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I just received an unsettling confirmation email that said "Thanks for booking your hotel reservation in Philadelphia, PA with Priceline." Lovely. However, when I click to view my itinerary, it's still showing the appropriate city and state. Hoping my reservation didn't get all wonky somehow and ends up causing me major issues upon checkin.

I used the PL link and won the 2.5* Hampton Inn Wilmington-Medical Park hotel for $100/nt. After previous bids up to $85 failed yesterday, I tried $90, then $100 today. I'm not terribly thrilled with my win, as this hotel was not listed as having availability on Priceline, Hotwire Standard list or Hotels.com, I assumed it was not a contender for bidding. I assumed wrong! While It isn't as far away as the $72 option I was contemplating with Hotwire, I still would have opted to pay less at a slightly further location if I wasn't going to be downtown anyway. It's still a good hotel, but I could have gotten a 3* hotel for $65 in another part of town. Eh, live and learn!

Date is not flexible. If I chose a different zone, I'd use Hotwire secret rate for a 3* within the next two zone closest to PL Wilmington Central. I'll be without a vehicle, so I would really like to be within walking distance to hotel. The Hotwire two zones down is about $15 cab ride listed at $72/nt. I'd be ok paying a bit more to stay downtown and not have to deal with the cab. I'm waiting for my 24 hours to be up so I can rebid the Wilmington Central again. What would you suggest for my strategy? Starting price $85/90/95/higher? With 2.5* selected? The only other star options are 2 and 3, so without adding additional zones, I'm only able to rebid twice.

Yes, that's the one! My apologies! It is, indeed, a 2.5 star hotel listed as $152 express deal. Wilmington Central is the name of the zone which includes the downtown area. The date is for Nov 1. check-in and Nov. 2 check-out.

This is my first rodeo, so I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right place! I'm trying to bid on a 3 star hotel in downtown Wilmington, NC for this upcoming Saturday (11/1/14). Priceline only has one hotel listed in the express deals for that area and the price is listed at $152. The regular price for this same hotel is $209 on Priceline. I've tried a variety of bids up to $82 thus far without any luck. I am set on this zone, and the alternate zones available to choose from all have 3 star options available, so I can only re-bid by increasing my offer and selecting a different star level (there aren't many hotel options in this zone and none of the options are less than 3 stars). Should I wait a few more days to rebid, or should I keep rebidding daily? Am I totally unrealistic with my price?