by Richard Gleaves

San Diego's Rancho Bernardo Inn is a top-end luxury resort distinguished by a PGA-level golf course, three pools, and a restaurant which boasts both molecular cuisine and a plug from America's greatest living food writer.

The Inn can now add another notch to its belt under the category of Marketing So Advanced It Qualifies as Museum-Grade Art. I'm referring to their current promotional offer entitled Survivor Package, which in its studied blurring of corporate practice, long-term global economic trends, cultural and institutional self-critique, subtextual subversiveness, and (not least) downright cheek makes it a worthy match of Brian Goeltzenleuchter's current show at OMA.

The deal is straightforward: from August 16 to 31 the Inn is offering rooms at the following rates:

• $219 standard luxury
  
• $199 without breakfast
  
• $179 without honor bar
  
• $159 without A/C or heat
  
• $139 without pillows
  
• $109 without sheets
  
• $89 without lights (except one bulb in bathroom)
  
• $59 without linens
  
• $39 without toiletries (BYOTP)
  
• $19 without bed (tent provided)
  

For more information (including a priceless photo of the tent) see today's Union-Tribune.