Priceline Hotel: 2* San Francisco (Airport SFO) La Quinta Inn

[zircon]

Started bidding at $28 for two nights and got La Quinta when I hit $33.

[thereuare]

Welcome to BetterBidding!

Thanks you for sharing your win/results with the rest of the board.

Do you recall the highest bid amount that was rejected before this acceptance? (it sounds like you had rejected bids between $28-$33).

Thanks for posting, and have a great day.

[zircon]

Yes, the previous bid was $32. Taxes and fees were $15, making it $81 for the two nights.

From reviews I gather La Quinta here is better than the Comfort Suites, but not the Hyatt Regency of course.

Hotwire was offering a hotel around SFO for $42 with taxes that I suspect was the ill-reviewed Comfort Suites.

[cosmo]

Hi zircon,

Did the LaQuinta charge an extra $3/night to your credit card? They did that with me and I am not sure this was justified; I certainly find this practice misleading.

[zircon]

Yes, the $3/night is some sort of convention center tax.

Priceline does cover this in their fine print, but one of the problems of Priceline generally is that you never know till you arrive what the add-ons are actually going to be and, even worse, there seems to be some inconsistency among hotels in the same area about what's included and what's not.

Also, when I arrived, the hotel didn't have any record of me from Priceline and the matter didn't get sorted out till the next day -- who screwed up isn't clear, of course. Had to wonder what happens when an airline has no record from Priceline and you don't have a day to sort things out.

That said, my room was great value, the breakfast was ample, and the front desk was friendly, so I was pretty satisfied.

[lowballer]

The city of Burlingame (where SFO and most of the hotels are located) levies some sort of occupancy tax in the range of $1+ per room night. I've been hit with it staying elsewhere near the airport on PL stays. For me it was $1.25 for one night at the SFO Mariott; perhaps it varies by location within Burlingame or something. A few other places in California (notably Sacramento) have a similar tax.

It is certainly a nuisance, but it is somewhat legit in that it is a government-imposed charge that everyone has to pay and is separate from the X% sales tax. And it's not a nefarious energy surcharge.