If you want to brave hurricane season in Mexico, you might as well as shack up at the One & Only Palmilla. The hotel is offering 30 percent off rooms when you book a three-night minimum stay. Also included is complimentary breakfast for two each morning. If you book four or more nights, roundtrip airport transfers are also included.
The offer is good through September 30, 2008. Rates start at $500, but are $350 with the discount. Labor Day Weekend is slightly higher.
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Giants quarterback Eli Manning finally got hitched to his longtime girlfriend Abby McGrew over the weekend at the celebrity fave resort, the One & Only Palmilla resort in Mexico. The Daily News reports:
Manning, 27, and McGrew, 24, exchanged vows while standing on a platform in the sand as waves crashed over rocks behind them....
Guests were ferried to the beach in golf carts and were served white wine, Veuve Cliquot champagne and sparkling water by white tuxedoed waiters as they filed into white folding chairs decorated with gold ribbons.
Although it sounds expensive, some guests estimated the whole shebang only cost around $500,000 which is a lot of money in normal-people-land but not for celebs. See? Even celebrities save money in Mexico.
The newlyweds made good use of their stay at the resort aside from getting married there. Eli hit the gym the morning of the wedding and partied in the pool up until two hours before the ceremony. The couple held their rehearsal dinner in the resort's old Spanish Mission Chapel and plan on honeymooning there for the rest of the week.
Send all fan mail to Eli courtesy of the One&Only Palmilla!
[UPDATE: This deal is NOT being offered. We were alerted to this deal via the hotel's email newsletter. However, a sales coordinator for the hotel tell us, "Unfortunately it was a miscommunication at this time. We don't know what offers will be or if/when they will be released at this point." ]
If you're already thinking ahead to a summer vacation but know the budget will be a bit tight, then the One and Only Palmilla has a decent deal for you. And after all, it is the one and only (or at least we can vouch for the fact that it is a nice place to stay, and the celebrities think so too).
There are several package deals on offer over the summer period--when the weather may sometimes be imperfect, although this hotel has been known to comp a few nights if you land there in the middle of a hurricane.
The "Escape to Baja" package being offer at Palmilla is valid between April 6 and October 15, 2008, and means you get seven nights for the price of five. Alternatively you can go for the Summertime Break deal, valid the same period, which gives you 30% off accommodation costs, two rounds of golf and continental breakfasts each day (usually with a three-night minimum stay, and be careful because there are no cancellations allowed).
Once you get to Palmilla, we heartily recommend their impressive infinity pool. That's not it's only good point--it is, after all, the #1 hotel for the San Jose Del Cabo area on TripAdvisor--but you know we just love those pools.
The director of romance works very closely with guests, both in advance of arrival and during their stay, to conceive, plan and create a romantic experience that fulfills their desires and fantasies.
"There is an irresistible magic at Las Ventanas, with our intimate ambiance and personalized service, that has made the resort a sensual magnet for lovers," said García. "We create a one-of-a-kind experience for each guest, " she added, "from making unique, personalized arrangements that will set the stage for a marriage proposal to planning an intimate dinner on the sand to re-ignite romance."
Interestingly enough, García was a wedding planner before this new job, and she also spent several years prior to that in the hospitality industry in various positions.
Yet with a director of romance on staff, this hotel better have some seriously romantic tricks up its sleeve. And we're not just talking dinner and a bath.
A reader wrote into Perez Hilton about some especially atrocious behavior of Kate Beckinsale at the One & Only Palmilla Hotel in Mexico recently. It turns out other paying hotel guests are not allowed to take pictures of anything or anyone, so long as Ms. Beckinsale is around. Here's a snippet of the letter posted on P-Nasty's site.
I was staying at the Palmilla in Cabo this weekend for a friend's wedding. The day after the wedding (Sunday, July 8th) the bride's sister was taking pictures at the kiddie pool of her young son with a big iguana.
A hotel employee sheepishly asked her to see her camera. She was flustered and gave it over, and two of somebody's "handlers" looked through all of the pictures on it (all containing wedding pictures and her son with the lizard.)
She started to say, "What the hell?" and the employee told her that a famous person was sitting in front of her and didn't want anyone taking her pictures. Turns out it was Kate Beckinsale.
Wow, we feel bad for that hotel staffer who had to ask the guest to fork over her camera. Can we say awkward? Also, shouldn't Kate Beckinsale have her own private pool at these places when she travels?
One & Only Palmilla in Los Cabos is a favorite getaway spot for celebrities, honeymooners and rich people alike. And the hotel sure knows how to please its target clientele. The resort has just installed Coolwell G2 personal cooling units into every golf cart at the Palmilla Golf Club.
And apparently, these aren't just any old AC units. The G2 "produces air at 45 to 50 degrees below ambient temperature and its patented technology actually strips moisture from the air." There are two units per golf cart and they are activated when you sit down on the cart's seat.
Some hotel promotions we hear about sound downright goofy, but many are probably good fun when you're there, actually doing them. Take the current "Dinner and a Bath" package from Las Ventanas al Paraíso in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Here's how this works. When you sit down for dinner you receive the resort's new after-dinner bath menu along with the dinner menu and wine list. In case this isn't enough of a choice overload, you can also request the bath to be accompanied by cigars, champagne, or sipping tequila. Then word is dispatched and staffers scurry around in the background getting this all ready in the room. When your meal is done, you head back to the room and go soak in your preferred setup. Since Las Ventanas al Paraíso is a well-regarded luxury hotel, we assume it'll all look quite pretty, with candles and the works.
Bath oils and fragrances vary with the menu choices. "Stress Relieving" features lots of seaweed products and bath salts but the "Rejuvenating" one really piles it on: "Thermal Salts Muscle Soak with salts from 250-million-year old sea water deposits in Germany; Inspiring Wild Indigo Gel to pamper the skin; and Refreshing Facial Micro-Exfoliator with papaya enzymes, jojoba micro-beads and meadowfoam oil."
Since we would feel like the world's biggest loser ordering this all alone, the "Sensual & Romantic" bath experience sounded like the ticket for a party of two. Until we got to this last ingredient: "Gentle Refine Papain Exfoliator with fruit enzymes and flower extracts to soften blocked pores and sweep away dead cells." Yeah, nothing like the sweeping away of dead skin cells to get your partner in the mood--glad we found this post Valentine's Day.
It may be summer in hot Mexico, but that doesn't mean every Mexican package deal is a good value, especially when there's romance involved.
There's a lot to like about Casa del Mar Golf & Spa Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. There are two staff members per room, plus lots of nice touches like robes, 42-inch plasma TVs, and 400 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets. You get nice views of the water from plenty of vantage points.
Their "Romantic Indulgence" package doesn't add up, however. For $482 per night (until October 31), this three night package includes round-trip airport transfers; welcome margaritas; champagne and fruit basket in room upon arrival; daily breakfast for two, a massage for two, and a candlelight dinner.
A lovely image, to be sure, but here's a better idea. Book a luxury suite in August for three nights, at $305, and you get the 4th night for free. So it averages out to $229 per night, for a better room, still including the airport transfers. Even without the free night, you're spending $177 less per night, or $531 less total for three nights, plus you are now in a suite. That difference will pay for more than a few breakfasts, dinners, massages, and margaritas--especially if you leave the grounds and hit the town.
This hotel offers plenty of other package options throughout the year though. As usual, surf past any deal with the words "romantic" or "romance" in it and you'll get far more pleasure for your pesos.
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