This giveaway was posted on Loyalty Traveler last Wednesday.

The theme of the #SummerOnTheGo campaign is encouraging business travelers to get outside and explore the area when traveling on a business trip.

Loyalty Traveler #SummerOnTheGo  contest sponsored by National Car Rental.

National’s Summer On-The-Go Prize Pack ($310 value)

• Apple iPod Touch
• $50 iTunes Gift Card
• Some National branded items!

Entry Rules:

1. Post a picture on Instagram or Twitter of you outside by 12:00 noon (Pacific time) Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

Your photo can be in a park, courtyard, outside on a patio for lunch. Wherever. You just need to be seen outside to have a valid photo entry for this contest. 

2. Tag your photo with @LoyaltyTraveler and use #SummerOnTheGo.

These are two essential components for your photo post so I can follow along, find and include your photo in the contest entries.

3. I’ll choose a winner for the National Summer on-the-Go prize pack and contact the winner for shipping details to pass on to National Car Rental.

Note #1: The prize pack is available only  for U.S. residents per National Car Rental promotion rules.

Blogger Disclosure: I will receive compensation for running this National Car Rental giveaway including an iPod Touch and $250 American Express gift card. I have never had an iPod.

Looks like another road trip is in my near future. I am hoping my road trip back across the western states to Colorado includes an opportunity to photograph wild mustangs in Nevada. I’ll tell more about Mustang Monument in a separate post. This is a fascinating project  establishing a wild horse eco-preserve to help save the 30,000 remaining wild horses roaming federal lands.

Ric Garrido enjoying(?) the 115 F outdoors #summeronthego in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, June 8, 2013.

       

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There are three days of points offers from Best Western, Choice Privileges and IHG Priority Club/IHG Rewards Club next week during week three of the Daily Getaways offers. So far this year there has not been much that excites me in those sales.

Hyatt points $18.46 per 1,000 Points.

Hyatt Gold Passport allows members to buy up to 40,000 points per calendar year at the rate of 1,000 points for $24.

The current sale gives a 30% bonus when buying 30,000 to 40,000 points for $720 to $960.

30% bonus points means $720 buys 39,000 points and $960 buys 52,000 points.

The cost per 1,000 points is reduced from $24 to $18.46.

Receive up to a 30% Point Bonus!
Purchase points from June 1 through June 30, 2013 and receive the following bonus:

• Purchase 1,000 to 9,000 points and get a 10% bonus.
• Purchase 10,000 to 29,000 points and get a 20% bonus.
• Purchase 30,000 to 40,000 points and get a 30% bonus.

Buying points is only advisable if you have enough experience to know you will get better value from buying points and your stays are frequent enough to spend the points before the next annual change in hotel award cost.

The past two years has seen many hotel properties in category 1 at 5,000 points and category 2 at 8,000 points per night rise to higher levels.

Table comparing the cost of hotels when points purchase rate is $18.46 per 1,000; the 30% bonus rate when buying 39,000 to 52,000 points for $720 to $960.

• Category 1 = $93 for 5,000 points.
• Category 2 = $148 for 8,000 points.
• category 3 = $222 for 12,000 points.
• Category 4 = $277 for 15,000 points.
• Category 5 = $333 for 18,000 points.
• Category 6 = $406 for 22,000 points.

These are the nightly room rates (after tax) needed to save money buying Hyatt Gold Passport points.

You might also want to consider the Hyatt Gold Passport points not earned when redeeming free award nights.

There are dozens of hotels where buying points will save money compared to published rates. You might want to pass on this points purchase offer if you are not already aware of places where buying points will save money.

And keep your eye on the Daily Getaways offers for the final two weeks to see if Hyatt Gold Passport participates this year.

Last year there were about 165 sets of Hyatt points sold during one day of Daily Getaways at prices as low as $10 per 1,000 points. This was one of the toughest deals to purchase as the sets of points were sold in seconds.

Keep in mind that the 30% bonus points sale through Hyatt Gold Passport is available through June 30, 2013.

If Hyatt Gold Passport points appear on Daily Getaways, the offer will not be available before July 1.

That leaves you with a choice of strategy.

Buy Hyatt points with a definite discount offer or wait and try to score an even better deal through Daily Getaways. Of course, at this time we don’t even know if Hyatt Gold Passport has an offer for 2013 Daily Getaways. We should know definitely by June 30 if Hyatt will participate in Daily Getaways for 2013.

Hyatt Point Purchase Bonus June 1- June 30, 2013.

        

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“I was at both parks,” I replied.

“Which park did you like better?”

I thought for a few seconds and said, “Bryce Canyon!”

“Really? We liked Zion the best.”

Utah’s Fabulous Five

A common question, “Which park is your favorite?” awaits those who visit Utah’s Fabulous Five, a marketing name for the five National Parks of southern Utah.

Zion seemed to have a spiritual effect on the hikers I met who had ventured away from the main canyon filled with tourists and into the back country for a day or more.

I did not have that opportunity on either of my two daytrips into Zion park.

Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Canyon had a profound effect on me with sparse visitors away from Bryce Canyon Amphitheater on a cold spring day when it was mostly in the 30s and light snow passed over the plateau in intermittent showers.

Pronghorns and snow showers, hoodoos and woods made for moments of compacted time filled with a variety of memories.

I felt stone soul on my day in Bryce Canyon National Park.

I touched the ancient bristlecone pine tree, the red sandstone legends, the tiny white spherical snowballs falling dryly from the sky, and walked beneath the gray forests, on top of the dusty red sands and through the spring green grasses.

Bryce Canyon was many ecosystems and weather systems crammed into a few short hours on a high Utah plateau. Clear, thin air filled me.

The surprising aspect of Bryce Canyon National Park is its elevation at 8,000 to 9,200 feet on the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The approach from Highway 63 travels south 20 miles into Bryce Canyon National Park along the  plateau and ending at Rainbow Point parking lot (9,200 feet) near the southern edge of the plateau.

Bryce Canyon amphitheater offers the largest amphitheater in the park extending 12 miles by 3 miles by 800 feet deep and is only a couple miles from the park entrance visitor center.

The walkway from Bryce Canyon Lodge is about 200 yards  to Bryce Canyon amphitheater rim where a paved path along the edge allows great photography points.

Viewpoints and benches along the paved path are situated around the rim of Bryce Canyon amphitheater in places called Sunrise Point and Sunset Point.

Hoodoos fill the Bryce Canyon amphitheater. Hoodoo rock formations consist of eroded sandstone towers and walls that weather at different rates. This erosional pattern results in arches and windows in the rock and shapes that are often thicker stone sitting on thinner towers of rock.

Pathway to hoodoos in Bryce Canyon amphitheater.

The Rim Road offers about 20 miles of viewpoints for hoodoos from Bryce Canyon to Rainbow Point at the end of the plateau.

Some of the hoodoos are 150 feet tall. The current sandstone shapes will erode further by rain and wind. Arches and windows will collapse over time.

Snow-covered Aquarius Plateau in the distance is more than 2,000 feet higher than Bryce Canyon plateau.

Large Bryce Canyon amphitheater has hiking trails for getting nearer hoodoos.

The sandstone hoodoos here are enchanting with changing colors in the sunlight and clouds. Many sandstone hoodoos have the appearance of human form or perhaps I am too animistic in my viewpoint.

The imagery of rock and sand and sky makes for a place to feel the geological magic around you. Have a picnic by the rim or hike closer to the stone souls resting below the crowds.

Click here to view the embedded video.

This is a place to marvel at the wonders of today before they change with time.

        

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Basic rules:

• Only one free night voucher may be earned.
• Voucher expires January 31, 2014
• Free night only valid for hotels in US, Canada and Caribbean.
• Stays worldwide qualify for earning the free night voucher.
• No retroactive credit for stays completed prior to promotion registration.

Analysis:

Best Western was far and away the best hotel brand for my Fabulous Five tour of Utah’s National Parks last month. I visited and stayed at Best Western hotels by Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Moab for Arches and Canyonlands and Cedar City.

Best Western Plus Bryce Canyon Grand Hotel is $144 for midweek in late June on AAA rate. In July discount rates rise to $180 per night.

Best Western El Rey Inn, Cedar City, Utah was real motel like, but a large room with microwave, refrigerator and the hotel offered free breakfast and a swimming pool. AAA rates in July are as low as $58 per night.

Best Western has a flexible dates calendar to find lowest rates on a calendar.

Best Western El Rey Inn, Cedar City, Utah.

Family issues are setting my travel sights on another road trip to Denver in the next few weeks.

Best Western earn and burn looks like the hotel chain I will be visiting again on my next long-haul loyalty traveler road trip from Monterey, California to Denver, Colorado this summer.

Best Western points are on sale at Daily Getaways on Wednesday, June 26 with 10,000 points for $67. American Express payment reduces the cost to $60.30 for 10,000 points. There is a purchase limit of 50,000 points per member.

A popular summer hotel like Moab, Utah Best Western Plus Canyonlands Inn is $220 after tax on AAA rate for July dates. The hotel is a 32,000 points reward night. Buying 32,000 points will cost $192 during the Daily Getaways which is slightly better than the paid rate. There are many Best Western properties for 16,000 or 20,000 points where $120.60 to buy 20,000 points will likely save a bit more on the hotel rate.

Between points purchases for better value award nights and paid stays to earn a free night for a 32,000 or 36,000 points Best Western hotel looks like a good way to get hotel value out of Best Western this summer.

       

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‘Michael Jackson One’ is the latest Cirque du Soleil production opened May 2013 at Mandalay Bay. I am not much of a Jackson fan, however, about half the songs were familiar to me including major dance routines for Bad and Thriller involving trampoline and rope bounces and zombies to wow the audience.

I’ll give you one tip for the show. The audience is subjected to some paparazzi treatment before the show begins. Avoid the aisle seats if you don’t want to be flash mobbed by photographers in your face.

There was a show for the IPW Press Brunch condensing acts from several hotel theater shows into a single 45-minute show at the Smith Center for Performing Arts.

Matt Goss performs at Caesars Palace. Apparently his backup women are called ‘The Dirty Virgins’. His website offers several reviews suggesting he is a British Frank Sinatra.

Rock of Ages at the Venetian offers 80s big hair rock songs like this performance of Bon Jovi’s Wanted Dead or Alive.

This was a musical production I could relate to even though these were songs I primarily know from 1980s MTV when they weren’t playing videos by Springsteen, U2, Peter Gabriel, Madonna and Michael Jackson.

One aspect of Las Vegas I do enjoy is the classic rock soundtrack played in most casinos. The daytime tunes playing above the sounds of slot machines and in the lobby level hallways are mostly 70s and 80s classic rock, while the nightclub scene is primarily dance music for the 35 and under crowd.

Tiny Dancer

Ballerina, you must have seen her, dancing in the sand.

Elton John – Tiny Dancer

The highlight of the performances is one where I found myself with the best seat in the house. Well, actually, I was on my feet in the Smith Center for the Performing Arts trying to get unentangled from the crowd by working my way to the center of the lobby near the windows.

I just happened to be standing in the right place at the time when the Nevada Ballet Theater dancers began performing during the IPW Press Brunch.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Mary LaCroix, Nevada Ballet Theater,June 9, 2013 at Smith Center for Performing Arts, Las Vegas #IPW 2013 Press Brunch

Frankie Moreno, who performs at the Stratosphere, rocked it on piano with Mary LaCroix and another Nevada Ballet dancer performing during his song.

Frankie Moreno playing piano with Mary LaCroix on piano.

The emcee for the IPW Press Brunch show said they were most worried about how the dance would play out during the Frankie Moreno number since the Nevada Ballet dancers had not had the opportunity to practice their dance on stage before the show.

I think they nailed it myself.

And I found myself leaving Las Vegas having gained quite a bit of theatrical cultural exposure for a small-town guy who rarely visits a theater. I have found a new enjoyment for ballet and dance.

Blogger Disclosure: These performances were special shows exclusively for IPW Las Vegas 2013 and complimentary for media attendees at the IPW Press Brunch and a performance of Michael Jackson One for the IPW press attendees.

Ric Garrido, writer and content owner of Loyalty Traveler, shares news and views on hotels, hotel loyalty programs and vacation destinations for frequent guests.

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IPW Press Brunch

This is my third IPW convention and one of the highlights of each convention for media is the kick-off Press Brunch where local restaurants offer a taste of food and beverages from many of the city’s premier restaurants.

Somehow drinking cocktails at 9:30am in Las Vegas did not seem out of the ordinary in the way serving copious quantities of alcohol before noon seemed odd at IPW conventions in Los Angeles and San Francisco the past two years.

Smith Center for the Performing Arts, Las Vegas

The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, Marriott Autograph Collection

Holsteins Chile Verde Breakfast Taco accompanied with summer berry breakfast smoothie made with Stoli raspberry vodka.

Holsteins is a burgers and shakes restaurant at The Cosmopolitan. Holsteins homepage states their cows have attitude.

Holsteins Restaurant has an extensive beer menu. There was no plain beer or wine at the press brunch, only cocktail drinks.

Holsteins summer berry breakfast smoothie (with Stoli raspberry vodka).

The Public House at the Grand Canal Shoppes in the Venetian

Block 16 Hospitality is the company behind both Holsteins and The Public House Las Vegas. The Public House is a beer focused creation by Las Vegas renowned Executive Chef Anthony Meidenbauer and restaurateur Billy Richardson.

Beer Mimosa from The Public House.

My eyes sparkled when I saw Kronenbourg 1664 Blanc on the table. I pleaded for a simple bottle of beer, to no avail.

Fruit and beer are not a combination I enjoy. You can take the lime, lemon and orange wedges and toss those in my salad, but please don’t ruin the flavor of beer with fruit additives.  I shared my opinion with the guys at The Public House on mixing fruit and beer. They coaxed me into drinking one beer mimosa. My opinion was not changed.

Caesars Palace Beijing Noodle No. 9

Chef Li Yu makes handmade noodles for northern Chinese cuisine at Beijing Noodle No 9.

This is a casual dining restaurant from 11am – 10:30pm with entrée menu priced at $15 to $25.

Nobu Caesars Palace

The opening of the Nobu Hotel at Caesars Palace on February 1, 2013 is one of the Las Vegas 2013 highlight openings. King Deluxe rooms range from $169 to $309 over the next couple of weeks.

Nobu Restaurant at Caesars Palace is the second Nobu in Las Vegas after Hard Rock Café. This is a place to be seen in the scene is my takeaway after looking over the website. Dress code is business casual, dining begins at 5pm and prices are $40+ for entrees.

Here is a review of the Caesars Restaurant from John Curtas is Eating Las Vegas if you want to read a not-so-glowing take on the menu prices that sounds like the kind of material I would write if I spent much time crafting restaurant reviews with a closing line like this:

“If you hear any critic praising it, ask them if they paid for their meal.”

Nobu breakfast pastry.

The pastry was good, but I passed on the Nobu sake mimosa accompaniment.

Comme Ça, The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas

Bastille whiskey cocktails from Comme Ça, a David Myers restaurant, were set adjacent to another Cosmopolitan restaurant breakfast dish from Scarpetta Italian Restaurant. Scarpetta’s celebrity chef Scott Conant will host 24 Hour Restaurant Battle on The Food Network this summer.

Scarpetta’s slow poached egg, brioche and fonduta.

Overlook Grill, The Cosmpolitan

Shrimp with a Bloody Mary chaser made for a cute toothpick substitute. Overlook Grill is adjacent to the pool at the Cosmopolitan.

Overlook Grill, Cosmopolitan Hotel

Tao, Grand Canal Shoppes, The Venetian

One of the dishes I heard a couple of eaters raving about were the kobe sliders at the Tao booth.

This is a restaurant I have eaten at before.

They looked good, but I did not eat one in the 100 degree heat after sampling plenty of other food.

I prefer their more traditional Asian style dishes.

Tao at the Grand Canale Shoppes, The Venetian.

Beef and carbs and drinks were taking their toll in the heat of day. Across the street from the grassy lawn park at the Smith Center interior  patio were more booths and more shade from the morning sunburn.

Real Alkalized Water were talking about how their negative ion-infused water provides an optimal pH and favorable anti-oxidants level, different from most bottled water. Sounded like interesting science that I could use to restore some of my chemistry knowledge lost 20 years ago.

Real Alkalized Water was served in large ice chests as an alternative to cocktail selections in the lawn area food court. The bottled water was the most sought after item by the press bunch.

The juxtaposition of the Real Alkalized Water booth to the museum booth across the sidewalk created ironic placement proximity.

National Atomic Testing Museum in Association with The Smithsonian Institution.

Do you notice the similarity in the logo images of Real Alkalized Water and Atomic Testing?

I joke here on the imagery as these booths were close to each other at the press brunch. I truly thank Real Alkalized Water as a sponsor providing cases of water samples. This was the first two hours of 14 hours of official convention activities. The weather conditions with the hot temperatures in Las Vegas revealed the press brunch bunch consuming far more water than alcohol.

In all seriousness, I’d like to see the National Atomic Testing Museum too. I think this is an important aspect of American History to be documented and displayed for the public to see and learn.

Tableau, Wynn Resort

Chilled King Crab, seasonal melon, jalapeno, crispy prosciutto, blood orange vinaigrette.

Delicious.

Las Vegas spectacle included musicians and singers and fashion models.

There were two male models and these guys were stars in my book. Notice all the women are shaded and the guy standing out in the 100-degree sun for two hours never broke a sweat.

Meanwhile ice wrapped in a handkerchief stuffed underneath my desert camouflage hat kept me cool in the sun as the water slowly melted down my sunscreened face.

Carnegie Deli at the Mirage offered pastrami sliders and one supersized pastrami sandwich.

The booth with the food coup of the day, considering the heat, was a fruit market from Wolfgang Puck’s Postrio California cuisine restaurant at the Palazzo/Venetian Grand Canal Shoppes.

Fruit market from Wolfgang Puck’s Postrio restaurant.

Hotel Loyalty Programs and Las Vegas

In the past few years the trend has been for major Las Vegas casino resort hotels to partner with major hotel brand loyalty programs.

The Cosmopolitan is a member of Marriott Rewards Autograph Collection.

The Venetian and The Palazzo are two resorts with InterContinental Alliance Resorts available to earn and burn IHG Rewards Club points.

The Mirage is one of the 12 resorts in the new Hyatt Gold Passport earn and redeem partnership beginning June 20, 2013 with MGM Resorts in Las Vegas.

Blogger Disclosure: IPW Press Brunch food and drinks were complimentary as a media attendee to IPW 2013 Las Vegas.

        

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Two years ago, June 2011, I passed through the region on a road trip from Monterey to Vancouver, British Columbia and back again. My memory from that trip was snow, snow and more snow piled up alongside the roads, on and around the mountains in mid-June. I had planned to enter Crater Lake from the north entrance, but the pass had not opened by mid-June that year in a season with far higher than average snow fall.

The snow seasons have been less than average the two years since.

Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway is 66 miles long and a relatively flat road through the Oregon Cascades west of Bend, Oregon.

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Enter the Loyalty traveler iPod Touch giveaway this week.

You can enter the National Car Rental sponsored contest to win a free iPod Touch and $50 iTunes gift card by submitting a photo of yourself enjoying outside life.

National Car Rental #SummerOnTheGo iPod and iTunes Card Giveaway (June 12, 2013)

       

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Since I have written about back roads across other western states this past month, I’ll share a few photos of Monterey County’s alternate route to Carmel/Monterey. Coming from the south the distance is a little shorter than Highway 101/Highway 68 to Monterey, but the drive is a whole lot slower.

Carmel Valley Road Google Satellite Map

After 420 miles driving from Las Vegas on four hours sleep, I needed to add a little gravel to the travel and a little drive grind to stimulate my mind and stay awake for the last two hours home.

Vineyards and a pasture at the base of mountain heavens in the Santa Lucia Range.

Carmel Valley Road should really be called Carmel Valley mountains country road. The 60-mile drive from Highway 101 King City to Carmel, California on the coast makes the Big Sur Highway 1 drive seem like an interstate highway.

The vineyards seem to be encroaching on the wilderness everywhere, yet there is still plenty of natural mountain scenery to enjoy on the hour-plus drive between the wineries on the eastern side of the Santa Lucia Range and Carmel Valley Village 37 miles to the northwest.

Ridgetop view from Carmel Valley Road.

At times the road seems like it goes on forever as the time passes over an hour and Carmel-by-the-sea is still 28 miles away.

Carmel Valley Road is the long way to Carmel, but taking the back road with its twisting curves, one-lane bridges, turkey vultures’ wings shining brightly in the clear sky sun overhead kept me engaged for the final miles home to Monterey.

There’s no place like home.

Rural Monterey County on Carmel Valley Road.

Best part of all was feeling the sea air of Carmel and Monterey at 67 F.

I slept better last night with the cool ocean breeze flowing through the bedroom window than I have in weeks of big city nights in Toronto and Las Vegas.

Monterey, California.

        

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The theme of the #SummerOnTheGo campaign is encouraging business travelers to get outside and explore the area when traveling on a business trip.

Loyalty Traveler #SummerOnTheGo  contest sponsored by National Car Rental.

National’s Summer On-The-Go Prize Pack ($310 value)

• Apple iPod Touch
• $50 iTunes Gift Card
• Some National branded items!

Entry Rules:

1. Post a picture on Instagram or Twitter of you outside by 12:00 noon (Pacific time) Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

Your photo can be in a park, courtyard, outside on a patio for lunch. Wherever. You just need to be seen outside to have a valid photo entry for this contest. 

2. Tag your photo with @LoyaltyTraveler and use #SummerOnTheGo.

These are two essential components for your photo post so I can follow along, find and include your photo in the contest entries.

3. I’ll choose a winner for the National Summer on-the-Go prize pack and contact the winner for shipping details to pass on to National Car Rental.

Note #1: The prize pack is available only  for U.S. residents per National Car Rental promotion rules.

Blogger Disclosure: I will receive compensation for running this National Car Rental giveaway including an iPod Touch and $250 American Express gift card. I have never had an iPod.

Sample Summer on-the-Go road trip ideas for LAS/LAX/SFO travelers:

Getting outside and away from the crowds is something I can relate to as I have taken advantage of being in parks on my recent business trips to Toronto and Las Vegas.

Las Vegas Airport to Death Valley National Park is only 130 miles to reach the lowest spot in North America at 282 feet below sea-level. A trip to Las Vegas places you in the most convenient location for a Death Valley excursion.

Next month is the centennial commemoration of the hottest temperature officially recorded on earth when Greenland Ranch in Death Valley reached 134 degrees Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913.

This past week the temperature at Furnace Creek Visitor Center, Death Valley National Park hit 123 F.

Death Valley in summer is a perfect occasion to have a rental car for an air conditioned getaway desert drive.

And if Death Valley is too hot, you can be hiking in Zion National Park, Utah after three hours driving I-15 northeast from Las Vegas.

Here in the west there are plenty of opportunities to get outside and roam about places outside major cities where a car can take you there and back in a day.

Los Angeles Airport to Big Bear Lake is 113 miles and a little over two hours drive at off-peak times to travel from the airport to the mountain lake at 6,700 feet. Los Angeles may feel like a great big traffic jammed freeway until you head up into the mountains and see a wilder side of southern California.

San Francisco Airport to Santa Cruz, Monterey/Carmel and Big Sur is a great driving excursion down California Highway 1.

Central Coast California is one of the most scenic areas of the state where even the car and motorcycle companies frequently travel to film their commercials.

California Highway 1 along Big Sur coast about 125 miles south of San Francisco Airport.

So take advantage of your summer on the go and get your feet outside in the grass, in the sand or in the woods. Take advantage of the regions around your business destination to see places where a rental car can get you there and back again in time for your next flight.

        

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Bookings must be made between June 30 and August 31, 2013 for hotel stays during these same dates. The rate is determined by the temperature posted on the hotel’s website under the weather section of the homepage.

For example, a high temperature of 94 degrees means that guests can book a deluxe room for only $94 per night.

To book, call  305-503-6557 and request the “Stay Cool” package. Remember these summer stay rates are available beginning June 30.

The ‘Stay Cool’ rate applies to all nights for the entire stay.

The temperature taken into consideration will be the one posted on Conrad Miami’s website under the “At a Glance” menu under the “Hotel Information” tab or visit:  http://conradhotels3.hilton.com/en/hotels/florida/conrad-miami-MIACICI/index.html#/en/hotels/florida/conrad-miami-MIACICI/about/at-a-glance.html

I didn’t see a temperature reading on this page, but I assume there will be one by the end of the month.

Conclusion – This looks like a great rate for a luxury hotel in Miami. The Conrad Miami is in a good location with the Mary Brickell Village nearby for shopping, restaurants and bars. The MetroMover station is across the street for free downtown Miami transportation. 

I stayed at the Conrad Miami hotel in December 2012. The room was comfortable and so was the outside temperature in December.

July and August is far more humid in Miami, if that is a consideration to you.

Here is my hotel review of the Conrad Miami (Jan 26, 2013).

        

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