IT PAYS TO BE PETTY:Win a ‘get-over-them getaway’ with Hotels.com

Does Valentine’s Day bring you all those warm, fuzzy feelings, or does it unearth annual flashbacks of the former flame who did you wrong? For travellers with emotional baggage looking for closure and sweet revenge, Hotels.com is listing the only stay suitable for a trash ex — a dumpster.

Through Feb. 12 (at 8 a.m. ET), the hotel booking site is inviting Canadians (and Americans) to offer an online explanation of why their ex deserves a stay in the dumps and, and at the same time, where their dreamiest hotel stay would be.

Participants will receive a “totally fictional yet equally satisfying” booking confirmation email for their ex’s figurative V-Day Dumpster Stay, and, better still, be entered to win a $300 Hotels.com gift card with no expiration for their own personal “get-over-them getaway.”

“That’s right — just booking your trashy ex a dumpster stay enters you to be rewarded your dream hotel stay — and we’re envisioning a classy penthouse suite. Now you both get to sleep where you belong!” reads the promo. “Imagine the satisfaction and closure you’ll get while sleeping in a plush, five-star hotel bed after sending them to the dumps. Like they say, revenge is a dish best served as room service, in bed, with a robe on, and nonstop cable TV playing…”

Adds Hotels.com’s Jennifer Dohm, “If there are two truths on which we can all agree, it’s that we have a terrible ex who should be left in the past, and travel is always one of the best forms of self-love.”

Fifteen winners will be selected and notified by Feb 12. To enter, click hotels.com/vdaydumpsterstay