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Hey guys, Thanks for your time and advice. Unfortunatly, you were correct that $200 was a bit of a low ball price. I followed the strat and got rejected at all levels. I guess back to the drawing board :)

All of those are perfectly fine. Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for the responses guys! As far as zoning, we aren't too picky. Central Park, Soho, Empire, Hell's Kitchen,Times Square, MTW, or MTE all would be fine. Probably even the Chelsea if you thought it would significantly change our odds =). Do bidders usually have a better chance at booking a great rate if they bid way before the trip, or right at the last moment? Thanks, Dave

Hello, We are spending several days in NYC in late October, but would like to get a hotel for our anniversary night. I was thinking of using Priceline (of course through your links =) to try and get a 4 star hotel for Saturday October 22, 2011 only. I was hoping to spend about $200. I am comfortable with the bidding process, but wanted to know if there was anything special I should know about booking just 1 night.. Saturday none the less. I could see reasons it might be cheaper or more expensive... any thoughts on adjusting my initial pricing or should I just start at around $120 with the zones I am interested in? Any suggestions on timing? Start ASAP or wait til we are closer to the date? Thanks!

I recently placed a bid in the North Strip section of priceline for a 4 star hotel. The only one on the list is Treasure Island, which I was hoping to land. I placed a bid at $80 per night and was returned with a winning message. "Congratulations, your bid has been accepted and we have upgraded you to a 5 star hotel. You have booked the Trump Las Vegas!" :o Though many people would be delighted to get such a luxory hotel... I certainly was not one of them. We are having a bachelor party for my brother with 6 of our closest friends. We really need a hotel that has a casino attached. It is so hard to organize that many people and it is impossible to beat the convenience and never ending drinks that a casino supplies. I was devastated and enraged that my 4 star bid had been upgraded against my will to a resort I was trying to avoid. (Not to mention hotwire had the Trump for $75 at the time). :) I called Priceline, worked my phone magic... and somehow managed to convince one of their employees to fax a cancellation request to The Trump, which they accepted. My credit card was credited back the money and I am back on the prowl for accomadations. :D However, I work in a call center and know all the ins and outs of getting what I want by phone. I would predict that 90% of people would have been stuck with The Trump if they have the same "Upgrade" that I received. :) So.... just a heads up. If you put a 4* bid in you are putting a 4 or better * bid in. You very well could get stuck somewhere you didn't want to be. :)

Thanks for the info! There will be 6 of us going and we are looking for 3 rooms to accomidate. The Trump deal seems quite nice on Orbitz and we might take advantage of that. Thanks for the discount code! At this point I think I might just monitor it for a little while to see if we can get a resort that has a casino attached. Thanks again!

I have recently been planning a bachelor party in Las Vegas for March 19-23, 2009. I have spent the last few days researching this website as well as doing dummy searches on hotwire to find out what would be available to us. Finally we decided on the number of people and rooms yesterday evening. Using resources from this website I was able to find the Wynn for $115 and the Trump for $106 on Hotwire as late as yesterday afternoon. Yesterday night I searched for the same dates and room numbers and the Wynn was $165 and Trump was $156 which are also the current prices as of right now. :) I have bid up to $115 on priceline for a 5 star with no bites as well. My questions is.... now that there has clearly been a spike in prices for that weekend am I out of luck? If I wait another week or even month will the prices change again and will the resorts likely open more rooms up to these web sites? Or does the spike in prices mean that the rooms are gone and never coming back down? Any ideas on what a good next step could be?

To piggy back off the topic of multiple rooms... I was wondering if there has been a history of more or less low bids accepted for multiple rooms? Do my chances of getting an accepted bid increase or decrease if I am booking 3 rather than 1 room?