Priceline

Has anyone used Priceline to book a room in Gatwick, I am thinking of giving it a go but wondering what type of hotels they offer?

Cheers

OK I decided to give it a Bash.

Bidded for 4 star at £51 and got rejected so altered bid to £52 for 3*
Held my breath for the second time and I got the Gatwick Hilton for £52.
Considering the midweek price of this hotel on Hiltons web site is £132 I think I have got a bargin!![}:)]

OK so I probably will not get any Hhonors points but that price who cares!

[Scrooge]

Originally posted by Gavin
Has anyone used Priceline to book a room in Gatwick, I am thinking of giving it a go but wondering what type of hotels they offer?

Cheers

Many times

take a lookhere great site for finding out what price line is taking for winning bids.

[honey lamb]

I've had some great hotels via Priceline even though I have had to modify my address to a US one (I've used the US site) I got the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco for $75 a night and the Hyatt Regency at SFO for $45. The big difficulty is that you cannot choose your hotel but with judicious use of the Bidding for Travel website I have by and large managed to get what I wanted.

Congrats on the LGW Hilton. That is a great result [^]

[Scrooge]

You may well find that you DO get Honors points, Hilton seems to be pretty generous in this, same goes for Hyatt, Starwood..well they are Starwood [:#]

[mcmbenjamin]

Sheraton NYC $103 with taxes, Hell yea!

I wil hand over my Hhonors gold and see if I get a cheeky upgrade then- pushing it at that price mind!

Repeating what Honey Lamb said, particulary in San Francisco I've got some great Priceline deals.

£40 for the Park Hyatt and a bit less for the Argent, both very good rooms, in particular the Argent...

London, on the other hand there's always a couple of hotels I really wouldn't want to spend my (discounted) money on so generally avoid.

Dean

Just out of interest - is there any difference in price using either the US or UK version of Priceline?

Jonathan

[Pete]

Don't think so (from my limited experience), since you bid in local currency... I'm sure Dave will be along soon to correct me.

[honey lamb]

Originally posted by jtlc2345
Just out of interest - is there any difference in price using either the US or UK version of Priceline?

Jonathan

Don't think so. I use the US version because it's easier to create a zip code than a post code and also I find it easier to convert dollars to euros than sterling to euros.

[Scrooge]

Nope, all done in local currency, btw saved $180 this weekend using priceline for my hotel in LA, stayed at the westin bonaventure, same price on yahoo etc would of gotten me a holiday inn.