All rooms are suites at the Embassy Suites Hotel
The Embassy Suites in Downtown Chicago offers prime location and pure comfort in America’s new favored city. Grab your coat and scarf and bring in the new year on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Chicago lights by Kevin Dooley @ Flickr
In the midst of Obama-mania Chicago is now a tourist gold mine. The Illinois Bureau of Touism is even offering the “President-elect Obama Trail,” a three-day Getaway itineray that includes Obama’s Hyde Park neighborhood where his family’s favorite bookstore is–57th Street Books.
The tour includes:
- Grant Park
- Illinois State Capital
- Oriental Institute Museum
- Museum of Science and Industry
- US Cellular Field
- Smart Museum of Art
- DuSable Museum of African American History
- Frank Lloyd Wright Frederick C. Robie House
- Old State Capitol State Historic Site
- University of Chicago Law School
- Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
- South Shore Cultural Center
- Hyde Park neighborhood
- Kenwood neighborhood
New Year’s Eve is the perfect time to experience Chicago. Chicago’s New Year’s Eve Extravaganza at the Navy Pier is a five-hour frenzy of music, drinks and dancing and promises to be an unforgetable event. This celebrity-heavy party will be celebrating more than just a New Year this year.
On New Year’s Day watch as the Chicago Polar Bear Swim Club hosts the annual New Year’s Day Swim at North Avenue Beach. Hundreds of crazy, brave souls will strip down to their swim suits (no whining allowed) and jump into the frigid water. Some of the not-so-brave will go whimpering back to the spectators, who will accept them with laughter and understanding.
The all-suites Embassy Suites Chicago-Downtown offers a full breakfast buffet every morning, and complimentary cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, a fully equiped fitness center, high-speed Wifi, and a sophisticated Enoteca with an extensive wine list.
Celebrate the New Year in America’s most celebrated city.
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For years we’ve gotten rooms at the Embassy Suites in downtown Chicago for New Years Eve because it provides the right touch of exciting without having to involve a lot of alcohol, which is important when you’re dealing with families with young kids. The women would spend the day shopping, the guys would take the kids to the top of the Sears Tower or some other tourist thing, then spend the afternoon at the pool. In the evening, we’d let the kids throw confetti and trash out the room, knowing we didn’t have to clean it up the next day.
Forgot to mention, it’s across the street from Weber Grill, too!
Sounds like a perfect New Year’s celebration. We were there during the summer and enjoyed all of the activities that the city of Chicago offers for tourists.
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