Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Category Archives for California Hotels.
My home base on the Monterey Peninsula is a place where many California travelers visit. Hotel rates frequently double on Friday and Saturday nights. So it kind of blows me away that for the second year in a row Choice Privileges offers low reward rates during our peak season for good weather in September and…
Two factors led me to choose Best Western Cedar Inn & Suites Angels Camp, California for a hotel stay in what is regionally called California ‘Gold Country’. Angels Camp is one of dozens of towns in the Sierra Nevada foothills founded during the California gold rush era. Most importantly, Murphys Irish Day, 11 miles uphill…
Murphys Irish Day is the 3rd Saturday in March and most recently happened Saturday, March 16, 2019. Murphys Irish Day probably saw more than 20,000 visitors to the small Sierra foothills town of Murphys in Calaveras County. About 600 yards of Main Street, where most of the commercial businesses in town are located, were blocked…
Disneyland with my parents in the days before Thanksgiving was precious. Thanksgiving with even more family members was a blessing. Burning 50,000 Best Western Rewards points for 5 room nights at hotels across the street from the Disneyland park entrance was a steal. Driving 900 miles across California spending $255 for 3 IHG hotels and…
Some of the best hotel rate discounts of the year can be yours with Choice Privileges points saving hundreds of dollars in lodging costs for a Central Coast California road trip between September 16 and November 30, 2018.
Bidding for Good has a Dollars for Scholars auction with dozens of hotel stay items, mostly across California, sponsored by the California Lodging Industry Association – CLIA. The auction runs through 10pm PDT April 22. Some of the hotels available for bids include: Grand Hyatt Manchester San Diego Le Meridien San Francisco Marriott Santa Clara…
A massive landslide dropped a mountainside of dirt and rocks on the Pacific Coast Highway 1 in rural southern Monterey County, California this past weekend. The highway is buried under 40 feet of debris for 1/4 to 1/2 mile and will likely be closed for more than one year for repairs. Highway 1 had already…
California’s coast attracts millions of visitors each year. However, according to a study by UCLA for the California Coastal Commission in late 2016, most California residents who visit the beach do not stay overnight within one mile of the beach, primarily due to the high cost of lodging. 75% of Californians surveyed state the high…
Santa Maria is often where I stop for a hotel night when driving between Monterey, California and Southern California. This city tends to be the lowest priced hotels between Monterey and Los Angeles when driving U.S. 101 and Highway 1 along the coast. The drive from Monterey is 175 miles and about 3 hours without…
Tens of thousands of tourists over the next few months will drive the coastline of California along State Route 1, aka Highway 1 or Pacific Coast Highway or PCH. The drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles, staying mostly on Highway 1 is over 400 miles and around a ten hour drive with no stops.…
