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The new “Summertime is Your Time” resort promotion is available at 23 Marriott Hotels & Resorts and JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts properties in the U.S. and Canada.

The offer is valid for reservations booked throiugh Aug. 22, for stays through Sept. 5, and includes free breakfast for two adults and children, a $50 resort credit to use during the stay, and 20 percent off spa and golf services.

Participating properties include eight JW Marriott Resorts and 15 Marriott Resorts in Florida, Hawaii, California, Nevada and Canada.

A seven-day advance reservation and a three-night minimum stay is required.

For information and booking, visit

www.marriott.com/YourSummerTime

and enter the promotional code R6M for the summer resort promotion.

A summer weekend promotions are also now available at 297 participating Marriott Hotels & Resorts and JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts in the U.S. and Canada. Marriott’s “Weekends Begin Here” offer is valid for reservations booked throughAug. 22, for stays May 19 through Sept. 5, and includes complimentary breakfast for two adults, free Internet, and late check-out at 2 p.m. A two-night minimum stay and seven-day advance reservation is required.

For reservations or more information, visit www.marriott.com/weekendhere  and enter the promotional code F2V.

Cedarbrook Lodge, conveniently located less than 20 minutes south of downtown Seattle, is providing a new “Pre- or Post-Cruise” package, available now through Oct. 23, 2011.

This premier package is perfect for travelers who port in Seattle, and includes comfortable accommodations in a well-appointed guest room, transportation before or after the cruise to Pier 66 or 91, and access to Cedarbrook’s signature amenities, including Northwest continental breakfast; 24-hour snacks featuring Haagen Dazs ice cream, malted milk balls, bottled water and more.

The hotel also has WiFi access and shuttle service to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Amtrak Tukwila station or SoundTransit Central Link light rail station.

Cedarbrook is a quintessentially Northwest hotel located on 18 acres of restored wetlands, just 20 minutes south of downtown Seattle.

It is also home to Copperleaf Restaurant, a premier farm-to-table restaurant offering fresh locally sourced cuisine. Copperleaf is ranked the Best New Restaurant to open in 2010 by Seattle Magazine readers and was also named a Top 10 New Restaurant in the U.S by Gayot.

The “Pre- or Post-Cruise” package starts at $209 per night and is available now through Oct. 23, 2011. The package is subject to availability and cannot be combined with other offers or promotions.

For more information about Cedarbrook Lodge or to make a reservation, call 877-515-2176 or visit www.CedarbrookLodge.com

At St. Lucia’s Mago Estate Hotel, travelers who book a five-night stay from June 1 to Sept. 4, 2011, will pay for only four nights. The offer reflects a minimum savings of $200 depending on room category.

Guests who book seven nights pay for only five nights, a minimum savings of $400 depending on room category. Mago Estate features 20 rooms and suites, all with balconies or terraces overlooking the Piton peaks.

A former residence built into a mountainside and nestled amongst trees and exotic foliage, the hotel features 10 types of accommodations ranging from intimate open-air rooms to grand suites, with all rooms which are decorated with handcrafted furnishings.

Nightly rates start at $200 per room, per night. All rates are subject to a 10 percent service charge and 9 percent local taxes. For more information, call 758-459-5880 and mention Spring Airfare or Free Night. For more information, visit www.magohotel.com

Nevis’ Nisbet Plantation is offering travelers who book stays of six nights or longer between June 1 and Aug. 14, 2011, a $500 air credit.

The package also includes two airport transfers from the St. Kitts and/or Nevis (NEV) airports, plantation cottage-style accommodations, daily breakfast served poolside, afternoon tea and a nightly three-course gourmet dinner at the AAA Four Diamond Great House. Daily rates start at $383 for a superior room, double occupancy.

For more information, visit www.nisbetplantation.com

Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea announced the return of the Maui Film Festival.

Now in its 12th season, the Maui Film Festival at Wailea once again will showcase cinematic vision and storytelling with nearly 50 of the best new releases from studios, independents, and world cinema.

Up to 25 of the year’s best short films also will be spotlighted.

This is truly a star-studded event, with luminaries of both the celebrity and the celestial variety making stellar appearances.

In past years, Four Seasons Resort Maui and the festival have hosted Pierce Brosnan, Claire Danes, Jake Gyllenhaal, Owen Wilson, Zooey Deschanel, Mike Myers, Adrian Brody, Willie Nelson, Patricia Clarkson, William Hurt, and Joan Allen.

Many screenings take place at the unique open-air Celestial Cinema, just a five-minute shuttle ride from the resort.

A variety of special events will take place during the festival, including the resort’s “A Taste of Chocolate,” a night to indulge the palate while mingling with festival celebrities and international film lovers along the lush oceanfront gardens at the resort.

This year, the elegant party will be held on Friday, June 17, from 10 p.m. to midnight. The ticket cost is $125.

Four Seasons Resort Maui is offering two complimentary tickets to the movies each night of the festival to guests who reserve a Partial Ocean View, Ocean View, or Ocean View Prime room at published rates or on a package basis. Room rates for this package start at $745.

For more information on the Maui Film Festival or to book a reservation at the resort’s signature event, A Taste of Chocolate, contact concierge.maui@fourseasons.com or call 808-874-2201.

To book a reservation at the resort, call 800)-334-MAUI or email res.maui@fourseasons.com

Visit http://maui.fourseasons.com/edition/unforgettable-events  or www.fourseasons.com/maui

Pleasant Holidays launched a Hawaii Summer Vacation Sale, offering savings of up to 54 percent on vacation packages including air and three nights’ hotel accommodation.

The sale is valid for travel June 1 to Aug. 31 from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago and Boston featuring flights on United Airlines to Oahu, Maui, Kauai and Hawaii, The Big Island.
The Hawaii Summer Vacation Sale also includes Norwegian Cruise Line’s Hawaiian Island cruise, which departs each Saturday from Honolulu.

Travelers can also reserve pre-cruise and post-cruise hotel packages on Waikiki Beach.

Roundtrip air and three-night hotel packages on the Hawaii Summer Vacation Sale including all hotel taxes begin at $636 from San Francisco, $664 from Los Angeles, $694 from Denver, $706 from Chicago and $769 from Boston. In addition, Pleasant Holidays’ Hawaii Hot Deals offers up to $100 off on Hertz car rentals.

Hawaii Hot Deals offers are valid for air-inclusive vacations with a minimum five-night stay at a participating hotel on Oahu, Maui, Kauai or Hawaii, The Big Island.

Kids 17 and younger stay free at many participating hotels and resorts; many of the islands’ hotels offer added values for kids during the summer.

Pleasant Holidays offers a large variety of Hawaii activities and sightseeing tours at www.PleasantActivities.com.

The site features real time prices and inventory for Hawaii’s most popular attractions including Pearl Harbor, the Polynesian Cultural Center, Hawaiian luaus, zip-line adventures, sunset cruises and more.

Pleasant Holidays is one of the leading travel companies to Hawaii, Mexico, Caribbean, Costa Rica, the South Pacific and continental United States serving more than 10 million travelers since 1959. The company provides vacation packages through its portfolio of four brands — Pleasant Holidays, Hawaii World Distinguished Resorts, Pleasant Activities, and Air By Pleasant.

Guests at 14 Millennium hotels in the United States will have the opportunity to quickly earn free stays and enjoy other perks and discounts worldwide by joining the Millennium & Copthorne Loyalty Club, now available for U.S. travelers and now including Club benefits for stays at U.S. Millennium hotels.

The M&C Loyalty Club is the global frequent guest recognition and reward program of parent company Millennium & Copthorne (M&C). M&C Loyalty Club members receive two points for every dollar spent on room revenue during qualified stays at Millennium properties and can begin to redeem free stays in the U.S. and around the world by accumulating at least 4,600 points.

Points are redeemed online before making a hotel reservation.

In addition to accommodations, vouchers for food and beverage and other hotel services, such as broadband, also can be redeemed.

Loyalty Club members are ranked in three tiers depending on the number of qualified stays accumulated.

Guests with up to three qualified stays are called Classic members and have the opportunity to accumulate points. Gold members, with four to 11 stays, receive early check-in, a complimentary welcome beverage voucher and daily newspaper, complimentary Internet access in the guest room, two complimentary room upgrades, and on a member’s birthday, 20 percent off a two-night stay and two for one entrée.

Diamond tier membership, for guests with 12 or more qualified stays, features all of these benefits plus two additional room upgrades and 20 percent off the total food bill at hotel-owned and operated food and beverage outlets.

Individuals interested in joining the M&C Loyalty Club may enroll online or directly at the hotels upon check-in and as they accumulate qualified stays, they are automatically promoted to Gold or Diamond levels. Membership in the M&C Loyalty Club is only available to individual travelers and their guests, not for corporations, travel bookers or meeting business.

For more information about the Millennium & Copthorne Loyalty Club, visit www.mncloyalty.com

Southwest Airlines Vacations is offering $75 per person price reductions on air/hotel packages for four or more nights at any hotel Southwest Airlines Vacations offers in Panama City Beach, South Walton Beach or Destin, Fla.

Use promotion code ECP75 at the time of booking.

Some hotels are offering a free additional night.

Bags fly free.

Packages must be booked before June 2 by 6 p.m. CT for travel  through Aug 31. Seven-day advance purchase is required.

Southwest Airlines Vacations offers vacation packages to more than 80 destinations with flight service available from every scheduled Southwest Airlines departure city. Packages may include flight, hotel, car rentals, show tickets, attraction passes or other components. Southwest Airlines Vacations is located in Orlando and operated by The Mark Travel Corporation (TMTC). TMTC is a member of the USTOA $1 Million Traveler’s Assistance Program and ASTA TOP.

Aloft’s Smart Check-In will allow guests to go straight to their rooms at Aloft Harlem, Aloft Brooklyn, Aloft Dallas Downtown, Aloft Jacksonville Tapestry Park and Aloft London by the end of 2011. Smart Check-In made its debut at Aloft Lexington in Massachusetts last year.

Running on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, Smart Check-In caters to a new generation of guests on the go who are more interested in high-tech than high-touch service.

To use Smart Check-In, Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) members who opt to participate receive a new enhanced SPG/Aloft-branded RFID keycard.

On the day of a planned stay, a text message is sent to the guest’s mobile device with their room number.

Once at the hotel, guests can skip the check-in line and go straight to their room, where their keycard will unlock the door — giving guests control of their check-in experience in the palms of their hands.

A video tour of Smart Check-In is available for viewing at

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iCSAsm7DGs&feature=channel_video_title.

The SPG/Aloft-branded RFID keycard may eventually act as an all-access pass throughout the Aloft stay, allowing guests to purchase cocktails and bites at the hotel’s w xyz bar, sundries at the re:stock retail kiosk and snacks at re:fuel by aloft, the Aloft brand’s deli-style, grab-and-go pantry.

For more information, visit the tab above for Aloft Hotels.

The DoubleTree by Hilton Alana Waikiki, in Hawaii, is finishing a $16 million hotel transformation project, which includes comprehensive upgrades throughout the hotel’s guest rooms, public areas, function space and dining outlets.

Situated at the entrance to Waikiki, this 317-room, full-service hotel is within close proximity of the Hawaii Convention Center and all of the renowned beach, dining, shopping and entertainment options that Waikiki has to offer.

Renovated rooms feature multiple outlets for electronic devices and a multi-media console that will connect laptop computers directly to the television for added convenience. New 37-inch flat-panel plasma televisions will allow access to the hotel movie catalog and cable network. All of the hotel’s suites, including those on the 19th floor that open to a roof-top patio, will be furnished with 42-inch flat-panel plasma televisions.

Bathrooms offer walk-in showers with adjustable oversized “rain” shower heads will provide a welcome retreat for tired guests. In addition to showers, each of the hotel’s 43 suites will feature soaking tubs, with whirlpool spas in the 19th floor suites.

The guest room upgrades follow the completion last year of DoubleTree by Hilton Alana Waikiki’s lobby and public areas. New lobby furnishings, carpeting, wall covering and window treatments create a relaxing and inviting setting for reading, working on a laptop or meeting with colleagues.

The ocean theme is reflected on the area rugs with their wave and sea patterns.

The hotel’s meeting and banquet rooms, along with its restaurant, will be the final phase of the refurbishment.

The redesigned function space will be expanded to 9,200 square feet and outfitted with cutting edge technology.

The Bistro is being redesigned to offer breakfast, lunch and dinner service.

To commemorate the newly redesigned DoubleTree by Hilton Alana Waikiki, Hilton HHonors members who book and complete a qualifying stay with a minimum of three nights now through July 26, 2011, will receive 5,000 Hilton HHonors Bonus Points.

This offer cannot be combined with any other promotional offer, award or meeting/group stay.

Mention booking code HH8 when booking your reservation to be eligible for this offer.

For reservations or more information, call 808-941-7275 or visit

www.doubletreealana.com