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Having an 'Undercover Boss' Still Didn't Help the Econolodge in Orlando
Fortunately, this story has a happy ending but it doesn't change the fact that a 16-month old girl slipped and fell from the balcony of the Econolodge in Orlando, one of the biggest Econolodges in the world and also the same miserable property that got poor marks during the Undercover Boss episode back in September.
Miraculously, the toddler was saved by a British tourist who noticed the baby hanging from the fourth-floor railing and ran to catch her before she hit the ground. The girl hit a third-floor railing on the way down but didn't even suffer a bruise or scratch and was even described as happy afterward.
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Only 2 Days Left to Win a 3-Night Stay at the Holiday Inn Club Vacations in Orlando
Have the holiday crowds at the mall started to wear you down? Are you sick of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You?" Are you gagging at the site of another holiday fruitcake? If so, it sounds like you could use a vacation from the holidays. Good thing, we've got a cure for you right here. And it doesn't involve chugging eggnog.
HotelChatter has partnered up with the InterContinental Hotel Group to offer one lucky winner an awesome vacation. Imagine getting this under your Christmas tree this year:
A three-night stay at the Holiday Inn Club Vacations at Orange Lake, located next to the Walt Disney World Parks and Animal Kingdom. All guest rooms at this resort come with either two queen beds or a king bed, a fully-equipped kitchenette and a pull-out sofa. Plus you'll have access to the resort's 12-acre waterpark with a tropical lazy river, 10 pools and an 80-acre lake with water sports.
But that's not all! Your three-night stay voucher will come in this cute Vera Bradley carry-on bag stuffed with decorative cosmetic bags, a travel pillow, headphones and a $25 Visa gift card.
Here's how to enter:
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You Can Look But You Can't Sit on the Lap of This Life-Sized Chocolate Santa
So we've been profiling the wonderful, wild and wacky holiday hotel decorations and we think that this holiday display at the Walt Disney Swan and Dolphin Hotel is all three. That's because they've just unveiled a 1,200-pound life-sized CHOCOLATE Santa Claus accompanied by an armchair, fireplace and Christmas tree, all made out of chocolate!
The sculpture is the creation of the hotel's executive pastry chef and only two-time world champion pastry chef, Laurent Branlard. Here are some stats on the work that went into this:
· Man Hours: 300 hours
· Dark Chocolate: 880 lbs.
· Milk Chocolate: 132 lbs.
· White Chocolate: 154 lbs.
· Cocoa Butter: 120 lbs.
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Just in Time for Christmas, Win 3 Nights at The Holiday Inn Club Vacations Resort in Orlando
THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. Thank you for all your submissions and Orlando vacation plans! We will notify the winner shortly.
Still trying to come up with a holiday gift idea that will wow someone special in your life? Or are you making it all about you this year? Either way, HotelChatter has partnered up with the InterContinental Hotel Group to offer one lucky winner an awesome vacation. Imagine getting this under your Christmas tree this year:
A three-night stay at the Holiday Inn Club Vacations at Orange Lake, located next to the Walt Disney World Parks and Animal Kingdom. All guest rooms at this resort come with either two queen beds or a king bed, a fully-equipped kitchenette and a pull-out sofa. Plus you'll have access to the resort's 12-acre waterpark with a tropical lazy river, 10 pools and an 80-acre lake with water sports.
But that's not all! You're three-night stay voucher will come in this cute Vera Bradley carry-on bag stuffed with decorative cosmetic bags, a travel pillow, headphones and a $25 Visa gift card.
Here's how to enter:
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Napa Comes To Orlando To Make Business Travel More Bearable
The next time the boss sends you to a convention in Orlando, just think: you're really going to Napa. Kind of. You can at least drink yourself into thinking so if you hit up the Peabody Orlando hotel's new Napa Valley-themed restaurant and bar called, um ... Napa.
You may be familiar with this hotel if you've ever set foot in the gargantuan Orange County Convention Center, right across the street. It's one of the few Forbes Four-Star, AAA Four Diamond hotels in Orlando, and it's about to unveil a $450 million expansion next Thursday.
We're thinking that this bar--and another new lounge at the hotel called Rocks--may just be the best thing to hit Orlando since Britney. (Who, incidentally, might like the hotel's new pool cabanas.)
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A Tale of Two Pools at Loews Portofino Bay
Stay at a hotel in a city, and you've got very little chance of hopping into a pool. Stay in a hotel in a vacation destination in Florida however, and you not only are almost guaranteed a pool, but typically you've got your choice of pools.
This is the case at Universal Studios' Loews Portofino Bay Hotel, which sports both an "adult" pool and a "family pool." The latter is where we found all the action when we visited the hotel for a few days recently, and yet no one was at all interested in the quieter, more refined adult pool.
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When Your Hotel Isn't Just Near the Airport; It Is the Airport
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
What's the last thing you want to do when you've scored a nice balcony room at an airport hotel in Florida? Perhaps watch the lines of airport security and hear the hubbub of door alarms and various other airport noises would rank towards the top, but this is exactly what'll happen when you stay at the Hyatt Regency Orlando International Airport. The hotel is not merely near the airport or next to the airport; it's in and around the airport.
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Our New Obsessions: Hotels with Their Own Boats
Yea, we totally snapped this photo and the best moment between storm and sunset
You may arrive to your hotel by limo, taxi, subway or even helicopter, but nothing beats the romance of gliding up to a magnificent hotel by boat. Naturally, when you think of hotel boats, your thoughts first turn to Venice's gondolas and the Hotel Danieli or the tender out to the W Maldives, but we found something a little bit closer to home.
As part of the attempt to inject Universal Studios' Loews Portofino Bay Hotel with all the charms of Italy, the hotel boasts its own water taxi for direct transport over the Universal CityWalk area, which you don't need to have a ticket to the amusement park to enter. Okay okay, so the other two Universal Hotels—Loews Royal Pacific and The Hard Rock—also have this, but only the Portofino actually tries to make it look like you're off the Italian Riviera. Oh yea, and it's free.
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5 Hotels Where Kids Can Sleep with Their Favorite Character
When you bring Junior to a hotel, why put him up in some boring beige room? Win the best-parent-ever award by staying a colorful SpongeBob or Dr. Seuss suite that'll also score him lots of swag. We scoured around the most kid-friendly hotels to find the ones with the coolest rooms.
After the jump, choose your own hotel adventure based on your kid's favorite character.
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Emeril Lagasse Greets You in the Morning at Universal Orlando Resorts
While some hotels are all about flaunting their Top Chef winners (ah hem Affinia Chicago and Marcus Samuelsson of C-House), others stick with the already established names, like Wolfgang Puck or Emeril Lagasse. You'll find the latter dominating the in-room coffee trays of Universal Orlando's three resorts—Loews Portofino Bay Resort at Universal Studios Orlando, Loews Royal Pacific and Hard Rock Hotel—with Emeril-branded "Jazzed Up Decaf" and "Big Easy Bold" paired with a Keurig coffee machine.
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Skip the Lines at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter by Staying at a Universal Resort
Are we in Italy right now? Nope, but this hotel is pretty convincing in its Italian-ness, if only it could decide exactly what part of Italy it wants to be. We're talking about the Loews Portofino Bay Resort at Universal Studios Orlando, aka our base camp during the opening days of the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park at Universal's Islands of Adventure.
Although Steven Spielberg initially conceived of making this hotel in the spirit of the Italian Riviera town of Portofino after spending his honeymoon there, a wander around the grounds reveals that it's smushed a bit of Venice, a dash of Tuscany, a dollop of Sicily and a pinch of Naples together to form a complex that exudes more La Dolce Vita than actual hotels in Italy. And if you guessed that last night, the plaza was serenaded by an opera singer performing "O Sole Mio" from a terrace, then you'd be correct.
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Harry Potter Theme Park Opens Early to The Brits but They're Staying in 2-Star Hotels
The Portrait Gallery at Hogwarts. Your Orlando hotel lobby will not look like this
Are you excited for the June 18th opening of Universal Studios' newest theme park, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter? Well too bad, because the British are invading it first.
Virgin Holidays out the UK have today announced that they're the official vacation package company for the Harry Potter amusement park (at least as far as the UK is concerned), and people who book their packages that leave on Virgin Atlantic flights from London-Gatwick get first dibs on the park as early as May 28, among other early-bird perks. It sounds awesome if you're in Britain now and can go, but there is a major downside: you've got some seriously crappy hotel choices.
