Lodging.com's 'New Year, New You!' Sale

Lodging.com's 'New Year, New You!' Sale

Tips and Trips to Help Keep Resolutions

PARSIPPANY, N.J., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Embrace 2005 with a new attitude. Through January 31, Lodging.com -- a leading online source for discount hotel rooms -- is featuring a "New Year, New You!" sale with some of the best values of the year on relaxing getaways, calming retreats and resorts teeming with fitness activities. Now there's no excuse not to keep those New Year's resolutions of shedding holiday pounds and reducing stress while taking that long-awaited vacation.

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Consider the following tips and trips from Lodging.com for keeping those New Year's resolutions even when travelers are far from home:

Stay on Track with Health and Fitness Goals - For travelers who typically see vacations or business trips as a holiday from dieting, it is important to eat balanced meals and not over-indulge at the buffet line. Lodging.com offers hundreds of properties that have on-site fitness centers and other exercise options so travelers can maintain their fitness resolutions anywhere they go.

* The three-and-a-half-star Spa Atlantis Oceanfront Health and Fitness
Resort in Pompano Beach, FL has rooms starting at $196 nightly and is
recognized as "One of the Top Wellness Retreats" by Self magazine.
Guests can enjoy numerous spa and fitness programs, from massages,
acupuncture, body wraps and facials to a holistic health program
featuring lectures, lifestyle guidance and complementary medicine
treatments and an East meets West fitness program offering a balanced
blend of exercises from both approaches.
* The three-star Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort in the Pocono Mountains, PA
features year-round recreational activities as well as popular seasonal
pursuits including hockey, winter golf lessons and tee times, skiing and
snowboarding at Shawnee Mountain, and hiking on the Appalachian Trail.
Rooms start as low as $86 nightly.
* Thirty-five minutes north of San Diego, the cozy three-star Castle Creek
Inn Resort & Spa has rooms starting as low as $90 nightly. Adjacent to
an 18-hole championship golf course, this boutique resort also offers
tennis courts, spa, hot soaking pools, swimming pool, fitness center,
sauna, ropes course and more.



Take the Stress Out and Pamper Yourself - Toss out last year's worries and rejuvenate the mind with a relaxing getaway at these spa resorts found on Lodging.com.

* The three-star Radisson Hotel Valley Forge in King of Prussia, PA has
rooms starting as low as $167 nightly and features an extensive fitness
center that includes men and women's sauna and steam rooms, certified
massage therapists, tanning booths and more.
* The four-star New Otani Hotel & Garden is an oasis in downtown Los
Angeles. With rooms starting at $120 nightly, the hotel features an
enchanting "Garden in the Sky," a half-acre Japanese Garden with bridges
and waterfalls influenced by the seven principles of Zen to de-stress
from the realities of work and worry. The hotel also offers a health spa
with shiatsu massage and a fitness center.
* Visit the five-star Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty Six in Fort Lauderdale,
located at Florida's most famous yachting pier. With rooms starting at
$235 nightly, travelers can pamper themselves at Spa 66 with mud
treatments, facials, massages and pineapple scrubs. The Pier Top Lounge
revolves full circle every 66 minutes and provides the perfect panoramic
view of south Florida.



Don't Put if Off, Take it Off - Tired of your travel itinerary getting pushed back? Submit those time-off requests at work early and make sure to meet your travel resolutions this year to refresh yourself. But don't delay, plan ahead to lock in a great rate now.

* Don't miss the fiesta this time around. The four-star Omni Cancun Hotel
and Villas features rooms starting at $159 nightly. The resort boasts a
Rainforest Mayan bar with the only Jacuzzi bar in Cancun, three outdoor
interconnected pools with cascading waterfalls, and a spa center with
services including aromatherapy massages, detoxifying body wrap with
seaweed body mask, and a European deep cleansing facial.
* Four-star Hotel Teatro, located in the heart of downtown Denver, was
voted "Denver's Best Hotel" in Zagat 2003. Starting at $175 per night,
guests may pamper their stay with a luxurious aromatherapy bath or visit
the hotel's two award-winning restaurants, jou-jou and Restaurant Kevin
Taylor.
* In Honolulu, the Outrigger Reef on the Beach has rooms starting as low
as $144 per night and offers "Rhythms of the Ocean," a daily exercise
class that keeps guests fit with graceful hula motions. Effective April
1, 2005 through March 31, 2006, one Island Explorer kit per child will
be distributed upon check-in to each family with children ages five to
10 years old.



For more information on the "New Year, New You!" sale along with these great deals and more, visit Lodging.com.

All hotel rates are per room, per night based on double occupancy, do not include taxes and/or fees, are subject to availability and are not guaranteed until confirmed.

About Lodging.com

A Cendant Company (NYSE:CD), Lodging.com is ranked among the top five online hotel reservations sites and offers the largest selection of specially- negotiated hotel rates in the industry, with approximately 30,000 rates in thousands of cities around the world. Reservations can be made online at http://www.lodging.com/ or toll-free at 888-LODGING. Founded in 1995, Lodging.com is part of Cendant's Travel Distribution Services Division.

About Cendant Travel Distribution Services

Cendant Corporation's (NYSE:CD) Travel Distribution Services Division, is one of the world's largest and most geographically diverse collections of travel brands and distribution businesses. The division, employing nearly 5,000 people in more than 115 countries, includes: a leading global distribution services (GDS) company (Galileo), serving more than 44,000 travel agencies and over 60,000 hotels; hotel distribution and services businesses (Neat Group, THOR, TRUST and WizCom); leading online travel agencies (CheapTickets(R), HotelClub.com, Lodging.com, Orbitz, and RatesToGo.com); an airline market intelligence company (Shepherd Systems); an international travel technology and software company (Travelwire); a leading international provider of long-haul air travel and travel product consolidator (Travel 2/Travel 4); online global corporate travel management solutions (Orbitz for Business and Travelport).

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