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'Tailgate Like a Champ' And Win Something Other Than a Hangover

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 237 South Broad Street [map], Philadelphia, PA, United States, 19107
June 29, 2009 at 11:05 AM | by Jenna | 1 Comment

Remember the old days of tailgating where even if your college (or favorite professional) sports team didn't win, you were still the proud winner of a terrible hangover and sometimes some incriminating photos of yourself doing keg-stands in a parking lot and — heaven forbid — maybe even some body paint was involved?

Yes, okay, well: The Doubletree in Philly is giving you a chance to win something other than those lovely things with the Philly Overnight Tailgating Package. So long as you act like a Phillies fan for a night, that is.

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Alexander Inn Introduces 'Guest Stimulus Plan' with $1 Rooms

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Spruce at 12th Street [map], Philadelphia, PA, United States, 19107
March 11, 2009 at 4:14 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

As if finding a way to Philly wasn't already rather cheap, now staying in the City of Brotherly Love is extremely, unbelievably, insanely affordable. And it's all thanks to the new Guest Stimulus Plan at the Alexander Inn which is offering limited rooms from Thursday through Sundays for $1.. No, that's not a typo. One George Washington is all you need.

Hotel owner Mel Heifetz said he decided to do the promotion to help out guests with their budgets but also to help out the city of Philly. Since folks don't have to spend so much on the hotel room, they can spend a little more on "art exhibits, show tickets, and in other neighborhood establishments." We couldn't agree more.

The promotion runs from March 10 to May 21. We suggest holding out until late April if you can as the hotel is going through a renovation which will see the arrival of new furniture in mid-April.

After the jump is the nitty gritty on the deal.

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Loews Philadelphia Honors Housekeeping Staff

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 1200 Market St [map], Philadelphia, PA, United States, 19107
September 24, 2008 at 5:16 PM | by abigailmschilling | 2 Comments

You know how they say you can know a how guy will treat his girl if you look at how he treats his mom? Well, the same can be said about the Loews Philadelphia. You know they'll take care of you, just by knowing how they treat their staff.

Last week was International Housekeeping Week and they jumped feet-first into the action with daily activities to honor the housekeeping staff. We so wish we had been there.

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Best Hotels for Fireworks 2008 :: Philadelphia

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 1200 Market St. [map], Philadelphia, PA, United States, 19107
June 17, 2008 at 12:00 PM | by Jenna | 1 Comment

Get your hot dogs, sunscreen and beer guts ready: Independence Day is just over two weeks away! If you're headed to a big city for some fireworks fun, we'll be taking a look at hotels with prime fireworks views. Have a favorite hotel for gawking at bombs bursting in air? Send it our way.

Got kids, a love of old-school boy bands and/or a knack for history? Our hotel pick for families this Fourth of July is Loews Philadelphia, recently named Loews' Hotel of the Year.

Philly features the impressive Sunoco Welcome America! festival and the hotel offers a sweet deal for the whole family to go along with it (with cameos by historic characters every day!)

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Loews Philly is the Best of the Loews Bunch

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 1200 Market St. [map], Philadelphia, PA, United States, 19107
June 13, 2008 at 12:31 PM | by juliana | 1 Comment

Looks like that $9 million renovation last year paid off at the Loews Philadelphia. The hotel was just awarded Hotel of the Year by Loews CEO Jonathan Tisch at the company's annual national meeting in Orlando in Orlando earlier this week. Hotel-Online reports:

Loews Philadelphia Hotel received the company's top honor, "Hotel of the Year." The hotel was recognized for its overall commitment to guest and employee satisfaction, compliance with brand initiatives and standards, year-over-year profits in both average room rate and food and beverage outlets, and implementation of the "Good Neighbor Policy," to list a few criteria for the award.

The hotel's director of sales and marketing, Anthony Del Gaudio, also won "Marketer of the Year" for all the partnerships he has forged between the hotel and the community.

Now if only they would make that WiFi free.

See what we had to say when we stayed at the Loews Philadelphia back in February 08.

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Hotel Video Tours: Loews Philadelphia

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 1200 Market St. [map], Philadelphia, PA, United States, 19107
February 15, 2008 at 2:18 PM | by pbb | 0 Comments


We hopped down to Philadelphia last weekend to check out the opening of a Star Wars exhibit and explore the city's geeky offerings for Jaunted. Our base of operations was the Loews Philadelphia, a place we stayed right after its $9 million spruce up last year.

The Center City location is a short cab ride from just about everywhere, and it's definitely cool to be staying in a historic Art Deco bank building. So how was it?

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Loews Philadelphia Gets a $9 Million Spruce Up

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 1200 Market Street [map], Philadelphia, PA, United States, 19107
June 11, 2007 at 4:59 PM | by alyshabrown | 2 Comments

This March, the Loews Philadelphia wrapped up a year long, $9 million dollar renovation job that saw the upgrade of all 581 of the hotel's guest rooms. Intrigued by both the sum and the timing -- the hotel only opened in 2000 -- we popped by to see how far a cool $9 mill' goes these days.

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Bam Margera Ties The Reality Television Knot at Loews Philly

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 1200 Market Street [map], Philadelphia, PA, United States, 19107
April 4, 2007 at 4:33 PM | by markj | 0 Comments

Bam Margera and Missy Rothstein were married back in February, and despite the spotty history of MTV reality show couples, the Margeras let MTV film the whole thing.

Last nights episode culminated with a 300+ person wedding ceremony and celebration that was held at Loews Philadelphia Hotel.

In a weekend celebration that featured Bam trying to push a broken footed, wheel chair ridden, Novak down an escalator, Iggy Pop hopping into bed with Bam and Novak in just a bathrobe, and plenty of jack-assian antics, the Loews appeared to hold up really well.  Sure the antics were noticeably toned and we have been to plenty of weddings that were way more jack ass antic filled than that one, however, the Loews Hotel still came out of the whole thing looking great.  

Staffers were pleasant and helpful, the rooms looked sleek and quite large, and wedding went off without a hitch.  

One caveat, the bathrooms, even in suite 2920, where the bride stayed, appeared to have that terrible fluorescent hotel bathroom lighting that shows every blemish--not necessarily a plus for worried brides, but just turn those damn fluorescent lights off and you will be set.

Related Stories:
· Loews Philadelphia Weddings [Official Site]
· Loews Philadelphia Comments [TripAdvisor]