Luxury resort offers $19 room, minus bed

Sat Aug 8, 2010, SAN DIEGO A luxury resort in San Diego is offering rooms for $19 a night --if you don't mind sleeping in a tent.

The Rancho Bernardo Inn boasts 3 pools, a spa and golf course. It typically charges more than $200 a room.
But business is down.
So from Aug 16 to 31, guests can get a "Survivor Package" that charges them less for each amenity they give up.

For $19, guests give up breakfast, air conditioning, lights, sheets and even the bed.
Staff will remove the mattress and headboard and leave a small tent instead.
Oh, and bring your own toilet paper.

General manager John Gates says the hotel hopes people who try the promotion will return at full price.