garysax

Been trying the last couple weeks to bid into San Francisco for these two days. Looks like Spring break and Conferences really cut my options and that's why I had to go up so high on price, and my own inexperience bidding. Don't have the previous week's bids on hand but I basically moved from 75$-110$ bidding in about 4-5 separate bids with a bid/rebid pattern of the following: USW 4* USW Boutique+4* USW+USE 4* and Boutique Winning bid was USW 4* 110$ USW 4* Boutique 115$ USW+USE 4* Boutique 120$--Win Villa Florence Could have done much better, I think but I got impatient and my bidding strategy with USE wasn't what it could have been at all. Still saved about 60-70/night bucks on this hotel so that's good. And it's RIGHT on Union square. :) Thanks guys, will definitely use this site again. Definitely will never get hotels w/o priceline again. Edit: Apologize for not merging this into my other thread

Yep... pretty soon I'll move down to 3* but I must admit I was hoping for something above that. :)

I did some lower ball bids last week then ratcheted up my price to about the max I'm willing to pay, still no dice here's how it went down this time-- Started USW 4* 100$ 2nd bid USW 4* and boutique 105$ 3rd bid USW+USE 4* and boutique 105$ 4th bid USW + USE + fisherman's wharf 100$ 4* and boutique It looks like I just got a lousy week to go, conventions/spring break filling the place up. Any advice? I'm probably going to have to start doing 3* next here.

For priceline... I tried Boutique Union Square West 85$, nothing Rebid Union Square East *and* West 90$ Boutique, nothing. Same dates as above. I guess priceline doesn't let you add 4 star luxury hotels when you rebid after you bid boutique as that's grayed out too. Probably a conference in town during these days. I'll give it a try on Thursday and try again. Not sure what I'll be able to get, don't want to go higher than 100. Wish I could pick up the 70$ places you guys pick up. :)

Ok, any help would be appreciated... pulled this down from Hotwire. Any thoughts on what this is? Check in 3/20/06 Check out 3/22/06 3* 81$ Amenities: Boutique Not much info, I know, I doubt you guys can solve this but... I'm having a ton of trouble the past week getting decent deals in SF these dates on either priceline or hotwire... and now I have to wait for my priceline bids to expire after 72 hours... :) Thanks!