Back to the Friday roundup:

EL AL is offering summer vacation packages of 5 and 7 nights in the mid to high $2,000 range that include airfare from Miami.

If you don't want to travel that far, Georgetown in our nation's capital has a revamped website where you can book special hotel packages. Most of the hotels are pretty expensive, but both The Georgetown Inn and The Georgetown Bed & Breakfast have rates beginning at $199. The Inn's offer is available till Sept. 7 (and includes a fourth night free) and the B&B's offer is good for the rest of the year.

We've all been hearing about how hip Brooklyn is, and here's more proof: It now has its first boutique hotel. Nu Hotel - and its Nu Bar and Nu Gym - is located at 85 Smith Street (at Atlantic Ave.). Rooms begin at $200 a night (which for New York is very good).

Speaking of hotels, a colleague just came back from San Francisco with raves for the Grant Plaza Hotel, where rooms with a double bed start at $69. That's not a typo. It's amazing how one of the most expensive cities to live in still has affordable places to sleep in. She said that the hotel is very basic - small rooms, nothing fancy - but clean and safe. And it's on Grant Street right at the entrance to Chinatown.

Closer to home, the InterContinental Tampa has a "Safari in the City" package (now through Aug. 31) starting at $149 a night, with a focus on trips to the aquarium, the MOSI dinosaur exhibit, the Lowry Park Zoo and Busch Gardens.