{"id":205,"date":"2012-11-28T12:51:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T17:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2013-04-02T02:07:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T07:07:33","slug":"trip-report-back-to-the-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Trip Review: Back to the Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weather was definitely not on my side this trip. I was flying JFK to SFO on Virgin America, and the flight was delayed 4 hours due to rain in Frisco. You suck rain.<\/p>\n<p>Award wallet actually did a great job about keeping me updated so I arrived at the airport 2 hours before departure instead of 4. Priority pass also saved me as I spend most of that time at the Oasis Lounge eating and drinking away until a few minutes before boarding. I was also fortunate enough to be flying in main cabin select, so that meant free food and movies throughout the flight.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up watching &#8220;Spiderman&#8221;, and &#8220;The Watch&#8221;, one of which was entertaining (I&#8217;ll let you figure out which one). RED entertainment system was awesome as usual, crew was super courteous, so what more could I ask for. Maybe a better seatmate but let&#8217;s not go there.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I touched down in San Francisco, it was a lot later due to the flight delay so I headed straight to J.W. Marriott to check in.<\/p>\n<p>I had booked a base level room but thanks to my Marriott Platinum status, I was upgraded to a Pacific Suite on the 8th floor. It ended up being an amazing king bedroom suite with 2 baths, and double entrances. Easily one of the nicest rooms I&#8217;ve stayed in. I decided to check out what rates were like the next day for the suite directly on the Marriott website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pacific.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-225\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"pacific\" src=\"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pacific.jpg\" width=\"572\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pacific.jpg 572w, https:\/\/point2steve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pacific-150x25.jpg 150w, https:\/\/point2steve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pacific-300x50.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can you say score? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>On top of this, they gave me lounge access so I had breakfast and snacks throughout the stay. The executive lounge wasn&#8217;t huge, but it was never too packed, and the staff kept the place very well maintained. Two thumbs up J.W. Marriott SF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather was definitely not on my side this trip. I was flying JFK to SFO on Virgin America, and the flight was delayed 4 hours due to rain in Frisco. You suck rain. Award wallet actually did a great job about keeping me updated so I arrived at the airport &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriott","category-virgin-america","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}