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Turkey Leftovers and Free Hot Chocolate In New York This Weekend

Where: 540 Park Ave [map], NEW YORK, NY, United States, 10021

The turkey is dead! Long live the turkey sandwich!

Sure, Thanksgiving only lasts for a day; but that doesn't mean we can't keep stuffing our faces with turkey all weekend long! Appropriately, the food-loving Loews Hotels are planning a week-long turkey sandwich menu addition for all of their properties—starting right now!

Through Sunday evening, each hotel across the country will be serving up a local spin on the traditional leftover turkey meat sandwich. From turkey sushi rolls at Loews Lake Las Vegas to Loews Miami Beach's Cuban-style sandwich, the creations will be diverse and delicious.

In New York's Loews Regency, keep an eye out for the chef's trio of sliders, served on different artisan breads with gravy and stone-ground mustard-cranberry mayonnaise. Yum!

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Where to Gobble Giblets Tomorrow, Miami Hotel Style

In Miami for Thanksgiving? Congrats! It's going to be 77 degrees on Thursday. And we assume if you're visiting--and staying in a hotel--you won't be looking for a frozen bird and a stove, but a decadent spread to enjoy before stumbling back to your room for a post-feast nap.

Here are our top five picks for Thanksgiving tables on the beach:

1. The Fontainebleau: Because, hey, Ricky Martin's there! Also, they have a bunch of restaurants to choose from, all doing a holiday meal. If you want a Chinese spin, opt for Hakkasan. Italian? Scarpetta.

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Obama Receives A Special Guest From The W Hotel. Again.

Where: 515 15th St Nw [map], Washington, DC, United States, 20004

For the second year in a row, the W Washington DC graciously offered to host the lucky turkey that had been spared his 400°F fate. The turkey traveled from Pennsylvania to Washington DC in order to get pardoned by the President himself, and while in town, got to spend the night at the hotel. Pet-friendly amenities and all.

A custom room was offered up to the turkey, including: added sawdust on the floor as well as a W-branded "munchie box" filled with soy, corn and cranberries. Wow, they really step it up for these birds! We can't remember the last time a hotel modified its regular room service menu options for us. Though we're pretty sure it involved some sort of extra fee.

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An American Expat in London: Yankee Grub for Americans Stranded in London This Thanksgiving

Being low season here in London, many American travelers opt to take advantage of deals, however minor, on travel to this notoriously expensive city. However, Yanks who have chosen to make their rounds on double-decker buses this week sacrifice being on mother soil during Thanksgiving, a huge trade off that's sure to leave tourists pining for a taste of tryptophan and pumpkin pie. Tough luck in kebab and chippy town.

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Looking For A Worthy Thanksgiving Feast? Check Out These NYC Hotels

Considering the super-high standards of hotel restaurants in New York (Maze at The London NYC, Maialino at Gramercy Park, and The Ace's The Breslin all come to mind), no one could possibly fault you for ditching the entire fam and taking yourself to a nice dinner in midtown (or Wall Street, as the case may be).

Check out these delightful dining options. With expertly-crafted menus and warm, inviting dining rooms to match, we can think of at least a few things you'll be grateful for: among them, not having to do the dishes.

The London NYC: First up, Gordon Ramsay's Manhattan jewel on West 54th St. The 2-Michelin Star Gordon Ramsay at the London is doing it up with caramelized Long Island duck breast, served with sweet rutabaga, potato rosti and Szechwan consomme. While that menu is going for $185pp, a slightly more affordable option is at Maze, where $95pp gets you a four-course meal with slow-roasted turkey, confit leg a la creme, or roasted cannon of lamb.

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Courtyard By Marriott Comes To Herald Square

Where: New York, NY, United States, 10120

If Thanksgiving is the one time of year when NYC's Herald Square can actually become relevant again (Macy's parade, hello?), then it was with good foresight that Marriott waited until this week to announce their new midtown Courtyard property. The worldwide hotel brand will plant a new Courtyard by Marriott Herald Square inside the former Atlantic Bank of New York Building, on the corner of 35th Street and Sixth Avenue.

Maintaining its current facade, the 17-story, 168-room hotel will be ready by "early 2012," which should put it in line to open along with its Hyatt and Holiday Inn neighbors over on 36th Street.

This news also coincides (then again, in this business, coincidences don't really exist) with Macy's announcement last Tuesday that the flagship Herald Square store will be receiving a $400 million makeover.

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Make Thanksgiving Plans Now: With Ricky Martin at the Fontainebleau

Where: 4441 Collins Ave [map], Miami Beach, FL, United States, 33139

The joint was Pitbull's on Labor Day weekend, but Thanksgiving calls for an entirely different mood. That's why it will be Ricky Martin lighting up the Fontainebleau on November 26.

Just as it was with Pitbull, the Vegas-style mega-hotel has put together a slick menu of fan packages, tailored to your level of love for Ricky. The cheapest option is $329 a night, based on a three-night stay in a standard room, and including two general admission tickets to the concert, access to an open-bar hour, and a 'Bleau Live Fan amenity'.

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Hotels Are Pissed as Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Changes Its Route

See ya Times Square!

We know, that title might be off putting. After all, who can think about Thanksgiving when everyone's plotting out where to get wildly inappropriately drunk for St. Patrick's Day? Hotels, that's who. And that's because the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is changing up its route in 2012.

Instead of floating down Seventh Avenue, the route will switch over to the more manageable Sixth Avenue and hotels on the old route are pissed to be missing out on the parade revenue.

NY Daily News reports:

Marriott expects to lose $2 million to $3 million from the shakeup, according to Mike Stengel, a Marriott vice president. He said the company's two Times Square hotels, the Marquis and the Renaissance, will no longer be able to charge premium rates, enforce minimum 2-to-3 night stays or rent out restaurant space on Thanksgiving weekend.

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Jessica Simpson Gets an Oven Delivered to Her Suite at the Ritz-Carlton Central Park

Where: 50 Central Park South [map], New York, NY, United States, 10019

We always suspected that hotels let celebrities do whatever they want during their hotel stays and this recent item about Jessica Simpson cooking Thanksgiving dinner, has us convinced.

According to People, JSimp was holed up in her hotel while in town for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade when she decided that she wanted to cook Thanksgiving dinner for her fiancé, Eric Johnson, and his family. The only problem was they are vegans. Oh wait, and she needed an oven.

But apparently, even that was not a problem as the Ritz-Carlton Central Park was ready to accommodate her every vegan Thanksgiving need. (We tracked down paparazzi photos to confirm the hotel.)

Simpson had to get creative to make Thanksgiving dinner for so many people at her hotel. "They had an oven brought into her suite," says the source. "She also used the hotel kitchen."

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The W D.C. Spent Thanksgiving With Obama and a Turkey

Where: 515 15th Street NW [map], Washington, D.C., United States, 20004

How was your Turkey Day? Stay at any hotels this holiday weekend? The turkeys pardoned by President Obama did.

That's right. You know all about the Presidential tradition of saving a bird--but did you know that the turkey also gets an all-expenses-paid trip to D.C., complete with a stay at the W Washington D.C.?

In case you missed the pardoning ceremony held in the Rose Garden last week, this year's National Turkey is named Apple, and his feathered friend, Cider. As President Obama explained, the turkeys came from the Foster Farms Wellsford Ranch, just outside of Modesto, California. They made a shortlist and then the "big prize--life."

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Will You Be Hoteling For the Holidays? We Will!

The Plaza has recovered from the Charlie Sheen fiasco just in time to put up their Christmas wreaths!

We're taking off for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday and Friday but we'll be back with our regular batch of witty hotel stories and observations for you on Monday morning. In the meantime, if you plan on going to a hotel for the holidays, do tell us how it goes!

We actually plan on being in a hotel for another three days over the holidays, so you know we will have some good gossip come Monday (No, we're not staying at The Plaza.) Until then, take a look at the holiday stories we've been dropping this month:

· Holiday Hotel Decorations: Chronicling the wonderful, wild and wacky hotel decorations across the world.
· Holiday Cocktails: 'Tis the season to be jolly, no?
· Black Friday Hotels: Because you don't want to overpay for a hotel room on this day of all days.
· Cyber Monday Hotels: Ditto for Cyber Monday. And best of all, you don't have to leave your house!
·: Holiday Hotels: Any other hotels in a holiday mood.
· Hotel Video Tours: Ok, technically not a holiday story but each video tour is like a little gift from us to you. Mwah!

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Opt Out Of Tradition With The Ace Palm Spring's Black Sheep Thanksgiving

Where: 701 E Palm Canyon Dr [map], Palm Springs, CA, United States, 92264

For some folks, Thanksgiving is a magical, heart-warming time with family. For others, it's hell. Even more so this year now that the flying home for the holidays has become so much more traumatic. Which is why we like the sound of the Ace Hotel Palm Springs' non-traditional holiday lineup.

If we were in California, we'd totally ditch the aunts and uncles, ditch the TSA, jump in our (imaginary) convertible, and hightail it to the funky hotel in the desert to get drunk and swim.

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