We bid for an Aruba hotel for about a week with no luck since it is a holiday week. Initially, we wanted the resort category, but after some reasearch we decided we wanted the Renaissance since it has the adult only section and private island. Since we are active and in our 20's, being downtown was attractive to us, as was knowing our section of the resort should not be full of children out of school for the week. Once we added on the 4* option, we had to re-bid several times after starting at $100. Finally, we found a winning bid at $165/ night. We were happy with this, as it is going for $311 a night on priceline. Here is the breakdown of costs Room Cost (avg. per room, per night):$165.00 (USD) Number of Rooms:1 Number of Nights:9 Travel Insurance:$45.00 (USD) --this was optional, but we added it on Room Subtotal:$1530.00 (USD) Taxes and Fees:$181.35 (USD) Total Room Cost:$1711.35 (USD) As always, we used the PRICELINE link to start out each time.