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Hide From the Cali MJ-Mania at Catalina's Villa Portofino
| July 1, 2009 at 3:03 PM | 0 Comments
Catalina Island might not exactly be Capri, but it’s easier to get to (just 26 miles from Long Beach), and at least there’s a touch of Italian influence in the white-washed, red-roofed architecture of Hotel Villa Portofino on the island’s little hamlet of Avalon.
From now through October 31, the hotel is offering a "Villa Venturer Package" starting at $161.50 per night plus tax. The package includes:
· Accommodations at the oceanfront hotel
· Continental breakfast
· Welcome gift
· Roundrip transportation to Catalina from Long Beach, San Pedro or Dana Point aboard Catalina Express
· Roundrip taxi transfers from the dock to the hotel
· 75-minute snorkel trip with Catalina Ocean Rafting
Now for the small print: the weekend rates are usually higher, and a two-night minimum might be required. When we tried to make a sample booking for mid-week in July, the rate actually came out to about $325 per night, so you might have better luck with a little flexibility in your schedule.
To book the package, call the hotel directly at (888) 34-OCEAN, or visit the web site.
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Score Prime Access to Summerstage Through the Buckingham
| June 30, 2009 at 3:29 PM | 0 Comments
The New York Times' In Transit blog gave us a heads-up on a kickass deal The Buckingham's got goin' on for summertime NYC-goers: you can score VIP access to the famed (and awesome) Central Park Summerstage series, a free performing arts festival that runs throughout the summer (think music, dance, film, word, and comedy events) along with a pretty decent rate on your hotel room.
Per the Times:
And for those who like their entertainment alfresco — and within walking distance of their hotel — the Buckingham Hotel is offering a special entrance and seating to guests who attend the free (and very popular) Central Park SummerStage events, which include the Metropolitan Opera, hip-hop artist Q-Tip and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company.
The package starts at $219 per night (based on a four-person occupancy) and can be booked by citing the promo code Summerstage. The package is available through August 17th, 2009 — more info here.
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King Tut Still Sleeping Around
| June 30, 2009 at 1:46 PM | 0 Comments
King Tut is still sleeping around — it seems like every hotel puts together a King Tut package when he comes into town — but he's on the road again, and visiting San Francisco for the first time in 30 years. You can catch him at the de Young Museum during the day, but this isn’t Night at the Museum, so when the doors close, you can find discount rooms and dining deals across the California-based boutique hotel chain, Joie De Vivre Hotels local properties.
JDV has 21 hotels in the Bay Area, including 16 hotels in San Francisco itself, two in the East Bay, and three in Marin. All of them are offering special Explore Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs packages and restaurant deals starting June 27, and running until March 28, 2010.
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'Tailgate Like a Champ' And Win Something Other Than a Hangover
| June 29, 2009 at 11:05 AM | 1 Comment
Remember the old days of tailgating where even if your college (or favorite professional) sports team didn't win, you were still the proud winner of a terrible hangover and sometimes some incriminating photos of yourself doing keg-stands in a parking lot and — heaven forbid — maybe even some body paint was involved?
Yes, okay, well: The Doubletree in Philly is giving you a chance to win something other than those lovely things with the Philly Overnight Tailgating Package. So long as you act like a Phillies fan for a night, that is.
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Serve Your Community and Get a 50% Kickback on D.C. Hotels
| June 29, 2009 at 10:28 AM | 0 Comments
As you’ve likely heard, the Obamas think Americans should volunteer more. The Prez's recently launched United We Serve program has already done some good — although maybe not in quite the way he hoped. Two D.C. hotels are offering a hotel package called “Serve America & Stay in D.C.,” in which guests can get up to 50 percent of their hotel stays refunded in exchange for community service on their part.
Indeed, for five hours of community service performed by a guest for a “legitimate charitable organization,” The Savoy Suites Hotel and Carlyle Suites Hotel will refund 50 percent of their room bill per night, taxes excluded. Service must be completed within 90 days before or after the stay, and proof must be provided to the hotel.
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Ritz-Carlton Boston Embraces 'Comedy of Errors'
| June 23, 2009 at 11:27 AM | 0 Comments
There’s something goofy about a hotel package that’s called the “Comedy of Errors.” Yeah yeah, we know, it’s a classic Shakespeare play, but we can’t help but wonder if it’s one of those lower-your-guests’-expectations sorts of ploys. Well, no, probably not, but we’re allowed to poke fun.
In all seriousness, Beantown-bound thespians that feel like splurging might like this VIP package at the Ritz-Carlton Boston Common. Coinciding with Boston’s annual free Bard performances on Boston Common, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Comedy of Errors Package offers luxury accommodations, VIP seats, and a picnic dinner to a lucky pair.
Specifically, the package includes overnight stay in a deluxe city view guest room at the Ritz, which is a five-minute walk to Boston Common; two VIP seats to the theatre performance, which offers up-close views and VIP restrooms; and a choice of either a picnic dinner for two on the Common or a three-course dinner for two in the hotel’s Jer-Ne Restaurant. In the event that severe rain cancels the performance, guests get a $50 food and drink credit for use at the hotel during their stay.
The 14th annual Shakespeare on the Common production, The Comedy of Errors, will be performed July 31st through Aug. 16. The package is offered those same days, with rates starting at $535 for double occupancy, plus an extra $85 per extra child or adult.
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Affinia Shelburne Arrives in Murray Hill for $189 a Night
| June 23, 2009 at 11:05 AM | 1 Comment
Yeah, yeah, we know, NYC snobs: Murray Hill is a neighborhood at which some folks turn up their noses. The post-college bars and the post-college living (and when we say "post-college," we of course mean "immediately post-college") — but hey, it's close to stuff. Mostly, it's close to Grand Central. So no need to be snobby about the 'hood when you're just staying in NYC for a night or two.
And that's why you should seriously take a look at the just-opened Affinia Shelburne, which was born earlier this month as the new identity of the former Shelburne Murray Hill after a $25 million renovation.
The 268-room property features all the Affinia goodies you're used to: the My Affinia amenities program, a pillow menu, the signature Affinia bed — and right now, you can get your Affinia on with the Shelburne Grand Opening Package, which includes an upgrade to a suite, two signature “New Yorker” burgers from the hotel’s restaurant, two martinis at the hotel's rooftop bar (it's called "Rare View," FYI), a "Neighborhood Access Pass" with cool discounts for the 'hood, and a gift from designer K-Studio. The packaged is offered from June 1 to September 30 and start at just $189; use booking code LIVE.
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Three For Two With The Rocco Forte Collection
| June 22, 2009 at 3:54 PM | 0 Comments
Not going to Europe this summer? This might tempt you. Stay two nights at a Rocco Forte Collection hotel (with 12 to choose from in places you’d like to be anyway, like Rome, Prague, Berlin and St Petersburg), and they’ll throw in a third for free.
The only caveat – the offer is only valid for stays during high summer, between July 27 and September 4. Unfortunately, that’s also when most of the locals will have deserted places like Rome for the seaside – but hey, at least the buses will be a little less crowded.
With this offer, the Hotel de Rome in Berlin costs $861 per room for the three nights – not so bad for $287, given that it includes breakfast (although it excludes VAT). Brown’s Hotel in London, meanwhile, will set you back $950 for the full stay. So now all you have to do is choose which one.
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Chicks Who Likes Yoga and Fruity Drinks Can Be 'Parker Princesses'
| June 22, 2009 at 3:01 PM | 0 Comments
The firepit: gossip and s'mores central.
We will never stop making fun of these silly girlfriend getaway hotel packages. In fact, we'd like to take this opportunity to encourage Sarah Haskins, the brilliantly funny lady behind the hilarious Target Women videos, to do a "Target Women" segment on hotel packages. That is, make fun of those silly girlfriend getaway packagey-things that are made up of what some hotel believes will appeal to women (gossip magazines! Manicures! Shopping!)
Um, that's not to say we wouldn't secretly go and book these packages ourselves if they happened to appeal to us. What? Some of us like manicures and Us Weekly. Whatever.
So, here's another from the vast and varied collection of girly getaway packages: The Parker Palm Springs encourages you to leave the dudes at home and hit up the famous-from-TV resort. That is, if you're willing to call yourself a "Parker Princess."
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Ace Palm Springs Dubs Their Pool Party 'Sundays at the Short Bus'
| June 19, 2009 at 1:31 PM | 0 Comments
The recently opened Ace Palm Springs has already partied it up for Coachella, and now it’s inviting you to spend "Sundays at the Short Bus."
That’s what they’re calling their new Sunday afternoon pool parties, replete with homemade margaritas, alcoholic sno cones, food from the hotel’s Kings Highway restaurant, and groovy DJ spins and indie bands. There's a deal that goes along with the party that includes 20% off room rates and 15% off spa treatments when you stay Sunday, Monday and/or Tuesday nights.
If you want to book, go to their reservation site or call (760) 325-9900, and be sure you enter the Promo Code SHORT20. With just a preliminary search, we found an “Ace Double” room for just $89 next week!
You might have to brave soaring temperatures that would make the surface of the sun seem temperate, but hey, at least you can drink and dance while you work on your tan. And try to keep the tacky "short bus" jokes to a minimum.
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The Hotel Packages Your Dad is Secretly Dreaming About
| June 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM | 1 Comment
Over on USA Today’s Hotel Check-In blog, guest blogger John Newton culled a few fun Father’s Day hotel deals worth sharing. The column caught our eye due to how well he summed up our sentiments: “As the parent of a freelance travel writer attempting to survive the crash of American print media, my dad will have to be satisfied with Sunday brunch,” he writes. (Or, er, a well-meaning card sent cross-country.) Regardless, Newton goes on to share four options for those whose financial situations are “a little more rosy.”
Though Anantara Si Kao Resort & Spa’s four-nights-for-the-price-of-three package (just $130 a night!) in Thailand sounds pretty sweet, we must say our own dad might be getting a little, um, mature for the resort’s dive center, wind-surfing classes, and sailing charters.
Nah, if we had a bottomless bank account for spending on a Father’s Day gift, we’d opt for the “Golf & Spa” package at the Sandy Lane in Barbados, which includes anywhere from five nights and two rounds of golf to 14 nights and eight rounds of golf. We would settle towards the middle with seven nights and four rounds of golf at the Country Club for a cool 6K, breakfast and one spa treatment included. Our links-loving dad would totally feel bad about not lending us the car more growing up. After all, this is the exclusive spot where Tiger Woods got married! Talk about an endorsement.
Check out Newton’s other dream dad deals here.
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'Pooh-Pooh' Your Troubles At Ashdown Park
| June 19, 2009 at 8:58 AM | 0 Comments
Childhood regression is always good – especially in tough times - but childhood regression combined with a posh hotel is definitely better. So we’re rather taken with the idea of going down to Ashdown Park Hotel in Sussex for a Pooh fest (we should probably clarify we mean Winnie the Pooh, natch).
Anyway, Ashdown Park is a rather sexy hotel in the middle of Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, where the Pooh books were set. And this summer they’re cooking up special picnics for you to take into the woods with you. At £13.95 each, they don’t sound bad value, either (unless we’re talking micro-portions) – free range chicken and roasted plum tomatoes, organic salmon and the hotel’s own citrus-marinated mozzarella. Kiddies get their own menu which sounds just as nice – especially the wild honey and sesame flapjack.
The hotel is also providing walking routes to take you to places as inspirational as The Enchanted Place and Pooh Bridge (don’t forget to play your pooh sticks). If you want to make a night of it, rooms start from £190, including a smacking full English breakfast – just the fuel for your pooh sticks.
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