![Hotels are getting "decked out" for this Christmas season.](http://www.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_lightbox/hash/62/7f/627f34aeba45b5d2eb2a518359e033f2.jpg "Hotels are getting "decked out" for this Christmas season.")
What makes your Christmas travel special? Is it driving home, or through a family members neighborhood to be met with house after house of glimmering, gleaming, bright lights illuminating everything around them? Is the smell of a fresh Christmas tree as you walk through the door? Is it the tastes of the traditional seasonal foods? Or maybe it is the wish for a white Christmas, feeling the delicate soft flakes cooling your skin? Maybe you have decided to break away from tradition, and just want to stay somewhere new.
No Matter what moves your senses this Christmas season, there are plenty of hotels that have pulled out all of the stops and have decked themselves out to make your Christmas stay that much more wonderful. With strands of glistening lights, towering Christmas trees, and displays and décor that will leave you inspired for years to come, you can enjoy your time waiting for Saint Nick in one of these festive hotels.
Orbitz.com took the Christmas season into consideration, and their staff found and selected the top ten best “Decked out hotels” for 2009.
Orbitz Best Decked Out Holiday Hotels
Las Vegas-The Bellagio
Orlando-Gaylord Palms
New York-The Peninsula
Chicago-The Drake
Los Angeles-Millennium Biltmore
Oahu-Sheraton Princess Kaiulani
San Francisco-The Fairmont
Miami-Fontainebleau
Washington, D.C.-Gaylord National
Lanai-Four Seasons Resort Lanai
You can find more information and images at www.orbitz.com/hotelinsider.
Special thanks to Cristina Martinez and Orbitz.com for their resources and assistance with this article.
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Comments
I love driving around and seeing the beautiful lights this time of year.
Last year we rented a timeshare (got a great deal through redweek.com) and took the kids to Hawaii in December. We all enjoyed the Christmas lights in downtown Honolulu,and the decorations at the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani were absolutely amazing. I was glad to see it on the list here.
Holiday lights can be really amazing, especially the elaborate presentations many hotels arrange. Free entertainment too either by going to various hotels or driving through neighborhoods.
Great read ; I'd published a companion article on this info detailed about the Bellagio in Vegas..good read, Jenn.
Wonderful! Also, closer to California, we should mention the Hotel Del Coronado, who are famous for their holiday lights, lobby Christmas tree, dinner play over the holiday season, and fireworks. You might want to do a story about them, in fact, or maybe we both should do it.
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