By Lori
Weisberg, The
San Diego
Union-Tribune
October 28, 2010
The owner of a boutique hotel in downtown's Little Italy is banking on
a high roller or just someone with money to burn to buy his property
for a day -- on eBay.
If you're willing to ante up as much as $160,000 (the hotel's "buy it
now" price), you can throw the New Year's Eve party of your dreams,
complete with a VIP shindig, rooftop gathering for 300 that includes a
DJ and open bar, and overnight stays in the hotel's 189 rooms and
suites.
The management team for the Porto Vista Hotel came up with novel auction idea while brainstorming
plans for New Year's Eve. When owner Moe Siry was told about it, he
quickly embraced the promotion.
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The 189-room Porto Vista
Hotel has a rooftop deck that can be used for a party of 300 guests.
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"Our hotel is owned by one person, and as we were brainstorming about
what New Year's Eve is all about and what it feels like to be an owner
and to have your own VIP area and to have everybody know your name and
be treated like an owner, we thought, what if we allowed someone else
to own our hotel on New Year's," said Debi Besmer, principal strategist
with Above 30,000 Feet, a hospitality firm that manages Porto Vista
Hotel.
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