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Groople In the News Groople Selected by Bizbash as Provider for Group Travel Bookings June 1, BiZBash, the preeminent resource for the event planning industry, today announces a partnership with Groople.com, making Groople the exclusive online group travel partner for BiZBash's thousands of event professionals. BiZBash users now have Groople's group travel tools, with the unique ability to research and make group travel arrangements online. While most travel booking sites don't allow for group reservations at all, through BiZBash, hotel bookings for 5 rooms or hundreds of rooms are now simple to book and include special group rates. With an initial offering of hotels, the service will expand to offer airfare, cruise, car and rail bookings online. free number ( 4316) is available for arranging air, cruise, car and rail, as well as more complicated hotel requests.

Travel Agency The 'Pearly' Gates Of San Francisco For $149
On September 5, 1921, silent film heavyweight "Fatty" Arbuckle entertained guests in rooms 1219, 1220 and 1221 of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California. Fatty, a star who wrote, directed and appeared in dozens of films, was unimpressed when the party was crashed by disreputable starlet Virginia Rappe. After hours of merrymaking, Rappe grew violently ill and eventually died in the bed of one of the suites. A guest at the party spread the word that Fatty had killed the woman, which led to three trials before his ultimate acquittal. Unfortunately for Fatty, his career never recovered.

Guests can savor this golden age of scandal at the Westin St. Francis with rates starting at $149/night when booking through PlacesToStay.com.

Sink Like The Titanic In New York For $215
The unsinkable Molly Brown, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, finally sank in New York's Melrose Hotel (formerly the Barbizon) on October 26, 1932, at the age of 65. The daughter of a ditchdigger, Molly shot to fame on the back of her earlier dice with death - the American press celebrated her spirit after she commanded one of the lifeboats and nursed ill survivors on the deck of the Carpathia. After a long period of obscurity and decline, she moved into the Barbizon in 1931 - then known as a home for young actresses - and eventually succumbed to the Grim Reaper while sleeping in her suite.

Float your boat (in a Jacuzzi bath) at the Melrose Hotel at rates starting at $215/night through PlacesToStay.com. With a recent $40 million renovation, the property is a jewel on the east side of Manhattan, and boasts a new fitness/health spa and state-of-the-art business center.

Pushing Up Daisies In Paris For $305
Singer Robert Palmer may be best known for the iconic 80s video for his song "Addicted to Love," but to the chambermaids of the five-star Warwick Hotel in Paris, he'll simply be known as "le chanteur qui se deced dans sa chambre, l'ann e derniere." Unlike other rock stars who have checked out for newer pastures, Robert had a relatively uneventful final evening on planet earth and passed away unexpectedly after enjoying a movie and dinner with friends. The heart attack must have come unexpectedly for the Grammy-award winning singer, once rated by Rolling Stone as the Best Dressed Man in the World, as his doctor had given him a clean bill of health just two weeks prior.

A stay at the ultra-chic Warwick Hotel is available for just $305/night when booked through PlacesToStay.com.

Last Rites In Las Vegas For $59
If you're gonna go, you might as well do it the way The Who's John Entwistle did it - in Vegas, with a smile on your face. Always known as the "quiet one" in a band otherwise filled with personalities, Entwistle was due to embark on a U.S. tour, but died of a heart attack in his sixth-floor suite at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. You too can live like a rock god and stay at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino at rates starting at $59/night when booking through PlacesToStay.com. Just make sure you check out - the hotel doesn't want another Who-dunnit.

Keel Over In Kalamazoo For $139
Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield "lost that loving feeling" on November 5, 2003 in Kalamazoo, Michigan while staying at the Radisson Plaza Hotel. The pioneer of 'blue-eyed soul' unchained his melody for the very last time a half-hour before he was due to go on stage with singing partner Bill Medley. "Rock and Roll Heaven" is certainly glad to have him.

A room at the Kalamazoo Radisson Plaza Hotel can be booked at rates starting at $139/night through PlacesToStay.com.

Groople is the leader in online group travel, stop group booking on hotel, cruise, air, bus, and rail, and is backed by partnerships with the largest travel suppliers worldwide. Groople is group travel made easy, offering discounted rates, individual payment options and a single point of contact. With more than 60, 000 hotel choices worldwide and six top cruise lines brought together in an online group booking website, Groople offers unrivaled benefits for the group travel consumer. Groople customer sales center provides personal attention and offers group travel experts to advise leisure group travelers on weddings, family reunions, religious groups, sports teams, and more. Created by twenty travel industry veterans, Groople pioneered the online group travel space and continues to lead the group travel industry in technology, inventory and convenience.

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