Revisiting glamour hotels

Revisiting glamour hotels
With New York's Plaza going condo, it's worth remembering the golden age of glamour hotels, the 1920s and '30s.
Two architects, Leonard Schultze and S. Fullerton Weaver, were largely responsible. They created Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, Sherry-Netherland and Pierre; and Florida's Breakers and Biltmore.
Explore their creations at the Wolfsonian museum in Miami Beach from Nov. 13 through May 28.
For more information, call (305) 531-1001 or visit www.wolfsonian.org.
Rotating on Riviera
The new 238-room Marmara Antalya hotel on the Turkish Riviera has a revolutionary feature: One of its two buildings rotates, so that each of its 24 lofts gets a constantly changing panorama of mountains and sea. When not lounging on the beach, guests can use the indoor or outdoor pool, the tennis club and the fitness center; windsurf; kayak; water-ski or JetSki; or play basketball, volleyball or badminton.
For more information, visit www.themarmarahotels.com.
In Santa Fe, you getall this for $100,000
Talk about one-stop shopping. A Santa Fe hotel offers a weekend in its presidential suite, first-class travel and an original painting of your choosing for one price: $100,000.
The Eldorado Hotel & amp; Spa's $100,000 Picture Perfect Package includes an original masterpiece, priced up to $85,000, which guests can select on private gallery tours. Then they can meet with the artist at a private dinner at the hotel's restaurant.
The package includes accommodations in the hotel's 2,000-square-foot Presidential Suite with daily breakfast in bed, a round of golf and daily 50-minute spa treatments. Other perks: private walking tour of the historic plaza, convertible car for use during the stay, round-trip first-class air fare for two and limousine transfers.
If you don't want to shell out six figures, the package price can be cut at least in half and a less-pricey masterpiece substituted.
For more information, call (800) 955-4455 or visit www.eldoradohotel.com.
Legend vs. realityon first Thanksgiving
PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- So what really happened at the first Thanksgiving when the Pilgrims and the Indians sat down together back in 1621?
You're invited to learn about legend vs. reality while chowing down at Plimoth Plantation this fall.
The living-history museum is holding "Harvest Dinners" on Saturday, and on Nov. 5, 12, 19, 20, 23, 25 and 26, and tickets are still available to a Thanksgiving Day buffet Nov. 24, along with an "Eat Like a Pilgrim" lunch Nov. 25.
While you're there, check out the museum's exhibit "Thanksgiving: Memory, Myth and Meaning," which explains the history of the holiday, and visit reproductions of the 1627 Pilgrim Village, the Wampanoag Homesite and the Mayflower II.
To make reservations, call (508) 746-1622, ext. 8366, or visit www.plimoth.org.
Another skating optionfor Manhattan visitors
NEW YORK -- Ice-skating with the skyscrapers of Manhattan as a backdrop is a magical experience treasured by many visitors to New York City each holiday season.
This year, visitors will have a new rink to choose from in addition to the old favorites at Rockefeller Center and in Central Park. The Pond at Bryant Park opens Friday behind the New York Public Library on 42nd Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues.
The new rink will be the only one of the three rinks that doesn't charge admission. Skate rentals will be $7.50 and locker rentals, $3.50 an hour. About 500 people will be allowed on the ice surface at any one time.
The rink will be open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., and weekends from 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. It will close Jan. 16 as preparations begin for Fashion Week, which is held in the park in February.
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