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The Regent Esplanade Celebrates Its 85th Birthday With 85 Euro Room Rates

Where: Mihanoviceva 1, Zagreb, Croatia, 10000

We love it when hotels come up with nifty ways of celebrating their birthdays which save us money at the same time, so we’re grateful to the art deco Regent Esplanade in Zagreb for deciding to mark its 85th birthday.

Unfortunately, it’s not doing anything humungously cheap – instead, it’s offering rates from €85 ($116/£75) for a double room until April 25. That’s about half the normal rates (the cheapest room we can see in May is €159, or £141/$217).

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If You Play Your Cards Right, You Can Score 20% Off Regent Hotels

The Regent Hotels chain has a deal going for anyone visiting their three European hotels: the Regent Esplanade Zagreb in Croatia, the Regent Berlin in Germany or the Regent Grand Hotel Bordeaux in France (they're adding a fourth hotel in Dubrovnik next year).

It's not a mindblowingly-fantastic deal compared to some of the discounts out there, but it's better than nothing: if you stay two nights including a Saturday, or three nights including a Tuesday or a Wednesday, then you'll get a 20% discount on your room rate. You can book this deal through til the end of August for stays all the way through 2009.

This is clearly a deal targeted at filling gaps in their booking schedules and while we think it's a bit complicated to plan your trip around the nights hotels are typically emptiest, these three hotels are worth trying. In Bordeaux you can get really fresh lobster, the Berlin Regent is well-located and fancy-looking and the Zagreb location earned some great feedback from one of our readers — well, apart from the complaint that the hotel toiletries seem a bit male-oriented. Ladies might need to use some of cash left over from the 20% savings to get some prettier-smelling stuff instead.

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Room With a Killer View: Regent Esplanade Zagreb is Picture Perfect

Where: Mihanoviceva 1, Zagreb, Croatia, 10000

We are suckers for a room with a killer view.  We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.

We are definitely intrigued by the Regent Esplanade Hotel in Zagreb, Croatia, because HotelChatter readers keep mentioning it to us. Last year it was Maureen's review--very glowing, apart from a complaint about male-oriented toiletries--and now we're thanking mhodges for dropping a killer view from the Regent Esplanade into our Flickr pool.

Yep, this picture-perfect view was taken from a hotel room window of the Regent Esplanade, which actually belongs to the Radisson SAS chain, but originally dates back to 1925 when it serviced passengers arriving on the Orient Express. These days it's still just as regent but not exorbitant--nightly rates for double rooms range from €150 - €300 (US$230-$460).

[Photo: mhodges]

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Regent Esplanade in Zagreb: Great Hotel But with 'Male Oriented' Scents

Where: Mihanoviceva 1, Zagreb, Croatia, 10000

Hotel Maven Maureen recently returned from the Regent Esplanade in Zagreb and was thoughtful enough to send in her review of the place.

That's the thing about us--no matter how mad we get at hotel delays, bad rates, expensive WiFi or Britney Spears, we still get all teary-eyed and misty when you care enough to send your very best or worst hotel review. So goddammit, keep 'em coming.

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