You have seen it advertised, and maybe tried it. Now make it work for you.
www.Priceline.com offers 2 basic services for 3 travel products: airfare, hotels and rental cars.
The services are:
1. Fixed price travel service just like any other travel agent.
2. “NAME YOUR OWN PRICE”
The fixed price travel service is nothing unique and offers nothing
special in terms of pricing, (unless they post a mistake rate)
The “Name Your Own Price” service offers Great Travel Prices with savings of up to 60% if you know how and:
THE BIG WINNER is HOTELS
The savings are really significant and with the help of these sites:
www.Biddingfortravel.com
www.Betterbidding.com
www.Travelbuddy.com
www.Tripadvisor.com
Here’s how it works: biddingfortravel.com, travelbuddy.com and
betterbidding.com are sites that lists successful previous priceline
bids for airfares, hotels and car rentals around the world. In addition,
they list reviews for the hotels in a given city and by region and by
star level. (5* is the best, 1* is really bad). Try to bid 4*, 3* if the
reviews are ok and 2 ½* in a region you want to stay in.
Example: If you need to go to Boston, first go to
www. priceline.com and “name your own price” hotels and find
the various regions listed for the Boston market and the top hotel
rating in that zone. Then open another window and head to
www.biddingfortravel.com. In that site , go to “hotels”, then “Mass”, then
“Boston”. You can check previously accepted prices in the various regions of
Boston, get reviews of the hotels and decide what star level you are comfortable with. If Downtown, you might find Copley and Back Bay regions are too
expensive,. try the Airport region .You could
typically win the Hyatt Harborside for $42 per night.It's a
beautiful hotel with shuttle to the airport and to the subway (T) stop
to downtown. Typical weekend night at the Hyatt would be $129. Ask for a
waterside room.
NOTE: To be most successful using Priceline you MUST read the section on bidding and rebidding.
Suppose you want Zone Airport and a 4* hotel. From previous bidders you
see that $42 has won in the past, so your first bid is Zone Airport, 4
stars at $35. If you don’t win, then add another zone that has lower
star levels ONLY available, and this time bid $37. If there are 5 zones
without a hotel over 3 stars, you have 5 free rebids until you get the
best price.
Rebidding allows you to start low and move your price higher without
changing your parameters. READ these sections of
www.biddingfortravel.com before
going to priceline.com to actually place your bids. Once booked there
are NO REFUNDS.
Travelers using Priceline rooms in over 30 US cities, London, Dublin,
Paris and Rome have rarely been disappointed. Do your research on
www.biddingfortravel.com or
www. betterbidding.com first, and double check the
reviews at
www.tripadvisor.com. Remember to bid one star level higher in
Europe for US comparison hotels. Remember that one bad hotel in a given
zone and at a given star rating should force you to bid a higher level
or different zone for that city.
By using these 5 sites in conjunction, you will save the cost of hotels by 50% or more for the rest of your travel life.PS: Practice this technique with several imaginary cities WITHOUT
hitting the “Buy my Hotel” button. Do your research. There are NO
REFUNDS.