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The Five Best Hotels in D.C. For Under $150
With the opening of the W and Jefferson Hotels in DC this summer, we’ve had downtown luxury DC hotels on the brain.
But for the expense account-free folks in our midst, we thought we better take a moment to remind everyone it actually can be affordable to stay in the District — that’s right, suburban family-filled chains need not apply.
Here, we rounded up five of our favorite DC hotels where weekend rates start under $150.
1. Donovan House
Thompson Hotel’s mod Donovan House sits on Thomas Circle straddles downtown offices and trendy 14th Street restaurants, bars, and boutiques. Though if you stay here you should probably eat at the hotel’s own restaurant, Zentan, if nothing else for the teensy chance that you could run into Hanson. Oh! And good news: Zentan finally got a real website up. Rooms from $129.
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The Best of In-Room Hotel Coffee Makers
Not all that long ago, your choices for getting coffee came down to two options--one, order it up from room service at an insane price like $12 for small pot or get your hands dirty trying to figure out the mini-Mr. Coffee machine in your room.
The latter was always cause for frustration since we hardly know how to work our own coffee machine at 6am, let alone someone else's. Also, paper filters may very well be the devil's child and have you ever tried to get coffee percolating in a cramped bathroom? Heinous. Oh the things we will do for an early morning java jolt.
But then came the invention of single cup coffee which has made life easier not only for desperate housewives across America and the bored office employee at the universal afternoon break time of 3:30pm but also for us, hotel guests.
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The Five Best Hotels for the 2009 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
Yes, once again it's time for our annual list of Best Hotels For Watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This is our fourth installment and while last year's choices and anything in the vicinity of Times Square still holds true, we decided to do away with the old and bring in some new choices. And it looks like the Macy's Day parade will be trying something new itself on November 26th.
This year the parade will go down 7th Avenue instead of the old Broadway. The start will still kick off at 77th and Central Park West.
Sadly, the cast of Glee will not be performing at the parade, a lame decision on Macy's and NBC's part but there's still plenty of traditional fun to be had. However, you may miss out on all of it if you don't book soon. As we said last year, the early bird totally gets the good, crunchy, still warm part of the stuffing here.
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The Five Best Hotels For Halloween Weekend
It's the most wonderful time of the year--Halloween! Even better, our favorite holidays falls on a weekend this year so you can celebrate both Mischief Night and Halloween without having to deal with a hangover at work the next day. Although we can't promise you that your coworkers won't show up in witch, cat and devil costumes on Friday anyways.
If you're planning on taking your costumes to another city this Halloween, we've put together a list of five hotels that are close enough to the scary action in town but at which you can still get a good night's sleep. After all, who really wants to sleep in a room haunted by ghosts or worse, The Shining Hotel? That film was scary! We'd like a good night's sleep instead, whether it be vodka-induced or not.
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The Five Must-See Hotel Pools of Summer 2009
The time has come for itsy-bitsy-teeny-weenie bikinis (and teeny weenies, if the Speedo thing is your jam) and sunning a-plenty. Countless hotels boast flatscreen TV's (yawn), Michelin-starred restaurants (stuffy) and iHomes (so what?), but what really impresses your pals are the photos and stories about that kickass pool by which your got your bitchin' bronze glow.
Inspired by our brother site Jaunted's World's Coolest Pools list, we bring you our picks for the Five Must-See Hotel Pools of Summer 2009.
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The Five Best Hotels For The Fourth of July
Sweet land of Libertinis: the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park's "Libertini" cocktail.
Every summer, we do our best to round up our picks for the Best Hotels for Fourth of July Fireworks — they're the ones with the rooftops and the kickass views of whatever fireworks displays are goin' on in some of the biggest cities.
This year, we took our search nationwide and have hand-picked the hotels across the country that we think are offering up the sweetest Independence Day packages, the most patriotic amenities and, of course, very best fireworks views.
Got a suggestion to add? Drop it on into the comments.
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The Five Best Hotels for Father's Day 2009
Father's Day is Sunday, June 21st. You should have known that already, quite honestly. But since you probably didn't — and since you totes want to assuage your guilt by giving Dad something over-the-top awesome for his special day (which may or may not involve you) — we rounded up a list of our favorite Father's Day packages at some sweet hotels for you to take a look at.
Whether pops is into cars, relaxing, beer or sports, we've got somethin' good for him. Or, rather, something good for you to buy him.
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Five PDX Hotels for Less Than a Benjamin
Wah! You want a getaway, but your wallet says no. Skip the guilt trip and take a mini-vacay to Portland, Oregon, where plenty of hotel rates are caught in a budget-friendly fiscal time warp.
Here are five of our fave Portland hotels for under $100 a night.
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The Five Best Awesomely-Cheesy W Hotel Taglines
Somewhere in this world, it is someone's job to come up with creative, catchy and varied taglines to describe and promote different hotels within the same chain. And on hotel websites across the Internet, these sparkling marketing copy gems are on display to accompany pretty pictures and hotel descriptions, lending a bit of pizazz and style — but our favorite taglines, by far, are found on the W Hotels website.
Come along with us on this international tour, guided solely by awesomely-cheesy W Hotels taglines, won't you?
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Getting Hitched? Four Wedding Destinations for Foodies
For many couples, the vol-au-vents are as important as the venue when it comes to planning their perfect wedding. To an epicurean, the wedding is the be-all and end-all foodie affair, à la My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and the proverbial rubber chicken, puddles of potatoes, and standard 8-guest to a table formula is not what gastronomic wedding memories are made of.
For couples who consider the food component top priority (second to exchanging vows, of course), here are four of our favorite gourmet utopias where the food is as unforgettable as the location.
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Best Geek Hotels in 2009
As we near the end of the first decade of this new millennium, we are tempted to reflect on just how far technology has come since the panic days of Y2K back in the late nineties. The Newton is dead; long live the iPhone. Geocities beget Friendster beget MySpace beget Facebook. And of course, everyone is adding a "tw" prefix to absolutely everything.
What hasn't changed in ten plus years is the fact that the hotel industry has done its best to keep up with the latest technological advances, upgrading rooms with flat-screen TVs, offering guests gaming systems like the Wii or the Playstation in-room or poolside and, in some very awesome cases, placing iMacs in the guest rooms.
Without further ado, here are our annual picks for Best Geek Hotels in 2009. This year, each list entry has its own video tour, hand-crafted by HotelChatter editors and contributors. Enjoy.
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The Five Best Last-Minute Hotels for Coachella
It's only April, but the season of outdoor music festivals will kick off next weekend with Coachella, taking place outside of Palm Springs in an area which arguably endures summer all year long. If you're planning on driving out to the middle of nowhere to party amongst the people, hopefully you've already got your lodging figured out.
If last-minute is your style, however, we'll save you from having to crash in a van like the one above by listing what we think are the Five Best Hotels for Coachella, in order of proximity to the center of the action.
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