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Good Rate :: Summerfield Suites Seattle for Bumbershoot

August 22, 2006 at 11:21 AM | 0 Comments

[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same city and decide which is better worth your hard-earned benjamins. The screenshot here was taken on August 22, 2006 and rates are subject to change.]

For location, some room to spread out, and a kitchen for beer and munchies, Summerfield Suites in Seattle looks like a winner for the Bumbershoot Festival over Labor Day Weekend.

Bumbershoot always features a great music lineup and this year is no exception. Besides a reunion from Tribe Called Quest, there's Kanye West, Spoon, the New Pornographers, some blasts from the past like Blondie, and a great comedy lineup. It takes place over Labor Day weekend, which is not always the easiest time to find a hotel deal. The Summerfield Suites downtown, however, is going for $135 a night.

There's a bit of confusion over this hotel: it used to be a Wyndham, now is part of Hyatt, and has rates that are all over the map depending on where you look. The price on Expedia is the best, with a few options under $150 per night for the 3-day weekend. The screen shot here says there's a charge for wireless, but it looks like from the main page this has been eliminated--quite appropriate in a city that's home to Microsoft, Amazon, and Real Networks.

The hotel is located near the downtown action and is 1.5 miles from where the festival takes place. Just hop on the monorail--no parking hassles. Try to get one of the quieter rooms away from the highway and if you're on a diet, take it easy on the free breakfast. One TripAdvisor reviewer says, "Continental breakfast is the usual caloric cocktail of mini-muffins, microscopic danish and other combinations of air, starch, crystallline sugar and chemicals."

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· Summerfield Suites reviews [TripAdvisor]