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Hoteliers Do Good

Where: 20 Sidney Street [map], Cambridge, MA, United States, 02139

To prove we aren't all bad, we are going to start the day with a couple hotelier do gooder stories.

Recently, Cara Spalla, general manger of Hotel@MIT, received an unusual request from a MIT Masters in City Planning candidate.

The request was for soap.  Lots of soap.  Furthermore, that soap was to be sent and distributed to schoolchildren in Mozambique.

Mozambique is one of the poorest nations on the African continent. Home to 17 million people Mozambique lies on the Indian Ocean.

The team from M.I.T.'s City Planning School was leading an educational outreach program to elementary schools in Maputo (yup, happy Maputo Day y'all), the capital of Mozambique.
Soap is a valuable commodity in Maputo, and schools rarely have the budget to provide it in their bathrooms. It is often stolen when provided.

Thanks to the generosity of Spalla and Hotel@MIT, Brown and her team left for Mozambique carrying 12 dozen bars of soap. They left with the hope that this donation would become an educational building block in Mozambique.

The soap donated by the hotel was used in games re-emphasizing the importance of proper hygiene, and of the country's larger sanitation systems. At the end of the games the children were given bars of soap to take home.

According to Spalla:

Participation in initiatives like the M.I.T. Mozambique Sanitation project helps to serve as a reminder that the norms in civilization many of us take for granted daily, is life altering in many areas of the world.  

Related Stories:
·   Maputo [I Go U Go]
·   Hotel@MIT Reviews [TripAdvisor]

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Party with the geeks: NYE celebration in Cambridge

Where: 20 Sidney Street [map], Cambridge, MA, United States, 02139

Hotel@MIT is offering a New Year's Eve celebration fit for a geek. Their in house restaurant will serve you a five-course prix fixe menu including: Maine Lobster Stew, Nantucket Scallops (is it scal-ups or scoll-ups?), Halibut & Mussels, and a baked Alaska Beehive with Chestnut Honey Ice Cream for desert. Ok, smarties, we were with you until the behive thing, we give up, what is it? Looks like some sort of cream dessert. At least that is what the culinary academy, who provided the photo to the right, suggested.

In any event, the Hotel@MIT New Year's Eve package includes accommodations from December 31 through Saturday January 1, the five course meal, a New Year's Day brunch, and a check out extension until 4pm, all for $369 per couple. A 4pm checkout should give you plenty of time to sleep off your hangover. Oh yeah, and the hotel provides free in room T1 access, so you can surf around while you wait for your headache to subside.

The hotel is also throwing a party featuring a Live Jazz Quartet, but that will run you a little extra. If you want to have your own in room party, there is a Star Market right next door, and plenty of Central Square pit stops to get any sort of booze that you might need.

Enjoy.