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Palm Beach, Florida
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| The island of Palm Beach has long been a | Can I make the Palm Beach reservation by phone? |
| playground for the wealthy. One of our favorite things | We would be happy to help you make any Palm |
| to do there is to rent a bicycle and ride past the | Beach hotel reservation by phone. You can call our |
| grand clubs and massive mansions along South, | toll free number between the hours of 8 a.m. to 10 |
| Ocean and North Boulevards: the Bath and Tennis | p.m. Monday through Friday (CST). 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
| Club (known locally as the B 'n' T), the Woolworth | Saturday and Sunday. |
| Donahue home, John Lennon's estate (which | |
| actually is the southern half of the former Vanderbilt | How can I be sure information about my credit card is |
| mansion), the posh Breakers Hotel, Estee Lauder's | secure? We use secure-socket-layer (SSL) |
| mansion and the Kennedy compound. One property | encryption, the standard encryption on the Internet. |
| of special note is the 118-room, Mediterranean-style | This type of encryption allows you to feel confident |
| Mar-a-Lago estate, once a getaway for cereal | and secure about supplying personal and credit |
| heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and now an | card information. |
| exclusive club owned by Donald Trump. (Keep in | |
| mind that many celebrity homes are hard to see; | Is free breakfast available? Some hotels offer free |
| they're tucked back away from the road and/or | breakfast with each room night booked. This |
| hidden behind shrubbery.) | information can be found on the property information |
| | "detail" page for your specific property. |
| After you've seen some of the opulent digs, do some | |
| shopping along Worth Avenue, which has some of | Can I book the reservation to stay tonight? Some |
| the ritziest boutiques in the world and even a | hotels accept reservations until 3:00pm on the arrival |
| sidewalk-level drinking fountain for pampered pups. | day. Only hotels that follow this policy will show when |
| Then visit the Flagler Museum, which is located in the | the today's arrival date is typed into the search form. |
| 55-room mansion that the railroad entrepreneur and | |
| cofounder of Standard Oil built for his third | How will I know when my reservation is confirmed? |
| wife. | Our confirmation number displayed immediately |
| | upon successfully making your reservation. Our |
| The nearby city of West Palm Beach is on the | systems work behind the scenes to email you the |
| mainland and is less posh than its neighbor. It's | final confirmation number. |
| home to the CityPlace shopping development, which | |
| looks to Europe for its design (Italian-inspired | Is there a minimum age requirements to reserve a |
| buildings and fountains, a movieplex resembling the | room? A minimum age of 18 is required by most |
| opera house in Paris). Exotic animals are on display | hotels to book a room. Some require the guest(s) be |
| at West Palm's Lion Country Safari, a drive-through | 21. These requirements and other amenities |
| park where you stay in the car and the animals roam. | information on the property "Detail" pages. |
| Native species reside at Loxahatchee Wildlife | |
| Preserve. | Are free shuttles supplied from the airport to the |
| | hotel? Some hotels do offer free shuttle services |
| Among other museums of note in the Palm Beach | from the airport but not all. Please verify this |
| area is the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm | information on the property information page, if this is |
| Beach, which opened a new wing in March 2003 and | import to you. |
| now claims to be the largest art museum in Florida. | |
| Its extensive collection includes superb examples of | Instant confirmation, what does that mean? We |
| French Impressionist and 20th century American art. | coordinate closely with the properties in the |
| At the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 20 | database. Only those with room availability for the |
| mi/32 km south of Palm Beach in Delray Beach, you | requested dates can be displayed and booked |
| take off your shoes as you enter and are given | through our system. After receiving confirmation on |
| paper slippers to wear. | your credit card amount, the system instantly issues |
| | a confirmation on the computer screen. We also |
| Should you have the urge to watch some polo, Palm | forward the hotel's official confirmation number within |
| Beach County is the place to do so. Professional | 48 hours. |
| matches are held there, and England's Prince | |
| Charles even plays there occasionally. | Is your detail on amenities information accurate? |
| | This information is updated a many times during the |
| Some 30 mi/50 km west of town is Pahokee State | year. We strive to have the most complete |
| Recreation Area on Lake Okeechobee a huge body | information available and the most accurate. We do |
| of freshwater that is a mecca for boaters, anglers and | rely on the personnel at each hotel property to |
| other outdoor types. If you go 40 mi/65 km north of | update and change information as appropriate. |
| Palm Beach, you'll reach Stuart, a center for charter | |
| boats that catch sailfish in the Atlantic Ocean. Two | Can I change my hotel after booking? Yes. By |
| noteworthy land-based attractions are also found | canceling your previous reservation and booking a |
| there. The Elliott Museum is a re-created village of | new reservation. Also, you can call one of our |
| 19th-century shops that also has a display of unusual | friendly customer service representatives at our toll |
| inventions. Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge is the last | free number, between the hours of 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. |
| of a number of shipwreck stations that were built | Monday through Friday CST, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
| along the coast in the 1870s. Palm Beach is 60 | Saturday and Sunday. |
| mi/100 km north of Miami. | |
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