HotelChatter - Tag: Good Rate http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-23T14:57:00Z HotelChatter HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Good%20Rate New York: Good Rate, Bad Rate: The Standard or Cooper Square For Labor Day? http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/1/145312/0570 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/coopvstandard.jpg" class="top"><p><i>[It's baaaacck! Welcome once again to our <b>Good Rate/Bad Rate</b> feature where we look at hotel prices in the same city and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Torn between two hotels? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Send 'em to us</a> and we'll help you pick the right one. Rates quoted here were captured on September 1, 2009 and are subject to change. Enjoy.]</i><p>If you're anything like us (and our mother), you will wait until the very last possible minute to book your flights for your vacation. Hotel rooms come much, much later in the planning process--often the night before. So it's no surprise that you find yourself trying to book some lodgings for an impromptu Labor Day getaway to juliana 2009-09-01T17:14:44-05:00 San Diego: Labor Day Hotels :: Good Rate, Bad Rate For the Four Points San Diego http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/11/14224/1556

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! ]]> juliana 2008-08-11T14:44:14-05:00 32.8097670 -117.14859 Chicago: Good Rate :: A Passion Package Deal at Affinia Chicago http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/29/95858/2338 <![CDATA[<p><b>[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.]</b> <p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3930/passion_affinia.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p>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"><b>Affinia Hotel Chicago</b></a>. <p>We went looking at boutique hotels in Chicago to answer a Tim L. 2008-04-29T15:30:01-05:00 41.896211 -87.623319 San Francisco: San Fran Hotels Get Cheap for the Easter Bunny http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/3/19/14653/5519 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/sanfraneaster.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>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"><b>San Francisco</b></a>.<p>We looked at rates on <a href="http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll?qscr=htwv&amp;from=m&amp;stat=1&amp;khst=1&amp;locn=San+Francisco%2C+CA&amp;ploc=San+Francisco%2C+CA&amp;loid=&amp;name=&amp;date1=03/21/08&amp;date2=03/24/08&amp;cadu1=1&amp;crom=1&amp;rdct=1&amp;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.<p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Clift+Hotel/local/988"><b>The Clift Hotel</b></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 juliana 2008-03-19T14:22:32-05:00 New York: Good Rate :: Getting Irish at Fitzpatrick's Grand Central Hotel http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/3/4/102922/6082 <![CDATA[<p><b>[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.]</b><p> <p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3930/fitzpatrick_gc.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>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.<p> As one person noted, "We are all Tim L. 2008-03-04T12:52:07-05:00 40.752436 -73.974421 Search HotelChatter Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/