HotelChatter - Tag: Good Rate

San Diego: Labor Day Hotels :: Good Rate, Bad Rate For the Four Points San Diego

juliana — 2008-08-11T14:44:14-05:00

Those of us who live in Southern California have beaches all year-round to visit so there's never any big rush to the beach over Labor Day Weekend. However, we love three-day weekends so we can be even more laid-back than we normally are Monday through Friday.

And San Diego is a perfect road trip destination in SoCal.

TravelZoo is offering rates at the Four Points San Diego for $130 a night. They are even saying it's $130 off the hotel's regular rate of $250. Sounds good right? But we found an even better rate via the hotel's website. Like, we know!

Chicago: Good Rate :: A Passion Package Deal at Affinia Chicago

Tim L. — 2008-04-29T15:30:01-05:00

<![CDATA[[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same city and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quoted here were captured on April 29, 2008 and are subject to change. Enjoy.] <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3930/passion_affinia.jpg" class="imgborder"> We've said it many times in many ways: a package with a word like "romance," "honeymoon," or "lovers" in it is almost always going to be a bad deal. Like, oh, 99 times out of 100 in our experience. This week we're happy to report that we found the elusive number 100, in the "Passion Package" at the new <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Affinia+Chicago/ian/122910">Affinia Hotel Chicago</a>. We went looking at boutique hotels in Chicago to answer a

San Francisco: San Fran Hotels Get Cheap for the Easter Bunny

juliana — 2008-03-19T14:22:32-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/sanfraneaster.jpg" class="imgborder">So Easter weekend is upon us and if you are looking for a last-minute getaway, fake that you're Catholic and that you need to take off Good Friday for an Easter Vigil and head to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotels/city/us/CA/San%20Francisco">San Francisco</a>.We looked at rates on <a href="http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll?qscr=htwv&from=m&stat=1&khst=1&locn=San+Francisco%2C+CA&ploc=San+Francisco%2C+CA&loid=&name=&date1=03/21/08&date2=03/24/08&cadu1=1&crom=1&rdct=1&olacid=display.2008Q1brand.smrvs.SmarterTravel_INTC_Hotel_BB_Search_Logo_SS1x1.pixel.1x1">Expedia.com</a> for Friday to Monday and rates are looking very do-able. Unlike say Miami which is in the midst of a Spring Break/Holiday weekend double-whammy where beachfront hotels are starting at around $550 a night and airport hotels are hovering in the $200 a night range.<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Clift+Hotel/local/988">The Clift Hotel</a>, which had a very scary <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/3/3/113830/8420/hotels/Hotel_Employee_Arrested_for_Sexual_Assault_at_the_Clift_Hotel">incident</a> earlier this month, is going for $150 a night. Since the place got so much bad press about guest

New York: Good Rate :: Getting Irish at Fitzpatrick's Grand Central Hotel

Tim L. — 2008-03-04T12:52:07-05:00

<![CDATA[[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same region and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quoted here were captured on March 4, 2008 and are subject to change. Enjoy.] <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3930/fitzpatrick_gc.jpg" class="imgborder"> A survey from the American Society of Travel Agents found that <a href="http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2008/02/survey_nyc_will_be_less_popula.html#more">New York City will be a less popular destination for Americans this year</a>, with the city dropping from number three to number seven on the list of desirable places to go. If the comments on the Budget Travel blog story linked above are any indication, it's the sky-high hotel prices that are turning people off. As one person noted, "We are all

Good Rate :: Northeast Ski Package Deals From Travelocity

Tim L. — 2008-01-22T11:48:36-05:00

<![CDATA[[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same region (or this time, around the same activity) and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quoted here were captured on January 22, 2008 and are subject to change. Enjoy.] <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3930/white_mountains2.jpg" class="imgborder"><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/Ski-Hotels-2008-Map">Go Straight to our Ski Hotels 2008 Map</a> Skiing is hard enough without having to sort through math problems ahead of time. That's why we like this one-page rundown of <a href="http://leisure.travelocity.com/Promotions/0,,TRAVELOCITY|4469|hot_main,00.html?WA1=03010&WA2=174293548&WA3=13507850&WA4=0&WA6=387922">Northeast ski deals from Travelocity</a>. Most are simple "ski and stay" packages at quality hotels and resorts around Stowe, Lake Placid, and Stratton. To see how many restrictions we would run into, we ran a few