Initially started bidding for 3.5* and up. knew I was playing with fire since there was no Saturday stayover and there's an NCAA tourney in town that weekend, but I had rebids to spare so I started at $41 (based on recon from this forum) and crept up $1 at a time. All signs pointed to a possible 3.5*/4* win at $68-$69/night. I was offered the "if you will raise your bid right now to $78/night, you can rebid" at bids of $55, $57, $59, $61, $63, $65. In my (very) anecdotal experience, the actual tipping point on these "raise offers' is often just over half the proposed raise amount. Which is how I posted the win at $68-$69/night. So at a failed 3.5*/4* bid of $67/night, I took a moment to re-evaluate. For about $65 less across the course of the whole stay, I was willing to risk getting the poorly reviewed 3* Millennium Hotel. I went to Hotwire and suspected that I saw Millennium Hotel there for $53/night, so I went back to Priceline and (lazily) bid 3* at $51. Won on first bid. Makes me wonder if I overpaid but I'm not going to be ungrateful. Will report back about my Millennium Hotel experience; I am not a very particular traveller but the reviews are all over the place.