jandelin

Oh c'mon, you don't have any faith in your negotiation/sales skills? You can get any managers or front desk staff to do whatever you want as long as you've got the emails to back it up. Sometimes I even ask while I'm at the hotel and just give them excuses of why I need free stuff like, "It's my anniversary or my wife's birthday(I use that one a lot)." I think it'll be fine if I book it through another site. I'll keep you guys updated on what happens.

I think Marriott will honor my free upgrades if I happen to get the room through a different site. I had a similar experience where I emailed a hotel manager seperately about a room I booked through Travelocity. It was a holiday inn. I just had to make sure I had the emails with the manager's statements about free breakfast and such. I'll sign up for the alerts on the RateDrop site and see how that goes. Thanks

Ok, so what I have done so far is email the Marriott hotels in the area that I am interested in staying at. I messaged the managers at each hotel and asked if they would give me anything for free in order to make my decision easier as to which hotel to stay at. The manager at the Isla Verde has offered me free breakfast buffet for two each morning and a free room upgrade. Pretty decent, right? So, unless I hear from the other hotels I emailed with better offers, I think I want to shoot for the Marriott Courtyard Isla Verde Beach Resort. I have used the Hot.wire and PRICELINE links you have on the site here. But, I don't think the rates are very good right now. For instance, the rate through the Marriott website for this hotel is $139. The rate on Hotwire is $127. Of course, I'm not 100% sure that $127 rate is for the Isla Verde Beach Resort. I have reserved the Isla Verde Courtyard on my own to through the Marriott website just to make sure I have it. I can cancel that reservation at anytime with no fees. I guess I should just keep checking back every so often to see if the rates get lower as we near our trip?

Hello all, My first post as a member of this awesome, newly discovered site. So, my question is is there a place on here to find out what hotel is accepting everyone's winning bids in a certain area? If that doesn't make sense, I'll share an experience of what I am talking/asking about. A couple of years ago, I traveled with my family to orange county, California. We were meeting up with a large number of my extended family for a family event. No one outside of my immediate family had known or talked to any extended family about where they were staying or what hotel deals they found or anything like that. Come to find out, we checked into a Double Tree hotel and noticed about two or three other families in our extended family had gotten the same hotel through a winning bid on Priceline. I had a winning bid of like $80 per night or something. I can't remember exactly what it was. But, my other extended family members also won their bids for a hotel in that area on priceline. And, they were all different bids. Anywhere from about $65 up to about $85. So, I'm curious as to whether or not there is a way to more accurately predict(of course, not guarantee) if a specific hotel is more likely to be accepting all the bids in a certain area. I'm traveling with my wife to Puerto Rico in early September(the 4th through the 9th), and I would like to stay at any of the three Marriott hotels, or even the DoubleTree hotel in San Juan. Just curious if I can find out if any of these hotels are accepting winning bids more than other hotels in the areas I choose to bid on. Thank you for any help and opinions. This is a great site.