Hard Rock Hotel San Diego
Stay in a rock star suite. Located in the entrance to San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter, the Hard Rock Hotel has a funky design and a motif inspired, in every way, by rock and roll and the life of the traveling vagabond musician. The staff or "crew" is especially what makes this hotel creative, sophisticated and unpredictable. Choose one many suites: the Hard Rock Suite for example has share three connection spaces---bathroom, living room, bedroom---and creates an apartment loft zone to listen to music and plan the night ahead. A halo-illuminated king sized bed, and a bathroom with ceiling mounted rain showers make this place memorable and energized. You could even stay in a hotel room especially designed by the music group the Black Eyed Peas which comes with a Cadillac Escalade ESV. The hotel's unpredictable floor plan hooked up with iPods, video on demand, flat-screen HDTV's, 270 degree views of the city and bay, and what the hotel calls other "VIP experiences."Other amenities include access to private poolside cabanas, seating along the opium beds along the lounge's fire pits. Nearby guests are only 1 mile from Balboa Park; 3 miles from the world renown San Diego Zoo; 4 miles from the beautiful and exotic Coronado Island; 6 miles from Sea World and 22 miles from the Del Mar Racetrack. Room rates at the Hard Rock start at $199 per night for a studio king room. Make an upgrade and rent a pair of wheels for the night with the Hard Rock hotels Stay and Drive Packages car promotion where you could rent a Bentley for the night.
Hard Rock Hotel San Diego
207 Fifth Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
(866) 751-7625
hardrockhotelsd.com
Bill's Gamblin' Hall & Saloon
Bill Gamblin' Hall & Saloon, located right on the glittering Las Vegas strip, is an inviting place for gamblers and not so confident rollers alike. It has 600 video poker and slot machines and guests enjoy free membership to the Bill's Players Card, where players accumulate bonus points and exchange them for prizes, gifts or cash. Bill's offers free craps lessons seven days a week at 10:30 a.m. in the casino. Expect fresh entertainment and lively performers each night. The popular Big 'E' Elvis continues. The rooms are surprisingly cozy and accented in a southwest style: wood trim, etched mirrors, elegant wallpapers, and fine western art decorate the place and make. Bill's casino areas are similarly decorated in a home-like style with thick carpets and carved wood bars. The Steakhouse at Bill's offers intimate dining with great steaks and seafood or enjoy 24 hour dining in the Victorian Room menu offers a wide variety of reasonably priced breakfast, lunch and dinner specialties, including Chinese cuisine. Room rates, start as low as $40-$55 for a king or queen double room per night.
Bill's Gamblin' Hall & Saloon
3595 Las Vegas Blvd. South
Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
(702)-737-2100
billslasvegas.com
Wigwam Motel
Spend the night in a teepee on route 66. The Wigwam motel looks like a blend of the Blue Swallow Inn and Roy's cafe featured in Disney's Pixar film, Cars. However, this Wigwam has been around since 1947. Modeled after the "auto-camping" craze in the early 1920s, the Wigwam is a simulation of one of the hallmark campgrounds that popped up all over the states. This Route 66 Motel is crazy place for everyone to enjoy. With its village-style configuration, the motel provides nineteen 30-foot-tall tepees made from wood framing, concrete and stucco. Each wigwam comes with its own grass lawn, barbecue pit, and jellybean shaped swimming pool. Located only minutes from hiking in the Redlands, bikign in Big Bear, and sightseeing in Bloomington, California you can enjoy the wild outdoors, and then settle down for sleep in a protected outdoorsy version. A standard queen non-smoking teepee room starts at $63 per night.
Wigwam Motel
2728 West Foothill Blvd
San Bernardino, CA 92410
(909) 875-3005
www.wigwammotel.com
Mondrian Scottsdale Hotel
A Morgan's Hotel Group hotel in the southwest, you feel like you're walking into a heart; red hot curtains, couches, cushions and the iconic 25-foot Mondrian "gates", strung out of the bougainvillea vines, encase a breezy entrance way covered by a virtual red carpet of stenciled leaves. As guests enter, they are greeted with a cooling fountain and antique mirrors. The impeccable lobby design and the guestroom suites, make the hotel warm, sexy, and astonishingly complete. In the Scottsdale area enjoy the famous golf courses, the Desert Botanical Gardens, hiking the trails, or exploring the desert on a Hummer Tour. After enjoying the rustic outdoors, the Mondrian Scottsdale hotel takes care of you with cosmopolitan swagger for the rest of the night. Sip a drink to relax in the Red Bar where an over-sized apple is the focal point of the room and everything around it---tables, chairs, the nightlife itself-is translucent red. Texture and textiles make this hotel sensual and smart. Outside of the hotel, visit the nearby Per Lachaise at The Midnight room where you can dance to a mix of salsa, and heavy house beats. The room is inspired by the nearby Pere Lachaise Cemetery where Jim Morison and Fredrick Chopin are buried. Standard king rooms start at $175; a superior pool view room with two double beds at $205; or swing a poolside apartment for $1,100 per night.
Mondrian Scottsdale hotel
7353 East Indian School Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
(480) 308-1100
mondrianscottsdale.com
