[holiday] you know you like chocolate

I could not have custom-ordered a more perfect trifecta: chocolate, hotel giveaway and art installation. I read about this Godiva-sponsored giveaway on Luxist last evening, the post is from a few days ago. (Speaking of Luxist, it's amazing to me that the thing is still humming along in this collapsing economy.) This stay is for the lucky person who finds a card in his or her Godiva chocolate box in the coming days, for a stay in the Bryant Park Hotel's Decadence Suite. This is how Luxist describes the sweet suite:

The room was created by Los Angeles designer Larry Abel and features interior design by Jonathan Adler. Hanging in the "living room" was a painting built of multicolored chocolate pieces inspired by Gustav Klimt's painting The Kiss. Above the dining table was a "canvas" dripping with brown and white chocolate -- a takeoff on Jackson Pollock's signature "drip" paintings. Books opened to a mound of chocolates. A glass-covered table features a design under the glass made up of chocolate pieces. Visitors can feel free to sit on the sofa, which is chocolate-covered only on its sides, but don't touch the chocolate walls, or light the fireplace (with its chocolate logs and mantle) or chocolate candles, or try to snuggle up in the chocolate easy chairs.

Obviously the tie-in is Valentine's Day, but the prize if for two nights in in May. The Bryant Park takes the prize for the most self-consciously hip hotel website ever. Which of course by definition means it's not hip. But truth be told, once you're in a hotel, who cares what the website looks like? In my experience, the hotel website has not one thing to do with the hotel experience. I would love to stay in this hotel, on Godiva's dime or my own.

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