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Hotwire Earth Day Deals in D.C.

April 12, 2007 at 12:53 PM | 0 Comments

For this week's Good Rate and Bad Rate, we looked at D.C. hotels for Earth Day weekend, staying the nights of April 21 and 22. The Good Rate was at Kimpton's Hotel Palomar in Dupont Circle for $184 a night and the Bad Rate was paying at least $429 for a room with a view at the JW Marriott.

But what if you went the Hotwire route like we did in our story HOWTO Get a Hotel in Manhattan for Under $200? If your plans are solid and you can be flexible, it turns out you would score quite the deal. Here's a sampling of what's on tap for that same weekend of April 21 and 22:

4-star hotel in Dupont Circle - Embassy Row - $89
3-star hotel in Dupont Circle - Embassy Row - $79
4-star hotel in The White House - Capitol Hill - $127
3.5-star hotel in The White House - Capitol Hill - $103
3-star hotel in Georgetown - $96
3-star hotel in South of the Mall - $108

We're not sure "in the White House" is the proper terminology for that area since the Lincoln Bedroom is probably not up for sale that cheap, but semantic quibbling aside, a nice batch of deals. Checking out the message board at BetterBidding.com, we can get a pretty good sense of which ones these are by looking at the descriptions.

The 4-star in Dupont Circle is probably the Hilton Washington Towers, which is a steal. The White House 4-star is probably the Grand Hyatt Washington. The 3-star in Georgetown is probably the Holiday Inn. The 3-star one South of the Mall is a complete mystery though, so you're taking more of a chance there. If you're going to spend all day marching and mingling though, you can opt for one of these hotels and have plenty of money left for buying some locally grown organic produce and some fair trade coffee.