Tiger Toe Knee

Wow that would have been a really good deal! Thanks for the tip szymon...I'll keep that in mind next time; unfortunately, for this trip I'll pick up Thursday morning at 8am so I don't qualify for the weekend promo.

If anyone is looking to rent a car in Denver on or around 2/19-2/22, I bid for a 4-day rental at $15 and $20/day and got rejected. According to Priceline, the bid has a "good chance" to get accepted at $31 and "great chance" at $33. I'll try again in a couple of days. Please offer opinions, suggestions, or personal experiences that may help me in the mean time! Thank you!

Yep, I'll try to see which hotels those conventions are using and see if I can target some of the others...those 50K hotel rooms have likely not been booked yet, so the hotel market is liable to get even tighter. Fun to think about, though...and if you were in their shoes, wouldn't YOU do that?! Thanks for your comments and help!

I will be staying in Las Vegas starting Wed 9/24 and checking out Sun 9/28. I have been checking Priceline like a hawk for the past 2 weeks (using the links from this site) and have been unsuccessful in what I believe is already high bidding. I was wondering if I could get the opinions of the gang here. Thanks in advance for your help! Note: I know this topic is very similar to Diamond Dog's "September 18th - 1 week. Is it that expensive? " topic, but there was no biddig history on his topic. Also, I figured the moderator would like a new thread for each topic, as usual...but please feel free to mix my topic with his if you think it's best. Another note: I know there is a convention coming and another one going during the beginning of my stay, but they're not large and their "preferred hotels" are not typical Priceline hotels (at least no one here has won a room to them). Requirements: 4 or 5 star hotel on the north or south strip Bidding history (all got rejected): 1) Bid for 4-night, 5-star hotel stay until $150 2) Bid for 4-night, 4-star hotel stay until $120 Then I tried to split my itinerary, at the risk of having to switch hotels during our stay but hoping Wed and Thur offered lower prices: 3) Bid for Wed and Thur only, 5-star hotel stay until $100 4) Bid for Wed and Thur only, 4-star hotel stay until $80 One last question: this is definitely the conspiracy theorist in me, but do you think Priceline bases their bidding acceptance on your bidding trends/history? For example, they know that I'm going to add the sections Summerlin, Nellis, and LAS Airport and re-bid each time, and they also know I've been bidding on the same dates on 5 different occassions now, so why not reject my offer? I guess one exposes oneself and agrees to such potential debauchery when bidding on Priceline.

Just wanted to post my review of Le Meridien Etoile from my visit in December (sorry it's 6 months late). The hotel room was very "HoJo" and we didn't understand how the hotel got that fourth star...until we went into their highly priced yet sheikly-decorated (sp?) restaurant. The lobby was also very ultra modern. Our hunch is that they gave us a "Priceline room", and my recommendation would be to try to upgrade as other visitors there told us their upgraded executive room was terrific (I've also read to that effect on other website like trip advisor). All in all, it's in a good location with a good neighborhood and a metro station within walking distance, so for the right price and the right person I would recommend it. By right person, I mean: Recommended for: casual traveler, backpacker, first timer Not Recommended for: romantic getaway

Le Meridien hotels are typically very friendly and have met all of my expectations in the past, so when I got $120 for a Le Meridien hotel in Paris I was very pleased. After doing a little bit of research, I found that: a. this is closer to arrondissement 17 than it is to arrondissement 8, which is a shame because I had my hopes set on something a little closer to the action b. there are some incredibly scathing reviews of this hotel online, particularly on trip advisor , that have me shaking in my boots I'm crossing my fingers that we can throw a couple of bucks here and there to the staff to make our stay more pleasurable than those of the reviewers on trip advisor. I will definitely write back on this forum with our experiences, but I'm actually very apprehensive about it.

Marriott San Antonio Plaza Downtown - Riverwalk 555 South Alamo Street San Antonio, Texas 78205 210-229-1000 1) Specified Riverwalk zone only, 4* hotel, bid $75 and got rejected 2) Added a zone with no 4* hotels to query, bid $80 and got rejected 3) Repeated previous step, bid $85 and got rejected 4) Repeated, bid $90, got the Marriott.