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Hotel stays up for auction to aid Katrina victims
Wednesday, September 14, 2005; Posted: 1:29 p.m. EDT (17:29 GMT)
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BRETTON WOODS, New Hampshire (AP) -- Want to have a sleepover with 499 of your closest pals?
Now's your chance. To raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, the Mount Washington Hotel is auctioning itself off online. The winner gets the complete use of the hotel -- all 200 rooms, which accommodate 500 people.
There's also golf, tennis, horseback riding, carriage and sleigh rides, swimming, hiking, mountain biking, snowshoeing, ice skating, snow tubing, and alpine and cross-country skiing at Bretton Woods ski area.
Hotel officials say the auction will begin Wednesday on eBay and end September 24. The winner gets use of the hotel the night of November 9. The hotel puts the value of the auction at $50,000.
The hotel says the full amount of the winning bid will be donated to the American Red Cross relief efforts.
"We certainly hope this will help victims out and aid in restoration in the downtown," said Wayne Presby, chairman of the board of the hotel. "Obviously, we are very interested in historic properties, owning one ourselves."
Wednesday, September 14, 2005; Posted: 1:29 p.m. EDT (17:29 GMT)
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The auction winner will have full use of the Mount Washington hotel on November 9.
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BRETTON WOODS, New Hampshire (AP) -- Want to have a sleepover with 499 of your closest pals?
Now's your chance. To raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, the Mount Washington Hotel is auctioning itself off online. The winner gets the complete use of the hotel -- all 200 rooms, which accommodate 500 people.
There's also golf, tennis, horseback riding, carriage and sleigh rides, swimming, hiking, mountain biking, snowshoeing, ice skating, snow tubing, and alpine and cross-country skiing at Bretton Woods ski area.
Hotel officials say the auction will begin Wednesday on eBay and end September 24. The winner gets use of the hotel the night of November 9. The hotel puts the value of the auction at $50,000.
The hotel says the full amount of the winning bid will be donated to the American Red Cross relief efforts.
"We certainly hope this will help victims out and aid in restoration in the downtown," said Wayne Presby, chairman of the board of the hotel. "Obviously, we are very interested in historic properties, owning one ourselves."
