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Hit the Holiday Inn Express Midtown for a Last-Minute St. Pat's Day Option

Where: 13 W. 45th St. [map], New York City, NY, United States, 10036

It's not easy to find a last-minute hotel along the route of New York City's famous St. Patrick's Day Parade. The Irish (and wannabes) are serious about the parade and festivities, filling all of the nearby hotels to make it easy to drunkenly stumble home after a nonstop party.

But for you procrastinators, the Holiday Inn Express New York Midtown, right off the Fifth Avenue parade route, still has rooms available on the holiday starting at $344 a night.

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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Basketball at the Canary Hotel

Where: 31 W. Carrillo St. [map], Santa Barbara, CA, United States, 93101

In honor of the upcoming holiday, we'll highlight a few wacky St. Patrick's Day packages that must have been thought up by a leprechaun.

St. Patrick's Day makes you crave pints of Guinness, Irish soda bread, corned beef and cabbage, and, um, basketball. At least that's what the Canary Hotel in Santa Barbara is hoping.

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The Lodge at Doonbeg Will Find Your Long-Lost Irish Relatives for St. Patrick's Day

Where: Doonbeg Co. Clare, Ireland

In honor of the upcoming holiday, we'll highlight a few wacky St. Patrick's Day packages that must have been thought up by a leprechaun.

Do you get a little green with envy when you see people sporting "Kiss Me I'm Irish" buttons and shirts on St. Patrick's Day? Find out if you have any Irish in you at the Lodge at Doonbeg in Ireland.

If you need help learning more about your family tree, the County Clare hotel recently added on-site genealogists to help you research your Irish heritage, coordinate visits to villages where your ancestors once lived and even connect you with a long-lost relative.

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Spend St. Patrick's Day Sipping Whiskey on a Gondola at Loews Coronado Bay

Where: 4000 Coronado Bay Road [map], San Diego, CA, United States, 92118

In honor of the upcoming holiday, we'll highlight a few wacky St. Patrick's Day packages that must have been thought up by a leprechaun.

If you want to do something a little more original than hitting a crowded pub this St. Patrick's Day, head to Loews Coronado Bay to do your drinking on a gondola. It's kind of a random combination, but the hotel will offer Irish whiskey-tasting gondola cruises.

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St Patrick's Day in Dublin Is Way More Affordable Than You'd Think

Where: 4 Eastmoreland Lane, Dublin , Ireland

The Dylan: nice beds, no dubious rockers. We could deal with that

Well oi’ll be damned (say that in an Irish accent, it might make more sense). It’s St Paddy’s Day coming up (17 March) and if you want to go ultra-authentico and spend it in Dublin, you’d better get your planning skates on.

But here’s the good news – pricewise, places seem to be less than extortionate, considering Dublin is an extortionate city, even on the off season. We just checked out two of Dublin’s poshest hotels: the Clarence, which is owned by Bono and his greasy chums, and the Dylan, which is so sleek it has no need of dodge celeb booking.

The Clarence has double rooms starting at €189 ($256/£168), and the Dylan’s even cheaper at €179 ($243/£159). If you don’t want to travel on a hangover, it even has a stay two nights, get one free package going down at the moment. Who’da thunk it? That leaves plenty of euros left to spend down Temple Bar.

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The Five Best Hotels for NYC's St. Patrick's Day Parade

Note: Not all hotels will look as charming as this photo but it depends on how many green beers you have. It's ok. Beer goggles happen to the best of us.

Now that Valentine’s Day is dispensed with, hotels are tearing down the pink and putting up the green. Aye, St. Patrick’s Day is the next big chance for hotels to offer holiday packages, and house lots of drunk people wearing “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” T-shirts and leprechaun hats. New York City is, of course, home to one of the biggest public celebrations of St. Pat’s Day and, after a day spent inside a glass of Guinness, most revelers will need a hotel room.

The annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade is the highlight of the day (unless you’re a Midtown office worker), starting at 44th Street and Fifth Avenue at 11 a.m., and finishing up at 86th Street around 4:30 p.m. There are plenty of ritzy hotels along the route (The Peninsula, The Pierre, and The Plaza, just to name a few), but somehow we feel you’ll be more at home at one of these five spots after your day at the parade or at the pub.

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