Where to stay when you leave.
9/04/2007 at 10:33 AM
Tags: Bad Rate, Airport Hotels, Courtyard by Marriott Hotels
[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same destination and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quoted here were captured on September 4, 2007 and are subject to change. Enjoy.]
For this week's Good Rate we highlighted a Richmond (Virginia) Airport parking deal at the re-branded Wingate by Wyndham. Leaving your car in the hotel parking lot after checking out, the rate is somewhere between $109 and $123 for a standard double. In theory a nearby Courtyard by Marriott is offering a similar deal with their "Park 'n Embark" package. (Bring your dog and we suppose it's Park, Bark, 'n Embark.)
As advertised it's $89 to $279---a suspicious spread already---but it is apparently just for show. We tried five different dates in September and October and got this same message on the screen:
Once again, Courtyard by Marriott seems to be bucking hard to get the most "Bad Rate" entries for the year. You'll pay at least $154 plus tax here, which does not include the Wingate's included breakfast, phone calls, faxes, photocopies, and local calls--or the parking while you're away.
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by Tim L.
9/04/2007 at 10:32 AM
Tags: Good Rate, Hotel Deals, Airport Hotels, Wyndham Hotels
[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same destination and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quoted here were captured on September 4, 2007 and are subject to change. Enjoy.]
Wingate Inn's name recently changed to Wingate by Wyndham, but this is not just a logo makeover. The chain is firing a serious shot across the bow of rivals, offering free wi-fi, breakfast, photocopies, faxes, and local calls. Plus they promise not to charge you a long distance access fee to use your own calling card from the room.
All impressive on its own, but we especially like this "Park & Fly" package they're running at the Wingate Sandston in Virginia, near the Richmond airport. After paying rates starting at $109 a night to stay, you get to leave your car for a week in their parking lot while you jet around elsewhere. Throw in a free airport shuttle and you're saving a bundle. You can opt to spend $20 more for your stay and leave the car two weeks instead--still far cheaper than the airport lots. You might have to phone them to get the advertised rate though: on the website we couldn't get a rate below $123 (before tax) to come up for this package.
We're not sure why this deal is one of only two on their website for the whole chain. (The other is a Crayola factory tour package in Allentown, Pennsylvania.) Hopefully more to come as they rev up the new moniker.
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by Tim L.
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