ICE CREAM SPECIAL
Not that you needed one… but here’s another reason to visit the Windy City: getting a personalized pint of ice cream delivered to your hotel room.
As part of a special summer promotion The Fairmont Chicago is offering you the chance to design your own ice cream flavor and have it delivered via room service so you can eat it in bed. You simply consult with the hotel’s executive chef in advance of your stay to design virtually any flavor imaginable. Dark chocolate mixed with pumpkin, basil, or rose petals? No problem. What about vanilla bean ice cream with a topping of caramel, fudge, or chocolate covered potato chips? Anything is possible.
Each custom pint costs $12, and room rates start at about $200.
FREE VACATION
Who couldn’t use some down time at a luxurious resort—-for free? If you’re dreaming of a getaway, but are low on dough, get out your video camera and get creative. Best Western is sponsoring a contest for people who feel they are in desperate need of a vacation. The family (up to four people) who proves their desperation for a vacation in the most compelling way (in a video of up to 30 seconds) will win a free week’s getaway at any Best Western property in the United States or Canada, plus a video camera and spending money.
Get on your thinking caps and act fast because the videos must be submitted by June 24 to the Best Western site on YouTube. Beginning July 14th, the top videos will be shown on a Best Western’s contest website, where visitors can vote for their favorites. Nine runners-up get a $250 travel card that can be used for lodging at Best Western properties worldwide.
HUCK FINN HOUSE
If your summer road trip takes you near Hannibal, Missouri consider making a pit stop at a home dedicated to a popular literary character.
The Huck Finn House is now open to the public.
There aren’t many English students who don’t know the legendary tales of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. The fictional characters based on boys Samuel Clemens (whose pen name was Mark Twain) knew growing up in Hannibal were immortalized in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
The just opened Huck Finn House is located immediately behind the home where Clemens grew up. The building’s caretaker says the original house was demolished in 1911, but according to news reports, the family that owned the land donated it, and the family of a former Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum official paid for the reconstruction.
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