HotelChatter - Tag: bad 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!

New York: Hotels Near Times Square :: RoomMate Grace is Kind of an Expensive Broad

juliana — 2008-07-16T11:07:12-05:00

RoomMate Grace Hotel, formerly the Hotel QT, had rooms going for $349 a night on Quikbook for Monday July 21st. Unless, they combined their notoriously small rooms into spacious suites, this is a totally bad rate.

Keep in mind that a "Petite" room is one of the smallest rooms in the hotel, starting at 170-sq.ft. We think it was probably an F Type room under the old QT system.

Granted, it's not a "Quad Bunk" but still for just $10 less we could have a real room at the Benjamin Hotel, scene of the Top Chef filming and complete with anti-insomnia weapons.

Las Vegas: Bad Rate :: $919.00 for One Night at the Hard Rock Las Vegas

Jenna — 2008-06-12T16:04:54-05:00

So we were cruising around the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino's website today, trying find out what dates their "Great Summer Rates Starting at $69" were in effect (June 30th, it turns out).

Imagine our surprise when we saw the rates for June 19th: $919 for a standard king room. Holy crap.

We're all about blowing our money in Vegas, but we prefer to spend our hard-earned dollars on cocktails and slots. [SLOTS, people. Get your minds out of the gutter.]

Chicago: Bad Rate :: Hotel Indigo Chicago Downtown for Mother's Day

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 28, 2008 and are subject to change. Enjoy.] <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3930/indigo_indulge.jpg" class="imgborder"> We went looking at boutique hotels in Chicago to answer a question. How bad would the damage be if a husband wanted to take the mother of his children away for the weekend? We pulled up the nights of May 9 and 10 and came out better than expected, with nightly rates under $200 before taxes at Hotel Sax, Raffaello Hotel, Kimpton's Hotel Monaco, and W Chicago City Center. So why is a standard

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