D.C. hotels are already preparing packages for the presidential inauguration
Skift Take
The rooms won’t book until a winner is announced, but hotels are almost done creating their luxe packages that voters from either party will happily enjoy while celebrating four years in power.
Five days until the Republican Convention. Thirteen days until the Democratic Convention. Seventy-six days until Election Day. And 152 days until the inauguration.
Never too early to start planning, right?
Take, for instance, Washington, D.C.,’s Park Hyatt Hotel, which is already advertising its Presidential Suite for January 18 to January 22, 2013 “at a special, all-inclusive rate of $57,000,” according to a release.
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