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Montana's Paws Up Resort Preparing the Second Annual Wine & Bitch Weekend

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Spas, Wine, Pets

Let's not pretend the recession hasn't been hard on Fifi, too – a solid year-and-a-half of listening to you and the rest of the gang go on and on about the economy. And don't even get her started on this whole staycation thing. If you want to show her some love and get a whole bunch of it yourself, The Resort at Paws Up in Montana, just outside of Missoula, will be putting on its second Wine & Bitch Weekend next month.

Three days and two nights in a land that only Ken Burns could do justice will be spent in a vacation home on a 37,000-acre property. Everything is included: three gourmet meals for two, every day, training and wellness seminars, doggie massages and hikes, and wine tastings from the thematically appropriate Mutt Lynch Winery. A canine fashion show is also on the cards, and you'd be surprised how well the dogs dress in the state of gold and silver.

Your calendar will be looking for room from April 23-25 for the event, and your Luxembourg account will be looking for $1,825 to transfer, which takes care of two adults and one pooch. Having stayed there ourselves, the resort and its views are phenomenal, so if you can't make it that weekend you might hop on over to Gilt's Jetsetter where they're having a sale on stays at Paws Up for other dates as we ~~speak~~ write...

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Morgans Hotels Spring Hotel Deals

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

The Morgans Hotel Group, a collection of boutique hotels that includes the Mondrian in Los Angeles, the Ames in Boston and the Hudson in New York City, has created hotel deals to tempt spring vacationers and local residents. The Spring to Life package is an advance purchase offer with complimentary Internet access and continental breakfast for two, per day, from $175. It can be booked up to seven days prior to the day of arrival (use promotion code PKSP10 when booking by phone).

For local residents in London, San Francisco or any of the other towns the Come out and Play package offers priority access to restaurants and bars and two complimentary drinks from $149 (mention promotion code PKCOME when booking by phone, local ID required). Offers are valid through September 30, 2010.

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Fairmont Southampton Offers 99 Hour, $99 Deal

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

Love Bermuda? Check out this hotel deal. For 99 hours only (starting December 16, 2009) you can lock in special rates from $99 per night at The Fairmont Southampton. The hotel is primely situated atop the island's highest point, an excellent spot for enjoying Bermuda's turquoise seas, pink sand beaches and spectacular sunsets. The resort has six restaurants including the 320-year-old AAA 4-Diamond Waterlot Inn restaurant. The hotel has 593 guest rooms and suites each with a private balcony. The hotel also includes indoor and outdoor swimming pools, 11 all-weather tennis courts, an 18-hole executive par 3 golf course and a Health Club with Willow Stream spa services. The offer may be booked from December 16 through 19, 2009 and is valid for travel from January 1 through April 30, 2010.

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Destination Hotels Offer Year-End Deals

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

The end-of-the-year hotel deals are pouring in offering plenty of opportunities for great getaways. Destination Hotels & Resorts' is offering a year-end escape package with rates starting at $99 per night at many of their hotels. The rates are valid through Dec. 30, 2009. The hotel locations include winter ski destinations, oceanside retreats, urban hotels and desert getaways. Guests can book the $99 rate at properties such as the Vail Cascade in Colorado, Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, The Inverness Hotel in Denver or Snowmass, Colorado's Stonebridge Inn. Additional rates begin at $119 per night for warm weather spots like Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa in California, Tempe Mission Palms in Arizona or Wild Dunes in South Carolina. The $119 rate also is available at winter retreats including Inn and Spa at Loretto in Santa Fe, Resort at Squaw Creek in California and Sunriver in Oregon. Additional values may be found at collection properties in world-class locations such as Maui, Telluride, Vail and Stowe for $159 per night. To book your trip head to http://www.destinationhotels.com/2009 which has a map where you easily see the rates and locations available.

Destination Hotels & Resorts is the seventh largest independent hospitality management company in the country with more than 30 luxury and upscale hotels including southern California's Terranea Resort which opened in 2009. Destination operates properties in key metropolitan areas and resort markets including Washington, D.C., Denver, San Diego, Santa Fe, Aspen, Palm Springs, Houston and Lake Tahoe.

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Rejuvenate Your Health at a Palace in the Swiss Alps

by Annie Scott (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

The Beau-Rivage Palace has just what you need to heal your soul from all that holiday stress (and eating and drinking). The palace, adjacent to Lake Geneva and the Swiss Alps (see above) on ten acres of private, wanderable gardens, has a new restaurant featuring France's only female chef with three Michelin stars, as well as two other restaurants, two bars with sweeping terraces, and the Cinq Mondes Spa, where they will fix you up for 2010.

The three-night Boost Your Immune System Package, available through March 19, 2010, starts at approximately $1,437.00 (based on double occupancy) and includes:

Accommodations in a lake-view room
One-hour session with a personal trainer
Welcome glass of freshly squeezed Vitamin C-rich orange juice
Daily buffet breakfast with a wide selection of freshly squeezed juices, fresh fruits and vegetables and home-made yogurts (among other options)
Special antioxidant-rich lunch or dinner at Café Beau-Rivage
Daily in-room vegetable and fruit basket, freshly squeezed juices and a selection of herbal teas
50 minute body massage at the Cinq Mondes Spa
20 minute facial massage at the Cinq Mondes Spa
Free access to the Cinq Mondes Spa, fitness room and tennis courts

Now that's a getaway. Wait till you see the rooms.

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It's a Gossip Finale for W Hotels' Wonderlust series

by Ariston Anderson (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

From Peter, Bjorn and John to Pete Yorn, W Hotels have presented themselves as the premier rock curator this year, with a series of events throughout their nationwide hotels. It's been an amazing year for rock fans to get up close and personal with some of today's hottest acts in intimate W Hotel settings. And if it's not enough to be within arms reach of your favorite acts sipping signature W cocktails, each show is photographed by legendary music photographer Mick Rock. They're ending the year with a bang with an amazing live performance from the Gossip at the W San Diego. Music for Men is one of our favorite albums of the year, and we're insanely jealous of anyone who gets to see this sure-to-be unforgettable show.

While access to the show is strictly limited to VIP invites, you can be one of those guests with an All Access Package starting at $229, which includes a Fabulous Room, two tickets to the show, a meet and greet with Gossip, an exclusive Wonderlust giftbag, and a late checkout 3PM checkout (you're gonna need it!). Upgrade to a mere $299 for a Cool Corner suite. This is a once-in-a-lifetime rock-and-roll opportunity that is sure to sell out quickly.

Head to the W Website for more information on this killer package.

Friday, December 11, 2009
8 PM
W San Diego
421 West B Street
San Diego, CA

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A Swiss Experience In The Heart Of London

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

A Swiss chalet has made it into the heart of London. Swissôtel The Howard, London has built an authentic Swiss Chalet in its' Garden Courtyard. The chalet is a special venue for private parties and corporate events. It has traditional Swiss decorations and handcrafted Swiss furniture brought from the Alps to create the cozy feel of an Alpine chalet. It is available for parties and corporate events for up to 250 persons when combined with the adjacent 12 Temple Place Restaurant. The Swiss Chalet can be booked as an event venue until 31st March 2010.

Every Tuesday until the end of March 2010 the chalet becomes a separate restaurant within the hotel. During the Swiss Nights traditional Swiss food is being served which includes cheese fondue, sliced cured meats, mixed leaf salad and a dessert of apple strudel with custard or cherry cake with Chantilly cream. After dinner, guests can sit by the the fire with a glass of mulled wine. The chalet will be open for Swiss Nights from 6pm–10pm every Tuesday evening until 31st March 2010 and is £23 per person.

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Wake Up (Early) Wherever You Are, Ski in Park City Free that Afternoon

by Alison Wellner (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Sports

One of the advantages that Park City, Utah has over other Western ski destinations is its convenience -- it lies 35 major highway minutes east of Salt Lake City's airport. So if your desire to ski exceeds the time you have available to devote to the slopes, you don't have to lose an entire day to transportation: wake up at dark-thirty almost anywhere in the United States and catch a flight into Salt Lake and board your chair lift by the afternoon.

To sweeten the deal, you don't even have to buy a lift ticket on your first day. The Quick START Vacation program allows you to convert your boarding pass into a lift ticket at Deer Valley Resort, The Canyons Resort, or Park City Mountain Resort. You need to register in advance online for a voucher, which you present along with your boarding pass, a non-Utah driver's license or other official state identification at the ticket window.

Make sure you read all the rules and regulations on the website, since there's no flexibility in these requirements. Like, if you're a person who shuns printing boarding passes at home and relies on your PDA for check-in, you're going to need to change your ways to get this deal. And if the airline wants to keep your boarding pass, you're going to need to put up a fight.

As you'd expect there are also black out dates: you're not going to get this deal over Christmas week (December 25th, 2009 to January 2nd, 2010) or from Valentine's Day weekend through March 27th, 2010.

There are more Park City deals and promotions to be had, and I'm particularly keen on is a package offered by The Sky Lodge which is throwing in a complimentary breakfast and a 50 minute spa treatment with each night's stay November 26th to April 13th, 2010. The spa treatment deal is especially nice since the Sky Lodge's Amara spa offers all of its massage and body treatment clients a soak in traditional wooden Japanese tubs called Ofuro baths. Per Japanese tradition, you shower before entering the tub, which is filled with piping hot water I'll admit that the soak made me a little nauseous when I visited this past summer (when it was nearing an unusually sultry 85 degrees outside) but it would definitely be just the thing after a day on the slopes. Once again, there are blackout dates during peak periods, so from December 26, 2009 - January 2, 2010, January 21 – 31, 2010 and February 10 – 15, 2010, you'll be paying for your own spa treatment and breakfast.

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Omni Hotels Offers 72-Hour Sale

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

Here are Luxist we love hotel deals . Here comes another one but you will have to act fast. Omni Hotels is offering a sale on hotel stays between December 2 and February 10 but you have to book in the next couple of days. Their 72-hour sale has already started and ends Thursday. The sale offers as much as 40 percent off hotel rooms in Austin, Chicago, Dallas, New Orleans, Houston and other cities. These are some of the same cities that both Southwest Airlines and American Airlines offered deals on last week

[via USA Today's Hotel Check-In]

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The Fairmont Offering Ten Days -- and Nights -- of Deals

by Jonathon Ramsey (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

It should be more widely known that Canadians are a giving people. The folks in the geographical apartment above ours invented provided the pager, the foghorn, and basketball. We also have them to thank, or perhaps curse, for the Blackberry. As for talent, or something close to it, Canadians Alannis Morissette, Leonard Cohen, Keanu Reeves, and Natasha Henstridge have all come down to borrow our proverbial cups of sugar.

And although the Maple Leafers didn't give us The Fairmont Hotels -- that's a San Francisco invention -- they own them now, and they're offering you ten days of deals. Book a room in a Fairmont between November 10-19, and you can spare your bank account up to 25% off the normal rate or get a night free.

Of course there are terms and conditions, because even honey comes with bees. Still, when The Fairmont Orchid Hawaii can be had for $299, The Fairmont Southampton in Bermuda for $199, The Fairmont Singapore for $195, and for you devil-may-care MI6 types The Fairmont Monte Carlo for $370, well, bees be damned. Should you wish to visit the company's on its home turf, The Fairmont Le Château Frontenac in Québec City (pictured) is just $165. While you're there, have a Reese's Cup -- they were invented by Pennsylvanian H. B. Reese, but peanut butter and candy bars are yet more Canadian gifts to the world...

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Westin Monache Resort Wants to Make Skiing Mammoth Rewarding

by Jonathon Ramsey (RSS feed) —

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The "Mammoth" in Mammoth Mountain, California actually comes from the 19th century gold rush, when a group of prospectors among the clamoring hordes founded the Mammoth Mining Company. But with winter -- and a yearly average of 400 inches of snow -- rapidly approaching, the kind of mammoth you should be concerned with right now is the resort, its luxury, its skiing, and the fun you can have with all of those.

The Westin Monache Resort in Northern California is Mammoth Mountain's only 4-star resort, and it intriguingly lists "excellent soundproofing" as one of its signature features. When you're finished testing your bedside klaxons, you'll find it is also just steps from the mountain's 15-passenger express gondola that will begin the trip to 3,500 skiable acres and 3,100 vertical feet of skiing at a maximum altitude of 11,053 feet.

At the conclusion of exploring any of the 150 named trails you can head back to your suite -- the resort has 230 of them in studio, 1- and 2-bedroom varieties, each one benefiting from a kitchen and a fireplace, and that Heavenly Bath (you'd never guess how good a second shower head can make you feel; it's almost like being tenderly scrubbed to by mermaids... or so we've imagined). Regardless of whether you brought your own skis or snowboard or used the on-site shop's pro fitments, the ski valet will be happy to relieve you of your equipment and prepare it for the next day's adventures, 24 hours a day.

Book a package before November 5 and you could save 25% on your winter getaway. Direct air service on Horizon Air begins December 17 from some West Coast and Nevada cities, and the Village Ski Back Trail should open around that time as well, so you can glide straight from the mountain into the base Village. The only thing you'll need to worry about then is getting back in time for the Korobuta pork chop in a cognac demi-glaze at Whitebark and saving room for s'mores...

Gallery: Westin Monache Mammoth Winter 09

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New Hampshire's Omni Mt. Washington Resort Marries Foliage and 5-Star

by Jonathon Ramsey (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Spas

Snuggled in among the 800,000 acres of the White Mountain National Forest, settled at the base of the 6,288-foot Mt. Washington, is the Omni Mt. Washington Resort. Although it sounds singular -- and in many ways it is -- the resort is actually a group of four properties: the epic Spanish Renaissance edifice and National Historic Landmark that houses the Mt. Washington Hotel, the 19th century Bretton Arms Inn, The Lodge, and The Townhomes.

Among them there are nearly 300 rooms in addition to the 80 townhomes. Even better: there's a ghost. Now, ghosts in New England aren't exactly uncommon -- departed souls apparently have a thing for clam chowder -- but this ghost is royalty, and has her own lounge. Princess Carolyn Stickney Faucigny-Lucinge was the widow of the Mt. Washington's owner, and word is she's not ready to let go of her castle.

If you hurry, you can sneak in for the resorts Fall Colors package, which offers fall views, daily breakfast, and a carriage ride but ends October 28. If you can't make it by then there is still plenty to do: fourteen places to eat means you'll never be hungry, and working off the kilojoules can be done with alpine and Nordic skiing, snowboarding, ice skating, ice climbing and snow tubing, sleigh rides, winter hiking trails, a Canopy Tour on 10 ziplines... or the 25,000 square foot spa, because nothing says workout like "all-day massage."

Nightcaps won't be a problem either, since the resort has enough drinking spots to justify its opening its own distillery if it chose. And apres-ski, if you do your best Balzac impression and arrive with 50 pairs of gloves -- we hear princesses really like them -- perhaps the Her Highness Faucigny-Lucinge will join you. If you don't want to wait for her, ask for room 314 -- it's her favorite... haunt.

Gallery: Omni Mt. Washington Resort

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Opus Vancouver Gears Up for Winter Olympics

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Events, Sports

Planning a trip to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. this February? If you're quick you might still be able to snag one of the 96 rooms at the Opus Vancouver, the city's top luxury boutique hotel. Located in historic and fashionable Yaletown steps away from the inner harbor, the Opus has played host to a long list of A-listers including Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, Zac Efron, Janet Jackson, R.E.M., and The Pussycat Dolls, to name a few. The lavish rooms boast five different décor schemes to suit every taste, ranging from modern and minimalist to artful and eclectic, with comfort and style as the unifying elements. In addition to standard amenities, luxuries for guests include Frette bathrobes, L'Occitane bath products, an in-room oxygen dispenser and complimentary transportation within the downtown area via the hotel's luxe 7-Series BMWs. The penthouse suites feature wrap-around balconies, floor-to-ceiling windows, and double-sided fireplaces; all suites have a wet bar, while the hotel also features a fine French bistro, Elixir, as well as the Opus Bar, voted "Vancouver's Most Popular Nightspot" by the Zagat Survey.

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Escape The Thanksgiving Drama In St. Barths

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Thanksgiving with the family again this year. How about an escape to St. Barths instead? Hotel Carl Gustaf is offering the Thanksgiving Holiday Escape. The luxury hotel is perched atop a hill overlooking the capital city of Gustavia. Stay in one of the hotel's one-bedroom, 800 sq foot suites decorated with hand-carved wooden furniture and with its own private plunge pool, living room, a separate bedroom, kitchenette and a marble-floor bathroom with a multi-jet shower. The six-day, five-night stay in the one-bedroom suite includes a chilled bottle of wine served in your suite upon arrival, daily continental breakfast served in your suite, five -day car rental (excluding insurance and fuel), dinner for two at the Carl Gustaf Lounge, one-hour massage 'tete-a-tete" in the Boutique Spa by Carita and free access to the fitness center and hydrozone "Blue Spa." The Thanksgiving Holiday Escape starts at 2,525 Euros ($3,642) and must be booked by October 31, 2009.

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Fall For Luxury At The Stein Eriksen Lodge

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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The Deer Valley area in Utah is very popular with winter travelers but if you head there in the fall you can enjoy the beautiful foliage and catch a sweet deal. The Fall for Luxury Package at the Stein Eriksen Lodge offers five-star, five diamond luxury accommodations at a reduced rate. The room rates are upward of $250 per person double occupancy in the winter season but the rates for this package start at $99 per person, per night for Deluxe Room accommodations and $125 per person, per night for a Luxury Suite. The Fall for Luxury package includes one-night accommodations, a three-course dinner at the award winning Glitretind restaurant, and complimentary valet parking. The resort has a luxurious spa, pool as well as hiking and just enjoying the mountains in the fall. If a visit here doesn't get you in the mood for the coming ski season nothing will.

[via On The Snow]

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