Luxury resort offers $29 room - minus bed

A luxury resort in San Diego is offering rooms for $19 ($NZ29) a night -- if you don't mind sleeping in a tent.

The Rancho Bernardo Inn boasts three pools, a spa and golf course. It typically charges more than $200 a room.

But business is down. So from August 16 to 31, guests can get a "Survivor Package" that charges them less for each amenity they give up, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.

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.

-AP