THE INDEPENDENCE DAY DEALS

By Chris Erskine

June 21, 2009 12 AM PT

Looking for Fourth of July bargains? The holiday falls on a Saturday, so three-day packages abound. Hotels.com is offering free nights at 900 properties, including the Borrego Ranch Resort & Spa in Borrego Springs, Calif.

The deal: The offer is for three nights, any dates July 2 to 5. Stay two nights and get the third night free. Over three nights, the rate comes to $119 per day. To heat up the deal, Hotels.com will include a $25 gift MasterCard on two-night stays, a $50 MasterCard on three-night stays, and a $75 MasterCard on stays of four nights or more. Need to get closer to the sea? The Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla is offering a three-night stay that averages $242 a night with the free night. Rooms and prices are subject to availability. Minimum stay required. Prices exclude taxes and fees and are subject to change without notice.

Info: www.hotels.com/4thofjuly

-- Chris Erskine

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

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