Traverse City Escape Package Includes Food, Lift Tickets and Discounted Lodging
With snow often up to our knees, it’s nice to hear the name “Traverse City” and free-associate with cherries and summer — the annual cherry blossom explosion, the cherry festival in July. But this wouldn’t be a Lake Michigan city worth its road salt if it didn’t know how to get through a nasty winter.
Have fun, is the Traverse City answer — ski, snowmobile, ice skate. Then warm up with a nice spa treatment and a hot toddy by the lodge fireplace.
Traverse City has a quaint little bunny hill to play on in the west side of town, Hickory Hills Ski Area. For a small fee, you can hold onto the rope tow and head up to the top of the bowl. This city-owned park, home of the Grand Traverse Ski Club, is surrounded by acres of Nature Conservancy land for cross-country skiing.
The TC Escape Package covers deals from hotels to lift tickets, from restaurants to facials. Just call a participating lodge or hotel directly, and mention “TC Escape Package”; some hotels accept online Escape Package booking. Each two paid adults will receive a coupon book at check-in good throughout the region. The Escape Package runs through May 19, 2011, with expiration dates earlier on some coupons.
Traverse City Winter Escapes Take Lodging from $35/night in Four-Tiered Pricing
The winter lodging discount is four-tiered. Tier I hotels are $35/night midweek, $60/night weekend, including Traverse Bay Inn, Ellis Lake Resort Logrooms and Traverse Victorian Inn.
Tier II lodging is $50/night midweek, $70/night weekend, such as Cherry Tree Inn and Suites, Sugar Beach and Grand Beach.
Tier III hotels are $70/night midweek and $90/night weekend, including North Shore Inn and Pointes North Resort.
Tier IV hotels are $100/night midweek, $120/night weekend, such as Grand Traverse Resort and Spa, Spider Lake Retreat and Schuss Village.
Escape to Traverse City with Deals on Meals, Massages, Movies, and Snow Tubing
The dining component of the TC Escape Package offers 20% off the non-alcohol bill at such spots as the Blue Tractor Cook Shop, Kilkenny's Irish Pub and Jolly Pumpkin Restaurant, Brewery & Distillery.
For those heading outdoors, Shanty Creek Resorts is offering discounts on lift tickets, tubing, Nordic track tickets. SnowBlitz is giving 15% off all half-day snowmobile rentals, while
Blue Sky is offering $20 off a full-day snowmobile rental.
After a workout, how about a nice spa treatment? Great Wolf Lodge is discounting its Elements Aveda Spa services $10, and adding 10% off any AVEDA retail product. Shanty Creek Resorts is offering 15% off any wellness spa treatment.
For warm and toasty entertainment, the State Theatre deal is buy one movie ticket, get one free. The same applies at Dennos Museum Center.
Save on Cherry-and-Cream Massages During Winter Rejuvenation at Grand Traverse Resort & Spa
At Grand Traverse Resort & Spa, bring a pal or a partner, or splurge for yourself. It’s buy one spa service, get 50% off a second spa service of same value or less at Spa Grand Traverse.
Grand Traverse is also offering a two-night Carefree Getaway now through April 14. Prices start midweek at $175 per person in the hotel and weekends starting at $188 per person in the hotel. The package includes two nights’ lodging, a three-course dinner in the Aerie Restaurant, Sweetwater American Bistro or The Grille, and two breakfasts per person in Sweetwater American Bistro.
The resort also has a Rejuvenation deal through April 14, with one night midweek starting at $165 per person and weekends starting at $172 per person. The package includes one breakfast per person in Sweetwater American Bistro, and your choice of spa treatments per person, such as a 50-minute scent-sational massage, 50-minute lavender hydrotherapy massage, 50-minute fitness facial, 50-minute men's skin revival, rosemary mint stress relief wrap, cherries and cream body treat, cherry honey glow scent-sational manicure or scent-sational pedicure.
Petoskey Rollicks with Bargains on the Slopes, in the Splash Zones and Spa Treatment Rooms
North in Petoskey, both Boyne Highlands and Boyne Mountain ski areas are offering packages for lodging, lift and hot breakfast from $102 per person per night.
Many Petoskey packages include downhill and cross-country skiing. Or, just curl up by the fire for the Martini and Massage Getaway through March 1 at Bay View Terrace Inn. It’s $219 per person, double occupancy, for dinner, breakfast, a 45-minute massage and manicure, and of course, two specialty martinis.
Petoskey has hotel and inn deals starting at $59 per night at the Birchwood Inn to three nights for the price of two at Bay Inn Petoskey.
And some of the winter fun in Petoskey is totally free. The Petoskey Winter Sportspark has sledding and ice skating, as well as cross-country ski and snowshoe trails. The ski areas all offer free skiing on the beginner areas, and Nubs Nob even has a chairlift.
How to Get Winter's Hottest Bargains in Traverse City and Petoskey, Michigan
To zero in on the TC Escape Package, just call a participating lodge or hotel directly, and mention “TC Escape Package”; some hotels accept online Escape Package booking. Each two paid adults will receive a coupon book at check-in good throughout the region. The Escape Package runs through May 19, with expiration dates earlier on some coupons.
Grand TraverseResort & Spa near Traverse City has special packages into April.
Petoskey’s winter hotel packages often include lift tickets, spa treatments and even geocaching adventures. Its ski packages include 14 deals that range from snowshoeing to water parks plunges.
Boyne has an entire page of bargains from dogsledding to a spa renewal package.
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