Is anyplace in Arizona warm in winter?
I am a South Carolina resident who flees our mild winters for the warmth and sunshine of Florida every year. We were thinking about trying southern Arizona this winter, but some of the posts about tem...
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Yuma unveils ‘cloudy days’ hotel promotion
By Mara Knaub - Associated Press - Wednesday, June 22, 2011
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — At a “top secret rendezvous” June 16, as the invitation noted, members of the Yuma Visitors Bureau unveiled a new promotion for the coming year: Guests at participating Yuma hotels will dine free on cloudy days beginning Aug. 1
In a nod to Arizona’s centennial, the bureau reached back 100 years to come up with the “historic” promotion beginning Aug. 1. A photo circa 1912 shows the Pilot Knob Hotel offering “free board every day the sun doesn’t shine.”
The bureau noted that a lot might have changed in Yuma over the past century but one thing hasn’t: “the reliable sunshine that favors this Southwestern town an average of 350 days a year.”
I do not know of any other city that would make such an offer!
By Mara Knaub - Associated Press - Wednesday, June 22, 2011
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — At a “top secret rendezvous” June 16, as the invitation noted, members of the Yuma Visitors Bureau unveiled a new promotion for the coming year: Guests at participating Yuma hotels will dine free on cloudy days beginning Aug. 1
In a nod to Arizona’s centennial, the bureau reached back 100 years to come up with the “historic” promotion beginning Aug. 1. A photo circa 1912 shows the Pilot Knob Hotel offering “free board every day the sun doesn’t shine.”
The bureau noted that a lot might have changed in Yuma over the past century but one thing hasn’t: “the reliable sunshine that favors this Southwestern town an average of 350 days a year.”
I do not know of any other city that would make such an offer!
