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I love staying at luxury hotels when I travel, but I don't enjoypaying $200 or more per night. That's part of the reason I lovePriceline. You can get pretty good deals most of the time and amazingdeals some of the time. If you are not familiar with howPriceline works, here is a basic overview. Priceline has a uniquefeature called 'Name Your Own Price' where you actually name the priceyou're willing to pay for a hotel. The catch - you don't know thehotel brand and exact location until after you name a price and your'bid' is accepted. You do know the general area of the hotel and thehotel classification (e.g., 5-star, 4-star, etc). The majorbenefit of using Priceline is that you can save a lot of money! Thedrawbacks - first, reservations are almost never refundable, andsecond, you may get a hotel brand you don't like or a hotel lacking aparticular amenity you wanted. It is best to use Priceline when you areflexible on hotel location and your travel dates won't change. Thehardest part about 'bidding' on a hotel with Priceline is determininghow much to offer. You might think of starting at $1, and if your bidis not accepted, then rebid at $2, then $3, and so on until it'sfinally accepted. Nice try. You basically only get one kick at the canin a 24 hour period for any given travel date and destination. If youroffer is rejected, you have to wait 24 hours, use a different creditcard, or change your dates/destination. So before you book ahotel on Priceline, it is best to first do some research. The firstthing you should do is try to find out what hotel you might win if yourbid was successful. For example, suppose you wanted a 5* hotel in LasVegas on the Strip. A great way to identify what hotel you might winis to use the Priceline Hotel Inventory from HotelDealsRevealed.com, a website dedicated to helping people identify Priceline hotels and prices. Ifyou're happy with the hotels you might win, the next step is todetermine how much you should bid. Remember, you don't have anunlimited number of chances to rebid, so you want your bid to be highenough to win but low enough to save money. Check out some of theother travel websites, then subtract 10% to 30% as your bid. You canalso check out HotelDealsRevealed.com forum where people share their winning Priceline bids. The above techniques will save most people money most of the time, but for deeper discounts, here's an advanced strategy: Supposeyou want to stay at a 5 star hotel on the southern part of the LasVegas Strip on a particular date. You do your research and going ratesfor 5 star hotels are around $150 for your travel dates on Orbitz,Travelocity, etc. With this information, you put in a bid on Pricelinefor $100 for a 5-Star hotel in Las Vegas Strip South and it isrejected. Remember, you can't ordinarily rebid for 24 hours, but here'show you get around that. Priceline breaks cities up into manysmaller areas. For instance, Las Vegas is broken into 12 differentareas, so you can choose which part(s) of the city you want to stay. Priceline will let your rebid immediately as long as you add another area to your bid.You could, for example, add Las Vegas Strip North and rebid withouthaving to wait 24 hours. But what if you don't want to stay on thenorth part of the Strip? You could get stuck with a hotel in a locationyou don't want. There is a better way. Add an area that doesn't have a5 star hotel. I'll explain... Before you make your very first bid, check Priceline to find all the areas in your city that don'thave 5 star hotels. Sticking with my Vegas example, there are 9 areasin Las Vegas that don't have 5 star hotels. I'm going to start my firstbid at $100 for a 5-star hotel room in Las Vegas Strip South. Ifmy bid gets rejected, no problem. I'm going to an area that doesn'thave a 5 star hotel (e.g., Las Vegas Strip East) and rebid at $105.(Yes, Priceline allows this.) Since I know Las Vegas Strip Eastdoesn't have a 5 star hotel, I know I'm safe. I won't get a hotel inthat area but I might get a hotel in Las Vegas Strip South at $105. Ifmy second bid gets rejected, I'll add another area that doesn't have a5 star hotel and bid at $110, and so on. In fact, I would get 9 chanceto bid using this technique. Just be careful not to add anarea that DOES have a 5-star hotel or you might end up with a hotel inan area you don't want. Enjoy your travels!
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