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Choice Hotels Gets Charitable with their Loyalty Program
Aww. It always cheers us up to see hotel brands using their power for good. This month Choice Hotels supported Make a Difference Day, a national day of neighborly help. Choice Hotels employees joined Rebuilding Together volunteers to work with low-income homeowners, with roughly 700 reps from Choice Hotels doing their part to contribute some 5,000 volunteer hours.
But here’s how that relates to you: For every volunteer who joins the Choice Privileges rewards program by Dec. 31, Choice Hotels will donate $1 to Rebuilding Together, up to $50,000. Just for signing up, new loyalty program members get 500 bonus points, plus 500 more points if you stay before the end of 2009. Choice Hotels also offers similar charity programs with the American Red Cross and Armed Forces Relief Fund.
The best part? You’ll be able to sleep sound knowing you’ve made a tiny dent of good in the world—and as a new Choice Hotels loyalty program member, you can enjoy the extra sleep with late check-outs.
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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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Stay a Night at Graves 601, Help a Homeless Child Sleep Tight
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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Atlanta Hotels Want You To Leave Your Used Soap Behind
We just wrote about Hotels Doing Good yesterday, but you know the saying: When it rains, it pours goodwill! Today brings us word of another good cause, one that begins in your hotel bathroom. Specifically, with your soap. Perhaps you pay that bar of soap no mind, or maybe you (cough, cough) try to use just one bar and pilfer the other for your own bathroom. Regardless, if you leave a used bar of soap behind, it gets thrown out by housekeeping once you check out.
Not any more. Enter the Global Soap Project, an initiative started by Derreck Kayongo, a former refugee from Uganda, who first came to the U.S. 15 years ago.
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The Betsy Hotel Wants To Save The World; Starts With A Bus
Forget literary concierges, art curators, and suntan lotion butlers. The hot new hotel position is Philanthropist. You know, an on-premises Bono who can wax lyrical about Doing Good at flashy fundraising events, and entice fellow do-gooders, including celebrities, to rest their heads at a property all for a good cause.
To that end, The Betsy Hotel in Miami has just named Dr. Deborah Briggs as its Vice President for Philanthropy. Which is a big word for South Beach, but is actually in keeping with the hotel's intentions to be a sort of salon for artsy, wealthy types who like to engage in "energized discourse." Preferably with a mojito in hand. (Or is that just us?)
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The Bangles Burn 'An Eternal Flame' for Pinktober at The Hard Rock
Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling. Do you feel my heart beating, do you understand?
It's always good to see The Bangles are still out there performing their greatest hits from our pre-adolescence. It's even better to see The Bangles performing for such a good cause like Pinktober at the Hard Rock Hotel Orlando.
Pinktober is the Hard Rock's month-long breast cancer awareness program where guests can book special guestrooms that are outfitted with pink sheets (embroidered with little guitars) and pink bathrobes. Twenty-five percent of the room rate will benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
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Hotel Derek in Houston Unveils Its 'Lady Pink' Rooms
The pink hotel craze continues but the latest hotel to use pink in its rooms is doing it for a good cause. The Hotel Derek in Houston has created five guest rooms designed for the female traveler (uh oh, paging gender neutralists) and 10 percent of the room rate will go towards the Houston chapter of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Pink décor complements each of the guest rooms and includes luxurious bedding, bathroom accessories, as well as a cozy robe and slippers. A unique feature of the Lady Pink rooms is the wellness bar and soothing spa music atop each nightstand.
Room rates start at $289 a night during hte week and goes down on the weekends to $169.
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Give Back to the Lions, Tigers, Bears and Iguanas Through Ritz-Carlton
Ritz-Carlton has jumped on the whole give-back bandwagon: they're now allowing guests to have a "half-day local community experience" where RC guests work alongside Ritz-Carlton staff "in a social or environmental project."
The projects and events are specific to each RC destination, and the events usually run half a day — guests are invited to contribute to the initiatives each local RC property is working on, a program "designed to help people who want to give something back to the community they are staying in during their holiday."
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Make Some Furry Friends While on Vacay at Utah's Red Mountain
You might say we’ve got it bad for puppies. So pardon our excitement over the adorableness of the Red Mountain Resort & Spa’s new partnership with the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. The Utah resort is offering guests the chance to volunteer at the neighboring sanctuary — AKA play with rescued animals (not just puppies!) and help maintain the sanctuary.
The Best Friends Animal Sanctuary Volunteer Experience begins with a short hike to an overlook in Zion National Park, followed by a tour of the sanctuary, which sits on a 33,000-acre ranch in Angel Canyon. After the tour is lunch overlooking the canyon, then an afternoon hanging with some new furry friends. Volunteer activities range from brushing and walking dogs to scooping poop and cleaning trails.
Best Friends is home to nearly 2,000 rescued dogs, cats, horses, pigs, and more and is a short drive to Red Mountain Resort & Spa. You can read more about the sanctuary over at Jaunted.
The eight-hour volunteer experience is offered weekly and can be added to any available Red Mountain package for $129 per person (group rates available).
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Volunteer For a Day and Get a Free Night at The Curtis or The Nines
Similar to that offer of a 50% refund on your rate that you can score at two D.C. hotels in exchange for community service, a deal from Sage Hospitality (who manages a collection of 52 hotels; lots of Marriotts and a couple of boutiquey properties) is encouraging major community service: if you complete 8 hours of volunteer service "to a registered 501(c)3 non profit organization," you'll receive 50% off the published room rate — and, in some cases (based on availability), a free night.
Sage has The Curtis (the quirky-cool spot in Denver) and The Nines (a perennial HC and NYT fave in Portland), so this 50%-off thing could be pretty serious if you're looking to book at those properties — all the promotional codes are listed here for all participating properties, so you can check to see whether a hotel you've set your sights on happens to be part of Sage and is running this deal.
Before you do your volunteer work, know this: you'll be asked to present a letter from the organization you worked with at check-in that verifies that you volunteered for at least 8 hours, and the volunteer work must have been completed between July 1, 2009 and December 18, 2009. The discount is applied to only one night of your stay (the first one) and the offer is running until December 30th. So get out there and change the world or whatever it is that you do.
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Serve Your Community and Get a 50% Kickback on D.C. Hotels
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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Bring Your Doggie to the Copley Square Hotel to Support the SPCA
Aw, a heartwarming little tale (tail, hehe) of a hotel doing good on this somewhat blah Thursday morning: the recently-renovated and super-pet-friendly Copley Square Hotel in Boston is all about the animals this summer.
It has pledged to support the Massachusetts SPCA, and will be setting aside a weekend where it will completely waive its $40 pet fee if you bring your doggie in — and the hotel will be donating a portion of its room revenues to the MSPCA that weekend. This is all in conjunction with Take Your Dog To Work Day, which is apparently a real thing and is happening on June 26th.
Something we didn't know: through the end of the year, the hotel will be donating $10 to the MSPCA for every pet who checks into the hotel. And also: guh, look at this picture.
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