“DEAR ME”
That’s a phrase hotel staff at The Palmer House in Chicago are bound to hear a few more times in the coming months.
The legendary property is offering a jaw dropping deal to some of its oldest guests. The promotion really is astounding—–it is applicable to any guest who visited the property more than 50 years ago. Under the program, any guest who can provide an original receipt from his or her stay will be given the same room at the price they paid more than a half-century ago.
And if you think that the hotel hasn’t had any takers you’d be wrong. Just ask Larry and Mariam Orenstein who honeymooned at the famed hotel in 1947. Back then they paid just under $10 for a night in the hotel’s penthouse suite. Six decades later the couple spent their 60th wedding anniversary in the same room for the same price. Only now the room they shelled out ten bucks for goes for $1,600.
According to execs at the historic Chicago hotel, the Orenstein’s who are both 81 saved their hotel receipt, along with other items from their wedding and were able to cash in on doing so just a few weeks ago. Actually, hotel staff revealed that in the end, the Orenstein’s did not even have to pay the $10. As an anniversary gift, their 12-year-old grandson footed the bill.
DEER ME
And you thought Hawaii was only known for its cobalt blue waters and powder soft sand…
Well, chock up one more distinction to the “Aloha State.” It’s just been named as the best place in the entire country to avoid a collision with a deer.
State Farm Insurance just released a new ranking that measures states according to crashes involving deer on the highway and the island paradise ranked the safest with a one in 16,624 chance of hitting a deer.
Personally, I find this report to be rather amusing. Probably because I was born and raised in Hawaii, and frankly the only deer I ever saw were the plastic ones people put out on their lawns during the holidays. More ironic is the fact that I now live in Wisconsin, which, according to State Farm is one of the worst places to live if you want to avoid hitting a deer. Though, it’s not the worst. State Farm’s survey shows that West Virginia is the place where drivers are most likely to hit deer, with an estimated one in 57 chance of smashing into one. Michigan is next with a one in 86 chance.
Oh deer!