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Personality Hotels Giving Away Tix to Game 6 (Which May Not Happen)

If you're paying attention to the World Series, you probably know that the San Francisco Giants are kicking some butt against the Texas Rangers right now, leading the series two-zip. 'Course, if you're a Rangers fan you will want this series to go on a little longer. And even if you're a Giants fan, you may get excited about Game 6 thanks to this new offer from Personality Hotels.

The San Francisco hotel company (minus three) is offering one lucky winner two tickets to Game 6 on Wednesday, Nov. 3rd at AT&T Park in San Francisco. The winner will also get a a VIP stay at a Personality Hotel of their choice in Union Square (Hotel Diva, Hotel Union Square, Kensington Park) along with a bottle of sparkling wine (no champagne showers in the room allowed!)

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Hit Up the Copley Square For the Ultimate Red Sox Experience

Where: 47 Huntington Ave [map], Boston, MA, United States, 02116

New York baseball fans have had their packages offered to them already: whether you're a Mets fan or Yankee devotee, hotels have been givin' out the love in the form of rate kickbacks as the baseball season has gotten into full swing (to name a couple, 70 Park Avenue and the Milford Plaza) — but what about the Red Sox loyalists?

Not to leave out the Beantown baseball fanatics, the just-revamped Copley Square Hotel has put together a Baseball in Beantown Package offering a few different ticket options that score you a spot close to the action and some fan swag (which works out nicely for those of us who may only be fans of whichever teams happen to be doing well each season).

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Would You Sleep in a Recycled Wine Barrel?

· Wine Barrels Turned Into Hotel: It's confirmed: Hippies will make hotels out of anything. The newest invention is a hotel created from recycled wine barrels. [TreeHugger]

· The San Fran Hotel Tax Man Cometh: To fund the city's Moscone center and tourism board, San Francisco is adding a $3 tax to a $200 hotel room in the area around Moscone Center and $2 a hotel room elsewhere in the city. [SJ Mercury News]

· Hotels for Rabid Dodger Fans: Didn't baseball season like just end? Nevertheless, hotels already want you to come visit the Dodgers for spring training in Arizona. [LA Times]

· Hotel Woes are "Time"-Worthy: Time magazine profiles the struggles facing hotels in the crappy economy.

· Jane Hotel Causes Protests: The SRO Residents that make-up the wacky fabric of the Jane Hotel are pissed off at the hotel's "rude" construction workers. And they might take protests over to sister properties, the Maritime Hotel and the Waverly Inn. So far, nothing's confirmed.

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Tampa Bay Devil Rays Forced Into Swankier Hotel After Philly Rainout

Where: 11th and Market Streets [map], Wilmington, DE, United States, 19801

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.