Without love, most pop songs would be about eating tuna melts for lunch and repetitive stress injuries. Celebrate romance with today's deal: for $79, you get a one-night stay in a deluxe room (one king-size or two double beds), a bottle of chilled champagne waiting when you arrive, and continental breakfast for two at the Blake Hotel (a $149 value). Purchase two Groupons to plan a full weekend getaway.
The Blake Hotel spells out the sundry ways in which overnight escapes are recuperative—sheets are always freshly laundered, milkmen never knock on the door to ask to borrow butter, and daily household routines are temporarily suspended. Instead of arriving home to an impatient pile of chores, lovebirds can stroll into the Blake Hotel to find a perfectly patient bottle of champagne chilled and ready to carbonate their senses. Enjoy a glass atop the lush Belgian bed linens and relax amid the earth tones and warm accents of your stylish new room. In the morning, head to the hotel restaurant for a continental breakfast with your sweetie, or bring your breakfast back to your room to enjoy it while using WiFi to look up fun new chewing techniques. Take advantage of the hotel's pool or fitness center during your stay to maintain your readiness to join an Olympic team.
Reviews
Seven Yelpers give Blake Hotel an average of 3.5 stars. TripAdvisors give it an average of three owl eyes.
- Each room has a flat screen TV with contemporary looking decorations and amenities. There may not be a party in the lobby, but there's nothing stopping you from having one in your ultra-chic room. Enjoy! – Tanya F., Yelp, 1/2/2009
- My friends and I had a GREAT experience during our first trip to Charlotte and Blake Hotel. The rooms were so clean, comfortable and modern. – Imessvt, TripAdvisor
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Being Yourself
Whenever anyone prepares for a job interview, first date, or to differentiate themselves from a robot doppelganger at gunpoint, the advice they're most likely to be given is "be yourself." This simple advice is easier said than implemented—what are some surefire ways to make sure you remain yourself at all times?
- Remove your Social Security card from your wallet and read it aloud every 15 minutes to ensure that it sounds correct.
- Begin each conversation by rattling off your childhood medical history. If weather permits, reveal all relevant scars.
- If all of your friends are jumping off a bridge—jump too! You won't be the same person without friends around to keep you in check, plus they clearly know something about this bridge that you don't.
- If you meet someone who shares your first name, suggest that they instead go by their middle name. If they also share your middle name, abandon yourselves in the desert and let nature choose a winner.
- Do you suffer from multiple-personality disorder? Elect a leader personality, or failing that, form a hive-mind gestalt that will also permit you to blow up fire trucks by staring at them.
- Reject all constructive criticism. Though teachers, employers, and traffic-court judges may cite areas for improvement, they're outranked by the Tao, the late Mr. Rogers, and beginner mode of Rock Band, who agree you're perfect the way you are.
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