(MONEY Magazine) – Luxury hotel deals Summer is always the best season to get an affordable dose of luxury, as high-end hotels offer off-peak promotions. But this year the values are deeper than usual and in many cases extend to cool high-season locations. Inter-Continental Hotels & Resorts (www.intercontinental.com; 800-327-0200) is offering 50% off on rooms in 100 properties until Sept. 8. The deal, which includes breakfast, is available in popular destinations like New York City, Chicago, Montreal and San Francisco. Fairmont (www.fairmont.com; 800-441-1414) is offering special rates at 36 hotels through Sept. 2 (and in some cases Sept. 30). Rooms at its Scottsdale Princess will set you back a mere $149 on weekdays and $169 on weekends, a savings of about 25%. Meanwhile, seven members of the Leading Hotels of the World group (www.lhw.com; 800-223-6800) are offering a third-night-free promotion. At the legendary Breakers in Palm Beach, Fla., this whittles the per-night price for a standard room down from $270 to $180. At the elegant Craftsman-style Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, Calif., a room will cost $250 to $330 a night, down from $375 to $495. And through Sept. 30, 18 Mandarin Oriental hotels (www.mandarinoriental.com; 800-526-6566) are offering low seasonal rates. Mandarin's exclusive Turnberry Isle Resort & Club in Aventura, Fla., for instance, will charge $179 a night, including breakfast, or 35% off.

Settling your sights Lighter and smaller than their predecessors, Canon's new 8x25 IS binoculars are the latest in its Image Stabilization series. Not familiar with the technology? Well, you probably are familiar with the jittery images you see when looking through binoculars, a result of tiny but hard-to-control body movements. These scopes have a mechanism that counteracts such movements, all but eliminating the shakiness. They list for $460, but we found them for $310 at Amazon.com.

Take Tahoe Through Sept. 30, Embassy Suites Lake Tahoe (800-988-3724; www.embassytahoe.com) is offering a package that includes two nights in a two-room suite, two rounds of golf (one at the Lake Tahoe Golf Course and the other at your choice of four area courses), two sleeves of golf balls and breakfast each morning for $258 per person, assuming double occupancy. That's a savings of about $200 off regular rates.

Road workout Combating the negative health effects of the business traveler's sedentary, restaurant-packed lifestyle is hard enough without spending time looking for gyms and running routes in unfamiliar cities. So Suzanne Schlosberg has done the advance work in Fitness for Travelers: The Ultimate Workout Guide for the Road, a comprehensive guide to exercising in locations around the world. The book recommends useful gadgets for hotel-room workouts, strategies for fitting exercise into a tight schedule and nutrition advice for airport eating. Ever wonder which has fewer calories, a Dunkin' Donuts jelly-filled doughnut or a Starbucks low-fat cranberry peach muffin? Schlosberg has the answer. (The doughnut, believe it or not.)