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Say What? The Heathman Hotel Has a Root Cellar

Where: 220 Kirkland Avenue [map], Kirkland, WA, United States, 98033

As a hardcore foodie and big believer in the local/sustainable/seasonal movement, we’re fascinated with Trellis restaurant's Executive Chef Brian Scheehser’s root cellar. Housed underground The Heathman Hotel, the famed farm-to-table chef stashes the likes of onions, potatoes, beets, carrots, fresh crushed tomatoes and canned peaches from his 5-acre organic garden in Redmond in the 40-degree subterranean storage facility.

Trellis has become a bit of a fixture within the Kirkland community. The Heathman Hotel is a popular boutique hotel for business travelers as Microsoft visitors are within the freeway-free proximity of the tech mecca.

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Don't Forget to Write: The Woodmark Hotel Sends Adults to 'Camp'

Where: 1200 Carillon Point [map], Kirkland, WA, United States, 98033

We got to take a quick look see of The Woodmark Hotel last weekend, while attending Kirkland Uncorked, a food, wine and arts festival on Seattle’s eastside. As a jaded Seattleite, we admit, we rarely venture east of Emerald City for our social and cultural needs, but are damn happy we did.

Once a logging community, Kirkland then became a bedroom community, and is coming into its own as a hip little urban lite community/Seattle side-trip tourist destination within spitting distance of dozens of wineries. Who knew? (Oh, and Washington wines are well worth checking out.)

Anyway, The Woodmark Hotel is the only hotel smack dab on the shores of Lake Washington. And it’s pretty much a given that lakefront living evokes fond memories of summer camp, right? So the smarty pants at The Woodmark Hotel designed a package, “Camp Woodmark,” that’s all about escapism (and who couldn’t use a little bit of that these days?) and channeling your inner kiddie camper.

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Host Your Own "Bachelor" Viewing Party at The Heathman Kirkwood

Where: 220 Kirkland Avenue [map], Kirkland, WA, United States, 98033

Somebody's proud of their hometown boy: Kirkland, Washington's own Jason Mesnick is ABC's next Bachelor, and his season looking for love will reach the nation's living rooms beginning in January. While filming as a contestant on The Bachelorette last year, Jason stopped in at Kirkland's luxe Heathman Hotel and they're still reeling from the brush with a Z-list celebrity.

Every Monday, beginning from the first episode of The Bachelor on January 5th, the Heathman Hotel will offer a $1,200 Bachelor viewing party and overnight stay package for you and eleven of your closest, most gossipy friends. Included in the deal are a variety of tidbits to make you feel cozy and loved in the hometown of the man looking for love on national TV. Yes, the hotel is that crazy.

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Woodmark Hotel Has Gone to the Birds

Where: 1200 Carillon Point [map], Kirkland, WA, United States, 98033

Bird lovers, when visiting Seattle you must stop in at the luxe hotel Woodmark Hotel in Kirkland.

Why? Because instead of putting a dog on staff like other hotels have been doing lately, this hotel uses a cockatoo named Sydney to welcome guests.

He usually perches on a stand opposite the hotel front desk, where he greets visitors with a "Hi." Members of the concierge staff, who care for the bird, are trying to teach him to say "Welcome to the Woodmark."

Related Stories:
· Hotel provides a comfortable perch [Seattle Times]
· Woodmark Hotel reviews [TripAdvisor]
· Inside Fairmont's Doggie Lair [HotelChatter]