With more than a foot of snow looming – if those meteorologists can be believed – Kimpton hotels in Chicago are offering a $99 “Stranded in the City” rate through the end of the week (
). Though you don’t actually have to be stranded in the city – you can just want to snuggle up to your someone special downtown for a night or two. Use the code “COLD” by phone, in person or on the internet and you will get the special rate and save you about $50.
For those truly stranded, the hotels will have lobby televisions tuned to the Weather Channel and regular O’Hare and Midway Airport updates will be available at the front desk (Or else you can check out this FAA site:
www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp
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). Among the other perks: Hotel Burnham will also be serving complimentary coffee and hot tea until noon each day; Hotel Monaco will have extended complimentary wine hour from 5 to 7 p.m. and complimentary hot chocolate from 1 to 9 p.m.; and all the Chicago Kimpton hotels will offer amenities such as Wii entertainment systems to entertain families with children.
The Kimpton Hotels participating are: Hotel Allegro (171 W. Randolph St.), Hotel Burnham (1 W. Washington St.), Hotel Monaco (225 N. Wabash Ave.) and Hotel Palomar (505 N. State St.).