Friday, March 27, 2009

Earth hour is happy hour!

Friday, March 27, 2009
SINGAPORE: This Saturday, check into a five—star hotel and “sleep naked”... without air—conditioning. Dine by candlelight for discounts. Get free beer. Trek to Mount Faber for a view of the city lights going out. Or check on your Blackberry how the rest of the globe is celebrating Earth Hour, which takes place at 8.30pm in Singapore
Although it’s just the second time Earth Hour is being observed here, businesses and organisations are taking a creative approach to get the public abuzz about saving energy.

Five hotels under Hong Leong Group’s Millennium and Copthorne (M&C) umbrella —including Grand Copthorne Waterfront and M Hotel — are going beyond just switching off their facade lights. Guests and staff are encouraged to do without air conditioning for the night.
“The idea for 'Sleep Naked’ came from the fact that many South—east Asians living in rural areas sleep with little else but a sarong,” said M&C International Limited’s chief operating officer Yim Choong Hing.
“On very hot days, much of the sarong would come off.”
And to save paper, M&C staff are promoting the cause among guests largely by old—fashioned word—of—mouth.

Making Earth Hour “happy hour”, Marriott Hotel’s Crossroads Cafe is giving a free half—pint of beer for every order of a pint, while Peranakan Place’s Alley Bar, Outdoors Cafe and Bar and Acid Bar are offering “green” drinks like apple martinis at S$12 (usual price S$16 to S$18) all night long.
At Wisma Atria, retailers and F&B operators will offer candlelight dinners, star—gazing and acoustic music.
CANDLELIGHT DINNERS, A SPARKLER PARTY
Guests of the InterContinental Hotels Group — the stable includes Crowne Plaza Changi Airport and Holiday Inn Atrium — will have their bills halved at some in—house restaurants during Earth Hour, provided they turn off their room lights.-yahoo!singapore

party out in an enviromentally friendly way, experience the different experience.

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