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Wanna Meet for Krueger Cocktails at The Coroner's Office?
Still looking for a last-minute hotel room for Halloween? The Curtis Denver has a year-round scare factor with their 13th floor--aka the "Dun Dun Dunnnn!" floor--but this year they aren't going to let the holiest of haunted holidays pass them by without doing anything special.
Their Nightmare on Curtis Street package includes a room on the 13th floor, a "Get Ready for Freddy" goodie bag with a flashlight and a sleep mask, two Krueger Cocktails or Bloody Marys at the hotel's Corner Office, which will be renamed the gruesome Coroner's Office this weekend. Guests who make it through the night will also get a complimentary breakfast.
Room rates start at $149 a night. The package is only available for this weekend, obvs. Book through the hotel's website using code PKGHL.
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Bid On eBay to Win The Entire Curtis Hotel For New Year's Eve
If hotels were people, The Curtis Hotel in Denver would most definitely not be a wallflower. A slightly kooky, always-energetic boss, or your life-of-the-party friend, perhaps. This is, after all, the hotel that has already caught our attention with a humungous doggie door, themed floors, and a ‘Stay Happy’ Contest.
Its relentlessly upbeat nature reminds us of the corporate culture of Zappos, or the new-fangled “positive psychology” craze. Often, this can get, well, a little much. But the latest promotion out of Planet Happy Curtis is so much a little much that it’s mega: the hotel is putting itself up for auction on eBay for New Year’s Eve.
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The Hotel Teatro Celebrates Accolade with $5 'World's Best' Martinis
We've kicked off our Summer Cocktails series where we profile fun new summer drinks that hotels are making. Got one we should know about? Send us the recipe with a photo of the drink. Otherwise, enjoy and @reply us when you're wasted!
The Hotel Teatro in Denver is pretty pumped about their inaugural ranking as one of the "Top 50 Large City Hotels" on T+L's 2009 World's Best List. So pumped that they decided to celebrate with "The World's Best Martini" and it only costs $5.
Starting today, the hotel's Prima Ristorante will serve this special martini--a blend of Stoli Orange and Grand Marnier, garnished with a mandarin orange wedge and fresh orange slice--for just $5. At that price, why would you even want to attempt to make it in your own home? Just hit up the hotel instead.
And if you've had too many of the martinis, consider getting a room. The hotel, named Best Hotel in Denver by the 2009 Zagat Guide, has 12-foot ceilings in its 110 rooms, complimentary internet for guests, and they love your little dog too. Rooms start at $169 a night for a petite queen room.
Photo courtesy of The Hotel Teatro.
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Marriott Denver Tries Small-Scale, Super-Targeted Mini-Papers
Newspapers in hotels might be dying, but they sure are in the news a lot this week. The downtown Marriott Denver has been trying out an individualized news product with its guests for the past couple of months and apparently the feedback's been very positive.
Basically what's been happening is that when guests check in, they're asked if they'd like to receive a summary of the local Denver news; those that say yes will find a print-out popped under their door the next morning at 6.00am. The print-out is usually six double-sided pages plus two pages of coupons for local businesses.
We're not sure if standard-sized printed-out pages really fulfill our idea of what a newspaper should be, but if it's targeted towards what we actually want to read then there's got to be something right about it. And it saves the newspaper delivery boys a whole lot of effort; let the technology do the walking.
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The W Hotel Denver Gets Put On Hold
It nearly took the skills of Nancy Drew to get to the bottom of what’s going on with the W Hotel and Residence Denver deal. Way back in July 2007, both DenverInfill Blog and the recently-shuttered Rocky Mountain News (R.I.P.) reported that Denver-based Sage Hospitality, headed by Walter Isenberg, planned to develop a W Hotel property at the corner of 16th and Market Streets in the LoDo district.
Sadly, today we learn the project is on hold and the promise of W Hotel’s signature Whatever/Whenever® service is definitely not in Denver’s immediate future thanks to the craptastic economy. A moment of silence for the trendy LoDo – Lower Downtown – District hipsters, please.
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The Curtis Hotel Introduces the 'Stay Happy' Contest
What makes you happy? Is it your pet, your lover, your family, cheesy pop music, a sunset, a silly night out with friends, Edward Cullen feeding you cheese with a magnum of Chardonnay at your fingertips and a wallet overflowing with dolla', dolla' bills y'all? Ok, that last one is ours. But whatever makes you happy you should let The Curtis Hotel in Denver know.
The hotel is hosting a "Stay Happy" contest in which guests submit video entries detailing how they stay happy.
The videos will be posted online for the public to vote on, and winners will get one of five prizes, including a $1,000 shopping spree, spa treatments, sumptuous meals, Mile High Music Festival tickets or tickets to Wicked. All of the above deals come with accommodations at the Curtis and the grand prize winner gets pick of the prizes plus airfare for four to the Mile High City.
Contestants must be 21 years and older and the videos must be two minutes or less. They will be uploaded to www.stayhappyatthecurtis.com. From there, folks will vote on the best video about staying happy. You can also follow the contest on Twitter and the hash tag #stayhappy.
The last chance to submit your video is June 16, 2009 at 11pm MST. The winner will be announced on or about June 23 and the prizes will be awards on June 30. Now where's that magnum of Chardonnay? We need to get filming!
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Hotels for $100 or Less: The Curtis in Denver
All this week, we'll be profiling hotels for $100 or less. Yay! Know of any other bargains? Send 'em to us.
We've always loved the quirky rooms inside The Curtis Hotel in Denver and now we're loving their new Crazy Eights" special for the summer.
From July 1-August 31, the Curtis is rooms for only $88 a night. The deal's name comes from all of the board games and video games like Wii sports and Rockband they have on available for guests, encouraging you to have fun during your stay. There are really no other elements to the package--just your room and your $88 room rate. However, you must book your stay by May 31st. Some weekend dates are a little higher.
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The Curtis Hotel's Got You Looking So "Crazy In Love"
Forget the clichéd champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries packages offered by hotels for Valentine's Day. The Curtis has left it up to you to decide whether your Valentine's Day will be classy or kinky.
With the Denver-based hotel's "Crazy in Love" package, you can seduce your honey with a bottle of wine or shots at the hotel restaurant. Once you're both good and drunk, head on up to your room where you'll find a game of Twister on your bed and a rose petal turndown. [Ed. Note: Shots and Twister? We likey!]
The package starts at $169 per night and is available throughout February. We only wish our chances of drunken Twister-induced sex were as readily available.
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Lobby Horses at Former Adam's Mark Denver Get a New Home
Anyone who has ever stayed in the former Adams Mark Hotel in Denver (now a Sheraton) probably remember the two bronze horses that graced the main lobby. You better remember. They are 12 feet tall and weigh 2,500 pounds each! The stallion-duo was a centerpiece to the hotel's lobby and considered a stop on the Denver art scene. Click here to see the horses in their previous resting place.
Not too surprisingly, the two horses didn’t fit in to well with Sheraton's current $70 million renovation of the property which will modernize the entire hotel, and the sculpture's biggest fan is ensuring it will never go to a scrap metal grave yard.
The Denver Post wrote about how the fiancée of an employee working on the renovation became upset when she found out the horses weren't going to be there after the renovation. Her soon-to-be husband said:
She fell in love with those horses years ago, and when she found out we were going to be taking them out of the building, we assumed they were going to be sent to the scrap yard. And she said, 'Absolutely not,"' he said. "I said I would do whatever I could to bring them home.
So after spending $5,000 on a crane, hiring a crew of six to remove windows and move the horses out of the lobby, they are now on the couples' property. Their final resting place will be at the foot of their driveway welcoming any visitors to their farm where they also have four other live horses.
[Photo: Denver Post]
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Last-Minute Halloween Party at Haunted Curtis Hotel
So we told you to stay at The Curtis Hotel on Halloween and we hope you took our advice--or are at least in the area--because they're sponsoring a Haunted Hotel Halloween Bash:
Labeled the largest and most elaborate Halloween Party of the year, the Curtis Hotel will be transformed into a spooky, mysterious and haunted adult playground. The party will consist of over 15,000 square feet spread out over four ballrooms.
Colorado Avalanche stars Paul Stastny, Tyler Aranson, and Wojtek Wolski are hosting it, so maybe the hockey kings will be there.
Four ballrooms worth of terror will cost you: tickets start at $25. Doors open at 9 pm. Checkout the spooky HauntedHotelDenver.com for more information.
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Inside the Curtis Hotel's Themed Floors
The other day we were all giddy over The Curtis Hotel in downtown Denver which has different theme floors like the Science Fiction Floor and the Dance Floor. We posted a snapshot from the 13th Floor also known as the "Dun dun dunn" floor which uses the tagline: "We've traced the call, it's coming from the hotel."
So needless to say we wanted more of the Curtis. And today we've found it on TripKick.com, a site attempting to Seat Guru-ize hotels.
For instance, TripKick recommends guests booking floors five and up for the best views. Quieter rooms at the hotel end in 05 and 06. Rooms to avoid are the ones ending in 01 which apparently get hit with noise from the elevator.
The room shot above is from room 1525 which is The British Invasion Suite on the Mad About Music floor.
The rooms look quite comfy and very new, which is always a good thing in hotels. And we're loving that while you can have a themed-stay at the hotel, you won't be sleeping on Cars-themed sheets on the 16th floor which is the Pedal to the Medal floor. Although, one of those car-shaped sleeping beds would be kinda cool.
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Snapshot :: The 13th Floor at The Curtis Hotel
So Halloween is a ways off but if you know that you are going to be in Denver on October 31st this year (which is a Friday!), then you should strongly consider staying at the Curtis Hotel in downtown.
And more specifically, you should stay on the hotel's 13th floor which is dubbed Dun Dun Dunnn and this tagline greets you when you step out of the elevator:
"We've traced the call, it's coming from the hotel."
Rates for Halloween start at $137 a night for an internet rate which is prepaid and not refundable. More flexible rates are a little more dough at $229 a night. As for booking the 13th floor, make sure you put in your request to the hotel's front desk.
The Curtis has other themed floors and they all have art installations and taglines. Like the Science Fiction Floor, One Hit Wonder, Pedal to the Metal (quote: "I feel the need, the need for speed.") and the Dance Floor which has a Dirty Dancing theme.
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