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VelmoTraveller

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  1. Well, footloose's review said it all just right. I must have been at this hotel at nearly the same time and was also impressed - nice rooms, convenient to the expressway and the train station, and free parking: very important in the Boston area. I will only add that the front desk people had no Priceline attitude and were happy to move me to a different room after I found the first one a little too close to a very noisy family.
  2. For plan 'C' you could stay in Ferney-Voltaire instead, just across the border in France. F-V has a lot of moderate hotels from the French chains and prices are reasonable compared to Geneva. The bus you take from F-V to get into Geneva goes by the airport, so in effect the difference between staying in Ferney-Voltaire and the Geneva airport area is about 10 minutes. Plus, if you need to drive, parking will be free in F-V and it will be much easier to drive around than traffic-choked bicycle-friendly constant-construction Geneva. On the other hand, there is nothing to do in Ferney-Voltaire at night (or during the day, for that matter). It's just a place to sleep. $85 for a single day automatic transmission car sounds about right, but I would only do it if you really *have* to drive.
  3. I live in this area and wracked my brain trying to think of a 1 star hotel/motel around here. The Motel 6's and the like really have little presence here - check an online yellow page site and search for motels in and around Skokie, for instance, and almost everything that comes up is in the Holiday Inn/Best Western type category. Priceline suggests the following could be 1 stars: Rodeway Inns, EconoLodge, Super 8, Sleep Inn, Red Roof Inn - and there are none of them in Skokie/Evanston area. So I'm surprised that there even is 1 star bidding for this area - there may be only one hotel that is available. Come to think of it, does Priceline ever not show 1 stars for an area? Maybe everybody just gets "upgraded" to 2+ stars, when they finally bid enough?
  4. It will be interesting to see the resolution of this situation. I won this hotel last August and posted my win and review here at the time. It is at least 20 minutes away from downtown, but it was very nice, with a friendly staff. But I imagine that what really galls you is the fact that it is out of the zone you wanted. If I were you I wouldn't expect much - as long as Priceline showed 4 star availability in LAX, they were keeping up their side and it was up to you to check before you bid it. I was just bidding on Boston hotels and one whole area vanished in the middle of my bids! But they certainly need to explain how they can rate a hotel 4 stars one way and 3 stars another - I'll be interested in that, for sure. Anyway, good luck.
  5. Wow. I made 65 bids over several weeks before finally hitting, but I did not want to spend more than $50 so I knew it would be tough. I bid for Logan Airport area mainly, adding Back Bay and Downtown as well as lower star areas for rebid opportunities. I figured I wouldn't be bidding enough to hit places like Back Bay but would have been happy if I had. After a couple of weeks I started bidding Braintree and Norwood after exhausting the other bids. Still nuttin'. All my bids went from $38-$50; finally out of frustration I tried Needham, which I had been avoiding because I thought it was too far out, and hit on my first attempt at exactly $50. Turned out to be fortuitous - it was the Hilton in Dedham, with free parking and just a block away from the train station. No parking or traffic problems, so what more can you ask? I'll post my review of the hotel when I get back. Naturally, I made all 65 bids through savingsbarn.com. Congratulations, you got your price of $50 for a 3-star hotel room. Hilton Boston/Dedham 3-star Check-In Date: Friday, April 1, 2005 Check-Out Date: Sunday, April 3, 2005 Your Offer Price: $50.00 Number of Rooms: 2 Number of Nights: 2 Subtotal: $200.00 Taxes and Service Fees: $30.56 Total Charges: $230.56 (p.s. your Boston convention checker link no longer works)
  6. A large and well appointed room, including microwave, refrigerator, coffee maker and ironing board. Near the airport so not very close to anything else and a very limited selection of restaurants in the area. But clean, a friendly staff, and a good breakfast buffet in the morning; it could easily be a 2.5 star hotel rather than the 2 that Priceline calls it. I would stay here again if I needed to be near the airport.
  7. This is obviously affiliated with the large Jewish Hospital complex nearby but unlike some other hospital affiliated hotels that I have seen it is indistinguishable from any normal hotel. The room was large and included a coffeemaker. Nice bar and restaurant on the first floor. Superb location just a few blocks away from downtown with theatres, museums, shops and restaurants in abundance. Friendly staff - not real well organized but quite personable. I was very happy with my stay and would certainly go back. Oh yeah, free parking too.
  8. Bid on 2 stars in Louisville for same night, got upgraded to 2.5 on my first & only try: Congratulations, you got your price of $44 for a 2 1/2 star hotel room. The Inn at Jewish Hospital Louisville Downtown Area 100 Jefferson St. Louisville, Kentucky 40202 Check-In Date: Friday, November 12, 2004 Check-Out Date: Saturday, November 13, 2004
  9. Bid several times in the 33-45 range and got no bites for downtown, southwest or airport. Time was running out - I needed a hotel so I went to 47 and hit. Congratulations, you got your price of $47 for a 2-star hotel room. La Quinta Inn And Suites Louisville Louisville Airport Area 4125 Preston Highway Louisville, Kentucky 40123 Check-In Date: Friday, November 5, 2004 Check-Out Date: Saturday, November 6, 2004
  10. I wanted to stay in L.A. at a 3* for under $50, under $40 if I could get it, and am very flexible in choice of area. I started with $31 in LAX, added Bel Air, then Beverly, then Hollywood while inching the price up to 40. Dropped to 2.5 stars and bid $35, then finally 37. No luck. Three days later did the same thing, again no luck. Tried again and I bid $42 and then finally hit at $45 for a 3* in LAX, which was pretty much where I expected to end up anyway. Remembered to use SavingsBarn.com too. Congratulations, you got your price of $45 for a 3-star hotel room. Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Los Angeles Airport (LAX) Check-In Date: Friday, August 20, 2004 Check-Out Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 Your Offer Price: $45.00 Number of Rooms: 2 Number of Nights: 4 Subtotal: $360.00 Taxes & Service Fees: $61.24 Total Charges: $421.24
  11. How do these 2.5 star properties work in the rebid strategy? Suppose I bid on a 2.5 star property (say, in Santa Monica) and am rejected. If I then add an area that only has 1 and 2 stars am I guaranteed that my rebid will not win outside of Santa Monica? Or if I add Bel Air, for instance, which currently shows only 2 and 3 star properties, and where I would also be willing to stay, I understand that my rebid could snag a 2.5 or 3 star property in Santa Monica or a 3 star in Bel Air, but could I get a 2 star in Bel Air? My feeling is that a 2 star would be a step down from 2.5 (otherwise why have the 2.5 designation in the first place) so 2 star properties should not qualify, but I'd feel better if somebody could confirm that. Thanks!
  12. The attraction of this 3* rated hotel must entirely lie with the Fitness Center. It is ten miles out from downtown, and the official address of the hotel is on a different street than the entrance, making the approach confusing. It is designed as a long thin building, with parking lots at either end. This forces people with rooms in the middle to walk half the considerable length of the hotel to get to those rooms after parking. (But at least parking is free). Once you get in the room, you get everything you would expect from, say, a Fairfield Inn. The good and bad points: - location in the middle of nowhere, very few restaurants in the area - small (but clean) bathroom, lots of fluffy towels and shampoo/soap assortments - furniture in good shape, beds (two queens) very comfortable - silly faux French design, with gold painted wood accents that just look chintzy - no real views of anything - coffee maker, hair dryer, minibar - staff was friendly enough but not memorably so - broadband access in the room - large, well equipped fitness center (free to guests, though some things like tennis courts required an extra charge) I didn't eat at the restaurant, but overall my impression was that the public areas were more interesting than the rooms, and that this hotel mainly exists for corporate customers who are expected to concentrate on their jobs/conference rather than the attractions of the hotel or area.
  13. First time trying Priceline, used the strategies explained here, thanks! First bid of $33 for 3* downtown was rejected. Kept adding 2 star rebid zones, went 35, 37, 40, 44, no luck. Added another 3 star zone, NW, and lowered bid to $42 and hit. Not too disappointed not to get downtown as I figured parking charges would eat into savings. Congratulations, you got your price of $42 for a 3-star hotel room. Radisson Hotel And Conference Center Plymouth Minneapolis Northwest 3131 Campus Drive Plymouth, Minnesota 55441 Check-In Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 Check-Out Date: Friday, July 16, 2004 Your Offer Price: $42.00 Number of Rooms: 1 Number of Nights: 2 Subtotal: $84.00 Taxes & Service Fees: $16.77 Total Charges: $100.77
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