Keep Your New Year's Resolutions with The Rocco Forte Collection
Spend more quality time with the family in Brussels
Brussels, with its Comic Strip trail that weaves through the city and Museum of Natural Science with an impressive collection of dinosaurs, is a great city for children and adults alike. Stay at Rocco Forte’s Hotel Amigo which offers a VI’Kids and family programme that costs from 405 Euro (approx £282) for two interconnecting rooms for one night (2 adults & 2 children, including a 50% discount on the children’s room). The price includes family entrance into the museum, plus a Bulgari present for the children as well as a full buffet breakfast, a daily newspaper and access to our fitness centre. For more information, visit www.roccofortecollection.com or call 0800 988 4040.
Get in shape and lose weight in Berlin
Start the New Year as you mean to go on and join in the four kilometre New Year’s Day fun run in Berlin. Open to all participants and with no advance booking required, the run is the ultimate way to see the city (and clear the hangover!) – the route takes you down Berlin's main boulevard passing some of the city's most famous sights and is entirely car-free. Stay at Rocco Forte’s Hotel de Rome and you can soothe your aching muscles in the spa, complete with a 20-metre swimming pool, a Finnish sauna, an aroma steam room and six treatment rooms. Prices start from €200/£139 per room, per night. For more information, visit www.roccofortecollection.com or call 0800 988 4040.
Enjoy more time to yourself in St Petersburg
St Petersburg is famous for caviar and ballet, making it a decadent city for women to enjoy some quality ‘me-time’. Make the most of your precious time away with Rocco Forte’s Hotel Astoria’s Lady’s Time three-night package. Prices start from RUB 57,000 per person (approx £1,119) and include accommodation in a Deluxe Room, breakfast (including one champagne and caviar breakfast), champagne, fruits and bouquet of flowers upon arrival, entrance to the Hermitage Museum, return limousine airport transfers and a 30-minute Russian Classical Massage. To upgrade to a Superior Deluxe Room or Junior Suite, add RUB 4,200 (approx £82) or RUB 7,000 (£137) respectively to the packages. For more information, visit www.roccofortecollection.com or call 0800 988 4040.
Primp and pamper in Manchester
If you wish you could look more groomed and elegant but find months pass by between appointments, you need a monthly maintenance package. Rocco Forte’s The Lowry Hotel in Manchester has four packages to choose from which can be paid for monthly or yearly, offering a 30% and 50% saving on individual prices respectively. The Party Girl Maintenance includes an eyebrow wax, St Tropez spray tan, manicure, pedicure (monthly cost, £77, yearly cost £924); The Body Beautiful Maintenance Package includes a choice of two facials, a skin hydrating body wrap, half leg and bikini wax, eyebrow wax, manicure and pedicure (monthly cost £213.50, yearly cost £1,440); The Male Monthly Maintenance Package includes a massage, facial, back or chest wax and manicure (monthly cost, £126, yearly cost £1,110); and The Feel Good About Yourself Monthly Maintenance Package includes reflexology, Detox Algae Wrap, Aromatherapy Facial and soothing eye treatment (monthly cost £154, yearly cost £1,320). Make a weekend of it and stay overnight from just £125 per room, per night. For more information, visit www.roccofortecollection.com or call 0800 988 4040.
Become a culture vulture in London
The 3 January is the first in a series of late night openings of more than 80 art galleries in London. On the first Thursday of every month, heavyweight galleries such as the White Cube and the Barbican, as well as smaller independent exhibition spaces, will be open until 9pm and many mark the occasion with special events. Rocco Forte’s Brown’s Hotel, which itself has a rich cultural heritage as the place where Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book and where the bar is lined with Sir Terence Donovan’s iconic photographs, is the perfect place to stay while on a cultural trip to the capital. Prices start from £235 per room, per night. For more information, visit www.roccofortecollection.com or call 0800 988 4040.
Be more romantic in Geneva
Make a grand romantic gesture and whisk your loved one to Geneva, a city nestling beneath the soaring Alps and dotted with cafes and bars where you can cosy up with a cup of hot chocolate or glass of vin chaud. The city’s prestigious Le Richemond hotel re-opened in September 2007, after an extensive refurbishment by The Rocco Forte Collection and offers a Winter Fairy Tale Package that is the epitome of romance. The package includes two nights’ accommodation with breakfast, homemade Ginger Bread and hot chocolate in room on arrival and a round trip from the hotel to the charming ski resort of Megève for a traditional cheese fondue dinner in an authentic French Chalet and a moonlit dog-sled ride. The package starts from CHF 2,082/approximately £852 per room, based on two people sharing. Offer valid from 1 December 2007 to 29 February 2008. For further information, please visit www.roccofortecollection.com or call 0800 988 4040.
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NOTES FOR EDITORS
The Rocco Forte Collection was established in 1996 to create a group of luxury hotels in Europe. The hotels have individual styles, with each hotel reflecting its nationality and location. The properties are linked together under The Rocco Forte Collection, which guarantees attention to detail, quality and service delivery.
The Rocco Forte Collection comprises:
- Hotel de Russie, Rome
- Hotel Savoy, Florence
- The Balmoral, Edinburgh
- The Lowry Hotel, Manchester
- Hotel Astoria, St Petersburg
- Hotel Amigo, Brussels
- Brown’s Hotel, London
- Villa Kennedy, Frankfurt
- Hotel de Rome, Berlin
- Le Richemond, Geneva
- The Charles Hotel, Munich
Future openings:
Prague - 2008
Verdura Golf & Spa Resort, Sicily – 2009
Marrakech - 2009
For further information and online reservations, please visit The Rocco Forte Collection website: www.roccofortecollection.com.
