Happy Birthday, Baby! Bring on the ‘Dirty Dancing’ Vacation Packages.

Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 10.26.07 | 3:32 AM ET

Talk about a niche market. This summer, the ‘80s chick-flick classic “Dirty Dancing” celebrated its 20th anniversary with a brief return to theaters, a revival of the musical in London’s West End and an anniversary-edition DVD with plenty of bonus footage. (Dare we ask: Where are they now?)

Of course, the tourism industry wasn’t going to be left out of the action. The Guardian’s Sarah Bourn reports that Virginia’s Mountain Lake Hotel—where, for those of you who are keeping track, the dance lessons and the Houseman cabin scenes were filmed—is now offering special themed packages that include group dance classes and a “Dirty Dancing” trivia night.

Earlier in the anniversary season, another Guardian travel writer checked out North Carolina’s Lake Lure, the film’s other main location. Catherine Quinn stayed in the resort that stood in as “Kellerman’s” in the movie. “To this day the film still has a significant ability to fill rooms at the hotel and so a number of changes have been made to accommodate fans,” she writes. “A full refurbishment last year saw an expansion of a special Dirty Dancing area in the lobby, where the movie rolls constantly on a small TV next to stacks of memorabilia. Fans can buy T-shirts, books, pens, posters, and browse valuable signed prints of the film.”

Of all the anniversary coverage I’ve seen, the headline on Quinn’s story takes the prize for best “Dirty Dancing” pun: “Nobody puts Baby in a cabin.”