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Travel Deals for New Year’s Eve and Beyond

Give yourself the gift of getting the heck out of Dodge.

Allison Williams
Author: Allison Williams
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The Oak Bay Beach chauffeur is Downton levels of dreamy.

Family is overrated—hit the road for a New Year’s Eve getaway or just enjoy some early January deals:

• Things are warm and bubbly at Harrison Hot Springs east of Vancouver, where the hotel’s two-night packages start at $529 (available Jan 1–4—use code CHFAM on the website). A two-night New Year’s Eve package starting Dec 30 is $699, including a Gala Ball in the swanky, old-fashioned Copper Room (code NEWYEAR).

• The newly rebuilt Oak Bay Beach Hotel in Victoria hosts a Downton Abbey-themed shindig for the third season premiere on January 6. From valet parking to white-glove service in the dinner theater, it’s all about the service. The tickets are $289 (Canadian) per couple, with some proceeds supporting KCTS 9, their (and our) local PBS outlet.

• Provenance hotels, which include the Hotel Murano in Tacoma and the Hotels Lucia, deLuxe and Governor in Portland, are offering New Year’s Eve deals. A $329 package at the Murano includes dinner and bubbly, while the Lucia ($249) and Governor ($279) go one better by including a “hangover kit” full of chips, salsa, nuts, and coconut water. Hotel deLuxe’s champagne toast and room start at $219.




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Allison Williams
Allison Williams
Since joining Seattle Met in 2011, Allison Williams has overseen the magazine’s travel and outdoor coverage, including deep dives into Olympic National Park, the Columbia River, and a Burger King drive-thru in Canada. She edits the travel-focused blog Tripster and contributes service, news, interview, and narrative pieces to the magazine, including long-form features about mountain mysteries and puppies in prison. She’s earned awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and been nominated for a City and Regional Magazine award.  Allison was raised here in Olympia and studied writing at Duke University, Oxford University, Columbia Journalism School, and University of Alaska. She began her career in New York City in the newsrooms of Metro newspaper and Time Out New York, then hightailed it back to her native habitat so she could write guidebooks and climb mountains.