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The Five Best Hotels for the 2009 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
Yes, once again it's time for our annual list of Best Hotels For Watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This is our fourth installment and while last year's choices and anything in the vicinity of Times Square still holds true, we decided to do away with the old and bring in some new choices. And it looks like the Macy's Day parade will be trying something new itself on November 26th.
This year the parade will go down 7th Avenue instead of the old Broadway. The start will still kick off at 77th and Central Park West.
Sadly, the cast of Glee will not be performing at the parade, a lame decision on Macy's and NBC's part but there's still plenty of traditional fun to be had. However, you may miss out on all of it if you don't book soon. As we said last year, the early bird totally gets the good, crunchy, still warm part of the stuffing here.
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Skip Turkey Dinner for Grilled Lobster at the Four Seasons Punta Mita
We’re all about unconventional holiday excursions — anything to avoid old musical marathons in Aunt Suzie’s basement, really — but we do believe a few traditions should be safeguarded. Like cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. But that’s just us. If on the other hand, turkey dinner has never been your thing, you might prefer a Four Seasons grilled lobster dinner in Punta Mita, Mexico.
Meal preferences aside, you’re likely to find a few things to be extra-thankful for (no musical marathons, for one; also: a sandy beach) when booking the Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita’s “Thanksgiving Beach Escape.” In particular, when you book four nights in a casita room between Nov. 19th and 27th, you’ll get a $500 resort credit. (Or you can upgrade to a one-bedroom suite and nab a $1,500 resort credit.)
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Have a Side of Palm Beach with Your Thanksgiving Turkey
You know what goes even better with a heaping plate of Thanksgiving turkey than a side of mashed potatoes? Palm Beach. OK, so maybe you won’t feel like jumping straight into that bikini or Speedo after gorging on your holiday dinner, but we’re still going to say beach-combing in Palm Beach trumps cramming into your sister-in-law’s house in suburbia.
But here’s what would make us extra thankful: staying at the Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach, with the third night free. And for those of you purists who think the only way a beach should be part of Thanksgiving is lounging around like a beached whale after chowing down on seconds and thirds, fret not, for the Four Seasons has arranged for some traditional Thanksgiving activities.
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Palos Verdes' Terranea Resort is Offering Rooms for Half-Off
More hotel deals! The Terranea Resort, a luxury oceanfront property in Palos Verdes, just south of Los Angeles, is offering guests 50 percent off its room rates but only for 12 more days. From now through October 27, you can get rooms at the brand new hotel for $210 a night. The special rates are good for stays through December 17. It's even available for reservations over Thanksgiving.
The only caveat is that it does require advance purchase. And while we found opening rates at the hotel over the summer for less (about $145 a night), room rates have since jumped up to about $500 a night. We were able to find a room over Thanksgiving for $261 a night for a resort view king. Ocean views cost $316 a night.
The Terranea is a sprawling resort with tons of activities available during your stay such as hiking the resort's two mile trail, playing golf on a "challenging" 9-hole course, relaxing at the spa and just taking in the awesome Pacific ocean and Catalina Island views. There's even a children's center so you can drop the kids off and actually enjoy your vacation.
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Escape The Family Thanksgiving With A Free Night At The Four Seasons
In most parts of the country, all the signs of fall are here: cooler temps, turning leaves, football on TV all weekend, and skimpy Halloween costumes on display at the mall. But not in Miami! (Skimpy costumes are the uniform year-round in South Beach.) The 80-degree days down in South Florida make it hard to remember that we’re meant to be focusing on our Thanksgiving travel plans.
And in fact, if you’d rather spend Thanksgiving in a bikini than in a holiday sweater, the Four Seasons Miami is happy to tempt you away from your familial duties. The fancy hotel in downtown Miami (ie: not at the beach) is offering a "Stay Longer" package this fall, giving guests a complimentary third night with every two consecutive paid nights.
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Aspen's Hotel Jerome Turns 120 in Grand 1889 Style
This Thanksgiving eve, Aspen ski bunnies have a little extra to be thankful about—the 120th birthday of Hotel Jerome, A RockResort. Aspen’s first ski weekend of the season will host a big birthday bash for the local landmark, which includes a “120th Anniversary Celebration” package.
Available Thanksgiving weekend (Nov. 25–29), the package includes a four-night stay in a junior suite, two full-day ski lift tickets for two, two tickets to Hotel Jerome’s 120th Anniversary gala on Wednesday evening, Thanksgiving dinner for two, and a 50-minute massage per person at the Aspen Club and Spa.
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Top Five Thanksgiving Buffets at Hotels
Last-minute Thanksgiving planners, rejoice! Nowhere is more forgiving of large groups and indecisive diners than a hotel restaurant with an overpriced holiday buffet. So as we prepare to give thanks for bountiful candied yams and cornbread in all forms, we did some dirty work to dig up the details on the country's best Hotel Thanksgiving Buffets.
Hold onto your wallet and unbuckle your belt, because these buffets aren't skimping on the stuffing.
Read the Top Five Thanksgiving Buffets at Hotels after the jump.
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In This Economy, Even Thanksgiving Dinner Has Shrunk to Bite-Size
We’re well aware that it’s a time-honored tradition for many to stir together all the Thanksgiving fixings into one plate of mashed madness. But still, chef Mark Payne of the Ritz-Carlton Chicago’s Café has taken the tactic to a whole new, well, weird level.
His “Thanksgiving Dinner in One Bite” is served this week (through Wednesday) and, just like it sounds, is basically a bite-size amuse that combines turkey rillette, roasted sweet potatoe puree, wild mushroom crumble, huckleberry chutney, crispy Brussels sprouts, and gravy. In other words, it melds all the traditional parts of a Thanksgiving dinner into one loaded forkful. Complimentary for all guests, it’s a nice festive nod if not a little bizarre.
And come Turkey Day, the hotel’s fancy Greenhouse restaurant will offer full-size servings of each at their Thanksgiving Day Brunch. Let’s hope the normal servings look more appetizing than this photo they sent us of the amuse.
[Image: Ritz-Carlton Chicago]
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Knoxville Crowne Plaza Does it Up Pilgrim Style
With a symbolic nod to the pilgrims, the Crowne Plaza in Knoxville thanked their clients and vendors yesterday with a Thanksgiving feast aboard the Mayflower. Well, OK, not the Mayflower, but the next best thing: a Mayflower moving van.
The guests of honor were surprised upon arrival with their unconventional venue, which was bedazzled with holiday décor and apparently transformed into a fine-dining area. The hotel held both lunch and dinner events, with about 40 guests at each. Event coordinator and Crowne Plaza director of sales Tammy Knight says she picked the moving van as setting because it "represents the company's willingness to reach out to clients in unusual ways," explaining that Crowne Plaza hotels are all for thinking "outside the box." Tight quarters apparently inspired more fervent networking (or at the very least probably more convivial cranberry sauce passing).
We think it’s a funny idea. But even funnier is the comment on the Knoxville News Sentinel newspaper article left by reader et_vol_fan: “It's called double booking the dining room and they needed a plan fast. I liked it better when it was an episode of "Saved By The Bell." Well played, et_vol_fan.
[Image: Emily Spence for the Knoxville News Sentinel]
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Victoria's Secret Models Probably Shacking Up at Fontainebleau
There's tons of hotel news flying around this week and we don't have time to give each and every story the love and attention it may deserve, so you will have to settle for some news briefs.
· Fontainebleau Miami Beach Opens Tomorrow, Models to Follow: The official opening party of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach is actually a weekend-long extravaganza, starting with a Robin Thicke concert tomorrow night and a Victoria's Secret Fashion Show on Saturday. We're guessing the models have comp rooms here. [Miami Herald]
· Giving Thanks in Las Vegas: Spending Thanksgiving in Las Vegas actually sounds kind of good this year. Weird old relatives will def. not want to join us here. [LA Times Daily Deal Blog]
· Tablet Hotels Goes Hollywood: It's kind of odd but Tablet Hotels is now screening movies at The Bryant Park Hotel. [MarketWatch]
· Bulgarian Black Sea Resorts are in Trouble: As many as 50 percent hotels could be closed down by Summer 2009.[Novinite]
· The Mandarin Oriental Will Rise in Atlanta: The hotel will have 198 rooms and 71 condominiums but won't be finished until sometime in 2011. [Atlanta Biz Journal]
[Photo: ABC News]
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Thanksgiving in Your Hotel Room is Not as Depressing as it Sounds
The image of someone eating Thanksgiving dinner alone in a hotel room sounds like something straight out of a movie montage before the resolution, or maybe something off of a site like Sad Guys on Trading Floors. But! Not so depressing when someone is eating Thanksgiving not alone in a hotel room — and not slaving over a hot stove because someone else cooked the food is not so depressing at all, either.
Sometimes you (and your fam) just can't get home for the holidays. Accordingly, the brand new Westin Imagine Orlando is offering an in-room Thanksgiving dinner package for you and your people.
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Thanks, But We Think We'll Get Tanked at the Iron Horse
Ha! This may be our favorite hotel holiday gimmick ever: if you're not doing the cooking thing this Thanksgiving, the tastefully Harley-themed Iron Horse Hotel in Milwaukee will host you for dinner that night — and they're dropping the H, keeping it real and calling it "No Thanks, Get Tanked." Awesome. Yes please.
The seven-course Thanksgiving dinner is served fireside at communal tables in the hotel's library, and menu is very, very heavy on the drank (we would say "drink", but when you're on a mission to get tanked you're really supposed to say "drank." Trust us.)
Chef Thomas Shultz pairs creative cocktails with seven courses:
· Plymouth Rock – Plymouth Gin, Pineapple, Campari/Peach foam with citrus king crab
· Potato Vodka Shot with Osetra Caviar, Crème fraiche and edible spoon
· Cold Duck Champagne Cocktail and Foie Torchon with quince pear preserve
· Cranberry martini and Wisconsin Billy Blue Cheese Salad with Door County Cherry vinaigrette
· Wild Turkey Old Fashioned and braised squab
· House-made Bacon Bourbon with crispy pork belly
· Pumpkin Flip with Gingerbread cake and cinnamon ice cream
Uh, that all sounds damn delish. And so does getting tanked, quite frankly. Well, actually, we're not so sure about that bacon bourbon — that may be a surefire recipe for a Thanksgiving vomit celebration, but we suppose it's worth the $125-per-person price (not bad, people!) to find out. Book a room starting at $149 too — because between the tryptophan and the getting blasted, you're really going to want the bed or the toilet immediately after dessert.
And we're all for getting duh-runk over a holiday dinner (makes the fam more tolerable, we know) — as long as you don't get on your Harley afterward.
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