kyle3pod

I followed your suggested bidding strategy and "won" The Westin Seattle with a bid of $153/night.

Thanks for your help!

Yes, I'd prefer to increase my bid to $185 rather than increase my area.

Yes, I was using the Hot.Wire's lowest Pike Place hotel as a basis for setting my bids.  I didn't realize that the Pike Place maps were so different on Hot.Wire and Price.line.  I would prefer to not be so far south (as Silver Cloud Inn is.)  Reading some of the other threads I learned that Pike Place was a preferred area, so that's why I was looking there on both sites.

Thanks.

I see that this <dead link removed>, which I believe is the Silver Cloud Inn Stadium Hotel, is available on HOTWIRE for $158.  I also see that this hotel, which I believe is the Renaissance Seattle Hotel, is available on PRICELINE EXPRESS for $186.

Since, I'd like to stay in a 4* hotel in Pike Place should my priceline bidding go as follows?

$100:  Downtown - Pike Place - Retail District - Convention Center 4*

$105: add Kent 2 1/2*

$110: add North Seattle - Edmonds - Mountlake Terrace 2 1/2*

$115: add Bothell 3*

$120: add Everett North 3*

$125: add Everett South - Mukilteo 3*

$130: add Lynnwood 3*

$135: add Tukwila - Renton 3*

$140: add Bellevue South 3 1/2*

$145: add Redmond 3 1/2*

$150: add SeaTac Airport (SEA) 3 1/2*

$155: add Univ of Washington - Northgate 3 1/2*

Thanks for your help!

Using your PRICELINE link, I booked the Marriott Biscayne Bay Hotel and Marina for 1 night (Sunday, May 9, 2010). I started at $44 for a 3.5* hotel in Miami (Downtown) and increased by bid in $2 increments by adding the 3 South Beach locations and then other Miami locations without a 3.5* hotel until my offer was accepted at $56.

Hotel $56.00

Taxes 15.04

Total $71.04