For Labor Day weekend travel this summer,
the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston is offering
the Sizzle in the City overnight plan.
The package
includes accommodations for two, a copy of the Eyewitness Travel
Guide to Boston and a pre-arrival consultation with the concierge
to assist in booking any tours or attractions.
The plan, valid
Aug. 31 to Sept. 4, is priced from $199 per night. An upgrade to
the Fairmont Gold floor is available for $100
additional.
Fairmont
Copley Plaza
Phone: (800) 441-1414
Web:www.fairmont.com/copleyplaza
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Chicago's
Sheraton Hotel & Towers created the
Back-To-School Pajamarama Bash for stays over the Aug. 24
weekend.
Designed for a
family of four, the package is priced from $179 for one-night stays
or $159 per night for two-night stays.
The cost covers
valet parking, accommodations for two adults and two children and
access to the hotel's 90-minute Radio Disney Party Patrol
Pajamarama Party on Aug. 25.
The Pajamarama
Party includes snacks and drinks, karaoke sessions, trivia contests
and a variety of prizes.
The highlight of
the event is a drawing for 11 sets of tickets (four tickets per
set) for a pop music concert Aug. 31 in Chicago headlined by Aly
& AJ, Corbin Bleu, Drake Bell and Bianca Ryan. Hotel
accommodations also are included in the prize.
When booking, ask
for Disney1 (overnight accommodations) or Disney2 (a two-night
stay).
Sheraton
Hotel & Towers
Phone: (877) 242-2558
Web:www.sheratonchicago.com
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Three Loews
properties -- the Madison Hotel in Washington, the
Loews Philadelphia and the Loews
Annapolis in Annapolis, Md. -- are offering guests a head
start on back-to-school shopping with the Back to School
overnight plan.
The package,
available July 5 through Oct. 31, includes a $25 Nordstrom gift
card, a personalized bank with a presidential $1 coin, lunch for
two at Cafe Nordstrom, a consultation with a fashion stylist and a
Nordstrom catalog.
The plan is priced
from $229 during the week or $289 on weekends at the Loews
Annapolis; from $344 during the week or $244 on the weekends at the
Madison; and from $329 during the week or $249 on weekends at the
Loews Philadelphia.
Loews
Hotels
Phone: (800) 23-LOEWS
Web:www.loewshotels.com
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CoCo Key
Water Resort and the Cherry Valley Lodge,
both near Newark, Ohio, created the Shiver Me Timbers plan for
summer visits.
Package rates start
at $399 for stays Sundays through Thursdays and from $499 on
weekends.
The price covers
accommodations for a family of four for two nights, four passes to
the water park, a family pass to the Works museum, four passes for
bowling or minigolf, four movie tickets, a family photo and four $5
game cards for Key Quest Arcade.
Cherry
Valley Lodge
Phone: (800) 788-8008
Web:www.cherryvalleylodge.com
The Omni La
Mansion del Rio in San Antonio created the Sensory
Scavenger Hunt plan, available through Sept. 3.
It is priced from
$199 per night, double, depending on room type.
The package
includes a disposable camera and a scavenger hunt list to some of
the city's most popular sites. It also comes with a coupon for an
in-room movie rental and popcorn.
Similar packages
are available at select U.S. Omni properties.
Omni La
Mansion del Rio
Phone: (800) THE-OMNI
Web:www.omnihotels.com
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The Vero
Beach (Fla.) Hotel & Club is offering guests the
chance to play its general manager, Peter Serena, in a golf match
for their room rate.
In the Beat the
GM package, valid through Sept. 29, golfers who beat Serena
will be offered a "scratch rate," or a nightly rate of their own
score. The rate will apply for as many consecutive nights as the
guest plans to stay.
Matches will be
held at the Indian River Country Club on Saturdays. Challengers pay
their own greens fees.
At the end of the
challenge, the player with the lowest score will win a future
two-night stay at the resort.
Vero Beach
Hotel & Club
Phone: (866) 602-VERO or (772)
231-5666
Web:www.verobeachhotelandclub.com
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Rosewood
Hotels & Resorts has created the Two Nation
Vacation, which includes stays at the King Pacific Lodge in
Canada and Little Dix Bay in the British Virgin Islands.
The eight-night
package combines three nights at the King Pacific on Princess Royal
Island, British Columbia, and five nights at Little Dix Bay in
Virgin Gorda, B.V.I.
The plan is priced
from $13,525 per couple and is valid through September. The stays
at the resorts can be taken consecutively or on alternate
dates.
Components of the
Canada portion of the plan are roundtrip charter flights from
Vancouver; accommodations in an ocean-view room; all meals and
beverages; unlimited guided ocean fishing, kayaking and hiking; a
wildlife viewing and cultural tour; and a 90-minute spa
treatment.
The Little Dix Bay
portion includes accommodations in an ocean cottage; dinner for two
at the Sugar Mill and Pavilion restaurants; a torch-lit dinner on
the beach; a trip to a secluded beach; and three spa
treatments.
Rosewood
Hotels & Resorts
Phone: (888) ROSEWOOD
Web:www.rosewoodhotels.com
TheRitz-Carlton, Boston Common is featuring
the Red Sox Nation overnight plan for fans of Major League
Baseball's Boston Red Sox.
Priced from $2,004
(the year the Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86
years), the plan includes overnight accommodations in the Red Sox
Nation suite, a club-level, luxury suite designed with Red Sox
decor.
Also covered is
access to the Club Lounge; ballpark-themed food delivered to the
room; a trip to Fenway Park for a VIP tour; roundtrip limousine
transportation for the Fenway Park tour; and souvenirs. Tickets to
a Red Sox game are not included.
The price is based
on two people sharing the room. The fee for additional guests is
$150 each, which includes access to the Club Lounge and the Fenway
tour.
Ritz-Carlton, Boston Common
Phone: (800) 241-3333 or (617)
574-7100
Web:www.ritzcarlton.com
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The Hyatt
at Fisherman's Wharf, a trolley ride from AT&T Park,
home of the San Francisco Giants, created the Home Run
package.
The overnight
package, priced from $229 per night, single or double, includes two
all-day MUNI passes, good for rides on the city's trolleys and
cable cars; hotel self-parking; accommodations in a newly renovated
room; choice of a domestic beer or root beer and peanuts; and a 50%
discount on any appetizer at the hotel's Knuckles Historic Sports
Bar & Grill.
A similar plan is
available at Chicago's Hyatt Regency McCormick
Place, with rates starting at $159 per night, single or
double.
The Game Day
Getaway plan includes hotel self-parking and shuttle service
to U.S. Cellular Field (home of the Chicago White Sox) or to the
Red Line train, which takes guests to Wrigley Field (home of the
Chicago Cubs).
Game tickets are
not included in the packages.
Hyatt at
Fisherman's Wharf or Hyatt Regency McCormick
Place
Phone: (800) 223-1234
Web:www.hyatt.com
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Universal
Studios Florida is celebrating Halloween every weekend
from Sept. 28 through Nov. 3 with the Halloween Horror
Nights event and Gory Getaway package.
The package is
priced from $199 per person, double, and covers two nights at a
Universal Partner Hotel; a one-night admission ticket to the
Halloween Horror Nights celebration; a two-park, unlimited
admission ticket valid for seven days; one souvenir photo; and
transfers between the hotel and Universal Orlando
Resort.
For more details
about the event, visit www.halloweenhorrornights.com.
Universal
Orlando
Phone: (800) 331-3134
Web:www.universaltravelagents.com
The Marco
Island (Fla.) Marriott Beach Resort is inviting couples
trying to conceive to stay during sea turtle mating season (through
Oct. 31).
The Fertile
Turtle package, priced from $399 per night, per couple, covers
deluxe accommodations in a gulfview room, a couple's massage, red
clover and raspberry teas (which are said to promote fertility) and
a commemorative photo album.
The resort is
offering couples who conceive during their stay a free three-night
stay after the baby is born. Parents need to provide a birth
certificate and proof of a stay at the hotel within eight to 10
months of baby's arrival.
A portion of
revenue from each booked Fertile Turtle package will be donated to
local sea turtle conservation efforts.
Marco
Island Marriott Beach Resort
Phone: (800) GET HERE
Web:www.marcoislandmarriott.com
The Grace
Bay Club in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, has created
the Grace Bay Club Conch package, valid through Oct.
31.
The three-night
plan is priced from $3,990 per room, double, and includes junior
suite accommodations, a visit to the island's Conch Farm, lunch at
Da Conch Shack and a private conch-cooking lesson with the Grace
Bay Club's executive chef, Gerry Gnassi.
Grace Bay
Club
Phone: (800) 946-57857
Web:www.gracebayclub.com
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The W
Honolulu Diamond Head is offering the Wonder
Women package as a girlfriends' getaway special.
Created in
conjunction with Bobbi Brown cosmetics, the package includes a gift
pack of beauty aids and a zip-top makeup case; a copy of Brown's
"Living Beauty"; and two cocktails at the W Honolulu's Diamond Head
Grill.
Valid through Nov.
18, the plan is priced from $335 per room, per night, single or
double.
W Honolulu
Diamond Head
Phone: (866) 716-8112
Web:www.starwoodhotels.com/hawaii
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The 25-room
Pink Sands, on Harbour Island, Bahamas, is paying
travel agents 13% commission for all bookings for travel
through Dec. 18.
In addition, the
hotel is offering guests a free night on stays of four nights or
more.
Nightly rates start
at $600 per room, double, and cover breakfast, dinner, taxes and
service charges.
The plan is not
valid during the Thanksgiving holiday. The hotel will be closed
from Oct. 1 to 25. Starting Oct. 26, meals will no longer be
included in the nightly rate.
Pink
Sands
Phone: (800) 407-4776
Web:www.pinksandsresort.com
For families that
enjoyed the movie "Night at the Museum," the Ritz-Carlton
New York, Battery Park and the Ritz-Carlton New
York, Central Park are offering a package inspired by the
film.
The Day at the
Museum plan is priced from $846 at the Battery Park property
and from $1,120 at the Central Park hotel. The rate is based on double occupancy. Kids 12 and under
stay free. For additional guests over 12 years old, there is a
surcharge of $100 per person, per day.
The package covers
overnight accommodations in a deluxe room at either hotel, access
to the Ritz-Carlton Club Lounge, luxury car service one-way to the
American Museum of Natural History, a VIP Museum Experience and a
take-home bag containing museum souvenirs.
Ritz-Carlton
Phone: (800) 241-3333
Web:www.ritzcarlton.com
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The Lodge
at Tiburon (Calif.) is offering the Family
Adventure package with overnight accommodations and a chance
to "meet" the horse and town that was said to inspire the book,
"Blackie, the Horse Who Stood Still."
The package, priced
from $360.50 for a family of four, includes accommodations in a
double-double room, a copy of the book, breakfast for four at the
hotel's Three Degrees Restaurant, admission to the Railroad Museum,
ferry tickets to Angel Island State Park, a picnic lunch and a bike
rental for four.
The bike path near
the hotel takes guests to Blackie's Pasture, one of the locations
described in the book.
The Lodge
at Tiburon
Phone: (800) 762-7770
Web:www.thelodgeattiburon.com
The Novotel
Bangkok on Siam Square has created a series of packages,
each themed around one of the seven deadly sins:
decadence, envy, gluttony, lust, revenge, sloth and
vanity.
For example, the
Gluttony package includes a welcome cocktail and chocolates upon
arrival; drinks and canapes at the Pastel Lounge; a Chinese dinner
with set menu at Lok Wah Hin; dessert at Divine Buffet Desserts at
the Square; a cheese platter delivered to the room; and a buffet
breakfast the following morning.
In addition, guests
have access to the fitness center, sauna and steam room. A farewell
gift of goodies is offered with a late checkout. The plan is priced
from about $274 per night, double, for a superior room.
Novotel
Bangkok
Phone: (011) 66-2 209-8888
The 12-room
Blue Boar Inn & Restaurant in Midway, Utah,
created the Bed, Balloon and Breakfast plan for
couples.
The overnight
package, priced from $375 per couple, features a 20-minute hot-air
balloon or helicopter tour of the Rocky Mountains and a
three-course European breakfast.
In addition, guests
will receive a basket of pastries and sparkling cider for the
ride.
Blue Boar
Inn & Restaurant
Phone: (888) 650-1400
Web:www.theblueboarinn.com
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