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Going All Out for The Holidays at Sal's Hotel

Where: 6461 Transit Road [map], Williamsville, ny, United States, 14221

The best part of the holiday kitsch at Salvatore's Garden Place Hotel near Buffalo, New York is that the owner's aren't in on the joke. Without irony, the hotel calls itself one of the most "beautiful in the world."

Every December, the hotel and nearby restaurant is decked out with tons upon tons of fake snow, white plastic Christmas trees, and mils upon miles of tulle. It's the holiday display our Italian grandmother would have if she spent $10,000 on supplies annually. Bridges, wax carolers, and even classic cars adorn the main lobby. Best of all, guests can take advantage of Buffalo's depressed economy and take advantage of cheap room rates.

For $189 per night, the "Diamond Package" includes a Jacuzzi suite, breakfast, and dinner for two surrounded by the above mentioned décor. Just don't light a cigarette -- the whole place is likely to erupt in flames. Despite the fact that the hotel is decorated like a lottery winner's mansion, it's still fun to stay in the place Donald Trump would patron if he ever deigned to visit the Rust Belt.

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Are Those Allergy-Free Rooms Really Allergy-Free?

Where: 1340 Millersport Highway [map], Amherst, ny, United States, 14221

That's what a group of scientists in Buffalo are out to uncover.

University at Buffalo researchers are conducting one of the first scientific air-quality tests of "allergy-friendly" hotel rooms. The project is expected to provide data applicable to other environments where indoor air quality is critical, such as in health-care facilities and aboard airplanes.

So who's the guinea pig in their experiment? The Buffalo Niagara Marriott in Amherst. The hotel currently offers allergen-free rooms for 10 bucks more than the other (highly polluted?) rooms.

The scientists have already gathered their data from the rooms, testing some of the products that aim to make the room allergy-free (In full scientific disclosure, the companies whose products are in the room, put up some of the money for the testing.) These products include deep-cleaning carpet treatments, air-conditioner fungi killers, and other chemical and natural bacteria killers.

While the full results won't be back until sometime in the fall, early findings say that these allergy-free rooms might have some success.

Now if only they remember to leave peanuts out of the mini-bar.

Image via AE Baxter/Flickr

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