Mother’s Day is just a week away, so there’s been a recent surge of hotel deals hitting the market for the big weekend. The common denominator of 2011 Mother’s Day packages seems to be one three-letter word: spa. Day spas and destination hotels will feature discounts on spa packages, as well as treatments designed specifically for the holiday.

Boca Raton, Florida: Boca Raton Resort & Club is giving moms a 25 percent discount on all spa services at Spa Palazzo, as well as 25 percent off golf greens fees and tennis fees. Room packages start at $219 per night at the resort, $249 at the club.

New York City: The Affinia Dumont, a “wellness-themed” hotel in Midtown, will offer a $250 nightly rate over Mother’s Day weekend in a package that includes a 30-minute express service from Oasis Day Spa, an eco-friendly reusable water bottle and a room customized to guest preferences. (Upgrades for longer spa treatments are available.)

Horseshoe Bay, Texas: The Horseshoe Bay Resort in Texas Hill Country has a special package for mothers-to-be that includes 20 percent off all spa services. It also focuses on mother/daughter activities over the holiday weekend, including a golf clinic, bingo and a ping-pong tournament.

Marco Island, Florida: Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort will feature a “Spa Ritual” package designed for moms at its Balinese-style spa. The deal, starting at $519, includes two nights lodging, breakfast each day in Tropiks restaurant, daily spa membership and choice of one spa treatment per guest. This package is available through September 30, 2011.

Maui, Hawaii: The Grand Wailea Resort on Maui’s south coast will offer a Mother’s Day Champagne Brunch on Sunday, May 8, along with numerous “Mom & Me” activities, such as lei-making demonstrations, beach yoga, a botanical tour and hula lessons. Spa Grande has a special Ohe Bamboo Massage in honor of the day.

Whistler, British Columbia, Canada: Scandinave Spa Whistler, best known for its outdoor eucalyptus steam baths, is offering Mother’s Days deals starting at $169, which includes an hour-long massage, access to the baths and a snack from the “health bistro.”

Photo: Courtesy of Boca Raton Resort & Club

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According to Naples News, “Fenton is seeking damages for injuries, pain and suffering, mental anguish, disfigurement, hospital expenses, medical and nursing care treatment, loss of earnings and the ability to earn money, loss of the ability to enjoy life, and aggravation of a previously existing condition..”

Michael Fenton’s case is not an isolated incident. On December 20, 2007, two police officers in Lexington, KY broke up a large fight at a holiday party at the Crowne Plaza-Campbell House. Officer Randall Combs injured his shoulder and Officer Derrick Wallace dislocated his thumb. They filed a lawsuit in December,  2008 against Crowne Plaza and Shepherd Communications Inc., the company that threw the party, for for serving too much alcohol.

Are individual police officers allowed to file lawsuits if they get injured in the line of duty? I don’t know, but if it catches on, there’s a lot of people going to sign up to join the police force and get themselves injured.

And it’s not just about excess alcohol. Bedbug lawsuits are one of the easiest ways to win a judgment against a hotel. A number of New York motels, where bedbugs are far more widespread than in other cities, have simply closed down rather than risk a lawsuit. Hoteliers today are facing lawsuits for everything from sprinklers to carpets.

Svetlana & Yuriy Orishchenko, from Brooklyn, NY paid $20,000 to get married on August 9 2008 in an outdoor ceremony at the Hilton Garden Inn in Staten Island, NY. Swetlana was halfway down the aisle with her parents when the sprinklers went off (accidentally), and soaked the wedding guests. After 15 to 20 minutes, the wedding resumed and went off without further incident. The hotel management did whatever they could to lessen the damage, with clean towels, offers to take the dresses to the cleaners, and even offered the couple $5,000 as compensation. But the Orishchenkos filed a lawsuit early this year, and they want $300,000.

During the Golden Globe Awards recently held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA, Monica Matulich, who runs a PR company, took a fall on the red carpet. In a lawsuit filed in L.A. County Superior Court, she’s suing the Beverly Hilton Hotel, AOL Time Warner, Time Inc., In Style Magazine, Tom Ford Design and American Turf and Carpet.

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Photo courtesy Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort.