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New Year, New Hotel Gimmick: $20.10 Rate at Miami's Hotel Urbano
Miami's soon-to-be-opened Hotel Urbano is pushing a Grand Opening gimmick that ranks low in creativity but high on the savings-o-meter.
Originally slated to open in October, as we reported, its unveiling will now take place in late December, just in time to receive an onslaught of travelers in the new year.
The themed deal offers guests who book two or more nights in January 2010 a rate of $20.10 for their first night. That's good enough for those who want to kick off 2010 in a snow-free climate, but just remember--the hotel is located in Brickell which is downtown Miami as opposed to Miami Beach and its party scene. But with regular room rates ranging from $115-230 per night, you're pocketing a lot of cash and should have plenty of cab fare to get back-and-forth with no problem.
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How To Get Roosevelt-Era Rates at NYC's Roosevelt Hotel
It wasn’t all that long ago that we were telling you about the New York Roosevelt Hotel’s penchant for Twitter contests—and whaddyaknow? They’re at it again. This time the historic hotel goes back to the Web 2.0 future to celebrate Teddy Roosevelt’s birthday, which, as history nerds know, is tomorrow, October 27.
The contest begins at 2:00 p.m. EST tomorrow, when the Roosevelt will post a trivia question about the nation’s 26th president on their Twitter page. The first five respondents to tweet the right answer will receive a special rate at the hotel of $18.58 (the year Roosevelt was born). Then, at 2:30 p.m., there’ll be another trivia question to ponder—with the first five people answering correctly snagging a room rate of $26.00 (in honor of Teddy being the 26th president).
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Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu Turns 110, Offers Rooms for $110 a Night
Another gimmicky hotel rate! Although, this takes place in Quebec and it's a Fairmont Hotel so it's a little pricier (and Frencher) than other room rate gimmicks we've seen as of late.
The stunning, cliffside Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu is turning 110 years old and to celebrate, the hotel is offering rates for--you guessed it--$110 a night. While the stays are good through December 22, you must book between October 12 to 31. The rate is also open based on availability. The hotel suggests you call in person at 1-888-403-9199 to book. Normally, rooms are about $170CAD a night.
So what do you get for $110 a night? Well, nothing really besides a room which is non-refundable and full pre-payment is required.
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US Virgin Islands Offering Rooms For Just 25 Cents
In a celebration of the first-ever United States quarter for the U.S. Virgin Islands, the USVI Department of Tourism has offered 25 cent rates at participating hotels. Yes, a quarter a night.
The promotion will also including a $25 per person dining credit, $25 per person activities credit and a commemorative quarter Scotiabank coin set. To book go to Bookit.com. You have from today until November 2, 2009 (25 days only) to book. You must travel between the days of October 9 and November 15, so put in your vacation notice at work and get packing.
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We're Skeptical But We'll Play Along With the Roosevelt Hotel's Twitter Contest
Today The Roosevelt Hotel in New York let us know that as part of their 85th Anniversary celebrations, they would be offering Twitter followers the chance to win a night at the hotel for a special rate of $19.24, the year the Roosevelt first opened.
Under $20 for a hotel room in midtown Manhattan? We should be all "happy happy joy joy" about this, shouldn't we? Well, we're just a bit too skeptical to start jumping around.
Gimmicky low room rates have been introduced by hotels several times in the past year and not one has lived up to the hype. Still, we're willing to put some cautious hope behind this promotion because it's a Twitter contest and has nothing to do with entering in special promo codes in a clunky reservations system within a certain time frame.
Here's how this $19.24 room rate promotion will work:
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The Mondrian's $99 Deal Has Not Gone Smoothly
Deja vu anyone?
On Friday, we told you about the special $99 Rate at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood in honor of the upcoming 9-9-09 date. We thought that was a great deal for the hotel which just recently renovated its rooms. But as we see all too often with these sort of rate gimmicks, one reader had trouble booking the deal. Berk411 writes:
So I called the Mondrian to book my $99 room rate for Sept. 1st and 2nd. I spoke to a reservations agent that had no idea what I was talking about. I explained that I wanted the 9-9-09 special rate and that the promotion code was SPM999.
She explained to me that she did not know what I was talking about because there was no such rate in the system. I started reading off the details of the promotion, so she put me on hold. After 15 minutes, she got back on the line after conferring with her supervisor and again explained that she did not have any rate that low in her system what so ever, had no idea what I was walking about, and offered me a $315 dollar a night room, which was their lowest available rate.
reluctantly, I booked it, even though I could have stayed at the Standard Hollywood, which is awesome by the way, for $170 a night. Who knows...maybe I should cancel my reservation and go hang at the Standard where they don't screw over their guests with riduculous rates....
When we saw this comment, we immediately contacted the PR rep who sent us the rate promotion and asked her what was up.
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Nine is the Mondrian LA's Lucky Number
Until 2012, you have numerical alignment to thank for month-day-year promotions to knock some bucks off of hotel stays. 09/09/09 might not have the good luck vibes attached to it that 07/07/07 did, but we'll take the discount that the Mondrian LA is throwing our way all the same. Get ready for a parade of nines if you book a room at the West Hollywood hotel, which pretty much epitomizes everything Sunset Strip. (Yeah, that means stilettos, luxury cars, and a lucite-happy interior.)
The biggest deals to be had include offers for Guestrooms starting at $99 per night (valid September 1-10), and Penthouse and Private Apartment reservations starting at $999 per night (also valid September 1-10). That's the Penthouse above. See, we like to aim high here at HotelChatter.
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Another Hotel Rate Gimmick: Your Room Rate is the Year You Were Born
Tower23 Hotel wants to give you a birthday present. To celebrate your big day, the San Diego hotel offers the three-night "It's My Party" package, in which you get one night discounted according to the year you were born.
The way it works is if you stay at the beachside hotel during your birthday month for two nights, the third night will cost the price of your birth year. For example, if you were born in 1980, you'll pay $80 on the third evening of your stay. So the older you are, the better the deal. The birthday girl or guy also will get a complimentary bottle of bubbly at check-in (so there's also a 21-and-older requirement). It's not a chocolate cake with candles, but we'll take it. The b-day package will be available through July 31.
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The Newest Hotel Rate Gimmick: Hotel Adagio's Special $9.99 Rate
There isn't a very good track record for hotels that do promotions with shockingly low rates. Remember the Leading Hotels of the World's $19.28 fiasco or the recent Copley Square Hotel $18 birthday rate failure? So excuse us for being a little skeptical about the $9.99 promotion from the Hotel Adagio in San Francisco.
The JDV Hotel is advertising a rate of $9.09 for guests who check-in the Sunday or Monday of Labor Day Weekend (September 6th or 7th) and want to extend their stay over September 9th, or 09/09/09. Just to be clear, the rate of $9.99 is for the night of September 9th. Guests must use code 090909 to book.
Sure enough, we went to the website and plugged in this code for dates September 6 through September 10 and could not get the promo code to work.
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Copley Square's $18 Birthday Sale Did Not Go So Well
Ah, it seems we have learned nothing from the Great $19.28 Fail of October 2008 (oh no, we did not and will not forget). See, back then, Leading Hotels of the World tried to hold a sale that had a limited number of rooms for $19.28, and then so many people overloaded the LHW website when the sale launched that the site crashed completely and everyone was pissed and complainy so they had to try the sale a second time with some logistical adjustments.
Yesterday, something similar happened with the Copley Square's $18 Birthday Sale — except they're not going for a do-over (but people are nice and pissed, if Tweets like this and this are any indication). The site was overloaded and many, many people trying to book those $18 rooms got error messages.
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Yeah, We Got Totally Shut Out of the LHW $19.28 Sale Too
Those of us on the West Coast set our alarms extra early this morning to take advantage of the Leading Hotels of the World's 80th Anniversary $19.28 Sale. Sadly, we were not able to secure rooms. Despite our best efforts to strategically click, click, click, we were not able to get into the site. For all 80 contest minutes, we received this very polite error message:
"Sorry! Due to the overwhelming number of consumers currently trying to access this promotion, your request is being delayed momentarily. Please be patient, don't get discouraged, and retry in a few seconds."
We figure this played out much like a contest on the radio, with some people calling at the right time and getting through, and others trying and trying and getting a busy signal. In fact, at the end of the contest, LHW confirmed they had sold rooms:
"Thank you for your interest in the 1928 Promotion. We regret to inform you that the more than 6000 room nights available at the start of this promotion have all been sold.
Ugh.
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