Free days in late August? Here’s a San Francisco hotel room sale

Eager to fill the gap between the end-of-summer rush and fall convention season, the Marriott Marquis San Francisco is holding a 24-hour sale starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday. The sale rate: $149 for all available rooms Aug. 26 to Sept. 1.

That’s a discount of 20% or more in one of the country’s priciest hotel markets. You also get a one-day Bloomingdale’s savings pass, good for discounts of up to 25% at that department store near the hotel.

The Marriott Marquis has 1,500 rooms, but they might not last long. San Francisco tourism officials say the city’s hotels this year average $257.76 per room per night.

To book, go to lat.ms/sfmarriottsale and use promotional code PRO or call (888) 236-2427. This offer is based upon availability and can’t be combined with any other discounts. You also can’t book more than nine rooms at a time.

The 39-story hotel at Mission Street and 4^th Street is also within walking distance of Union Square and the recently expanded and reopened San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Locals know the hotel building as “the jukebox,” because of the curved, glassy top of the structure. (It went up in 1989.)

If this Marriott runs out of rooms, other San Francisco hotels are probably looking to stimulate demand too. With many schools resuming classes and convention season not heating up until September and October, the last week of August is a brief buyers’ opportunity in what is usually a seller’s market.

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