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Montana Mountain Retreat Guarantees No Cabin Fever

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 5551 West Fork Road [map], Darby, MT, United States, 59829
October 13, 2009 at 1:42 PM | by Heidi Atwal | 0 Comments

It's hard not to blanch when we see a hotel package slapped with a price tag in the thousands, but reading the fine print does help to quell the sticker shock—at least a little bit. Even hotels known for their opulence are trying their best to go the bargain route, even if that bargain is set at $4,060, like the Mountain Romance getaway we found at Montana's Triple Creek Ranch.

Stick around and listen for a moment before you burrow your wallet away: that four-oh-my-god-are-you-kidding rate is for a five-night stay in one of their Luxury Cabins (normally $950/night, per couple), which are essentially mini-private homes with bells and whistles like a double steam shower, wood burning fireplace, living room, stocked bar, and a deck with hot tub.

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Over-the-Top Romance in Mountain Setting at Salish Lodge & Spa

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 6501 Railroad Avenue [map], Snoqualmie, WA, United States, 98065-1109
August 17, 2009 at 11:59 AM | by globetrotting gourmet | 1 Comment

Joining the menu of Salish Lodge & Spa’s seasonal/special spa offerings is the recently debuted Outdoor Moonlight Massage and Hidden Terrace Dinner. In a moment of desperate need of an easy overnight getaway, we packed up our pooch, made the short, sweet and scenic 40-minute drive from Seattle to Snoqualmie and checked into the Condé Nast Traveler 2009 Gold List—World’s Best Places to Stay property to check out the new spa service.

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Our Last Post About Valentine's Day Hotels

January 23, 2009 at 12:31 PM | by juliana | 1 Comment

For some reason this year, hotels are going crazy with creating Valentine's Day Packages. Perhaps they are frantic about the waning economy and figure if you must spend money in these tough times it might as well be to please your wife. Or husband. Or lover. Or escort.

Whomever you are spending Valentine's Day with, hotels want you to spend this romantic day with them. The only problem is we're getting overloaded with Valentine's Day packages and most of them are pretty routine. We've tried to highlight the most unusual ones---strip poker sets in room, creepy love story writers, tent pitching and so forth--but we're actually getting pretty tired of photoshopping bright pink hearts onto photos.

So, this is our last post on Valentine's Day Hotels for 2009. And we're going out with a bang. After the jump, we've listed 10 Valentine's Day hotel packages that have caught our eye. Read 'em and get frisky.

If you would like your hotel's Valentine's Day special featured on HotelChatter, then you can simply join our site and become a member. That way you can post your love special in the comments below this story.

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'Naughty' Love Packages at Miramonte Resort and Spa

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 45-000 Indian Wells Lane [map], Indian Wells, CA, United States, 92210
January 19, 2009 at 3:59 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

Let's face it. When it comes to romance packages, chocolate-covered strawberries and champange just won't cut it anymore. Hotels need to get creative in wooing us to their establishments for some romantical downtime. Which is why the "amorous indulgences" at the Miramonte Resort & Spa outside Palm Springs, Calif. caught our eye.

The resort has designated the entire month of February as the "28 Days of Love" and a "naughty" package has been put together in honor of this month of love.

The NaughtyWELL packages gives lovers room accommodations, a 60-minute couples massage with custom chocolate body butter at the resort's WELL spa, the use of a private poolside cabana, a 30-minute Naughty bath experience (more on that), breakfast in bed and a 2pm late check-out. The cost is $454 for one night and $908 for two nights, plus taxes.

Obviously, what stands out the most here is the Naughty bath which is strewn with rose petals and lit with candles made of oil, not wax. The candle oil can then be poured on your bath partner's body and used as a massage oil. Yup. Now, we're blushing.

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Ordering Up Some Love On The Avenue

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 2178 Broadway (at W.77th Street) [map], New York, New York, United States, 10024
December 29, 2008 at 1:46 PM | by shiralevine | 1 Comment

“When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho,” Le Carrie years ago said.

That Carrie Bradshaw quest to fall in love and have the story-book perfect romance play out in Central Park still exists within even the most romantically jaded of women. (Yes, Sex and the City is long over and passe, but this HotelChatterer finally saw the flick so please, bare with.) Manhattan's Upper West Side spot On the Ave Hotel takes the quintessential cheese factor and dolls it up for a romantic getaway for you and your Big by offering you the faboo services of the OTA Romance Concierge.

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Oooh, Scandalous :: Run Away With Your Husband at the Amora Jamison Hotel

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 11 Jamison Street, Sydney, Australia, 2000
October 8, 2008 at 10:50 AM | by amandak | 0 Comments

T+L Magazine named the Amore Hotel Jamison the best Sydney hotel last year so we figured we should find out what the fuss is about. Although, if you recall those listings aren't always quite accurate. Nevertheless, this hotel is pretty luxurious looking place, not small (415 rooms) and it's smack-bang in the middle of the city.

But what makes us crack up is the names they've come up with for some of their packages. Our favorite: "Run Away With Your Husband". It's a one-night package that includes a deluxe room, dinner in their Charr Restaurant and breakfast in the Gallery Restaurant the next morning.

Unlike their "Amora Affair" package, which includes strawberries, champagne and chocolate and a late check-out, the "Husband" package is plain and simple and not too romantic. Just like real-life husbands! (Har, har.)

And it's also available only on Friday or Saturday nights while you can have the Affair any night of the week. Just in case you are thinking of running away with your husband (presumably it's always wives who make the booking): it'll cost you A$299 (US$220) for weekends in the next few weeks, rising to A$329 (US$245) as summer approaches.

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Palm Springs Area Hotel Guide: The Parker Returns to the Small Screen with 'The Bachelorette'

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 200 E. Palm Canyon Drive [map], Palm Springs, CA, United States, 92664
June 16, 2008 at 3:08 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

The Parker Palm Springs is returning to the small screen again tonight but fortunately it is only for one night and has nothing to do with its ill-fated reality show Welcome to the Parker.

Instead the Parker will be the back-drop for the reality show The Bachelorette featuring Deanna Pappas. The show is on tonight at 8pm on ABC. And the hotel is of course taking advantage of such prime product placement by offering guests a "Bachelorette" Package.

Will he get a rose, will he not? Ahh... the drama. For all of you who wish you were Deanna or had a chance to date Deanna, we've got the perfect solution. Pretend!!!

As seen on ABC's "Bachelorette," Deanna and her men enjoyed the Parker Palm Springs and now you can too. Indulge in a night in one of our villas and wake up to breakfast for two on your patio. Then go and strut your stuff poolside and impress "her or him" with your croquet skills. We know who the true winner is!

The package is good from now through September 16th at the price of $495 a night. Roses not included. Nor are a gaggle of men from which you can choose to spend the night. Click here to book.

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Is Your Relationship Worth the $8,000 for a Couples Retreat at the Tides Riviera Maya?

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Xcalacoco Frac 7, Quintana Roo , Mexico, 77710
May 22, 2008 at 10:22 AM | by mytwocents | 1 Comment

Your significant other is going to be maaaaadddd if you say no to this retreat.

Like most couples chained to each for more than a decade, our relationship could stand a tune-up. And so can we. And while a romantic and spiritually enlightening package called The Art of Re-Connecting: A Couple's Retreat at the The Tides Riviera Maya sounds dreamy, it'll remain that way for us. A dream.

It is totally worth it if you and your special someone have an extra $7,460 laying around the house. It's on the Mayan Riviera amidst tropical forests and pearly-white beaches, first of all. With a luxurious six-night stay at an exclusive resort, number two. And it comes complete with your own private 1,000 sq. ft. palapos (translation: a kick-ass villa).

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Good Rate :: A Passion Package Deal at Affinia Chicago

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 166 East Superior Street [map], Chicago, IL, United States, 60611
April 29, 2008 at 3:30 PM | by Tim L. | 0 Comments

[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same city and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quoted here were captured on April 29, 2008 and are subject to change. Enjoy.]

We've said it many times in many ways: a package with a word like "romance," "honeymoon," or "lovers" in it is almost always going to be a bad deal. Like, oh, 99 times out of 100 in our experience. This week we're happy to report that we found the elusive number 100, in the "Passion Package" at the new Affinia Hotel Chicago.

We went looking at boutique hotels in Chicago to answer a question. How bad would the damage be if a husband wanted to take the mother of his children away for the weekend? We pulled up the nights of May 9 and 10 (with preferably a late check-out on Mother's Day) and didn't expect much.

But we quickly found a score at Affinia. As featured in the shot here, the Passion Package includes that late check-out, as well as plenty of goodies to spice up a weekend away from the kids. Best of all, this rate was better than the plain old room rate we found on seven of the eight third-party booking sites we checked, at $228 a night for a standard room before taxes.

We recommend upgrading to the Junior Suite though for $60 more a night. You might need some extra space for, umm, recreation.

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Cubicle Dreamin': Going Public With a 'Women's Fiction' Addiction

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 16 18 ST JAMES PLACE, London, United Kingdom, SW1A 1NJ
January 25, 2008 at 12:54 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.

In this episode, Senior Editor Juliana details a "Women's Fiction"-inspired escape. Enjoy.

I don't really buy into hotel romance packages. As HotelChatter's own Tim Leffel has consistently pointed out, romance packages are just another way for hotels to overcharge you for silly stuff like chocolate-covered strawberries and erotic bath soaks.

Although once upon a time, a hotel did decorate my bed with rose petals and it kinda melted my hard hotel-critiquing exterior.

But I am intrigued by a recent Valentine's Day hotel package that I came across and my interest really has nothing to do with love and everything to do with a new obsession with Tudor monarchs.

You see, I was bored in the airport one day and I bought a copy of The Other Boleyn Girl a historical novel about Anne Boleyn's sister (who was real.) Well, two months later and I am pretty much done with the entire backlist of Philippa Gregory's novels about the Tudors.

Yes. My name is Juliana and I am addicted to Women's Fiction novels about Tudor Monarchs. (But at least I'm learning some history, ok?) Which is why this package from the Stafford Hotel in London has me anxiously wishing I could flee my "cubicle" and spend a night or two in London.

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Get Loved Up in London This Valentine's Day

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 15 Seymour Street , London, United Kingdom, W1H 7JW
January 23, 2008 at 3:22 PM | by Annabel | 0 Comments

More cheesy Valentine's Day Hotels! Ok Guys. Do you want to give her a Valentine's Day present that will give you football viewing privileges for the entirety of next season, if not the rest of your life? Here's the way to do it.

London's Leonard Hotel have a range of Valentine's Day packages that are sure to set her heart a-flutter, depending on how much spoiling your own ticker can take.

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Bad Rate :: No 'Amour' for Your Money at Hyatt Cancun

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Boulevard Kukulkan km 10.5, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, 77500
January 15, 2008 at 2:25 PM | by Tim L. | 0 Comments

[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same region and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quoted here were captured on January 15, 2008 and are subject to change. Enjoy.]

We've said it before and we'll say it again: any hotel package featuring the words "romance," "honeymoon," "lovers," or "amour" is likely to be a raw deal. This is especially true with the big corporate chains run by accountants. Pull out a calculator and you find that you are paying a serious premium for those extra chocolates or that bottle of bubbly.

Take the current "Amour" package currently being pushed hard by the Hyatt chain. At their Hyatt Cancun Caribe resort the French word for love means paying $42 to $61 extra per night, mostly just for breakfast.

The screen shot here was taken from the Hyatt site's rate details when we went to book a 3-night stay around Valentine's Day. At every room category, the Amour Package added $125 to $183 over the cost of just a regular room with no extras: starting at $264 a night.

For that amount you get an unspecified bottle of sparkling wine, some strawberries, and daily breakfast. Ouch. Book a regular room instead and put that $42 to $61 a night toward some nice romantic dinners. Make your own amour and you'll be better off.