poor Google-fu

[cellio]

My Google-fu is weak tonight, it seems.

Given that there won't be anyone around HUC for the Shabbat before the Sh'liach K'hilah session, I'm considering staying in a hotel Friday and Saturday nights. I figure that'll be more comfortable and I should be able to get internet access Saturday night. I have a target synagogue I want to be near.

My local contact (thanks!) has given me the names of some nearby hotels that largely lack web sites. I could, of course, pick up the phone and ask questions, but that's so 20th-century.

The goals: proximity; internet access in the room; non-skanky; inexpensive; either a fridge or free breakfast so I can eat Saturday.

Google Maps will let me search for hotels near a target and even gave me a different list when I added "internet" to the query, but I haven't figured out how to represent "inexpensive" in such a way that it produces results, and I didn't even try to encode the rest. Plain old Google isn't helping me much either.

How would you construct that sort of query?

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frequent business traveler knows

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Do Yahoo Maps of the area around the synagogue and then click on "Show Hotels". It makes little icons that when you mouse over gives you the name of the hotel and the price range. You can click on the icons for more details and they usually have all that stuff right there. Fridges are usually at places denoted "suites."

Re: frequent business traveler knows

[cellio]

Thanks! That's a really handy feature, especially the summary view so you don't actually have to click through to the hotels' web sites and hunt for the information. A uniform format is nice.

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

I'd go use whatever was my favorite travel search web site (in my case, that would be Orbitz, but I'm not really wedded to them), and search on hotels in the city. They'll give you a range, and plenty of descriptions, pictures, etc.

[cellio]

Thank you!

[jducoeur]

How would you construct that sort of query?

Really, I'd ask AAA; their guidebooks are designed to quickly examine hotels with just those sorts of parameters. (But that's only useful if you're a member...)

[cellio]

Good idea. And it's been a while since I've asked AAA to do something for me in exchange for my membership dollars, so I'm due. Better that than an emergency tow. :-)