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Who Knew The Los Angeles Athletic Club Was Also a Hotel?

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 431 W 7th St [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90014
August 24, 2009 at 12:41 PM | by Heidi Atwal | 0 Comments

As seen from home plate.

The Average Joe's (or Jane's) baseball game experience involves cheap beer, greasy hot dogs, and seating in the thick of a rowdy, expletive-yelling crowd. Some might argue that this is baseball-done-right, but if joining in on The Wave and bringing along binoculars to peer at the field is less appealing than cheering on the visiting team, then it's time to roll like an MVP.

In Los Angeles, which proudly declares itself "Dodgertown" during baseball season, there's a hotel deal to be had if you stay at the LA Athletic Club. The LACC, which has been around since 1880 and is very exclusive and very private (read: high-end amenities galore, and some of the best sports facilities this side of training camp), also doubles as a hotel.

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Brett Favre's Family Has The Best Western on Lockdown for November 1

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 780 Armed Forces Drive [map], Green Bay, WI, United States, 54304
June 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM | by juliana | 0 Comments

Brett Favre...are you in or are you out? Active or retired? Healthy or injured? QB for the Minnesota Vikings or not? Whatever it is, please make up your mind soon. That's because your whole family has a huge block of rooms reserved at the Best Western Midway Motor Lodge near Lambeau Field in Wisconsin reserved for November 1 when the Vikings play your old team, The Greenbay Packers.

Favre is expected to sign with the Vikings soon, unless a recent surgery on his arm has some undesirable consequences. But even if it does and Brett decides to choose retirement once and for all, the Midway Motor Lodge has a fairly flex cancellation policy.

The group isn’t required to guarantee payment for the rooms until 45 days before the check-in date, so it can cancel the reservations in the next two months without financial penalty. [Hotel Manager Doug] Warpinski said Favre’s family and friends routinely stayed at the hotel for home games in Favre’s final five years with the Packers.

If Favre does end up playing for the Vikings and will be QB for the Green Bay game, then at least you know where he might be headed once the game is over. PS. The hotel also has an indoor pool.

[Photo: AJC Blogs]

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A-Rod May or May Not Be a Miami Playa

February 17, 2009 at 9:13 AM | by Jenna | 0 Comments

This weekend, Alex Rodriguez surfaced in Miami to prove to us that whether he's doing steroids or not, he's still got game. The Yankee — who came under fire recently after Sports Illustrated outed him as having used steroids to amp up his performance on the field — was last seen throwing back Redbull-vodkas at Aura in the Atlantis Bahamas (during the initial media frenzy surrounding the allegations).

Now Page Six reports that V-Day weekend wasn't much different than playa business as usual for the fallen baseball star:

Friday night, the embattled Yankee slugger hung out with Ingrid Casares at Scarpetta, a restaurant in the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach, but he played the field Saturday. By day, he was photographed with model Melissa Britos; at night, he went on a date with "three hot chicks" to Prime 112, in South Beach, as Britos hung solo at the Louis Bar & Lounge at the Gansevoort South.

Ah, yes. Playas gon' play — whether on the baseball field, in a night club in the Bahamas or around Miami. But about this "date with three hot chicks": Maybe A-Rod was meeting up with Britos afterward? Let's not jump to conclusions here; maybe the "three hot chicks" were, like, his cousins or something.

So we take it that whole Madonna thing is totally over, right?

[Photo: Sipkin/NYDN]

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Can’t Make it to Paris for the Tour de France? Try Fallbrook

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 2001 Old Highway 395 [map], Fallbrook, CA, United States, 92028
February 10, 2009 at 5:10 PM | by EricRosen | 0 Comments

Have you ever heard of the Amgen Bike Tour? Neither had we, but apparently it’s the largest cycling race in the U.S., running over 800 miles on various courses from Sacramento to San Diego. Bike world superstar Lance Armstrong himself will also be racing in it this year.

Yet even superstar cyclists need a place to lay their weary...er,quads at the end of the race, so the Pala Mesa Resort in Fallbrook just north of San Diego is offering cyclists and cycling enthusiasts (we know you love it!) special packages between February 15-22.

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Fairmont Montreal Will Host Toothless But Hot Men This Weekend

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 900 Rene Levesque Blvd. W , Montreal, QC, Canada, H3B4A5
January 22, 2009 at 2:30 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

[Update: Fairmont has let us know some players are starting to arrive today! Eeek!]

The Fairmont Queen Elizabeth in Montreal has scored the cushiest gig of them all, sure to make fellow Canadian hotels very jealous--it's the official hotel of the NHL All-Star Game happening this weekend.

Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth decked to the NHL nines as it prepares for this weekend’s NHL All-Star game in Montreal. As the official hotel, the Fairmont will host a series of exciting events throughout the weekend.

No word on what those exciting events are just yet but for any serious action, you'll have to hit the ice. Or if you have a thing for brutish, toothless yet somehow still attractive men, staking out this hotel is a good start to get cross-checked without any penalty time. Wink, wink.

Surprisingly, room rates are very affordable here starting at $289CAD this weekend for a Fairmont Gold room.

[Photo: TwitPic/Fairmont]

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Tampa Bay Devil Rays Forced Into Swankier Hotel After Philly Rainout

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 11th and Market Streets [map], Wilmington, DE, United States, 19801
October 28, 2008 at 4:43 PM | by Jenna | 1 Comment

Whoops! After Game 5 of the World Series was postponed in the sixth inning as Philadelphia got pounded by rain, the visiting Tampa Bay Devil Rays were forced to go back to their hotel -- the Westin Philadelphia -- until the game could be rescheduled.

But oh noes! According to reports, the team had already checked out for the evening (the plan was to hop on a plane and go home to Florida after the game) and their Westin was booked for the night. And, apparently, so were the other hotels in Philly. What's an entire Major League baseball team to do?

After what we can only imagine was an unpleasant series of hours for whoever was in charge of figuring this whole debacle out, the poor baseballers were forced to trek all the way to Wilmington, Delaware (25 miles from the stadium, really) to check into the far, far swankier (in our opinion) Hotel du Pont for the evening. According to TripAdvisor, the average price at the Du Pont is around $399 -- as opposed to the $297 rooms at the Westin.

See? Who says luxury hotels have to be hurtin'? All it takes is a visiting MLB team and a couple of unfortunate weather occurrences, and the luxury hotel biz will be flourishing again in no time.

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Philly Hotels Going All Out for Their Sports Teams

October 21, 2008 at 12:45 PM | by juliana | 3 Comments

Whether you are rooting for the Phillies, the Eagles, or your own fantasy team, you will have a place to cheer on your players at these Philadelphia hotels.

According to the city's blog, Uwishunu, the Bellevue Hotel is hosting a pep rally for the Phillies as they head into the World Series. It takes place tomorrow (October 22) in the hotel's main lobby.

The Whiz Kids Band will perform, Phillies ballgirls will be handing out rally towels, and there will be free pretzels. Enter a raffle to win Phillies gear all day with the winners announced at 5 p.m.

The party then moves to the XIX bar where cocktails and craft brews are half-price during happy hour from 5-7pm.

Over at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, the hotel is hosting an NFL tailgate brunch every Sunday for $26.50 a person. That includes an all-you-can-eat cornucopia of breakfast treats and large flat-screen TVs tuned to the game as well as in-booth flat screen TVs.

So you can watch your hometown team on the flat-screen and follow your top fantasy players in-booth. That sounds kinda awesome to us. Except we don't root for any Philly teams.

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Marriott Helps You March Into Saints-Town

September 25, 2008 at 10:05 AM | by jennm | 0 Comments

Just the other day we were watching one of those football pre-game shows and some announcer guy said that he thinks the New Orleans Saints have a good chance of making it to the Super Bowl this year! (Hey, if you don't agree, don't argue with us. Take it up with that announcer guy on the channel we can't remember we were watching.)

Anyway, if what Announcer Guy said is true, you may want to book the Big Easy SAINTSational getaway available at all Marriott and Renaissance Hotels in New Orleans. This includes the New Orleans Marriott, JW Marriott New Orleans, New Orleans Marriott at the Convention Center, Renaissance Arts Hotel and Renaissance Pere Marquette.

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Ryder Cup Golf Nuts Filling Up the Hotel Rooms in Louisville, A City Without Power

September 17, 2008 at 3:19 PM | by travelingmcmahans | 0 Comments

Just in time for the arrival of thousands of Ryder Cup attendees, Louisville, Ky., lost power Sunday. About 75% of the city lost electricity --including yours truly.

We were without news until we could get to civilization Monday (the office) where we learned the power company estimates a 10-14 day period with no power. That's no internet, no TV, no air conditioning, no lights, no appliances, zilch. What's a high-maintenance girl who dislikes showering by candlelight to do? Move into a hotel.

But wait.

There are all those pesky tourists in town, and not a hotel room to be found. On Sunday night a few hotels offered price breaks to the in-the-dark locals but when the high-spending golf fans hit Louisville that was all over.

The few hotels left with rooms available have ratcheted up the rates to take advantage of the big event, never mind the quarter million people without power. We'll stay in the dark, thank you, before we pay almost 200 bucks a night for the luxury of light at the Howard Johnson Express Airport.

Let's just hope the power comes back on before the rooms open back up.

[Photo: Courier Journal]

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NFL QBs Shill for Expedia's "Go Like Pro" Promotion

September 11, 2008 at 4:05 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

Expedia has launched a new promotion for all gridiron fans. Called Go Like Pro, the includes hotel and travel deals for all 32 NFL cities, as well as Honolulu, where the 2009 NFL Pro Bowl will take place.

Expedia even got NFL quarterbacks to divulge their personal travel picks for visitors contemplating a NFL getaway.

For San Francisco, home of the 49ers, Seattle Seahawk's Matt Hasselback had this to say:

"An afternoon watching the sea lions at Pier 39; walking Lombard's alternative--the crooked Vermont Street; views of the Golden Gate Bridge from China Beach."

Um. Ok. Next? That would be the Washington Redskins' Jason Campbell who recommends:

"Pizza and a movie at the Parkway Speakeasy; picking up fresh produce at the Oakland Farmer's Market; a walk, jog, or stroll through Golden Gate Park."

Hmm, better. Some of the hotel+air deals we saw for San Fran? The newly renovated W Hotel for three nights plus airfare starting at $516. And if you're a Seahawks or Redskins fan then you'll be happy to know Expedia is sponsoring both teams this season.

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WTF Hotel News :: Jason Kidd Gives Elaine Wynn His Gold Medal

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 3131 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], Las Vegas, NV, United States, 89109
August 27, 2008 at 11:50 AM | by juliana | 0 Comments

USA b-baller Jason Kidd is fresh off his gold medal win in Beijing and guess what he's doing? No, he's not going to Disney World. He's going to give his gold medal to Elaine Wynn, wife of Steve Wynn.

Since we could not do this sort of explanation any justice, we're giving you Kidd's own words:

"Last summer, we stayed at the Wynn for (what seemed like) a lifetime, close to three weeks," Kidd said. "We met at a banquet, we got to talking, and she really understands the game.

"I told her I'd make a deal with her, that if we won the gold medal, I'd give it to her. She thought I was kidding. But I told her I had one already, and the way they treated us at the Wynn, it was the least I could do."

While some folk might think this idiotic, we say, "Brilliant." Kidd will always have a VIP room and service awaiting him at the Wynn Las Vegas. And that will probably be comped. Man, it's genius. So genius we feel like training for the Olympics now.

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Beijing's Bird's Nest Will Soon Have Hotel Rooms

Where: Beijing, China
August 22, 2008 at 2:05 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

Is it just us or did the 2008 Olympics go by too fast? We're sad that the closing ceremonies are on the very near horizon. In fact, the only thing that's keeping our chins up is the chance to see David Beckham carrying the torch for London 2012.

And this little bit of news is helping our post-Olympic depression : The kick-ass Bird's Nest Stadium will be adding hotel rooms soon, reports USA Today. The stadium will also host at least 60 soccer matches a year and add VIP Skyboxes, meaning that it will be possible to watch an event here and sleep here too.

Names will be floated around soon for the stadium but we think Bird's Nest Hotel is just fine.

[Photo: F u n k y !]