We stayed at RPR club last year long enough to become gold members. Then we found out there was a Lowe's Hotel near here right in Philadelphia. So we decided to reserve New Year's Eve up there and take a taxi to Penn's Landing to see the fireworks. We got one of those winter promo rates of $143/night. Checking in, I mentioned gold and asked about any upgrade. I was told none was available at that hotel, but 2 minutes later the room keys printed out with a different # that originally assigned. Turns out we WERE upgraded to the 31st floor of the 33 instead of the 20 something floor. The elevator alone was amazing with all the buttons! And it turned out that we had to use our roomkey for access to the 31st floor in the elevator...guess we were on club level!There were two dbl. beds and a chaise chair thing (my 14 yr. old actually ended up sleeping on that!) Not only that, but our big, big room had a picture window that looked out over the river where the fireworks would be about 10 blocks away. There was not a building in the way because we were up higher than almost everything! It also turned out that a t.v. station broadcasts from the top floor. So we decided to stay in the nice warm hotel room and watch fireworks from the window while watching the same thing on our t.v. Honestly we had such a great view that the fireworks were reflecting off our room walls! And yes, our milk and cookies were brought up too. Not a pitcher of milk, but 4 individual glasses with saran wrap over them and two kinds of cookies on a fancy tray. LOEW'S seems to be great where ever you go! Oh, guess who's using that same Loew's hotel this weekend? THE GREEN BAY PACKERS!!! wow!
