Comments | pittsburgh: recommend an inexpensive extended-stay hotel?

khyron in pittsburgh

recommend an inexpensive extended-stay hotel?

Dec 30, 2010 11:13

We will be moving this coming summer, and our current lease ends about three weeks before we'll be leaving town. Extending our lease is not an option with our landlord, who wants to get incoming students. So, I'm hunting for a reasonable deal on an extended stay hotel in the Pittsburgh area. Thus far the best location and price I've found is ( Read more... )

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psywildfire December 30 2010, 16:20:22 UTC

There is an Extended Stay Suites off of the Rosslyn Farms Parkway West exit. Not sure what the prices are, though.

-WF

khyron December 30 2010, 16:25:48 UTC

The closest, and coincidentally the cheapest, Extended Stay America location I've found is in Carnegie and their lowest price (with "weekly discount applied" and AAA) is $60/day, which works out to being almost double the cost of the InTown Suites.

psywildfire December 30 2010, 16:27:07 UTC

That's the one I was thinking of. Never mind then.

Is the place you mentioned on McKnight?

-WF

khyron December 30 2010, 16:29:03 UTC

Yeah exactly, it's on McKnight a little ways up from I-279.

kierya December 31 2010, 00:27:10 UTC

There is a couple of Residence Inns by Marriot in the area - North Shore and Oakland. I'm sure they are not inexpensive, but may be more convenient! :)

kierya December 31 2010, 00:30:37 UTC

Oh.. and this site might be of some help...

http://pittsburgh-extended-stay.biz-stay.com/

khyron December 31 2010, 00:37:53 UTC

Thanks, that's a useful cross-marketing portal page...but all the options it lists appear to be much more expensive. The Residence by Marriot places are definitely "upscale" as they say, running over $600/week. I'd like to keep the hotel budget cheap, and just use the savings to enjoy ourselves more once we get out on the road for the left coast.

:)

fasterpussycat December 31 2010, 03:40:59 UTC

what are the dates you need the place?

khyron December 31 2010, 03:41:55 UTC

Our plans are not 100% solid yet, but it's most likely to be something like 6/15 through 7/5.

hopita December 31 2010, 19:34:28 UTC

Is that the hotel that's next to the porn store with the giant neon video cassette on the wall? Isn't there some sort of church on the other side? I always found that combo -- church + porn store + hotel -- interesting.

khyron December 31 2010, 19:40:26 UTC

It's next to...a big parking lot, a Hampton Inn, and a hill, from what I can tell.

hopita December 31 2010, 19:49:59 UTC

It is!

The hotel is at 4595 McKnight Road, and Adult Merchandise Mart is at 4611 McKnight Road.

When you're driving down McKnight Road from the north, toward the city, you can't miss it -- the entire side of the building is a giant neon videocassette. It always cracks me up, because who has a VCR anymore? And I'm sure those guys spent a fortune on that thing, which was probably super cool and trendy ... about a decade ago.