choctaw1990

It's pretty nice, even though some people complain because they say they can't find it behind the Mazda dealership - but it's visible from the freeway. Nice area, pretty much away from the riff-raff this city is so infamous for in ALL its hotels. Now, maybe the "Hot.wire" rooms are the ones closest to the front office/wi-fi router but the internet works, fast enough to do online classes or stuff like that, so I don't know what people on TripAdvisor were complaining about. Maybe their room was on the top floor closest to the freeway and farthest away from the wi-fi router or something. Or maybe they just hate Albuquerque as a whole, which is completely understandable. I *think* it's 2-star because unlike the other Extended Stay America properties because it's the "economy" version they don't offer breakfast food and you have to ask for the dishes, pots and pans if you want them (or if you don't travel with your own like I do). I'm just sayin' - this even beats Motel 6's "Extended Stay" properties' rate.

So far I've gotten pretty decent rooms in places I've booked through Hot.wire and not their worst rooms, even though some of the places I've been, I've looked up reviews of on TripAdvisor and other Hotwire customers complain loud and long and say they'll never use Hotwire again. Maybe I've just been lucky; maybe it has something to do with arriving EARLY and never in the middle of the night as I won't drive past sundown in most parts of the country (being Native American, a minority, and this country becoming overwhelmingly more and more of a giant "sundown town" over the last 10-15 years or so). I used to travel and drive more hours each day thus arriving either late in the evening or early in the "night" hours but never after midnight, but that was 15 years ago. These last few years, I refuse to do that. You might get a crappier room if you arrive after midnight and all the better rooms are taken by people who just won't drive after dark. Now, for those flying: airplanes get in when they get in, so they may have no choice.

Well, I don't know about New York but everywhere else I've tried to use Hot.wire vs Price.line I've discovered that Hotwire, on their "secret rate" hotels, has prices so much lower than Priceline that the difference in taxes is almost a moot point. Right now where I'm staying, through Hotwire, I'm getting at $24/night (weekly) and the lowest offer on Priceline for what I assume must be the same place is like $37/night. (Now, this Extended Stay America has a monthly rate of $562 through their own "Extended Stay Plus" program but I don't know who you'd have to kill to get into that program...granted, this is in a part of the country in which, for example, I walked in to a Super 8 which had previously advertised in the newspaper a weekly or monthly rate and got asked where I was "from" as in they wouldn't let "locals" in...I practically bit their heads off on that one because in this part of the country every where I go I'm getting treated like everyone thinks they're a bloody IMMIGRATION agent with the "where you from" every time I say pretty much ANYTHING to anybody....) ...let's see: $24/night versus $37/night, multiplied out weekly...yes Price.line's taxes are probably lower out here too but when the room rate is THAT MUCH LOWER through Hot.wire it becomes a moot point.