Attend Holiday Inn Event and Win Chance at Free Night's Stay September 17, 2009

Holiday Inn Celebrates Global Relaunch with the World’s Largest Structure Made out of Key Cards in New York

WHAT: World record-holding Cardstacker Bryan Berg and Holiday Inn will unveil a 400 square foot Key Card Hotel at the South Street Seaport in Downtown Manhattan, built in celebration of relaunching 1,200 Holiday Inn hotels globally in September. The Key Card Hotel features a guest bedroom, bathroom and lobby, all fully equipped with life-sized furniture made out of Holiday Inn key cards. The largest card structure Berg has ever created, the Holiday Inn Key Card Hotel is also the first completely interactive exhibit he has produced and his first construction at full human scale.

• Made with more than 200,000 Holiday Inn key cards
• Weighs 4,000 pounds
• Traveled around 2,000 miles from Santa Fe to New York City

The first 250 guests who attend the “Key Card Hotel” grand opening on September 17 at 2 pm in New York will receive a FREE night stay at any Holiday Inn or Holiday Inn Express around the world. Or, visit www.holidayinn.com/key to enter the Key to Change promotion for a chance to win free nights at a Holiday Inn.

Berg will also build a 9-foot freestanding card replica of the Empire State Building at the Key Card Hotel.

WHO: Bryan Berg broke the Guinness World Record for the World's Tallest
House of Freestanding Playing Cards in 1992 at the age of seventeen, with a tower fourteen feet, six inches tall. In 2004, Guinness created a new record category for the World's Largest House of Freestanding Playing Cards to recognize a project Berg built for Walt Disney World. He continues to hold both records.

WHEN: Thursday, September 17th, 2 pm to 7 pm
Friday, September 18th – Sunday, September 20th, 11 am to 7 pm
Monday, September 21st, 9 am to 1 pm

**This event is free and open to the public

WHERE: South Street Seaport
Pier 17, Fulton Street & South Street