I needed a hotel in San Francisco on Wednesday night, and probably should have booked it more than a day in advance. I checked about a month ago and rates were crazy, so I figured I'd come back and book closer to the date. What I failed to consider is that this is one of…
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welcome to the glamorous world of business travel. Often this level of hotel is all that your company's per diem will allow. At least the shower was hot, the room was clean, and no one next door kept you up all night with blaring music, partying, etc. Four Points are almost always are a great budget alternative when you just need a place to rest your head.
Perhaps an upgrade would have changed your opinion of the hotel, but probably not.
I have stayed at this Four Points more than a dozen times. I picked up loads of points and free nights with SPG on $80 stays.
The best thing about this hotel the past several years was free parking. This year they added $10 per night charge. The other Starwood Hotels at the airport have always charged for parking.
You missed out on the upgrade to the bi-level loft with the living room downstairs and bedroom upstairs.
These rooms are one of the largest rooms I have had at Four Points anywhere.
I thought I had a review of the hotel on my blog, but I can't locate one.
Welcome to SF during Open World, not to mention all the other festivates gearing up for this weekend.
Could you have redeemed 1,000 SPG points to secure 50% of the rack rate? If my math is correct, that would have given you a $164.50 room rate and a redemption of over 16 cents/point
I know that Shell well. It's my go to gas station when I fly in and out of SFO.
When I want to stay near SFO, I typically stay at the Hilton. Diamond upgrades are frequent and you get great bay views with aircraft landings. For an avgeek, it's a killer place.
Given you have a Hilton Credit Card, you should use your points and stay there one night. It's fabulous.
@ShaneInTulsa -- I certainly hope that someone else is paying for your gas. That Shell station charges outrageous prices. If you have a Costco membership, you can save about 40 cents per gallon, and it's closer to the airport!
weird with the dispenser ... i stayed there in June and had actual bottles or tubes. But yes i can understand the value of this hotel. I stayed during the US Open and that was $300+/night as well.
There are so much stuff going on this week in the Bay Area.
How do you like our gas prices right now?
Try the new Aloft SFO Apt next time! It just opened in September and seems a class above all the tired airport hotels @SFO.
@ Chris -- I probably could have, but for an extra 3,000 points I could have saved $180+ (when you factor in tax), so outright redeeming points seemed like the best option.
@ BenjaminN -- I don't! 😀
@ TJ -- Was hoping to try Aloft but it was sold out.
"The room boasted breathtaking and panoramic views of a Shell gas station" ... not to mention view of the sign proclaiming South San Francisco as "The Industrial City." Always cracks me up. What industries are left in South SF?
I hope you're sticking around this weekend for all the fun in San Francisco. There are literally 100's of events happening in this city this weekend from sporting events, music festivals, cultural celebrations, etc, and a lot of them are free!
Safe Travels, if not
The loft suite faces the side of the hotel. For a nothing special 4 Points, that suite was certainly a novelty.
They do have a shuttle that's shared with several other hotels.
Coins, at least you didn't get a rear facing (highway) view.
@lucky +1 for that Aloft. It just opened a few weeks ago and it is awesome 😀 Next time.
I call this property the 2 points SFO, because it doesn't merit the extra 2 points.
Like Ric, I have been upgraded to the bi-level loft room, which I absolutely hated. You could not do everything on one level. wifi wasn't working when I was there, so you had to use the desk for internet on one level and the rest of the stuff was on the other level.
I hated that hotel and at the time, Starwood had the old Sheraton Gateway hotel which was a much better cheap backup option as rooms there were usually available for around $100 or so per night. That property is now a Hilton. (And I recommend it if you need Hilton stays, they did a nice renovation, has a nice exec club, nice breakfast.)
None of them compare to the SFO Hyatt IMHO.
Haven't tried the new Aloft yet, but when I looked rates were equal or higher than the full service Westin SFO, which provides breakfast for platinums. Westin SFO is an ok hotel with great beds, etc, nothing special except for their breakfast benefit (no, not the normal one, all plats get breakfast at this property.) When there's availability, I can get this property for around $140++ at my corp rate.
-David
@george: right, I guess biotech is an industry - but it wasn't when that sign was put up!
Folks were at sfo overnight on Tues. Had trouble getting them a cheap room. Now I know why!