{"id":12386,"date":"2013-06-02T01:07:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T08:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12386"},"modified":"2013-06-02T01:08:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T08:08:29","slug":"california-hotel-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-hotel-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"$550 Hotel Room Worth the Stay in California?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/hotlrevs.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured are hotels that lots of people like &#8211; left to right: Tenaya Lodge in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/things-to-do\/fishcamp.html\">Fish Camp<\/a> outside Yosemite National Park; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stockteam.com\/hyatt_huntington.html\">Hyatt Regency Beach Resort<\/a> in Huntington Beach; Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/hot-hotel-news-hotel-california-in-palm-springs-no-1\/\">Hotel California<\/a> in Palm Desert, a TripAdvisor people&#8217;s choice. \u00a0These hotels and resorts have rooms well under $550, though at peak times some may charge that amount&#8211;and more.<\/p>\n<p>Do you love staying in hotels&#8211;especially the nice ones? We have stayed at luxury hotels in the $550+\/night range that had fleas in the room, air conditioning that didn&#8217;t work, and beds that sank. Paying lots of money isn&#8217;t necessarily your ticket to a luxury stay and a good night&#8217;s sleep! What happened to quality control?<\/p>\n<p>AAA (Automobile Club) used to be the supreme source for rating hotel quality, issuing One to Five Diamonds \u00a0in a &#8216;pay to play&#8217; model&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/hotels\/california-hotel-reviews-discussion.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured are hotels that lots of people like &#8211; left to right: Tenaya Lodge in Fish Camp outside Yosemite National Park; Hyatt Regency Beach Resort in Huntington Beach; Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel; and Hotel California in Palm Desert, a TripAdvisor people&#8217;s choice. \u00a0These hotels and resorts have rooms well under $550, though at peak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}