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HotelChatter Reader Deals :: The New Sheraton Phoenix Will Have Cheaper Rates in a Month
September 24, 2008 at 5:42 PM | 0 Comments
A New Hotel Gets Cheaper With Age
$171 a night
Regular readers of HotelChatter know how much we obsess over hotel openings and their introductory hotel opening rates. And today is no different.
The Sheraton Phoenix Downtown hotel will open on September 30th adjacent to the Phoenix Convention Center and it's going to be huge. Like a thousand rooms huge.
You would think with so many rooms they would probably be a little competitive on their pricing right? Not quite. Opening rates are set at $249 a night and that's the pre-paid internet rate.
However, if you can sit tight until the end of October that rate will drop to about $171 a night. We still think it's pricey for a Sheraton near a convention center but maybe we can find it for less on a blind booking site like Hotwire or Priceline. We'll let you know if we do.
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MLB Travel: Hotels Near the Phoenix's Chase Field
June 13, 2007 at 11:06 AM | 0 Comments
Summer is here, which means baseball-obsessed people all over the U.S. are hopping in planes, trains, and automobiles to visit MLB fields around the country. To help these fanatic fans/hotel guests, we will be looking at ballparks around the country and give you a quick rundown of your closest, safest, and best hotel options. "America's Favorite Pastime" with some of America's finest second cities--what is not to love? If you got any hotel questions or suggestions or even better, firsthand baseball park hotel reviews, send them here and share them with other MLB fans--even if they are Yankee fans.
Click Here to Go Straight to the Hotels Near MLB Stadiums Map
We chose to look at the Arizona Diamondbacks team today because we realize we don't have much on hotels in Phoenix. And now we know why. Downtown Phoenix has been a struggling neighborhood for quite some time. Although there is some good redevelopment going on, swanky boutique hotels have yet to hit the area.
For now, the closest hotel to Chase Field is the Wyndham Phoenix, which reviews would describe as "decent" at best.
Hotel Hell
Room Service and Shuttle Problems
April 6, 2006 at 11:17 AM | 0 Comments
[Ed. Note: A reader let us know about a recent stay at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix that involved some major confusion about the shuttle service. If you plan on staying here, maybe you should rent a car. Enjoy.]
I just returned from a five night stay. The lobby and atrium are really beautiful. But the room service food was the worst I'd ever experienced in upper class hotels --- too salty, tough meat and fish (and even the omelet that I resorted to thinking there was no way they could fail with it), potato rot in the red potatoes that had not been removed, rolls stale, food tepid, salad overdressed. All of this was particularly strange considering the convention food and the inhotel restaurant food was what you would expect in such a hotel.
The good news is that when I complained the hotel agreed to a token refund. This was not the end of the problems, though. Upon arrival, I called for the hotel shuttle (which I later learned only runs from 6AM-2PM ). It is a contract service and the first shuttle meeting the description
came and told me they were not allowed to pick me up (even though the shuttle was empty), instead I had to wait until the next shuttle came.
I had made arrangements the previous day for airport transportation. They told me that the shuttle didn't run until after I needed to go, but the staff member would notify the shuttle and there were ones available that the bellman could get at that hour.
They failed to mention that this was twice as expensive as the shuttle, and that no bellman came on duty until the later hour. And, of course, no one at the shuttle acknowledge that the reservation had been made.
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· Hyatt Regency Phoenix reviews [TripAdvisor]
