Bobo

Stopping in Vancouver one nite on the way to Vancouver Island for a week. Wish we could spend more time there as I love it. One the best big cities in North America. Following fatjay's lead a few posts below... I followed a link from your site to PRICELINE. $71 Downtown - failed. $75 Added Coquitlam. Accepted. Got it at $75. Added the $5 Travel insurance and with other fees, total is $99.72 US Pricelines direct site is $169. Hyatt's online site is $189. I saved about a hundred dollars! Thank you. I'll give some of that back to park. Looks like parking is $28/nite.....almost as much as SF!

Just wanted to add that I did get a Hyatt Regency Vancouver 4* for $75/nite for Nov 10 through 12th (3 nites - Thurs - Sat). I made this bid on Wed Nov 2nd, I had a contingency that precluded me from bidding earlier and would have loved to get the Marriott Pinnacle but they must have sold their allotment of Priceline rooms. Started at $63 - 4* - downtown Vancouver and had to keep adding free re-bid zones and $4 until winning bid of $75/nite. Total with taxes of $259.10 US plus $24/day CDN parking = not a fantastic deal, but it is still much better than going to any of the hotelier's websites or Hotwire, etc. Hyatt wants almost double this on their website. Reviews on the Hyatt seem to be mixed.... that maybe it's only a 3* or 3.5*... it is well located and they do brag that they have the largest rooms in Vancouver... will find out. Now if it would only quit raining... We've received quite a bit of the wet stuff in the Pacific NW this last week and it looks like it's going to continue on through this next week.

I am also planning to visit Vancouver for 3 days in November, Thursday the 10th through Sunday the 13th. Have been looking to see a won bid for that time period but have not found any... Last year I visited around this time and got $55/nite for the Marriott Pinnacle, which was a very nice hotel. It looks like it's going to be a little higher this year... not sure why... more demand?? exchange rate?? In Priceline's free re-bid, you need to add a zone that doesn't have any 4 star hotels, then you will be sure to get only downtown. To see these, first pick your city in priceline, then you will see a page that says "Select the areas you want to stay". Click on the first choice only (in the Vancouver example it is Coquitlam - Burnaby) click on next and you will see what star levels of hotels are in that area. Coquitlam - Burnaby does have 4 stars so you would not want to add this to a free re-bid. Go back and do the same for all areas and you will see a few that contain no 4 stars. These are the areas you want to add to your re-bid. Let us know how it works out. Bobo