Affordable stay options in / near SF in September 2015

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If most of your meetings are in Santa Clara, why would you stay 50 miles away in San Francisco? There are plenty of cheaper options in the South Bay, where Santa Clara is. Why not stay in Santa Clara? Although there is an NFL game there on Sep 14 (Monday night). I'd actually recommend San Jose. There's an airport there. There are plenty of hotels there. Downtown SJ has plenty of good restaurants and some nightlife. There's a Caltrain station that will take you to San Francisco should you need to go. You can take light rail to Santa Clara. Plus, San Jose is safer than San Francisco, has far fewer crazy people, and doesn't smell like urine. The choice is pretty simple to me.

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Motel 6 in Santa Clara is about $100/night. Public transportation would only make sense if your destinations are reachable by public transport. If not you may need a rental car or take an Uber.

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I hate to tell you this, but when I ran your dates on Hotels.com, the places for $200/night in San Francisco proper double as homeless shelters and bottom-end hot-sheet motels. The cheapest I would book—I live in the area—was $350, and even it isn't very nice. You will have to check many sites looking for one with a special deal, and check the reviews carefully. There were vacancies in your price range in the distant eastern burbs (Concord) although they may me near the BART subway, which would put them about 40 minutes from downtown SF.

I'm sure the situation in the San Jose area is similar, but I don't know the neighborhoods so well.

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