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Hotwire is offering an interesting promotion that surely will not last long. In a nutshell, they are offering 4-star hotels in a number of major cities for $49 per night for travel between June 26th-July 8th. That’s a small window of opportunity, and you can book a max of two nights at this price — but at $49 per night, it’s hard to go wrong in cities where room rates are often much more expensive.
The Deal
- $49 room nights in major cities like NY, LA, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, etc for travel from June 26th-July 8th, while supplies last
- Direct link to this promotion
Key Terms
- Can book a max of 2 nights at these prices (only applies to first 2 nights if you book more)
- 1 booking per person
- It’s Hotwire, so you won’t know the name of the hotel until after booking, but you can know the general neighborhood
- Must book by June 28th, but the best deals surely won’t last more than hours from now
- Price doesn’t include tax or resort fees
Quick Thoughts
This is an awesome promo if you have travel coming up in the next couple of weeks. While I don’t usually prefer opaque booking sites like Hotwire these days, the savings here could easily outweigh the gamble. You won’t get elite credit or benefits — but with room rates significantly higher in some of these cities, you can take your savings and get a good brunch out on the town.
The best properties will surely go fast. I haven’t used BetterBidding.com in years, so I don’t know if it’s still updated, but that site used to give you a decent idea as to which properties you might be booking…though, honestly, I don’t know as though you’ll have much time to consider as I’d expect this to sell out quickly.
The one “gotcha” that I don’t like is that the price doesn’t include tax or resort fees. I recently stayed at The Algonquin in New York City, a 4-star Autograph Collection (by Marriott) hotel. They charge a $25 per night “destination fee”. It includes some worthwhile benefits ($25 F&B credit, $15 laundry credit, hop on/hop off bus tour), but that would nonetheless represent 50% of the room cost here. Keep in mind that you might run into such fees in some cities, though I’d expect those fees to be disclosed before you finish the booking process (I’m hurrying to post this before trying to make a test booking so that readers will have time to find and book these deals).
H/T: Miles to Memories
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Really wish they had a bigger booking window. I’m out of the country until late at night on July 6th, so there’s no use I could get out of this. And I’d totally have booked an LA or NYC hotel at that price, too. 🙁
For Chicago, these “deals” are disingenuous.
Chicago Suburb listings masquerading as Chicago proper. Please. And certainly no $49 deals.
This was for 6/29-7/1.
Maybe I’m just searching on the wrong days?
As noted above, this was posted more than 24 hours ago, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the best places are gone. Deals like this are measured in hours, if not minutes. If you aren’t yet subscribed to “instant post alerts”, you might want to click “Subscribe” at the top of the page and choose that (or follow us on Twitter and turn on mobile notifications) so you can find out about deals like this right away.
In the case of Chicago, a buddy of mine booked the Viceroy – right downtown, rooftop pool, no resort fee, $49.
You might try looking at 1-night stays to see if you find something that way – you might find something centrally located still available for a single night….or it’s possible that the downtown properties are just booked up already.
Just booked Hotel Maya – A Doubletree Hotel in Long Beach, same-day for $49 (vs. list rate of $200+ on other OTAs). Hotel is kind of middling. Gift for Hilton Golds at front desk was two bottles of water and a cookie, and no suite upgrade. They did agree to add my HHonors number to the reservation, though, which I think was nice of them, as bookings made through OTAs generally don’t earn nights toward status or provide elite benefits. It’s kind of shitty that the only hotels that were offered in Los Angeles were all in Long Beach. That’s kind of like offering deals on NYC hotels, only for the deals to all be located in White Plains or Jersey City instead. Definitely a bait-and-switch, but I’m still relatively happy with the deal.
I think it was your dates, I see some others in LA for July 3 evening: a few downtown, one in hollywood, pasadena, century city, and LAX. Finding out more at the moment. Also https://roomrevealer.com seems pretty spot on to match with # of hotwire reviews and trip advisor reviews as comparison.
Not sure when you booked, but I posted this more than 24 hours ago, so I imagine the best deals (center city, best properties) were gone within a couple of hours of whenever it started (not sure what time it began). So it’s possible that they had better-located LA properties. Not sure.
Landed 2 rooms in same booking @ Le Meridien San Francisco for two nights over the 4th. No resort fees. What a steal, thanks for posting!
Resort fee due at hotel
This hotel charges a resort fee which you pay at the hotel directly. It isn’t included in your Hotwire total. $90.00
That changed the calculus…
Did you mean to reply to a response? Which hotel?
Booked 4.5 star boutique in Austin for July 4th. Hotwire added on $42.70/nt in taxes & fees.
Just booked The Manhattan Club in NYC for $49 ($62 w Tax).
Nice! That looks like a great deal.
Just landed Parc 55 SanFran for out the door of $114 for 2 night. Thanks!
Awesome! Nice deal.
is that the 4* hotel Union square east? or 4* boutique hotel?
I just landed the same one. It was in the Union square east deal.
looks like both the USE and soma hotel options have daily $29 resort fee.. lame. Does the Parc 55 have that as well..? not interested if it has resort fees..
I mean, I’m completely anti resort fee and can understand if you just don’t want to support establishments that charge them….but at $80/nt, that’s still pretty stellar in San Francisco.
it is but given that i live in bay area and dealing with parking or caltrain. not worth it for $80 a night. might as well just drive home. only 35 min each way with no traffic..
No fees. That’s why I said $114 total for 2 days. Taxes included. $49+ tax/day.
nice! if there are still ones without resort fee i’d book for sure
bit the bullet and booked for this sat night with resort fee. $86 for one night with my parents. thanks again1
Most of the DC hotels are likely Kimpton Hotels. Based on that I’d guess that this is mostly a Kimpton promotion. $49/night + taxes is a good price. I’m seeing if my wife wants to commute the five miles from Arlington to DC for a Kimpton say (wine hour!) even though I have to do some remote work this weekend.