Virgin Holidays + HIP Hotels: Budget
The worlds most Highly Individual Places that don't cost the earth
HIP HOTELS: BUDGET?
Doesn’t that sound too good to be true? But true it is. All the ingredients that make a HIP HOTEL - fantasy, originality, style, location - are available at less than astronomical rates if only you know where to look.
No less surprising is that they are truly global in range. Urban or remote, historic or post-industrial, Sunset Boulevard or Moroccan Riad: take your pick. These are hotels created by enthusiasts, and it shows.
Budget or not, style doesn’t get more authentic than this. So plunge in and discover for yourself the fabulous - and fabulously affordable - collection of Virgin Holidays + HIP Hotels.
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Jamaica
£79 per room per night*
A bohemian bolthole on a different side of the island.
*Dates: 20 Apr 2011 - 14 Oct 2011.
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Cuba
£89 per room per night*
Vieja Habana is popular with visitors, and for good reason. Havana is authentic, even if the odd building could do with a lick of paint. For fans of colonial Cuba, the place to stay is the Hotel Santa Isabel.
*Dates: 217 Apr 2011-31 Jul 2011, 21 Aug 2011-31 Oct 2011, 01 Dec 2011-22 Dec 2011.
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Palm Springs
£89 per room per night*
The grounds are landscaped in a Beverly Hills movie mogul manner, with three swimming pools (two for adults only), lots of palm trees, plenty of potted topiary, and enough ceramic whippets to fill a kennel!
*Dates: 13 Jun 2011-09 Sep 2011 - MIDWEEK PRICE.
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Hong Kong
£109 per room per night*
The Luxe Manor is quirky and fun.
*Dates: 03 May 2011-11 Sep 2011, 16 Nov 2011-22 Dec 2011.
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Marrakech
£119 per room per night*
The overpoweringly exotic experience of staying in the heart of one of the world's few authentic medieval cities.
*Dates: 01 Jun 2011-14 Sep 2011, 01 Dec 2011-22 Dec 2011.
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Cuba
£119 per room per night*
The Saratoga "certainly has, without a doubt, the best view". From the rooftop restaurant and pool you have a 200 and something degree view of the city, with the impressive Capitolio and Teatro Nacional just across the street.
*Dates: 01 May 2011-31 Oct 2011, 01 Dec 2011-22 Dec 2011.
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Essaouira
£129 per room per night*
Situated within the old city walls, Villa de L'O would once have been a nobleman's town house.
*Dates: 05 Jan 2011-19 Jun 2011, 01 Jul 2011-30 Sep 2011.
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Chicago
£129 per room per night*
Originally the extravagant Medinah Athletic Club its doors first opened in 1929, and shut again in 1934, one more victim of the catastrophic Wall Street Crash.
*Dates: 30 Jun 2011-06 Jul 2011, 01 Sep 2011-06 Sep 2011.
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Hollywood
£149 per room per night*
Sunset Strip is where the Hollywood legend began. Over the years places closed and places opened, but the Strip endured as the place to hang out.
*Dates: 01 Jan 2011-30 Jun 2011.
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Palm Springs
£139 per room per night*
A romantic hideaway in the heart of Palm Springs, this is a place of hand-washed linen sheets, canopied four poster beds, lace, ceiling fans, slate and wooden floors, furniture from Rajasthan, chairs from Mexico, glassware from France, black and white photography and lots of old books.
*Dates: 01 Apr 2011-31 Dec 2011.
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Miami
£139 per room per night*
Nowhere does stylish luxury quite like Miami. And nowhere in Miami does it quite so effortlessly as the Viceroy.
*Dates: 01 Jun 2011-30 Sep 2011.
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Cambodia
£139 per room per night*
La Résidence d'Angkor, in the heart of the small but pretty tree-lined town of Siem Reap, is an exotic, dark-wooden-panelled escape. Then there's the pool: a sumptuous 130-foot-long stretch of emerald green tiles with two Hindu-inspired fountains.
*Dates: 01 May 2011-30 Sep11.
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Phuket
£149 per room per night*
Indigo Pearl is located on Nai Yang Beach, just 10 minutes from Phuket International Airport, but because it's situated next to Sirinath National Park it's one of the quietest areas on the island - although the hustle and bustle of places like Patong are only 30 minutes away.
*Dates: 11 Apr 2011-31 Oct 2011.
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Miami
£149 per room per night*
The Standard hotels are consistently fun, imaginative, sexy and unconventional.
*Dates: 01 May 2011-30 Sep 2011.
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Hong Kong
£149 per room per night*
The style of LKF is like the area: hip, contemporary, with a bit of edge.
*Dates: 27 Jun 2011-19 Sep 2011, 28 Sep 2011-10 Oct 2011.
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Hong Kong
£149 per room per night*
A hip haven for urban hedonists in the heart of pulsating Tsimshatsui.
*Dates: 01May 2011-15 Sep 2011, 16 Nov 2011-28 Dec 2011.
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Cape Town
£149 per room per night*
Cape Cadogan is for people who prefer a certain level of style, sophistication and comfort with magnificent personal service. There is a lounge room where you'll find port and snacks pre-dinner, a library, a garden with small pool for hot days and an indoor outdoor breakfast room.
*Dates:01 May 2011-31 Aug 2011.
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Cape Town
£149 per room per night*
Luxury apartments and a villa among popular restaurants, street cafes and stylish boutique shops of Cape Town's vibrant Kloof Street.
*Dates: 01 May 2011-31 Aug 2011.
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San Francisco
£149 per room per night*
Clift's stone exterior opens onto a glowing purple entryway that prepares guests for the Phillipe Starck designed wonderland within. The soaring lobby contains one of the most eclectic furniture collections in all of California.
*Dates: 01 Nov 2011-31 Mar 2012.
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Beverly Hills
£149 per room per night*
By Hollywood standards the Avalon has history. When it was still the Beverly Carlton, Marilyn Monroe lived here for two years and the hotel's reception area regularly featured in I Love Lucy.
*Dates: 01 Apr 2011-30 Jun 2011, 01 Nov 2011-10 Jan 2012.
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Beverly Hills
£149 per room per night*
Spend a few nights living a fantasy - staying in an environment quite unlike your own.
*Dates: 01 Apr 2011-31 Mar 2012.
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Chang Mai
£149 per room per night*
The Rachamankha Hotel reflects every element of Chiang Mai's sumptuous artistic history and exquisite Lanna period architecture.
*Dates: 01 May 2011-31 Oct 2011.
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Miami
£149 per room per night*
There are no rooms! Every guest gets a studio or apartment - The convenience of a residence with the luxury of hotel service.
*Dates: 01 May 2011-31 Oct 2011.
*Terms & Conditions apply:
Prices shown are lowest available nightly price per room and do not include flights or transfers. Minimum stay requirements may apply. Hotels should be booked as a package and will be tailored to your individual requirements by a Travel Guru. Prices are inclusive of relevant taxes and surcharges but are subject to change without notice and are correct as at 7th June 2011. Prices shown are for the lead-in room category and images shown may represent a higher room category than the guide price, please check with your Travel Guru. All bookings are subject to the full Virgin Holidays + HIP Hotels booking conditions.