I’m headed out to the San Francisco area. Who wants to meet up? Maybe Labor Day morning in Menlo Park or Palo Alto?
In looking for a hotel, Google Maps included this place in Menlo Park, California, rated 4.7 stars:
What if we add taxes?
It’s $14,970 for three nights in the cheapest available room at the Rosewood Sand Hill, which might sound expensive until you consider that it includes “Complimentary wireless internet access”.
(I rented someone’s guest house in Woodside, just a few minutes north of this hotel, in 1982 after graduating from MIT and starting work at Hewlett-Packard Research Labs. If memory serves, I was paying less than $300/month ($10 per night rather than $5,000).)
What if you bring two kids and want each to have his/her/zir/their own bedroom? That will be $54,410 including tax:


