V-Flyer

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!

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.

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 [^]

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 [:#]

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

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.

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.

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.