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Hi hi, Good news, thanks to your help, managed to snag a hotel room for $188 per night, 3.5* Manhattan Centre Hotel. The dates are for 21Oct to 30Oct and the total price was $2050. Thanks again for all the patience and help, now it's time to plan what to see and do. Cheers.

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So again no luck with winning any hotel bids. I'm beginning to wonder if our 9 night stay might be the issue. Anyway, on reconsideration we'd like to try and add the 3.5* hotels in MTE, before going for 4* and the higher bidding budget. I guess if that still fails we can always go use hotwire or do the splitting thing. Cheers.

Although we're quite active and plan on walking around nyc a lot while we're there, I think the distance to the hotel in the MTE zone might be an issue. If it doesn't happen to restrict our choice of hotel too much, I think omitting that particular zone would be the best option.

Hi, Tried the above bidding strategy with no luck as yet, was just hoping we could snag a 4* room for a lot less but all offers were rejected. Anyway, if you don't mind I'd like to try aiming for 3.5* hotels in the following districts: MSG, MTE, MTW and TS. Keeping the max bid at $200 for now. If my bids still get rejected, we'll go back to trying the 4* hotels again up to a max price of $230. Not too keen on splitting our bid, but we'll reconsider it if all our bids get rejected. Thanks for all the help.

Sorry thereuare, Didn't notice that last part of the final sentence. But being completely new to priceline, I'm now left a little confused. After clicking the link and being brought to a priceline page, am I supposed to begin the bidding process and start with any arbitrary bid in the zones I'm after?... Thanks.

Hi thereuare, First off, thanks for the help. I'm thinking that $200 is the max I'd pay for a 4* room, though if need be my budget does allow for $230. In regards to why I didn't include Midtown West and Times Square, well it's my first time going to NYC so I don't know that much about what the different areas are like really. Just received some info from friends that the areas I listed before were good. Though I'm willing to try both TS and MTW on your recommendation. Also we figured these dates were going to be expensive after looking around on Expedia and such sites, though we have no idea why that might be. Cheers.

Hi there, I'm a new user and only came across Priceline a few weeks back and just stumbled across this board today. After doing some research I feel ready to delve into this bidding for hotel thing, but I'd still like some help in overall process. Dates of stay: 21Oct 2011 - 30Oct 2011 (If it's of any concern, I arrive at JFK around 7pm, but late check-in is a matter I'd have to take up with the hotel I get right?) Number of people traveling: 2 Price range: $150-$230 per night but would like to be conservative with the price range because we'll have to account for taxes. Hotel level: 4 star is preferable, but willing to drop it down to 3.5/3 Hotel Location (in order of preference): Empire State Building Area, Midtown West, Midtown East Thanks in advance for any help with this.