Priceline Hotel: 2.5* Richmond (Innsbrook) Fairfield Inn Richmond Northwest

[clmssun]

The only amenities which were promised on the Priceline Name Your Own Price bidding screen were "2.5 Star" with "Free Parking" and "7+ Average Review Rating".

 

After winning my bid, Priceline lists the amentiies as follows: Free Breakfast, Free Internet, Free Parking, Pet Friendly, Indoor Pool, Non-Smoking, Gym, Handicap Accessible, Business Center.

 

This looks to be a fine place with rates "from $94/night".

[AaronJB]

Congrats on your success. :)

 

Very nice win for this Fairfield property and glad you are satisfied with the result. Thank you for letting us know about this new Price.line property so that we can update the site's Priceline Hotel List.

 

Thank you for sharing your win and please use the site's PRICELINE or HOTWIRE links to start your purchases and searches.

 

Enjoy your stay.

[clmssun]

I apologize if this topic/forum is not the proper place for my following comments, but I would like to add:

 

I was highly intrigued by a Priceline Express deal for a 2* in Richmond/Innsbrook for $36. I did some researching, and I had a hunch it would be the Extended Stay America. From my research, this ESA is not a very nice property. Therefore I raised my bid to $48 (+33%!) and raised my star-level to 2.5* to ensure I would not get that "2*" ESA. Other ESA's are rated as 1*. I notice that Better Bidding has two ESA's on their Priceline/Virginia/Richmond hotel lists, one with 2* and one with 1*. While I cannot have 100% certainty that the $36 deal was the 2* ESA (bad property), I believe that it was, and I was disappointed Priceline would offer that.

 

I do expect to be quite pleased with this $48 2.5* Fairfield. Multiple reviewers suggest that it could be upgraded to 3*.

[thereuare]

Well played... and glad to see it worked out so well! :)

Have a great stay.

[clmssun]

We were very pleased with this hotel and the Priceline price we named.

 

The amenities were exactly as described in my opening post here. The bed was very comfortable. The television was (at least) 42" LCD with a good selection of channels. The room had a refrigerator and a microwave oven. The room was very clean; however, the room had clearly been smoked in "at some point in the past." Free WiFi was nice. The place was pet friendly -- which we liked, though we were not traveling with our pets this time. (We saw a couple dogs, but never heard them obtrusively.) There is an indoor pool, a bit small, but would be good for young kids. The desk in the room was small; this was not a business trip for us, so that was not a problem for us. We never inspected the business center. The HVAC unit in the room maintained a nice temperature, but it would occasionally (bu repeatedly) make "flapping" noises. We had no noise problems from our hallway, but we could hear some low-level noises from above. The free breakfast was terrific: scrambled eggs, turkey bacon, turkey sausage, do-it-yourself waffles, bagels, pastries, cold cereal, oatmeal, fruit, a variety of yogurts, coffee, tea. Nice large dining room for the breakfast. Good location, easily accessible to I-64 and US-250 (Broad St.).

 

We would definitely stay here again. I hope I can properly deduce this hotel when perusing Priceline and Hotwire listings in the future.

[AaronJB]

Thank you for the follow-up review! Glad to hear that the hotel stay went so well. :)