How about a free night on the Grand Canal in Venice? In the sumptuous surroundings of a magnificently restored historic building just steps from Piazza San Marco? With the End of Summer Sale at the Westin Europa & Regina, your third night is free when you book a three night stay between now and December 28, 2007. Plus, you can arrive any day of the week. Housed in five buildings which date from the 17th to 19th centuries, the award-winning hotel offers the perfect combination of traditional beauty and contemporary conveniences– like the signature Heavenly Bed and Westin WORKOUT room. (Rates start from EUR 330 per night. Book online before October 31, 2007. Promotion code is Z3R.)

The World is Your Hotel: It’s true, I’ve been in and out of hotel rooms this year, and while it’s fun to be a hotel name-dropper from time to time - “oh, I’ve stayed there…” – there is still a long list of hotels I’d love to stay in someday, somehow… Maybe I read too much Vanity Fair or watch too many movies, but these hotels seem to come up again and again as some of the chic-est places to lay one’s head.