gents with clients who are fans of
Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants can book the Play
Ball! package at the Harbor Court Hotel in
San Francisco, located near SBC Park, the Giants home stadium.
The plan is valid throughout the baseball season, which runs
through October. Play Ball! is priced at $185 per night, double,
and covers deluxe accommodations, binoculars, a bag of peanuts and
two microbrews upon arrival and a San Francisco Giants
souvenir.
The plan does not include tickets to a Giants baseball game or
hotel taxes/service charges. The price increases to $219 per night
when parking is included.
Harbor Court Hotel
Phone: (800) 346-0555 or (415) 882-1300
Web:www.harborcourthotel.com
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Even though Washington doesn't have its own Major League
Baseball team, the Hotel Monaco Washington DC is
offering the Let's Play Ball package throughout the
baseball season.
The timing coincides with the duration of the "Baseball as
America" exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural
History, on display through Oct. 3.
The overnight Let's Play Ball plan, priced at $199 per night,
covers deluxe accommodations (with room for a family of four),
transportation to the Smithsonian's exhibit, a Hotel Monaco
baseball cap, the CD "Baseball's Greatest Hits" and a box of
Cracker Jack. An upgrade to a suite is available for an additional
$60.
Hotel Monaco Washington DC
Phone: (877) 202-5411 or (202) 628-7177
Web:www.monaco-dc.com
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Beantown is the home of Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox
as well as the Fairmont Copley Plaza, and the
hotel has a long-standing tradition of supporting the home
team.
This season, the hotel created the Play Ball package,
which includes overnight accommodations and two infield grandstand
tickets to a Red Sox game.
The plan is available between Aug. 13 and Sept. 5. Rates start
at $375 per couple. For an additional $100 per night, the package
can be upgraded to club-level accommodations.
Fairmont Copley Plaza
Phone: (800) 441-1414
Web:www.fairmont.com/copleyplaza
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In a similar package, albeit without tickets to a game,
Houston's Hotel Derek created the Houston
Astros package for fans of the National League team.
The overnight plan, priced at $180 for weekday stays and $150
for weekend stays through Sept. 6, includes valet parking,
continental breakfast and two Hotel Derek baseball caps.
Hotel Derek
Phone: (713) 961-3000
Web:www.hotelderek.com
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With gas prices at record highs, the Doral Tesoro Hotel
and Golf Club in Fort Worth, Texas, is offering its
clients a $40 gas refund on stays through Labor Day.
Rates start at $119 per room, per night. To be eligible for the
gas refund, clients must book a minimum two-night stay.
The 286-room Doral Tesoro Hotel and Golf Club is located on a
former cattle ranch 20 minutes from downtown Fort Worth.
Doral Tesoro Hotel and Golf Club
Phone: (866) 33-DORAL or (817) 961-0800
Web:www.doraltesoro.com
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To celebrate the summer months and its location on the beach,
the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic
City, N.J., created three summertime packages.
The Wake Up Smiling plan, priced at $169, includes
double accommodations and buffet breakfast.
The Up All Night package, priced at $189, includes
accommodations in a Classic room, admission to the Borgata Comedy
Club and cocktails at either the Gypsy Bar or B-Bar.
Meanwhile, the Do Not Disturb plan, priced at $289,
features accommodations in a Fiore Suite, full breakfast in bed and
admission to Spa Tocare.
The plans are valid Sundays through Thursdays through Sept. 2
and are priced per night for two people.
Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
Phone: (877) MY-BORGATA
Web:www.theborgata.com
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Summer is just beginning, but the Family Fun package at
the Mayflower Park Hotel is valid through Dec.
30.
The Family Fun package, priced at $265 for a room with two queen
beds or $369 for a room with a queen bed and an adjoining room with
two twin beds. Also included is valet parking, one hour of Nintendo
use and an insulated lunch tote with goodies for the kids.
The plan also covers two adult tickets and two children's
tickets for the following: the monorail (adjacent to the hotel),
the observation deck of the Space Needle, the Experience Music
Project and the Pacific Science Center. Extra tickets can be
purchased.
Mayflower Park Hotel
Phone: (800) 426-5100
Web:www.mayflowerpark.com
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In a partnership with the July 30 release of Universal Pictures'
"Thunderbirds" movie, Homewood Suites by Hilton is
offering a Thunderbirds Weekend Getaway.
The plan is valid Thursdays through Sundays through Aug. 29 with
rates ranging from $79 to $109 per night.
The rates cover standard suite accommodations sleeping four,
breakfast and a Thunderbirds Survival Pack for kids that includes a
set of two wrist communicators, a spray goo gun that shoots water
and silly string and a squeeze bulb rocket launcher inside a
backpack.
In addition, clients showing a valid AAA membership card at
check-in will receive a "Thunderbirds" movie poster.
Homewood Suites by Hilton
Phone: (800) CALL-HOME
Web:www.homewoodsuites.com
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In a similar promotion, Embassy Suites Hotels
joined Sony Pictures to promote the June 30 release of "Spider-Man
2."
All kids checking into an Embassy Suites this summer with their
families will receive a Spider-Man 2 Web Pack, which
contains a reusable nonflash camera with film, a Spider-Man plush
toy, a Toss and Catch game, a coin holder, Spider-Man stickers and
a puzzle picture cube with six Spider-Man images, all packed in a
messenger bag (with webbed lining).
The Web Pack is offered at participating hotels in the
continental U.S., Puerto Rico and Latin America for stays between
Thursdays and Sundays through Sept. 12. A check online had sample
rates for the July 9 weekend ranging from $90 to $150 in the
U.S.
Embassy Suites Hotels
Phone: (800) EMBASSY
Web:www.embassysuites.com
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Denver's Brown Palace Hotel hosted the Beatles
during their 1964 U.S. concert tour, and the hotel has since
renamed the two-bedroom suite they stayed in the Beatles Suite.
To commemorate the Aug. 26, 1964 visit, the Brown Palace is
offering an overnight Beatlemania plan through Dec. 30
priced at $189 per room, double.
The package covers a stay in a traditional room; a replica
concert ticket, which also acts as a coupon for a Beatlemania
Grilled Cheese & English Chips lunch for two -- the lunch the
Beatles ate during their stay; a souvenir photo of Ringo Starr as
he arrived at the Brown Palace; a turndown gift; and the
opportunity to record a Beatles memory in the hotel's "Beatlemania
Memory Book."
The plan is valid Thursdays through Sundays. For an additional
cost, guests can upgrade to the Beatles Suite.
Brown Palace Hotel
Phone: (800) 321-2599 or (303) 297-3111
Web:www.brownpalace.com
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The Memphis Marriott Downtown is celebrating
the 50th anniversary of rock 'n' roll with a two-night package,
valid through Dec. 30.
The Rock 'n' Roll package covers two nights' deluxe
accommodations, breakfast, two tickets to Graceland, two tickets to
Sun Studios and two tickets to the Rock 'n' Soul Museum. The plan
is priced at $349 per couple.
Memphis Marriott Downtown
Phone: (888) 426-5236 and ask for code XEAA
Web:www.memphismarriottdowntown.com
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The Fairmont Chicago is the official hotel for
the 2004 Grant Park Music Festival taking place through Aug. 29 in
Millennium Park.
The overnight Grant Park Music Festival package covers
accommodations for two, two preferred-seating passes to the
festival, valet parking at the hotel and late checkout (at 5 p.m.).
Rates start at $159 on weekends and $189 during the week.
Fairmont Chicago
Phone: (800) 526-2008
Web:www.fairmont.com/chicago
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On select dates this summer, London's 51 Buckingham
Gate is offering the Shakespeare Getaway. The
dates for the two-night package are July 13, Aug. 3 and Sept.
14.
The plan covers two nights' accommodations in a deluxe junior
suite, one three-course dinner for two, breakfast for two each
morning, tickets for a performance at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
and transfers via Orient-Express train to Shakespeare's birthplace,
Stratford-Upon-Avon, including a tour.
The package is priced at about $1,004 per person, double,
including tax and service charge. The plan will be charged in full
at the time of booking and is nonrefundable.
51 Buckingham Gate
Phone: (877) 528-2503
Web:www.51-buckinghamgate.com
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The Pan Pacific San Francisco is inviting cross
dressers ... of a different kind. The Cross Dresser
package, valid through Dec. 30, is designed for the client who
wants to turn a business trip into a leisure holiday.
Starting at $199 for a superior room and $219 for deluxe
accommodations, the plan covers Internet access, a Cable Car City
Tour for two or breakfast buffet for two and 10% vouchers for
shopping at Macy's.
Pan Pacific San Francisco
Phone: (800) 533-6465 or (415) 771-8600
Web:www.panpacific.com
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The Heathman Hotel in Portland, Ore., created
the Portland Garden Zen package to put clients in a
peaceful mood.
The two-night plan, valid through Sept. 30, is priced from $410
per couple.
The package covers accommodations in a deluxe guest room, valet
parking, continental breakfast with an assortment of green teas and
an eye mask.
Also included are two Portland Attractions passes, which entitle
the holders to entrance to the Portland Classical Gardens, the
Oregon Zoo and the Portland Art Museum, among other
attractions.
The Heathman Hotel
Phone: (800) 551-0011 or (503) 241-4100
Web:www.heathmanhotel.com
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To contact Managing Editor Kimberly Scholz, send e-mail to
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