New Alt Hotel in Toronto launches promotion deal
The new Alt Hotel Toronto Pearson is offering all its rooms for $99 a night until April 9. The 99 days of Alt promotion is a 30 per cent discount off the no-frills-chic hotel, whose rooms (with one queensize bed or two) normally go for $149 every day of the week, all year round.
The Alt Pearson opened in July, and is the first of Groupe Germain Hospitalité’s Alt Hotels to open outside Quebec. It is seconds away from the airport’s terminals, and has a free, quick Link train shuttle that runs every five minutes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The hotel has been recognized for its design — its architects, Lemay Michaud, won a Grand Prix du Design in December for it. Groupe Germain Hospitalité is a familyrun business from Quebec City that owns and operates three no-frills-chic Alt Hotels and five Le Germain Boutique hotels across the country. The company plans to have 10 Alt Hotels operating by the end of 2016. For details and to book, visit pearson.althotels.ca Fort Lauderdale air/hotel, $799
If you’re patient enough to wait till April for a sun fix, you can fly round trip to Fort Lauderdale for seven-nights accommodation at the Hollywood Beach Resort Cruise Port for $799, taxes included. Departure date is April 10. The property is in Hollywood Beach; it’s a beachfront condo resort housed in a historic 1925 Mediterranean Re- vival hotel, with an attached shopping and restaurant complex. Ft. Lauderdale airport is just under 10 kilometres away. The rate applies to the complex’s smallest rooms, called “studio petit queen,” and the prices rise for rooms with two queen beds. Book at www.aircanadavacations.com Las Vegas hotel package, $34 (regularly $175)
The Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas is offering deep discounts for dates through March: a room with a king or two doubles for $34 with a two-night minimum. The deal needs to be booked by Jan. 24 via Groupon.com.
The hotel has a casino, a spa, highend restaurants and lounges — and a 200,000-gallon shark tank, for anyone who has dreamed of swimming “with” the sharks.
An enormous tank sits in the centre of the heated outdoor pool, meaning you can even swim next to the creatures while staying on the safe side of the see-through dividing wall.
The Groupon deal also includes spa and nightclub passes for two, and two show tickets for Gordie Brown, an impressionist.
Visit groupon.com for details.