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Hotels run the gamete
By Kitty Bean Yancey, USA TODAY
Hotels have tried every conceivable kind of promotion, and here's the latest: the procreation vacation.

Three Starwood properties in the Caribbean and Bahamas have given birth to the concept, a three-night getaway that includes romantic dinners, spa treatments and island potions said to increase chances of a pregnancy.

"The idea was born when housekeepers at The Westin St. John were extolling the fertility benefits of pumpkin soup," Starwood marketing executive Bill Thompson says. "We're simply enhancing the baby-making process by offering island remedies that have been passed down for generations."

Procreation packages are now offered at The Westin St. John Resort & Villas on St. John; The Westin at Our Lucaya Beach & Golf Resort on Grand Bahama Island; and the Martineau Bay Resort & Spa on the island of Vieques off Puerto Rico.

They run $1,600 to $3,500 for two (I would assume it is for two, hard to make a baby with just one!) and include suite accommodations, two romantic dinners, a couple's massage with aromatherapy (said to promote fertility) and reflexology (billed as aiding virility).

Infant-icipating males can guzzle unlimited glasses of sea moss elixir (a marine plant mixed with milk, sugar and spices). It's the Caribbean answer to Viagra, Starwood says.

Women in the mood to be moms get unlimited bowls of pumpkin soup, rich in vitamins believed to promote conception.

Whether these embryonic packages will lead to an addition to the family remains to be seen, but it's certainly fertile ground for hotel marketing.