Be rational, there is no California road trip.

Are you the brightest of all your friends? Were you the one who came up with the idea to do something about getting away like you’ve all been talking about for months?

Be rational – you’re not going to do the road trip to California together so how about getting involved with Germany? The New Yorker in Cologne, East Hotel in Hamburg or Lux 11 in Berlin are superb for nightlife and not in the horrible resort way, but in the cosmopolitan way that means in the day you feel equally as good and not like you’ve been up all night drinking anti-freeze.

Your group piggy bank with “Barbados” tippexed on it is rather un-weighty? Polarise your plans with Hotel Skeppsholmen, found on one of Stockholm’s many islands, only a 10 minute walk (yes, walk, it’s a beautiful one too) to some of Sweden’s most luxurious bars and clubs and come home again to your own little haven. Or maybe, all your stressful lives just need a little mending. Get to know each other again with a relaxing chilled, insiders choice at Hollmann Beletage in Vienna or Greulich Hotel in Zurich. Perhaps an intimate and highly personalised trip to the Lesic Dimitri Palace in Korcula, Croatia, complete with private yachts and island exploration?

Europe this Easter time is actually doable – Think how easy it would be.

Categories: Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Korcula – Croatia, Stockholm, Vienna, Zurich, EASTER

What is the deal with bunnies?

If like us you’ve survived the freakish winter, the new decade slog at work, the tedious post New Year chats, you’re probably starting to feel a bit like robots. Yes? Then, do something about it. We might not be able to offer you hot hot hot, but we can offer you a change of scenery. We know how sometimes you can’t pinpoint what you want so it blurts out as “sun, oh god the sun, I miss the sun”. It’s maybe not just the sun. We need a bit of variation as going to a different supermarket or taking a different route home is a start but it really isn’t as environment changing as we’d like.

We’re looking out for your needs, for your welfare and happiness. Think of us as something between a shoulder to cry on and fun fascists.

Go away for Easter – you have no idea how happy it will make you.

Check out these tips for couples and with friends.

Lichtfaktor. Light tagging Cologne

The Cologne collective Lichtfaktor, spearheaded by artists $ehvermögen, beat.surfers and JIAR, is quietly cultivating “light writing”, the latest form of graffiti.  The basic premise of light writing is to take long-term exposure photos of light sources that “draw” an image.  The goals of traditional graffiti and light writing are similar and both strive take it one step further than was previously thought possible.  However the technique is drastically different.  Lichtfaktor “writes” with various light sources while taking a time-lapse photo.  The result is a psychedelic burst of energy across a seemingly empty landscape. Read the rest of this entry »

Reading Rebuilds

The New Yorker Hotel in Cologne will host a charity reading later this month in aid of the people of Haiti.

Ingeborg Semmelroth will read “Die Meistererzählungen” von Stefan Zweig.

Entrance is free, but donations will be accepted throughout the evening, with all proceeds going to their partner UNICEF.

Register your attendance by the 19th February 2010, the event takes place on the 24th February.

For more information contact the hotel directly on +49 (0)221 47 330, or check out their website.

Dirty weekend – Valentines Ideas Pt. II

Hotel rooms make people act as they wouldn’t normally. It’s a complete mystery why suddenly you “make love” like you’re being paid to. It must be something to do with the new surroundings and maybe something to do with the fact it’s a space filled with things to be bent over. Flicking through Cosmo and picking out some tips about nibbling ear lobes and dressing as a nurse are just baby steps in a world of possibilities. If you have a power-dependence, you like business and control, Hotel Omm in Barcelona was built for you with it’s mix of sophistication and sex – think suits and power heels.

Word association – Hamburg? What springs to mind? We think about getting naughty in East Hotel and no doubt you will to. It’ll be whispered to you over dinner afterwards “darling, do you remember Hamburg” and you’ll blush. I know you’re imagining that scenario and you haven’t even been yet!

The sexiness of the New Yorker in Cologne is hard to describe. It’s like a subtle pop-art picture of a naked girl that you saw once in a magazine from the 70’s, and it’s beautiful and you can’t stop staring at it and then suddenly you realise that you can go there and make love, or art, or make love to an artist and it’s confusing but that’s the sexiest thing about it. I’m glad you understand.

Remember this Valentines…Its not just important who you do, but where you do them.

—

See what the East Hotel in Hamburg has to offer in their “Long Valentines Weekend” special over here.

Tell us if you book by dropping an email over to feedme@whitelinehotels.com and we’ll enter you into a draw to win a weekend in any one of our hotels.

—