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Le Manoir Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary With a Mini-Music Festival
Music festivals – scruffy affairs where you sit on the floor, hopefully in the sun, and drink your own bodyweight, right?
Not any more, they’re not. Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons - chef Raymond Blanc’s uber-posh country pile just outside Oxford – is 25 years old this year, and it’s celebrating with a mini-music festival.
But it’s no ordinary music festival. Oh no. This is Le Festival aux Quat’Saisons: an uberposh, gastro music festival and although it’s going on for three days, you’re only meant to attend for one night (presumably your stomach would give way, as would your bank balance, if you stayed any longer).
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Plush Digs for Dolder Grand's 'Live at Sunset' Festival
Summer's here, Europe's calling, and it's music festival season. But the downside to festivals is all that grubby camping. Obviously the folks at the Dolder Grand outside of Zurich feel the same way, because they're offering up some decent digs for Dolder's very own Live at Sunset Festival from July 8-19 this year.
True, they're probably aiming for a different kind of clientele from the usual festy types – they've got Jamie Cullum (July 18th), Katie Melua (19th) and Simply Red (9th) on the festival books. But we're thinking the Cyndi Lauper gig on the 17th would make a pretty fine girly break.
There are two festival packages to choose from. The Live at Sunset Festival deal gives you a deluxe room, a three course dinner, breakfast and one gig, and costs from £293 ($443) per person. Money to burn? Book the Live at Sunset Superstar package and they'll give you all that, but stick you in a superior suite, and throw in a massage and a late checkout. But you'll have to fork out £812 ($1,230) each.
Still, who wouldn't want to pay £812 to see Mick Hucknall, right? To book, email reservations@thedoldergrand.com or call +41 44 456 60000.
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The Hard Days Night Hotel For the New Liverpool Music Festival
Here’s a confession: we haven’t heard of Liverpool SoundCity music festival before, and we’ve had enough already of all the spurious tiny festivals cropping up in the UK and Europe to part us with our summer cash. So based on name and circumstance alone, we're not inclined to go.
However, we have heard of The Zutons, White Lies, Arctic Monkeys and Little Boots. And we’ve definitely heard of Babyshambles (with crackhead Pete Doherty as the lead singer.) So we’re swiftly packing away our skepticism.
If you're like us and are considering a night in Liverpool for the Liverpool SoundCity festival, it's taking place at 30 venues across the city from May 20-23 this year. The Zutons are the headliners, closing the festival with a performance at the rather splendid Victorian St George’s Hall. Not even the hometown legends, The Beatles got to play there.
Speaking of The Beatles, you can’t go to Liverpool without at least a nod to the fab four. You need to stay in the Hard Days Night hotel, which has a reassuring greatest hits album playing all day long. A deluxe double for two people is currently available on May 20 for £250.00 a night.
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What Hotel Rooms Can You Get for SXSW?
Despite the recent reports that signal music festivals might be dying, everyone's favorite Texan music fest--South by Southwest--is still very much on again this year. If you have the time to get to Austin (perhaps the downfall of our economy has freed you up a bit, eh?), hotel rooms are available but not quite affordable. We have a feeling Austin is trying to milk this event even harder in the wake of the economy's collapse.
We checked our hotel rates search engine for March 13-16--prime festival time and found the Hyatt Place Central Austin for $109 a night. This hotel is about five miles from downtown and it involves a freeway ride. But if you are a music geek who needs to upload or edit music, video, bootlegs, whatever, remember Hyatt Place has all the geeky tools you'll need to make that happen.
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Hilton Austin Still Has a Few Rooms Left For SXSW
If you're planning to go to South by Southwest in Austin this year, we have some news for you: hotels are gettin' pretty full already. You need to get your game up and start booking.
We started checking individual hotels' websites for stays that ran March 12-23 (the festival runs March 13-22), but the Hilton Austin came back with absolutely no availability on any of those dates — which was curious, but not impossible since the hotel is adjacent to the Austin Convention Center, where many of the SXSW activities go down — so we investigated further.
According to Expedia, if you're really set on the Hilton Austin (it's nice and it's convenient; easy, easy), it can be done if you're only staying for the first weekend of SXSW (Thursday through Monday). But you'd better book it now and be prepared for a $349 rate.
If you're down for staying a few miles out of downtown, The Doubletree Austin does have rooms available for the entirety of SXSW for $118 a night — but, again, you'd better get to booking now. Rooms in the more upscale (read: not Super 8) hotels are lookin' scarce around the city.
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Labor Day Hotels :: Celebrate Chicago's Jazz Festival at the Westin Chicago River North
If you weren't able to get to Chicago for Lollapalooza or the Air and Water Show, then maybe the Jazz Festival which is celebrating its 30th anniversary over Labor Day will entice you to visit the Windy City.
And if it does, then the Westin Chicago River North has a little Labor Day package for you. The hotel is offering a Park & Eat Package that includes complimentary parking at the hotel and breakfast for two at the hotel's Ember Grille restaurant.
Guests can leave car keys in their posh accommodations and explore the city by foot as the premier property is conveniently located in the heart of downtown Chicago. Valid August 28 through September 1, rates start at $220 per night (not including taxes.)
To book go online or call (312) 744-1900. Use code PAREAT to book. The deal is based on availability on Saturday arrivals. Advanced reservations also required.
The hotel also has a few other packages available that weekend like an upgrade to an executive club room, $1 parking or a chance to earn 1,000 starpoints. So whatever's your pleasure!
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Lollapalooza Hotels: Put Your Name on the List at Chicago Hard Rock
The Lollapalooza weekend is getting close again and the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago has a deal we rather like: it's the "Dude, My Name is on the List" package and for $4,100 you get a pretty cool VIP experience for Lollapalooza over the weekend of August 1-3.
The VIP package includes two nights' accommodation in a tower suite, two VIP passes to Lollapalooza include Lolla Lounge access and full access to the Hard Rock's Music Lounge, including post-festival parties each night.
Your only problem might be gathering enough courage to actually ask for a package that's called, "Dude, My Name is on the List."
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Upgrade Your Lollapalooza Experience at The James Chicago
At the tender age of 16, we attended our first Lollapalooza Concert. Sonic Youth, Pavement, Hole and Cypress Hill were playing, and boy, did we get our ass kicked in the crowd. The only respite we had was coming home to a shocked mother, who tended to our cuts and bruises while berating herself for thinking Lollapalooza was some sort of lollipop renaissance fair.
Mom's older and wiser now, and so are we, which is why we're considering the concert packages available at The James Chicago when we attend this summer's Lollapalooza, featuring Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine and that other `90s favorite, Nine Inch Nails.
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A Montreal Getaway at Le Petit Prince
Don'tcha just love Montreal? Above or below ground, there's never a lack of great food, cold beer, and lively nightlife. And if your French isn't up to parlez vous, no worries, English is the second language.
One of our favorite times to visit is late June/early July during the annual Montreal Jazz Festival, which takes over the city like one huge block party for the masses. This is a time when the world's leading international artists ascend on Montreal, performing day and night for 250,000 of their fans.
Catch a few sets on the live stages set up on the streets and in the parks. Purchase a ticket for one of headliners at an indoor concert venue. Or hit one of the clubs after midnight when the musicians meet up with each other to jam into the wee hours of the morning.
On the recommendation of friends, this year we're foregoing hotel points and checking into Le Petit Prince Bed & Breakfast for our stay.
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A 16th Century Venice Palazzo That Won't Leave Your Wallet Empty
Woke up this morning after yesterday's cubicle dream and reality set in. We're not rich and/or famous. But that doesn't mean we'll never be able to make our way to Venice before it sinks.
And while we thought we'd have to trade down, way down for a hotel so we can manage to throw in a gondola ride and tix to Italy's Heinekin Jammin' Fest to see The Police, enter Arco Antico Guest House. Sweet. Despite the somewhat drab decor, Arco Antico has great guest reviews and terrific rates. Sixteenth century palazzo stay here we come.
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Heineken Jammin' Festival Hotels :: The Golden Tulip Tritone
Come June 20-22 there won't be any singing under the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, 'cuz everyone will be rockin' out in nearby Mestre at Italy's Heineken Jammin' Festival. Since its inception in 1998, each summer 100,000 fans from all over the world have flocked to the country's premier rock fest, listening to a roster of such notable bands as Bon Jovi, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Cure.
This year the rock fest takes place across the Venice causeway in Mestre's Park San Guiliano overlooking the Venice lagoon. Sure, you won't get serenaded on a gondola, but you'll enjoy three performance stages,a Green Village, Sports Village, DJ Zone and camping area.
Iggy & the Stooges, the Sex Pistols, Linkin Park and Chris Cornell will be responsible for getting the fans warmed up the first day, with the important closing slots will be filled by The Police, Alanis Morissette, Counting Crows and Baustelle, among others. The list keeps expanding.
As we've mentioned previously, hotels in Venice cost a pretty penny. And while it would've been nice to find some offering special packages for the event, no such luck. So we checked for cheaper hotels in Mestre near the concert venue and one stood out with terrific reviews, The Golden Tulip Tritone.
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Lodgings at Coachella: Luxury On-Site Tents Still Open
Speaking of Palm Springs, Coachella takes place this weekend, starting on Thursday April 24. The hipstery music festival features a wide-range of musical acts from famous bands to underground faves and even some celeb stints (See: ScarJo Sings!).
The gig brings out a ton of people from all over the West Coast and beyond, who pretty much camp out for the entire weekend thus making traffic, parking, will-call, drinking, public displays of air-guitar skills and the like pretty freakin' messy.
Oh yeah, and hotel rooms, motel rooms and campsites book up fast.
This year, Coachella decided to unveil their own On-Site Lodging which is described as "Luxury Site Accommodations."
This new exclusive lodging area will include Breakfast (served 7am - 11am - menu will be posted at a later date), limited capacity, restrooms & showers, general store, food vendors, roaming food and ICE vendors, free private parking lot, drop off area, cell phone charging stations, added security, ATMs, recycling tent (bottles, camping gear) Outdoor chairs, shade tents and outdoor lighting, local newspapers, shuttles and more! (Massage Therapist for extra fee).
The beds are air mattresses and sleeping bags (which will be donated to the homeless after you use them) and are promised to be of the best quality.
But the shizz is expensive. A two-person tent with two onsite-camping tickets is going for $700. A four-person tent bumps up to $1,400. And the six-person tent is selling for $2,100. However, each ticket is good for the entire weekend.
LAist doesn't think it's all that more special than the regular campsites although the ATM is a big plus. And if you were interested in staying in hotels, a quick look at Expedia shows hotel rates are jacked up with motels even starting in at around $200 a night. These on-site tents might be the better way to go.
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