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Hiya,

I’ve been having the odd go at bidding on 4* in the UWS aiming to get the Empire, which we’ve stayed at lots previously through PL for around £100 per night..... although usually in colder weather!

As we had no luck, we split our stay went for the following PRICELINE EXPRESS deals:

1st-4th June 

3* downtown- Wall Street 

8+

Business centre, fitness centre, no smoking

Room choice- king bed smoking or non-smoking superior room, corner room smirking or non-smoking.

$140 (corner room $144)

Used the B.B. 5% off on this one. I wouldn’t usually consider 3* on express, but was 98% sure it was the Wall Street inn and have stayed there before.

4th-7th of June

4* greenpoint Williamsburg 

8+

pool, fitness centre, no smoking

$215

no room choice

= McCarran Hotel and Pool

Used a 10% off code that PL emailed me for their 20th anniversary on this one.

Have never stayed here and above our planned budget but as it’s only for half of the holiday it’s less on a problem! Happy with the area and hotel.

Bit more expensive than we’d have liked but I don’t think we’ve ended up with a bad deal, it’s just more expensive when it’s not freezing cold!! 

Thanks for your help!

We'll now be travelling from Fri 1st of June for 6 nights due to changes in the prices of flights. 

I've found a cancellable deal in Brooklyn, so might book that and keep an eye on prices on PL and HW to see whether we can get something in Manhattan for cheaper, last minute.

Hi thereuare,

No problem with splitting, we’ve done it before and didn’t find it too onerous.

we don’t need to travel sat>fri, it’s just our preference to make the most out of our annual leave to make sure we’ve got a few days to get over jet lag before going back to work.

it could do with being the first two weeks of June, because the flights get less frequent/more expensive after that.

Hi thereuare, 

Thanks for replying so quickly. 

This will be our 6/7th trip to NYC and we're familiar with  Brooklyn, so wouldn't be too worried about staying there if it was the only option in our budget. 

We've stayed at the empire 3 times previously through priceline express/nyop deals and that's always been fine for us, but it's really high at the minute. The location is great though for getting around and to central park, which is why we usually end up there. 

Our area preference would be the village/east village/soho type area, but we've never yet been able to afford anything there. We'd follow that with UWS, then probably FiDi....and near enough everywhere else in front of times square haha. Although, if it was the only thing in budget we'd go for times square if we had to. 

I should mention our dates are still slightly movable, but moving them doesn't seem to make any difference price wise (we could push it by a week either way basically)

Hi, 

This is a two pronged question, particular whether anyone could help identifying priceline express details listed below and secondly whether there might be a better chance a. waiting until a nearer date or b. NYOP instead. We'd like to keep as close to $140 a night if possible, but not much choice currently in that price bracket. 

Could you please help me identify the following priceline express deal please?

It's currently listed on Priceline Express as:

=

2nd-8th June 2018

4*

Rockefeller Center- Bryant Park

Amenities: Bed Choice, Non-Smoking Restaurant

£113 per night (or $156)

Guest rating: 6+

Bed Choices are:

Room Assigned at check in- sleeps 2- 1 bed requested (£113/$156)

Room assigned at check in- sleeps 2- 2 beds requested (£220/ $304)

There doesn't appear to be an additional resort fee. 

On the front page it shows as "Save 50%", on the next page it shows as "save 24%".

It's over our budget and isn't our preferred area,  but we could push to it if we had to/thought it was a decent deal.

My guess would be the Dylan??

Is this likely the best I'll be able to do?

I've seen a deal on hotwire for, I think, the EVEN hotel in Brooklyn for within budget, so if so we'll need to decide between the two.

Thanks in advance.

Hi thereuare, unfortunately HOTWIRE is having trouble displaying the trip in my account. I'll keep trying and as soon as i can get the info i will post (it is working for all of my other prev. trips, just not this one).

Just to close this thread, we ended up going with a HOTWIRE deal that turned out to be the Aria, which was $140. We did at one point see it for much less, but didn't jump on it quick enough. We decided at that point in our holiday it was worth a bit more money to be centrally located and somewhere that we knew would be really nice, definitely a treat! Hotwire did the "the last person got...." thing on the buy page, so it wasn't much of a gamble in the end.

Hi all, 

Just thought would quickly report a PRICELINE EXPRESS deal. 

We just booked a 4* Downtown Southwest Toronto hotel at £79 per night ($102 USD/ $130 CAD) from 26 Oct 2017- 28 Oct 2017. 

The amenity list is:

Free Internet (in Room)

 Pet Friendly

 Indoor Pool

 Non-Smoking

 Gym

 Restaurant

 Handicap Accessible

 Business Center

The hotel is Renaissance Downtown Hotel Toronto. 

It's currently showing at £202 on the transparent side of PL and £200+ per night on many of the other big booking sites, so I'm happy with the win price wise. It is £25 a night cheaper than the 3* we have had reserved for a few months a bit further from the water in the downtown area. Bargain made all the better by using the PRICELINE link and getting the 5% better bidding discount!

Apologies, I thought I'd included dates.

Dates of stay are 10/14/17- 10/18/17.

Will follow up Las Vegas thread as soon as we've made a decision.

Thanks, as always, thereuare for your commitment to the board!

Just reporting a result on PRICELINE EXPRESS.

4.5* Express deal in Fisherman's Wharf for £170 (which I think is roughly $220), listed with the following amenities:

 Pets Allowed

 Business Center

 Restaurant

 Free Internet

 Fitness Center

 No Smoking Rooms/Facilities

Based on the hotel lists on BB I was certain it would be the Argonaut but was worried I was wrong as it was so much cheaper than rack rate and rates I'd seen on other 3rd party booking sites.

Just to be cheeky though, I did try to get it via NYOP- bidding from £135, upwards in £5 increments until I got to £160 without success. At that point I moved straight to priceline express with the board 5% off which made it a touch over that at £161.50.

Hi Thereuare,

Thanks for your reply!

I managed to book through your link for $139 (and then used the 5% off code BBJUN17 on top of that). For some reason, when I used chrome or ie on the PC it reverted to GBP and told me the deal wasn't available anymore....so I used a different browser and had no problem with booking it through your PRICELINE link above.

The hotel was the empire as expected.

Hi all,

Looking to find a 4* hotel (Priceline or hotwire) for 3 nights 10/29-11/01.

Hotel must be 4*+ and I'm hoping for something in the region of $130 dollars ideally, but up to $155 ish before tax (assuming no resort fees, which I like to avoid on principal anyway).

Priceline keeps very annoyingly offering me the Empire for $140 and then the minute I click in changing it to $215.

Areas I'd like would be (I know they aren't the exact priceline name, but close to what they call them):

Upper West Side

Union Square

Meaptpacking/West Village

Soho/Tribeca

Also willing to accept for the lower end of the price:

Downtown/Wall Street

Upper East Side

Brooklyn- greenpoint/williamsburg

Have just had a quick bid between $120-135 in the top 4 areas (with rebid zones), but no luck, which is what I expected.

I'm in no rush to get this sorted as I have a cancellable room at the Brooklyn for $130 that I'm happy to stick with unless I can find something I like better.

For those of you who are regulars, might trends suggest if I wait and bid maybe in September/October i'll be able to snag a good last minute rate?

I do, of course, always use the click through BB links to both sites.

Thanks for any help/advice etc in advance :D

Ah, that really helpful advice thereuare....I certainly won't pay a resort fee and for parking, that seems like daylight robbery!!

Luxor may fit, but with the resort fees and taxes seems overpriced. I think $100 with taxes and resort fee is as high as I would be willing to go and would prefer to be much lower given prices I'm seeing for closer dates and what I paid on my last trip. Lucky Dragon seems a reasonable choice, but my understanding is that it isn't on strip (although I may be wrong)?

If we can't get anything cheap enough for now, I'll wait until last minute and see whats available on priceline/hotwire/travelzoo and if there's still no joy we'll just skip it I suppose and stay elsewhere on our route.

Closing the thread, this trip was cancelled.

I don't believe that we took the trip in the end as the flight sold out, I'll add that to the thread.

I'm not hoping for any particular property in Vegas. As it is for one night only, we would like something on the strip with free parking. Ideally, more central than Excallibur or Stratosphere as our time is so limited. Paris, Flamingo, Ballys, Luxor etc all fine.

Hi folks,

Any idea what sort of prices I'll be looking at to land a hotel for one night on the 20th of October on or safe walking distance to the strip? Ideally 4* but 3+ is acceptable. I've stayed at the Flamingo before (which I believe is 3.5 on hotwire and that was perfectly acceptable!). There's so much choice and I figure in theory they should be easyish to ID because of resort fees? I know last time I visited, we booked via travelzoo and got a great deal for less than $20 a night before resort fee, but it was in winter so I don't know if that was why.

I've looked for earlier in the year and the prices are quite drastically different- more than a $100 different....am I just too early?

I'm only currently seeing 1 hotel that is above 3* and under $100 before resort fee. That's a north of the strip 7/10 with the following amenities:

. Thanks for any assistance!

It's gone now thereuare, so bidding is now the way forward for us.

We'll chat it out tonight.

For a $20 a night saving, I would stay almost anywhere within the city limits. I may try at the $50 mark in a zone or two and just see if anything catches and if not, at least I know that the priceline express deal is a solid one.

Hi thereuare,

I'd noticed the ParkInn express deal, but it looks as though it's been quite poorly reviewed of late.

I seem to not have an option to bid for half stars on NYOP.

We would accept the NH a-platz, but for the money we'd much prefer the lux or Weinmeister. The NH is lower priced on the hotels list than the priceline express deals and its decently reviewed, just not as convenient as the others as it is right on the edge of the zone. I'd assume that a NYOP bid that was the same as or surpassed the transparent price of the NH would simply get the NH and a nice priceline profit....although I may be wrong and they may run the two completely separately.

The OH is thinking we should just take the express Weinmeister deal, but I like the thrill of the bid :P

Hi thereuare,

Thanks for the speedy reply. I actually was just about to post to say I had a feeling it might be the weinmeister. It does work for us I think, although we'd definitely prefer cheaper.

Ideally, we'd like to get as close to the $50 as possible whilst still staying centrally and in 4*+.

Do you think there's a chance of getting the Lux 11/Weinmeister cheaper via NYOP? We'd consider the Mitte- Alexanderplatz or mitte- museum island our preferrered zone, followed by mitte- berlin wall, Brandenburg gate and checkpoint Charlie, in that order. We won the Winters Hotel Checkpoint Charlie last year at around $50, when I think the zone was called kreuzberg. Happy to stay around that area again but would prefer to be around Hackesher Markt which looks to be covered by mitte-aplatz. My personal pref is Prenzlauer Berg, but the Priceline zone is far too big for us to risk is as it goes right out to Weissensee.

Do you happen to know whether the NH Berlin Alexanderplatz is in their NYOP inventory? I'd prefer not to get that, although if it's a significant saving it's fine.

As an addition, the NH Alexandeplatz is only £51 on the hotel list side of things, so was expecting to be able to get something via express or NYOP cheaper.

Hiya,

We're looking to go to Berlin for the weekend of 21st-24th of October.

Currently looking at hotels in the various mitte areas and Brandenburg gate, 4* upwards. There is a 4* in mitte- alexanderplatz with internet, business centre & no smoking rooms as the amenity set. The hotel lists say that the only 4* in the area is the Lux 11, which we'd be very happy with, but the amenities don't match.

The Lux 11 is in our preferred area is this still the only hotel in the mitte-alexanderplatz zone for express and NYOP?

Any ideas on the cheapest we might potentially be able to get a 4* in those areas via NYOP? I've bid up to £45 about a week ago, but got nothing.

With the whole Brexit malarkey, we'd like to keep costs as low as possible. Unfortunately, between finding flights and getting annual leave approved, the flight price has tripled, so the flights are now already as high as the original budget for the weekend.

Thanks in advance!

Beware that the Wyndham New Yorker charges resort fees (an additional fee on top of the room price, which is then taxed as well), so could push up the total price of the room.

I recently won a 4.5 star New York City hotel in the area that was the W New York Downtown. I think there is only a choice of two 4.5 stars if you look at the hotel list and you can then narrow it down based on the amenities.

Hi Thereuare,

Can you please close this thread and move it to the priceline section for me please?

I was just about to just book the empire cancellable rate and rethink nearer to our trip, but beforehand figured there was no harm in trying a bid first. As I'd been turned down at $90 for a 4* UWS yesterday, I upped my bid to $97 (£75) (although I forgot I'd removed the expensive weekend from our dates so potentially could have tried a lower bid).

Won the Empire, $15 a night cheaper than their list view price (although, of course it is not now cancellable).

Happy with it, not a huge saving but much cheaper than this or any comparable hotels via other third party booking sites and a great deal cheaper than booking directly with the hotel.