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A Room at The Saguaro Hotel Comes with a Private Design Consultation

February 8, 2012 at 1:08 PM | by | Comments (0)

As you can see from this room shot above, what makes The Saguaro Scottsdale stand out from most other hotels is the abundance of eye-popping colors. And these happy hues aren't found just in the guest rooms but rather throughout the hotel's public spaces and even down by the pool area.

The duo responsible for the colorful look is the design team of Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat of Stamberg Aferiat Architecture who used "12 vibrant tones found in native desert wildflowers" as the foundation for the color scheme. The colors also follow the light spectrum which then creates different perspectives of the hotel depending on the time of day. It's crazy scientific yo!

While we recommended that other hotels start using more happy colors as part of our New Year's resolutions for hotels, it turns out you can learn how to use color in your own home, thanks to The Saguaro's new The Colors of Modern package which includes a private home consultation with Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat!

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Gold Fingers And Golden Balls Now On Offer At Terme Di Saturnia In Tuscany

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  Site Where: Saturnia, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy, 58014
December 20, 2011 at 5:00 PM | by | Comments (0)


Massage by James Bond: not guaranteed

Unsure of what to get your woman for Christmas? Well, if the ads are anything to go by, wimmen like gold and they like spas. From personal experience, we’d also add holidays in Italy, so a combination of all three could put you onto a winner.

That’s possibly the thinking behind the new Golden Body treatment at posh hotel Terme di Saturnia Spa & Golf Resort in Tuscany. The two hour treatment starts with a scrub, but not just any scrub – one enriched with ginger, chamomile, silk protein and jojoba oil. Then they apply a gel containing, among other things, caffeine (which, as your laydee will tell you, is meant to help cellulite) and, uh, “flecks of 24-carat gold”.

But that’s not all. Next up is a massage, and then, in the words of the hotel (because otherwise you may not believe it)

the 'Goldfinger moment' arrives as the body is enveloped with a mask of gold dust and ground ginger

And then you’re moisturized. No gold involved in that part.

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How Much Does It Cost To Be A High Roller At The Fontainebleau?

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  Site Where: 4441 Collins Ave [map], Miami Beach, FL, United States, 33139
August 17, 2011 at 9:13 AM | by | Comments (0)

What do Jay-Z, Pitbull, Dwayne Wade and LeBron's mom have in common? They all love the Fontainebleau—and, in the case of Jay and Pitbull, don't mind dropping some major cash there.

Dwayne Wade's Fantasy Camp may be going down at the Miami Beach hotel this weekend, but there's even bigger fish in this pond. It is reported that Jay-Z blew $250,000 on champagne for his Watch the Throne release party. And $50,000 in tips at Scarpetta, where he noshed on posh Italian with his entourage. We shudder to think what kind of numbers were on his room folio.

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This Fantasy Football 'Widow Package' Disappoints, So Here's Our Version

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  Site Where: 600 La Torretta Boulevard [map], Montgomery, TX, United States, 77356
August 16, 2011 at 5:10 PM | by | Comments (2)

The Ames in Boston is actually a great place to watch sports--you can watch games from the shower!

Ah, pre-season football is here! And with it, the start of the hotel football packages.

But one in particular caught our eye, mostly because it is so bizarre. The La Torretta Lake Resort & Spa, just outside of Houston, is offering a Fantasy Football Widows Package, for "loved ones who slowly become widows to the digital fantasy roster that consumes a football fan’s every thought through the very last day of the NFL season."

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Want To Get Treated Like A God At The Pierre? First, You Have To Get Plastic Surgery

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  Site Where: 2 E 61 St [map], New York, NY, United States, 10065
July 8, 2011 at 9:20 AM | by | Comments (0)

Last summer, we told you about the Mad Men package at The Pierre—which mainly involved a bottle of champagne, a restaurant voucher and a couple of DVDs. This year, the five-star Central Park-facing hotel has gone for a much more....um, specific demographic.

Any room in the hotel can now be converted into a recovery room for post-op plastic surgery patients. While convalescing, guests receive 24-hour service, a private escort, and a dedicated "Life Stage Personal Enhancement Team"—their words, not ours. We admit, we've never undergone plastic surgery ourselves, though if you're considering it as an option, now might be a great time to start. Between personal escorts and in-room masseuses, you'll soon forget about those bandages altogether!

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This is The Only Time You Can Get a $10 Room at a Ritz-Carlton

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  Site Where: 455 Grand Bay Drive [map], Key Biscayne, FL, United States, 33149
May 24, 2011 at 11:33 AM | by | Comments (0)

Party time! The Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne turns 10 this summer, and to celebrate, they've got a slew of promotions priced at just ten bucks--yes, even guest rooms. It's also offering an Insane Hotel Package for $60,310, but let's cover the cheap stuff first, eh?

The $10 rooms are clearly the prize present in this lineup, and they will be available July 5-7, 10-13, 18, 25, 26. There are only 10 rooms at this rate--naturally--so you'll have to be fast when the reservations line opens on June 10. (The number to call is 305-365-4582.)

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How To Get a Room With Dwyane Wade at the Fontainebleau

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  Site Where: 4441 Collins Ave [map], Miami Beach, FL, United States, 33140
May 13, 2011 at 9:26 AM | by | Comments (0)

Any Miami Heat fans out there still overcome with emotion after the team's triumph over the Celtics on Wednesday night? One player is hoping that adrenalin translates into a room booking--a $12,500 stay at the Fontainebleau. But don't worry, D-Wade is coming, too!

The star has announced the Dwyane Wade Fantasy Camp, giving fans the chance to sleepdribble with the man himself this August 18–21.

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The Four Seasons Chicago Wants Royal Watchers in its Royal Suite

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  Site Where: 120 E. Delaware Place [map], Chicago, IL, United States, 60611
March 29, 2011 at 12:46 PM | by | Comments (0)

If you envy the big to-do that Prince Wills and his lady love Kate will have on their wedding day, you can get a piece of it at the Four Seasons Chicago. The hotel is offering a crazy package so you can celebrate the royal nuptials from across the pond.

The royal treatment, which starts at a bloody-hell expensive $5,500 a night, will include Rolls-Royce transportation to and from the airport and hotel, a 24-karat gold facial at the spa and a stay in the newly renovated two-bedroom, three-bathroom Royal Suite that sits on the 46th floor.

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More Money Than Sense? Try the Mandarin Oriental's Obscenely Expensive Royal Wedding Package

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  Site Where: 66 Knightsbridge, London, United Kingdom, SW1X 7LA
March 2, 2011 at 12:57 PM | by | Comments (0)

With the Royal Wedding only two months away hotel PR machines are going into Royal Wedding Package overload. Last week we gave you the low down on the incredibly bad taste “Pretty Little Princess” package from Swissotel The Howard, and this week, we may have found something equally as ghastly, although in a different way: the obscenely priced Royal Wedding Tour from the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park.

The package takes place over five days over the wedding, from 26th April - 1st May, and boasts "access all areas". Well for a start, it's not really access all areas, because you won't get anywhere near the wedding. But we digress.

As well as your room, you get a guided itinerary with visits to Kensington Palace, Chartwell (Sir Winston Churchill‘s family home in Kent), Spencer House, Althorp (Diana's family pad in Northamptonshire) and Westminster Abbey. All these, let us remind you before you hear the price, are places that are open to the public - although, obviously, you won't be able to hit up the Abbey on April 29. But then, neither will you be able to do that with the package - you get a tour the following day, when, presumably, it'll be open to everyone again.

Of course, this isn't totally without merit for royal watchers: since most of these places are selling out working with the MO on this package, you get extras, such as a "greeting" from a random member of the Churchill family and lunch at their home, drinks at Kensington Palace, dinner at Spencer House and a lunch at Althorp hosted by a member of the Spencer family (let's hope it's the charming Earl Spencer, who is the master of making money off his sister's memory).

And, here's the kicker: on the Thursday, the night before the wedding:

Dinner will take place at the home of a member of the royal family at their private London townhouse.

Um, we're guessing most important members of the Royals have better things to do than whore themselves out to rich tourists the night before the wedding. But then, poor Fergie has been a bit cash strapped of late, and she's been NFI-d from the wedding, so you never know.

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Swissôtel The Howard Presents The Most Wrong Royal Wedding Package Yet

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  Site Where: 12 Temple Place, London, United Kingdom, WC2R 2PR
February 22, 2011 at 11:43 AM | by | Comments (0)

As predicted the older London hotels are trying to get their fair share of attention in the run up to the Royal Wedding and 2012 Olympics. We’ve seen some hotels undergo complete refurbs, others open new spas, bars and restaurants whilst some have just relied on special packages. However we haven’t come across anything quite as weird as the Swissotel The Howard's “Pretty Little Princess” package.

The package is aimed at children aged between 3 - 8 years old offering them the chance “at fulfilling every wish of an aspiring princess”. Upon arrival the “princesses” are welcomed with a bottle of "Babycham". It's non-alcoholic of course, but still. Really? Forgive us for being prudes but something about a 3 year with a bottle of Babycham doesn’t sit right in our minds.

The day then starts with getting dressed - a pink princess dress with matching cape, handbag, glitter shoes and tiara are waiting in the hotel. And if the little princesses worried about the bed linen, they need not fear, beds are made up with princess-style linens from Laura Ashley – because all kids demand designer bed sheets nowadays.

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Go for Broke with Trump Chicago's $250,000 V-Day Proposal Package

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  Site Where: 401 N. Wabash Ave. [map], Chicago, IL, United States, 60611
February 11, 2011 at 8:36 AM | by | Comments (0)

Last week we gave you the lowdown on Valentine's Day deals that we'd actually book. This week, it's time to show you the strange, outrageous and plain cray-cray packages that are out there.

If you are looking to pop the question this Valentine's Day and have unlimited funds, check out the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago's insane $250,000 Once in a Lifetime package.

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At $42,650, Is This The Most Extravagant Super Bowl Package Yet?

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  Site Where: 80 Columbus Circle [map], New York, NY, United States, 10023
February 1, 2011 at 4:25 PM | by | Comments (0)

A bathroom with a $42,650 view. Plus tax.

The race to capitalize on Super Bowl XLV is in full swing with packages in Dallas, a Bud Light-branded hotel and even an island escape installing a 16-foot screen to broadcast the game on February 6. But this package from the Mandarin Oriental New York currently holds the top spot on our "Wait, will anyone actually book that?" list.

On offer: one night in the hotel's Presidential or Oriental suite, game-time catering for up to 15, and a bottle of 50-year-old Scotch that's responsible for most of the cost of this February 6-only offer. The rate? $37,150 for the Oriental suite or $42,650 for the Presidential. Plus tax.

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