Ra-Sewn

Tried for to get something in the French Quarter and went up to $95 dollars. Conducted my Re-Bid using downtown and started from $80 then jumped to $85. After taxes, it's about $305 for 3 nights. Even though I know they just had a fire last month, I'm more than happy about the outcome, especially for a long weekend (Good Friday/Easter Weekend).

After reading your comment as well as seeing a couple of other post in regards to some of the hotels that they have gotten in or around the same price, I'm starting to consider myself lucky! Going back looking at winning bids for this hotel, it seems as if I'm the first person on this board to get this hotel in 2012. Granted that in 2011 one member had a winning bid of $85 dollars a night, but I'll try not to harp on that too much. Especially since it'll be a year later and a major sporting event wasn't going on at the time. Thanks for making me feel better about my bid, lol

...So after trying for a couple of weeks to get a 5 star hotel at about $165.00 a night in all the hot zones of Central London, I got impatient and lowered my star rating to a 4 star. Since I didn't want to get stuck in the Holiday Inn London-Regent Park, I didn't attempt to the Mayfair/Bloomsbury zone. Instead, I attempted to focus my search in the London Bridge/Vauxhall zone to no avail. I eventually tried a rebid in the Notting Hill zone and won @ $165 the Hilton London Paddington. In essence, I ended up getting the the room at $160 a night since Priceline sent me a 24 hour promo code to get $5 off every night of my stay. In total after taxes, the total charges came out to $810.72 instead of the $854+ my regular $165 max bids were coming out to. Maybe I should have waited a lil' closer to September, but with the Para Olympics going on that week, I didn't want to chance it. Apparently this hotel is in a prime transit location so I'm sure it'll be fine. But after seeing a couple board members get 5* hotels like the Intercontinental at the same rate a night, I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little disappointed. Priceline rate is $232 a night so a savings of $67 a night which is nothing to sneeze at.