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Here's the my review after my stay: This hotel's location is very convenient--close to all the sight-seeing points and shopping centers, and it's right next to the major freeway exit. I don't like the poor cleaniness of this hotel, especially the dirty linens---stains on pillow cases, holes on blankets, and dark marks on towels. I think the pillow cases and the blankets should be thrown away. Although it meets the 2.5 star rating (e.g. iron+board, hair-dryer, coffee maker, etc), the dirty linens outweight everything else. Also the staff was not professional/helpful at all. On our check-in day, after 5 minutes we entered our room, our door was knocked, and before we answered, the door was opened by the housekeeper!!! Since then I chain-locked the door whenever I'm inside the room. On our check-out day, our door was knocked at 8am (!) and the housekeeper asked us when we'd check-out... The front desk staff was polite and friendly, yet not informative--told us things incorrectly. The check-in and check-out process were very smooth and efficient though. The free shuttle bus for going to the Sea World was another surprise---my seatbelt was not even working. I also don't like the idea of charging hotel guest $9/night parking fee. All in all, I think this hotel should be removed from priceline pool and I do NOT recommend this hotel to anyone. p.s. I used Savingbarns to get access to Priceline couple times for my bidding.

so, I ended up bidding again tonight and I got a hotel! Here's the process: Downtown 3*, $55 Downtown 2.5*, $56 added San Diego Coastal, $58 added Old town, $60 added Mission Vally, $63 added Coronardo, $65 and won a 2.5* hotel (Handlery Hotel And Resort) at Mission Valley Check-in date: 6/18/06 check-out date: 6/21/06 Total charges: $226.49 for 3 nights I checked the reviews about this hotel in this site, and they're pretty bad. I checked the reviews and they are extremely mixed. Will post my review here after my trip. Hopefully it's not too bad.

at the end, after adding the areas without 3*, yes.

Thanks for your reply. My acceptable zones are as followed with preference #: 1) Downtown San Diego and Harbor Island 2) San Diego Coastal 3) Point Loma - Shelter Island - Old Town 4) Mission Valley 5) Coronado 6) Del Mar 7) Sorrento Mesa I had car rental already, so I don't mind to get around the city a little bit more, but if I can get the hotel in the top 4 zones, that'll be more ideal. I'm hoping to get 3* at around $75 or less. If I end up with 2* hotels, I'd like to pay less than $50, since I can actually book a 2* hotel in Mission Valley at $47.6/night at Expedia. I used other areas without 3* hotels to bid my 3* starting with $50 and after I used up all the areas at $75, I still couldn't get a deal. So, I lowered my rating to 2*, and started bidding at $40. I didn't use the other areas this time, since I don't want to stay with those areas as most of them have 2* , and up to $60, I still couldn't get a deal. I also looked into Hotwire too, 2* at Mission Valley is $68, 2.5* in Downtown is $86, 3* in Mission Valley is $95. 3* in Seaworld is $118. Do you guys think I should give up and book the 2* at Expedia since I'm running out of time? I also checked other forum topics and seemed someone was trying to get Omni at SD Downtown with bidding prcie $150 and didn't get it, but got it 2 days later with $95 bidding price. How did that happen? Should I bid again couple days later to try my luck??? Thanks for reading this!

My trip to San Diego is from 6/18-6/21/06. Originally I was planning to stay at my friend's place, but it didn't work out, so I started looking for hotels late. I didn't know about priceline and all the bidding tricks until a few days ago. Anyway, I was very disappointed that I didn't get a 3* at $75 bidding price while I was using the bidding tricks. Then, I tried the 2* at the highest bidding price of $60 and still couldn't any. I checked other posts and seemed like people can get 2.5* at $55 couple days ago. Is it too late to bid and that's why I can't get a good deal? Thank you so much for your help. This site is AWESOME!