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Hi I ended up buying the Hotwire Easy View for £136 for two nights. I am happy with that and got instant confirmation that I was booked into the Le Millenium. Hope this helps someone.

Many thanks for your help. I have no idea what I should bid but my friend who is a travel agent says I should take the Hotwire Easy View price as she can't match it here in UK. Thanks for all your help with this booking. No doubt I'll be back soon.

Hi again I just discovered that when I try to click through to book from your Bidder Helper site I get an error message 1310. When I then do another try, I get a page quoting me in £ rather than $. This may explain the differences in the amenities list. I am based in UK and accessing site on my iPad i.e. Safari. Whe n I go through to the £ site, there is a banner saying "Hotels in our secret 5 star collection" and another banner showing "The Luxury Collection" and the "Le Meridien" is the only hotel listed. Am at a loss knowing what to do.

Many thanks, thereuare, for your explanation. My question now is, do I book at the Hotwire Easy View price or try a bid? I have no experience of bidding.

Thanks, AaronJB. Was beginning to think I was imagining things!

Yes, as of 23:34 BST, I still get the description I aleady posted and a price of $85 for a search of 19 to 21 October, 1 room, 1 adult, 0 children. Why are you not able to replicate this search using your site's Bidder Helper? And, for your information, the grammitical and spelling errors were all from the Hotwire Easy View hotel amenities description. If you are unable to duplicate, pleas do not assume I entered them in error! I have tried to copy & paste my Hotwire result but your site is no longer showing a "paste" option. If you will supply an alternative address, I shall be be only too happy to forward my results to you. You seem to be not helping me, only obstructing me by challenging my veracity and I don't understand why. Please can you explain for my benefit and that of those others who may be following this thread! Thank you.

Many thanks for your reply. I actually copied & pasted the description from Hotwire Easy View listing into my original post so can assure you it did say self-service laundry! (That threw me too as I couldn't imagine a 5 star hotel offering that - they make too much dosh out of a laundry service.) Maybe I should have said I am a solo traveller and it is still coming up at $85 for me i.e. 1 room, 1 person. The hotel description you are seeing on Hotwire is 4 or 5 star?

Hi It's 2 nights 19 October and 20 October. The rate which came up was $85.

First, I am a newcomer to these forums so apologies if the answer to my question ia already available and I haven't spotted it. Hotwire Easy View is showing the hotel description as: ***** Downtown Tampa FULL AMENITIES: Boutique hotel, Near beach, Smoke-free rooms, Fitness center, Pool(s), Restaurant(s), Self-service laundry, Internet access, Golf nearby, Tennis nearbyFitness Center , indood or oudoor poll, self-service laundry. As far as I can establish there are no 5 star hotels in Tampa. I've checked this site's hotel list for Hotwire and no 5 star is listed. However I visited Tripadvisor and searched for Tampa "boutique" hotels. Le Meridien came up in the results and it seems to be in downtown area but it's 4 star. Any help is appreciated.