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Grandparents Go Free At Elite Hotels This Summer

Where: Luton Hoo Park, Luton, United Kingdom, LU1 3TQ

It’s not often we hear about offers for the older generation (everyone seems to be up for offering the kiddies to stay for free), so we’re quite tickled with this offer from Elite hotels.

Book the Grandparents Stay Free package and, as it suggests, you can bring along the grandparental folks for free until the end of August.

This sounds great, because the country piles in this group (Tylney Hall, Luton Hoo and Ashdown Park Hotel) would go down ever so well with the older generation. But here’s the bad news: it’s only really worth it for those with kids. Because you get two rooms – one for the grandparents, and one for the parents and kiddies to share – and we would venture that a weekend away is the one time parents wouldn’t want to share a room with the kids. Then again, maybe there are some people who take the whole family-minded thing more seriously than their sex lives. Well done.

Anyway, you can bag the two rooms for two nights for £760 ($1255), including dinner for the parents on both nights. The gramps can probably eat the free biscuits in the room, presumably – they’re not paying, after all.

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Movie Set Hotel :: The Luton Hoo in "Four Weddings and a Funeral"

Where: Luton Hoo Park, Luton, United Kingdom, LU1 3TQ

The Luton Hoo Hotel in England doesn't have this name just to inspire bad "Luton Who?" jokes. Apparently "hoo" means "hill" in old Saxon so really it's the plain old Luton Hill Hotel. But it's got a great selling point that it was one of the reception venues in Hugh Grant's Four Weddings and a Funeral--we definitely want to tread in Hugh's footsteps.

The UK Independent reviewed the Luton Hoo recently and had mostly positive feedback to give. It's only been a hotel for a short time, after being a neglected private house for many years, so most of it's newly renovated--although 1980s touches like peach-colored paint, weird stripes and gold taps remain, which we're not too keen on.

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