Red Cross to benefit from Hilton certificates

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Red Cross to benefit from Hilton certificates

Friday November 17, 7:44 pm ET

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In an unusual footnote to the settlement of mold-contamination

lawsuits against the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa, the

American Red Cross Hawaii chapter is selling 3,000 discounted Hilton

and DoubleTree guest certificates.

The $75 certificates will be sold for $35 each on a first-come,

first-served basis via the Web site: www.hawaiiredcross.org.

The certificates are valid from now to Oct. 1, 2008 and can be used

toward rooms and dining at 30 Hilton, DoubleTree and Embassy Suites

Hotels across the U.S., including the Hilton HawaiianVillage and the

Hilton Waikoloa Village.

A complete list of participating hotels, as well as restrictions,

are available on the Web site.

The Hawaii chapter of the American Red Cross received the

certificates, valued at over $250,000, as part of a class-action

lawsuit settlement approved earlier this year involving hotel guests

and Hilton Hotels Corp. (NYSE: HLT - News).

Under the settlement, guests who stayed at the mold-contaminated

Kalia Tower in the summer of 2002 were awarded the certificates and

any remaining were donated to the Red Cross.