Andrew In Florida

Last minute trip. Express Deal Price was $43. The "Name your own Price" usually accept a 95% price bid of the Express Deal (5% off), however they didn't accept $39, $40, or $41. Must be because it's already so low. So, we saved $1 off the Express Deal Price. Charge was $42 + tax for $52.02 for a three start with breakfast. We've stayed here before. 12/1/17 - $49 1/27/18 - $43 2/9/18 - $53 Over the last year we sometimes got "Country Inn and Suites", but not since they finished remodeling. I suspect they only offered the deep discount during the disruptive construction on the exterior, interior, and rooms.

If you are absolutely opposed to using BetterBidding, this link will take you to "Name your own price" after you supply the "Number of Rooms" and "Location": https://www.priceline.com/hotels/startOffer.do? If you drop the "?" it defaults to the normal search. I assume that the "RefId" grants an affiliate a minor commission. If you use BetterBidding, it would be preferable to us the links embedded in the site. If you just stumbled across this using a Google Search, that link will solve your problem... until they take it away.

I was the first to report this, and I have a "Half-Answer". The feature is there for folks who know how to "Link to it" or who use an App (Android Application or iPhone Application for a tablet/phone). Whoever maintains their web presence has broken their navigational model. The links don't work (not even in the help page about the feature). And, they seem to have removed almost every easy-to-find reference. I get equivalent deals on HotWire Hot Deals about half the time in half the locations. The easiest way to get to it is indeed to use the framed links on the board. The developer who maintains this knows the API (Application programmer Interface) and the locations of the screens which are now buried on the HTTP Web Pages. For a while, the hotel search would intermittently (and very irregularly) include an option for name your own price on the left beside the regular search results, Express Deals and then "Name your own Price". However, it only showed up about (1 in 20) search for me with no rhyme or reason. As to why Priceline has disconnected the features for PC Users (probably older folks with more money and a greater ability to travel) in favor of Phone Apps (geared at younger folks with less money who are probably cheaper)... who knows. A working website costs the same as a broken website to maintain. The only difference is a couple hours of labor, and leadership who is smart enough to use their own product from time to time. My best guess is that they either don't care, did this intentionally, or they have grown to a size where they are too dysfunctional to maintain their core business functionality. I did have to tweak some settings on my ad blocker to get the frames to show up on the admin's site at BiddingHelper.com. The tool is really handy. I had to whitelist (make blocking exceptions on a screen in my Adblocker) for biddinghelper.com, hotwire.com and priceline.com for everything to show up properly.

I think Priceline's web team is just really lax. (IE: PC, desktop-broswer, PC/Cromebook Style Web Browsing). The features are easy to find on the Android and Apple Priceline Apps. And, The moderator (admin/developer of this site) seems to know the trick to frame with an embeded link to the name your own price tool. I challenge anyone to go into the site at the main web page and navigate to a "Name your own Price" page. I find the link in the footer by the copy rights, and most of the links in the FAQ/Help don't go to the page as intended.

The PRICELINE EXPRESS deal for this hotel directly was $110. I booked this for $99/night using a discount from a prior night. The total was $325.26 total for 3 nights.

I booked 3 nights at La Quinta Inn Tampa Bay Pinellas Park Clearwater at $57/night for a total of $215.79 with tax.

When the prices drop on these, they REALLY drop. I'm waiting for the real deals to beg picking up in May.

I used the Better Bidding 5% off Priceline Coupon. Paid $60/night for a total of $147.68. This is about the best price you can get over spring break. On June 23rd, 2017, I got this some hotel for $34/night. The real value is about $45/night, but I'll take it. They do serve a good breakfast.

HOTWIRE Deal for a 2.5* for $54/night. Came to $133.56 total. This is slightly north of the Savannah, GA metro area. Intend to use it as a waypoint to visit the light houses on Tybee Island and Hilton Head.

I booked this two 3 day weekends in a row. Any time can get a Suite with a kitchen near the water for this price, you kind'a got to go for it. The PRICELINE EXPRESS price was 75.

I'm normally a $50 hotel guy, but when I can get a 4 star for $74, I go for it. Suspect parking will cost me. This hotel is available for 67% off this weekend and again on 5/18/18 to 5/21/2018. We'll see what it's like.

Booked 2 nights for a total of $133.7 ($53 each) after applying a HOTWIRE FLASH20 promo code for an additional $10. Stated prices was $63. Hotel zones in HOTWIRE are a little weird and less defined than in PRICELINE. I performed searches for Pensacola, Destin, Milton, Crestview, and Defuniaka Springs. All are about within 10 miles of the panhandle coast. If you search all three and don't care about being exactly on the water's edge, there are some deals to be had. Prices will soon shoot up on the Panhandle and drop for the rest of Florida when the winter season ends. I'm taking weekend trips all around Florida through June to different locations. These are the regions I search about 2-3 weeks out. I picked these locations because they are centered in the largest number of regions so I can rebid. Thse are the prices for 2.5 star (or 2.0 star if no 2.5star exist in the area): Stuart, FL (4 regions / $ 62 avg) Clearwater, FL (9 regions / $ 102 avg) Bonita Springs, FL (10 regions / $ 100 avg) Venice, FL (6 regions / $ 124 avg) Homestead, FL (19 regions / $ 78 avg) Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL (10 regions / $ 78 avg) Jupiter, FL (8 regions / $ 144 avg) Tampa, FL (9 regions / $ 95 avg) Milton, FL (5 regions / $ 56 avg) <-- North of Destin/Sarasota Hudson, FL (2 regions / $ 63 avg) Destin, FL (3 regions / $ 78 avg) Pensacola, FL (6 regions / $ 52 avg) Ocala, FL (3 regions / $ 74 avg) Mobile, AL (4 regions / $ 30 avg) Deerfield Beach, FL (4 regions / $ 116 avg) Waycross, GA (7 regions / $ 33 avg) Hinesville, GA (5 regions / $ 33 avg) Richmond Hill, GA (8 regions / $ 47 avg) Panama City, FL (5 regions / $ 70 avg)

Booked 2 nights for a total of $134.80 ($52 each) after applying a Hotwire Coupon code for an additional $10. Stated prices was $62.

Used Flash sale FLASH20. Actually paid $64, for 2 nights, but $20 off drops that to $54.

Have a 3 day weekend off, and this is a fair value at $42/night. Total comes to $154.94. The only reason to go to Homestead is to jump down to the keys during the day. We have a Florida State Park Pass, and John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park is fairly close to this. It's one of the nicer state parks we've found in Florida, and we'll just come back to the room to crash at night.

I usually don't start booking these weekend getaways around Florida until after spring break on April 1st. February is still "high tourist season", so there aren't many deals at 2.5-3.0 star hotels along either cost for less than $70-92. PRICELINE didn't have anything under $70. Sometimes HOTWIRE surprises me. I typically won't look at anything less than a 2.5 star, but I want to travel... and this was the cheapest of about 10 regions that I normally watch. 3 nights will run $210. Starting in April there will be a number of hotels in the $48-51 range near St. Petersburg (not much further away). For now, $57 is decent. I honestly expected to get the Clearwater Motel 8. I suspect this is a little nicer.

I've booked this particular hotel previously, and in the week that follow. In the off season (April 15 to Dec 1st) I can usually name a price of $49. Having bid this area many times because it's a favorite for weekend get aways there is a 50/50 chance you'll get the Country Inn and Suits Vero Beach with $47-49 bids. There are about 5 identical hotels in a 5 block area, and all of them are more than nice enough.

Thanks! That worked. I never knew what I was missing. betterbidding.com biddinghelper.com I"m still curious if PriceLine is making moves to restrict or pull away from bidding. However, it could just be a bad site upgrade, and a team that doesn't care much about the traditional website anymore.

It's definitely my adblocker. I did have "www.betterbidding.com" and "betterbidding.com" whitelisted already though. When I shut it off completely, I can see the priceline in th iFrame or however you capture it. Do yo happen to know what URL or address I need to whitelist to get the priceline frame to appear? I'm years out of Web Application Design, and it's not worth digging through HTML to try to figure it out. Thanks! (Your response was helpful, though you may have thought it was obvious. I'd always wondered why both the 1st and 3rd tabs were completely blank.)

Oh. Must be firefox bug. After rereading your comment, I tried chrome \\ and by golly... I do see that the framed search page now. I wish I would have known that last year. It would have made much of the booking process easier. It might be the UBlock plugin. I'll have to whitelist better bidding. Honestly, with the page blank.... I'd just go to "Express deals to see price aproximations" then jump of to Priceline to start bidding in the region at 8% less than the express deal price directly on the Priceline site. If you do go to the priceline website on a PC Browser, it's getting really hard to find the name your own price option. It's obvious with the Android App. And, you've managed to frame it consistently. It's hard to find externally from their own site, which causes me to wonder if they plan to discontinue "Name your own price" on hotel like they did for airfare in 2016.

Is that what is supposed to appear on the 3rd tab when I do searches? It's always appeared blank (no longer how long I wait) since I started using this site in early 2017. Only the Hotwire and Pricelne Express Deals tabs ever populate. I've often wondered want should have appeared there. No joke. I've done thousands of searches here, and never seen anything on that tab. I'd upload a picture to show you, but the 1st and 3rd tabs of the search results have never shown me anything (ever).

SOLVED: use BiddingForHotelRooms.com for easy access to the Priceline Name Your Own Price bidding form This is a legitimate question. If you haven't tried using it lately, is the "Name your own price feature" for hotels getting really hard to find on Priceline? Maybe it's my browser, or I'm doing something completely wrong. I used the tool extensively in 2017, and when I returned recently I can only find the options sporadically. The link titled "Name your on price" at the bottom of the page simply take you to the home page. Searches take you to the generic search form. The "Name your own price" option only appears rarely in the list of check boxes at the upper left that say "Your Best Ways to Save". On the few times I see the option, there is a 3rd checkbox below ExpressDeal or Member Deals. More often than not... it's never there. I've tried the feature "Signed in" and "SIgned Off". I've tried Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Edge. I even tried to check the help section in priceline. Ironically, the links in the help section are broken and even say, "oops something went wrong." According to pricline, this is the link that should work: https://www.priceline.com/promo/name_your_own_price/hotels So, I offer my question. Is PriceLine discontinuing the service for hotels? Am I missing something obvious? EDIT BY THEREUARE: for those looking for the Name Your Own Price feature we have added this site BiddingForHotelRooms.com to provide easy access to the priceline bidding form and added this link to the top of this post.

We've taken 8 road trips to different cities in Florida over the last 8 weeks. This is the one hotel that I'm most interested to check out. It's consistently about $34-38/night including breakfast. Stuart and Fort Pierce are economically depressed, but that's actually one of our favorite areas. Tons of mom-n-pop diners, pop-up folks grilling food on empty lots, and amazing Mexican restaurants. Plus, the beaches and coast has enough little places here and there with free parking to make it a great place to hang out. It's not over developed. I reminds me of rural Iowa farm towns. Tough economically, but proud and tight. I've taken Friday Afternoons off from March 15 - Dec 15th, and this would be our default travel spot if it all works out. I found/booked this one last in my recent weekend buying binge. Very excited to se it.

Advertised as $56 as a PRICELINE EXPRESS Deal. This is the 1st time I've saved less than 5% on a "Name your own Price". I started at $50, and was quite surprised that I got this at $51. Total came to $124.78 with taxes and fees. I'm honestly getting my bids so consistently at 5% lower than the Express Bid Quote -- that 4 out of 5 times... it would be just as easy just use the BetterBidding code BB17MAY. It makes sense that if they are willing to go 5% lower on a promo, they'd go 5% lower on Name your own price. I've booked hotels in different cities for 8 weekends over the week, and its been pretty consistent. Maybe I need to play with waiting until the last minute.

Oops. Meant to say 2.5*. Can't seem to edit. That dropdown box before the first text area always throws me on the form. Terrible usability on the "Report a Win" form.