item? The KIND fruit and nut bars, which we always make a point of slipping into our carry-on whenever we travel. So fruity and chewy and delicious! The minibar will also be stocked with Izze soda, Glutino pretzel twists, and Lundberg rice chips.

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Click-Clack-Clomp Your Way Through Paris On a Horse-Drawn Carriage

Where: 10 Avenue d'Iéna, Paris, France, 75116

Thanks to the Shangri-La, Paris can add more reserves to its romantic cache. If strolling the City of Lights' snowy streets this holiday isn't enough to sate your taste for the maudlin, guests of the hotel can book a horse drawn carriage ride from December 23-27.

The tour will take you and your S.O. to the Trocadero, located across the Seine and providing prime views of the Eiffel Tower for you and your sweetheart to "ooh" and "aah" over with delight. Shangri-La's old-fashioned carriage—a white stunner complete with top hat-clad driver—is perhaps the closest some may get to feeling like Cinderella, without fear of the equine-led ride turning into a pumpkin at midnight.

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Celebrate Elizabeth Taylor's Jewels with Some of Ivanka Trump's

While Jaunted will be bidding its life savings on Elizabeth Taylor's old Louis Vuitton luggage, you can get your own priority viewing of the rest of The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor at Christie's Rockefeller Center by booking this new package at the Trump International Hotel & Tower New York.

For $825, the package includes a one-night stay, the priority access viewing from Dec. 3-12, a $250 donation so the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation made by the hotel, a copy of the Christie's souvenir publication, Elizabeth Taylor: A-Z, a copy of the Christie's Gallery Guide for The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor and breakfast for two at Jean George's Nougatine.

Oh and we almost forgot: a $500 gift card to Ivanka Trump Jewelry, good towards a purchase of $2,000 or more at the shop at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue or the new Soho store at 109 Mercer Street.

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The Moment You Wake Up, Put On Your Hello Kitty Noir Makeup at Maison 140

Where: 140 Lasky Drive [map], Beverly Hills, CA, United States, 90212

Thanks to Jaunted's illustrious coverage of all things Hello Kitty we've been able to geek out over Hello Kitty dental bibs, airplanes, airport stores and museums. But today, we're returning the favor with this new Hello Kitty Noir hotel package from the Maison 140 Hotel in Beverly Hills.

All this month the Viceroy hotel is offering just 50 guests the oversized Hello Kitty Noir Eyeshadow and Lipgloss Palettes from the new Hello Kitty Noir makeup line at Sephora. Guests will also receive complimentary Hello Kitty Noir cocktails in the hotel's Bar Noir as well as breakfast for two.

The package starts at $320 a night and is only available from December 1-30th. Go here to book. Don't forget your Hello Kitty pajamas!

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Hop in the Holiday Fray at These London Hotels

Make it a very British holiday at the Zetter Townhouse

Those twinkling fairy lights (that's "Christmas lights" to you Yanks) around central London don't lie: the holiday season is most definitely in full swing. So much so that last Saturday, a portion of Oxford Street was shut down, leading to what can only be described as gridlock hell around some of the city's most trafficked shopping areas.

Monstrous as crowds of slow-strutting tourists and rabid holiday shoppers may be, London is still a magical place to spend a winter holiday, especially upon first snow. (Curiously, none has fallen yet.) With news of designer Christmas trees hitting swanky lobbies, we thought it an appropriate time to survey the local hotel scene: the digs, the availability, and the prices. Find out what we found after the jump.

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Skate The London Fog Away With Myhotels This Winter

It may be more foggy than chilly in London right now, but that won’t stop us getting into the Christmas spirit with some ice skating. Last night, the Somerset House rink (sponsored by Tiffany, no less) opened up with the overexposed ubiquitous delightful P Middy christening it for the rest of us.

Turns out we’re not the only ones who like Pippa Middleton skating, because myHotels have teamed up with the rink to offer a skating package.

For your money, you get a night at either myhotel Bloomsbury or myhotel Chelsea, cocktail on arrival, breakfast, a late check out and two skating tickets. According to the hotel:

Guests will also be able to choose from one of the many Club Nights available at Skate this year – including names such as Joey Negro, Winterwell Festival feat The Next Men, Ministry of Sound Radio, Time Out presents Nite Sessions and many more.

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Après-Ski in the Heart of London, Minus the Whole Skiing Bit

Where: 15 Montague Street, London, United Kingdom, WC1B 5BJ

Us Hotel Chatter-ers on the ground in London were recently unnerved at the site of boxed minced pies in our local Marks & Spencer. Holiday season: it has begun. Shudder.

Local hotels are gearing up in kind, crafting robust packages to spread a little Christmas cheer to their winter patrons (and cheer to those handling the profit-raking side of things). The Montague on the Gardens has gone over the top in conceiving of yule tide offerings, cobbling together a—wait for it—"magical winter wonderland" on their Wood Deck. And yes, there will be reindeer.

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Fancy a Whodunnit? Try Out a Murder Mystery Evening at The Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes

Where: 108 Baker Street, London, United Kingdom, W1U 6LJ

Baker Street, London: Where you'll find The Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes and a Taste of Detective Drama

If you're anything like us, hearing the phrase "Murder Mystery Night" conjures up images of hokey "whodunnit?" performance pieces and a certain so-bad-it's-good episode of Saved by the Bell. (Yeah, you know the one.) Still, there's something appealing about the over the top kitch of these faux felony evenings, which promise fun and a hearty laugh if nothing else.

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Think Pink: Hotels to Hit Up During Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Once again, hotels are going PINK this October for Breast Cancer Awareness which means that staying in hotels is going to feel even better knowing that proceeds from these special packages and spa treatments listed below are going to a good cause.

Hotel Zaza : The Hotel Zazas in Dallas and Houston are going crazy with pink this month! The hotel chandeliers are pink, the employee ties are pink, manicures are pink and best of all, guys are rocking Pink Chucks! (See above.) Plus for every room booked under the code PINK this month, the hotels will donate $5 to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

Peninsula New York: The hotel's ESPA is offering pink-themed treatments to raise funds for the American Cancer Society as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Pink Power Package includes a massage with an optional personal training session for a day of pampering and fitness. Then there's the Peninsula Pink Ceremony, a two-hour treatment that includes a rejuvenating body scrub, cleansing facial, and full-body massage. Doesn't it feel good to do good while um, also feeling good?

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