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Swissotel Gets Guests To Take The Stairs

Where: 2 Stamford Road, Singapore, Singapore, 178882

Some people go on vacation to shop or relax by the pool. Some people go on vacation to run insanely up the stairs of their 73-storey hotel. And if you're staying at the Swissotel Stamford in Singapore in late November, you're likely to encounter some of the second type.

On Sunday November 22, at the much-too-early time of 7.00am, a bunch of people will begin the Swissotel Vertical Marathon 2009. This involves getting up to the top of the hotel the fastest, except taking the elevator doesn't count. The Men's Open and Women's Open champions will both win trips to New York – but not just to sightsee, they'll then compete in the similarly crazy Empire State Building Run-Up.

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London's Swissôtel Will Write Down Your Love Story

Where: Temple Place, London, United Kingdom, WC2R 2PR

We were wondering when a Valentine’s offer to trump playing Twister or strip poker with your inamorato would come up, and here it is--London’s Swissôtel The Howard is employing a “professional storyteller” to commit to print the story of how you met your beloved.

You’ll also get a six-course dinner of aphrodisiacs including scallops, chocolate fondue and, um, cucumber. Then you’ll retire to your river-view suite, overlooking the London Eye and the Houses of Parliament, and sink champagne and strawberries with your story.

Let’s just hope that, whatever a “professional storyteller” is, it means he/she can turn “He bought me five shots at Happy Hour” into something beautiful. Especially when the package rolls in at £799 ($1085) for the night.

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Halloween Hotels :: Very Important Kids at Swissôtel Chicago

Where: 323 Wacker Drive [map], Chicago, IL, United States, 60601

Many of you must remember the various scares over the years when it came to Halloween. It's hard to imagine that at one time kids would just traipse blithely from stranger's house to stranger's house, accepting and eating candy without protective individual wrappers -- even homemade treats!

Kids today have it a bit safer, and posher. Lucky little monsters in Chicago can spend Halloween this year at the Swissôtel Chicago. VIKs (Very Important Kids) will be entertained by  a costumed T-Rex character from the Field Museum, make creepy-crawlies and long-legged beasties at the arts and crafts table and create their very own Egyptian funerary masks.

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Weekend Hotel Happening: Iguanas and Fish-Shaped Cookies at Chicago's Swissotel

Where: 323 E. Wacker Drive [map], Chicago, il, United States, 60601

Hotel: Swissotel Chicago

When: Saturday, Jan. 19th. 10am to 1pm.

Where: The hotel's lobby lounge.

What: Consider it the ultimate family-friendly hotel weekend happening event. Iguanas and other reptiles will be on show for kiddies (and adult guests) during the "Animal Encounters" event put on by the Shedd Aquarium.

The hotel's pastry chef Mary Terisi will also help kids decorate fish-shaped cookies, but after the petting of reptiles is done we presume.

[Photo: HectorMesa]