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After following the bidding advice generously provided by thereuare, we incrementally increased our bids as high as we were willing to go. When $165 didn't get us a 4* and $145 a 3.5* in Times Square (laugh to yourself here) or any of our other zones we finally settled on a PRICELINE EXPRESS offer for a 3* in the Empire State Building with Fitness Center. As expected, it was the Murray Hill East Suites and we are quite happy with our selection. We hadn't considered the possibility of getting a kitchen and we may even make ourselves a small meal. Now I can store my leftover Carnegie Deli cheesecake for a delicious breakfast. Thanks for the advice thereuare and AaronJB!

Thanks for the thoughtful response. We love the area around the Hudson Hotel, so we could live with the tiny room at the right price. I now see that UES and UWS might extend a bit farther north than we had considered, so we will not list those zones next time we bid. We would like to take you up on helping with a strategic bidding strategy using CPS ESBA MSG-CA ME MW and TS-TD and $130. We'd like to go no lower than 3.5* for now. So we'll pass on the 3* ESB for now for $141 before our coupon. (Do you think that's the Jolly Tower?) We will use your PRICELINE link when we finally make our purchase.

Thanks for the advice on the possible extreme distance north for UES and UWS. My wife has stayed at the Excelsior, which was convenient to the 81st Street/Museum of Natural History subway station, so we hadn't considered just how far from a subway stop a UES or UWS hotel might be. We may be dropping those two zones in our next round of bidding. At this point we have not bid below 3.5*, even though our budget has been suggesting we are looking too high up the food chain. My wife is concerned with the HK neighborhood. I don't have any experience with this area. Any advice there? I think there are not 3.5* and up in QB, correct? I think we'll stay with 3.5* and up and find more funds for a bigger budget. We will be sure to use the betterbidding PRICELINE link since we are so happy with all of the information we have found here. Any further advice is welcome.

We are looking for one room in NYC for 11/13/14-11/16/14 and are considering the following areas: CPS ESBA MSG-CA ME MW TS-TD UES and UWS We will be going to several Broadway shows and don't want to stay too far downtown. We'd love a 4*, but our budget of $130 before taxes probably won't allow that. Priceline.Express now shows a 3* Empire State Building Area for $151 and a 3.5* Madison Square Garden for $169. (I'll use the 10% Priceline Express Coupon I have if needed, but I'd rather take my chances on a better deal with "Name Your Own Price".) I understand that fall is a busy hotel season in NYC. We have started daily lowballing our areas at $120, which will make many who read this laugh, I guess. I would appreciate any advice you might have to offer. With just over seven weeks before our check-in date, I'm both anxious and excited to see how this might turn out. Thanks in advance! P.S. Will Priceline.Express and Hot.wire prices go down as we approach our check-in date as in many other parts of the country? Or will hotels fill up in NYC, causing last-minute deals to become very rare?