Priceline Hotel: 4* PED - Empire State Building Area 05/14 - 05/19 $182

[charlievb]

Guys, Can you help me identify this hotel.

 

Amenities:

Restaurant

Business Centre

 

It has a guest rating of 8+

 

 

What sort of discount might I expect from pursuing a bidding strategy on price line for a similar hotel?

 

 

Many thanks for your time.

[AaronJB]

Welcome to Betterbidding. :)

 

My guess is that this is the Kitano. You could get a win at the 4* level slightly-to-moderately lower, but the question becomes, do you want to risk getting something else? If this is the Kitano, that would be a pretty nice result and there's no way to know if you will get something different if you bid.

 

Let us know your thoughts and if you have any questions.

 

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[charlievb]

Many thanks. I am looking for anything 3*+ in Manhatten for April/May, for 5 nights [although very happy to break up my stay in order to get a deal/steal].

 

So the issue is with such a wide window and scope of hotel its hard to pin things down. I definitely have a budget of around $170 per night (all in), but would love to find something for 140-150.

 

 

At the risk of losing tempers with repetitive bid questions, I did come across something that looked very interesting:

 

 

6 May - 9 May [3 nights], Priceline Express Deal, 4*, Central Park South, $119 per night

 

Fitness Centre, Business Centre, Free Internet. Guest score of 7+

 

I went on the Priceline normal hotel view, and filtered for that location, and for the amenities, there were only 6/5 hotels, most of them were around $300 per night, but one was Park Central, and was about $165. Is it 95% certain that this Express Deal is Park Central, or do people actually get $300 hotels for $119?

 

 

Finally the taxes and surcharges really kill you, the above offer is 119 a night so I figured $357. It is actually $530 all in, so $177 per night. Right at the top of my budget.

 

[AaronJB]

There are service surcharges, but in terms of hotel taxes hotel tax is unfortunately hefty whether regular rate or discount rate. In this case though, not helping is a resort fee for this particular property of nearly $30 per night. (Mandatory fee of $27.21 per room per night is collected at the hotel regardless of how the hotel is booked.)

 

When you look at the Park Central on Hotels..com, it notes a resort fee of $27.21, so that would be my guess.

 

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