Thanks @habryka—I’ve edited the post to make it clearer that it’s hearsay and that the purchase is not complete. If you think “hotel complex” is a misleading description for the RGI I’d happily consider an alternative term.
Thanks @lincolnquirk—It’s almost certainly a price that no one pays, and I’ve edited the post to make that clearer, but it did still shock me.
Oh, I think the Rose Garden Inn is just a hotel, and I wouldn’t think of it as a “hotel complex” (it does have multiple buildings, but they are just part of the same hotel). I think hotel complex makes people think of 100+ rooms, whereas the Rose Garden has like 40 rooms, which is on the smaller side of being a hotel.
I am also confused. Was the rack rate of $500 written on the inside of a Rose Garden Inn room? If so, that would be kind of hilarious. The place is/was super run down and as I said, normal nightly rates went for as low as $70 during the pandemic as one of the cheapest hotels in Berkeley.
fwiw I don’t actually have a strong intuitive sense of what a hotel complex is supposed to be (if it’s a technical term I didn’t know it before), and would have thought Rose Garden Inn was reasonably described as hotel complex by virtue of building multiple related buildings (which is what I normally think of ‘complex’ meaning in architecture settings).
Googling “hotel complex” doesn’t actually return a clear definition, and the examples that come up don’t feel like they definitively point towards something much bigger than RGI. (seems like reasonable people could disagree tho)
A complex is a group of buildings designed for a particular purpose, or one large building divided into several smaller areas. [...]
which on the margin I think implies somewhat larger buildings, but the connotations for me sound like something “at least about as bit as Rose Garden Inn.”
The multiple buildings made it feel like a complex to me, but I’ve changed the wording to simply “hotel”.
Yes, I’m now questioning my memory, but the rack-rate was on the inside of the RGI room I was staying in. I forget the room number, but feel free to DM me if you’d like a description of which one it was.
Cool, yeah, I believe you. That is, as I said, kind of hilarious given the current state of the property (and the more recent room prices it managed to fetch).
I’m not sure, but I think I might have seen a sign in a rose garden room with a $500 rack rate. Second floor building B. I found it quite funny given how far from the current state it was, it read like a decades old relic of what the Inn once was.
Thanks @habryka—I’ve edited the post to make it clearer that it’s hearsay and that the purchase is not complete. If you think “hotel complex” is a misleading description for the RGI I’d happily consider an alternative term.
Thanks @lincolnquirk—It’s almost certainly a price that no one pays, and I’ve edited the post to make that clearer, but it did still shock me.
Oh, I think the Rose Garden Inn is just a hotel, and I wouldn’t think of it as a “hotel complex” (it does have multiple buildings, but they are just part of the same hotel). I think hotel complex makes people think of 100+ rooms, whereas the Rose Garden has like 40 rooms, which is on the smaller side of being a hotel.
I am also confused. Was the rack rate of $500 written on the inside of a Rose Garden Inn room? If so, that would be kind of hilarious. The place is/was super run down and as I said, normal nightly rates went for as low as $70 during the pandemic as one of the cheapest hotels in Berkeley.
fwiw I don’t actually have a strong intuitive sense of what a hotel complex is supposed to be (if it’s a technical term I didn’t know it before), and would have thought Rose Garden Inn was reasonably described as hotel complex by virtue of building multiple related buildings (which is what I normally think of ‘complex’ meaning in architecture settings).
Googling “hotel complex” doesn’t actually return a clear definition, and the examples that come up don’t feel like they definitively point towards something much bigger than RGI. (seems like reasonable people could disagree tho)
But “building complex” gets defined as:
which on the margin I think implies somewhat larger buildings, but the connotations for me sound like something “at least about as bit as Rose Garden Inn.”
The multiple buildings made it feel like a complex to me, but I’ve changed the wording to simply “hotel”.
Yes, I’m now questioning my memory, but the rack-rate was on the inside of the RGI room I was staying in. I forget the room number, but feel free to DM me if you’d like a description of which one it was.
Cool, yeah, I believe you. That is, as I said, kind of hilarious given the current state of the property (and the more recent room prices it managed to fetch).
I’m not sure, but I think I might have seen a sign in a rose garden room with a $500 rack rate. Second floor building B. I found it quite funny given how far from the current state it was, it read like a decades old relic of what the Inn once was.