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Just What We'd Expect from Personality Hotels--Kids with Personality
Personality Hotels is the master of creating crazy packages—after all, it was the brand that gave us snuggie sutra. But this time it's setting its sights on wooing a younger crowd, a much younger crowd.
The hotel chain is offering Kids with Personality, a new year-round program that gives children some complimentary check-in swag. For the summer, it will offer regal-themed goodies in honor of Prince William and Princess Kate, two people kiddies probably don't know.
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Three Hotels That Will Pay for Your Car's Gas
The average gas price in the United States has spiked to $4, which is just 11 cents short of the record high, CNN reported, and a huge crimp in your travel budget. If the pump prices have given you sticker shock and are making you rethinking your summer travel plans (any good destinations within biking distance?), there are a number of hotels that want to sway your opinion. They are offering gas packages to get you on the road again.
Check out three hotels that offer gas relief (you know, the kind for your car).
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Shag Like Royalty with Union Jack Condoms at Kensington Park Hotel
The Kensington Park Hotel is really getting a rep for being the go-to hotel for getting it on. First, it introduced Snuggie Sutra, and now comes the Shag Like Royalty package.
To celebrate the impending royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the San Francisco hotel will give you British favors like Union Jack condoms. We're guessing these aren't the rubbers of choice for British royalty, but they sure sound, um, festive.
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Personality Hotels Want You To Get Sexy In A Snuggie
Last week we gave you the lowdown on Valentine's Day deals that we'd actually book. This week, it's time to show you the strange, outrageous and plain cray-cray packages that are out there.
If you really want to impress her with your sexual prowess this Valentine's Day, you have to break out the Snuggie Sutra. Yep, stay at one of the San Francisco-based Personality Hotels and you'll receive a manual on getting it on in a fleece blanket with sleeves.
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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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Do The Provenance Hotels In San Fran Still Have Personality?
The new-look Hotel Vertigo.
It’s been a few months since San Francisco's Personality Hotels got a brand new identity. So while we were up in the Bay Area last week, we decided to swing by Hotel Vertigo and Hotel Frank to see how they were faring under the Oregon-based Provenance Hotels boutique chain. (Which is also now managing the Hotel Metropolis.)
Our most pressing question, of course, was had the hotels retained any of their personality? Har har har.
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Provenance Hotels Picks Up Some Personality (Hotels)
Hotel Vertigo.
Last month, we bemoaned the loss of three hotels from the Personality Hotels collection in San Francisco due to debt woes.
When we checked in with Personality in late May, hotelier Yvonne Lembi-Detert told us that there was no new manager/operator for The Hotel Metropolis, Hotel Vertigo and Hotel Frank. But a month later, we have learned that Provenance Hotels, an Oregon-based company with four hotels in the Northwest and one in Nashville, have assumed management of the former Personality Hotels.
We love Provenance Hotels because they understand that a boutique hotel stay can be affordable and fun--a philosophy that's very similar to Personality Hotels. Remember the contest we did with Provenance's Hotel Preston? We also love Provenance for their Foursquare savvy.
All in all, this is good news for the orphaned Personality Hotels. We just hope that Provenance keeps the free WiFi (they said they would.)
[Photo: Kalleboo]
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Three Personality Hotels in San Fran Get Stripped of Their Personality
The Hotel Frank, no longer A Personality Hotel.
Back in March, things did not look good for three Personality Hotels in San Francisco.
The Hotel Metropolis, Hotel Vertigo and our fave, Hotel Frank were all in danger of foreclosure and would likely be auctioned off. At the last-minute, Personality hotelier, Yvonne Lembi-Detert filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to stall the auction. But her valiant efforts failed as the three hotels were sold-off early last week to the Centerline Capital Group, which holds the hotels' debt.
But these hotels may still have some Personality left.
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Personality Hotels Will Award Diva Travelers with Luxe Goodies
Hotel Diva
For those of you who travel diva-style like the always dolled-up Lady Gaga, you probably expect glam service at your hotel that's worthy of a princess like you. Personality Hotels wants to cater to you with its JETset for the METset package.
Okay, so you won't get Gaga's famous Alexander McQueen 10-inch "Armadillo" stilettos as part of the deal. But you'll get your choice of San Francisco hotels: the Hotel Diva, Hotel Union Square or Kensington Park Hotel.
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What's Going On With Personality Hotels?
The Hotel Frank
UPDATE 3.14.10:It looks like Personality Hotels has filed for bankruptcy protection.
Usually, the only sort of bad news we ever hear about the San Francisco boutique chain of hotels, Personality Hotels, is that there's always an anti-view or two to put up with. Other than that, these hotels are known for being quirky yet reasonably priced hotels with central San Fran locations.
But sadly, there are some more serious issues surrounding Personality Hotels--the expected foreclosure of three hotels. Although the forced sales were delayed Yvonne Lembi-Detert will be able to hold onto the Hotel Metropolis, Hotel Vertigo and our fave, Hotel Frank. Unfortunately, it looks like the renovations to the Vertigo and the Frank may have taken its toll on Personality's bottom line.
While Personality is trying to find a way to keep the hotels in their portfolio, they are also looking for a way to keep the management contract if the hotels end up with new owners.
We wish Personality the very best. After all, where else will we go for cheating spouses and cougar packages?
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Figure Out Whether to Dump Your Cheating Tiger at Personality Hotels
Mull over your alimony options at Hotel Diva.
If you're feeling Elin Nordegren's fidelity pains, you can hide out at Personality Hotels to figure out whether to ditch your cheating Tiger. The female-owned-and-operated company wants to show some women solidarity with its Love Him or Leave Him package.
You can nurse your broken heart at one of the brand's six San Francisco hotels—Hotel Diva, Hotel Frank, Hotel Vertigo, Hotel Union Square, Hotel Metropolis and Kensington Park Hotel—for an evening and bring your girlfriends for support.
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Hotel Diva Sets a Cougar Trap
Oh lordy. That’s the required reaction when a press release’s subject line reads “Calling All ‘Cougars with Personality.’”
No stranger to horrifically cheesy gimmicks, San Francisco-based Personality Hotels is unleashing a package “designed to free your inner urban cougar.” And by cougar, we obviously mean “all fabulous, independent and sexy women over 40 who love men in their twenties!”
Package offerings include a one-night stay at Hotel Diva, two Hanky Panky animal print thongs as “cub bait” (excuse us, but, ew), two lemon drop cocktails, two $25 gift certificates at Epi Med Spa, pro bra fittings for two at Nordstrom’s, and a list of San Fran’s “hottest Cougar Bars.”
One thing we can’t help but wonder: If your cougar prowl is, er, successful, how’s that going to work if you’re sharing your hotel room with your girlfriend? We sure hope that 20something guy doesn’t live in his parent’s basement. Otherwise the package seems a little like you’re setting yourself up for failure—or a really awkward evening.
But we digress. The package is available through March 31 and goes for $199. Or, if you think you’re truly a top-tier cougar, you might want to enter the “Cougar Contest” to win a two-night stay in a Diva Suite with the package perks included. To enter, write a 150-word-or-less scribe about why you belong in their “cougar den,” along with “your best cougar photo” to cougar@personalityhotels.com. Contest runs through Oct. 9.
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