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I used the 11frost11 code for the Excalibur in Vegas last week ($35 per night) and it still worked:)

I was checking out Hotels in Vegas on Expedia and came across the Vegas Club Hotel on Freemont Street. If you search during the week the Vegas Club is $11 per night and then at check-out use the coupon code 11frost11 which brings the final price down to about $2 per night after taxes! What really surprised me is Priceline has the Vegas Club Hotel rated at 2.5*. Quite a few Holiday Inn's are rated at 2.5* and I think they are A LOT NICER than the Vegas Club.......but $2 per night, in general I'd rather stay somewhere else but I havn't seen ANY hotels in Vegas that cheap in a while.

There just happened to be some kind of soccer tourament in town and the Renaissance was filled with kids. Ordinarily I wouldn't care but the walls seemed pretty thin, I could hear running/sreaming kids most of the day/night. Hotels like the hilton are just built better, I guess they anticipate a certain noise level b/c I usually dont have that problem when I visit vegas and stay at the Casinos.

I was bidding for a 3.5* (hoping to get the Hilton) but I won the Renaissance. Not bad considering Motel 6 on Fremont Street (probably in the worst part of town) is charging $80 per night.

I haven't used Hotwire in a long time. Anyhow, I just checked for Agoura/Westlake and their search results are provided by Hotels.com? Also the name of the hotel and price are listed (did I do something wrong? I thought hotwire was an auction?). Also arn't Hotels.com and hotwire owned by Expedia? Just looked at Travelocity Top Secret and they seem really overpriced - a mystery 2* in Valencia (I couldn't find Thousand Oaks) is quoted at $81 per night this week........I wonder what the secret 2* is??? Motel 6 MAYBE.....LOL

Won the Embassy Suites for $50 on the above dates, started bidding at $45. I'm glad priceline didn't upgrade me to the Valencia Hyatt b/c I'd rather stay at the Embassy Suites.

Won the Crown Plaza for $56 on the above dates. I started bidding at $50.

The situation here is different, priceline reclassified BOTH of their 3.5* hotels to 3* in the Thousand Oaks area (The Agoura Renaissance and Westlake Hyatt). It's not the end of the world but Priceline was working like clockwork before, since the change I haven't bid in this area and I'm trying to spark some discussion on this as only one person has posted since the change last year and he won the Thousand Oaks Courtyard - not a bad hotel, just not the area I like. Anyhow, this website has been helpful to me so I should contribute a little more. For this week I won 3.5* Crown Plaza LAX (2-11 to 2-14) for $56 and the 3* Valencia Embassy Suites (2-14 to 2-16) for $50 I'll post these separately. Thanks,

Since Priceline made this change a few months ago (reclassified all 3.5* as 3*) I have not made a bid in the Thousand Oaks zone area. I've won hotels in other zones (LAX, downtown LA, Valencia) but the info is pretty redundant as others have posted. Sometimes priceline works really well, for example in the Valencia area there is only ONE 3.5* hotel (the Valencia Hyatt) and that is usually very easy to get! It's pretty much a guarantee what hotel you will be getting. Another lesser known area that has also been reclassified to only 3* is the Palmdale area. I was getting the brand new Embassy Suites up there (really nice) and then Priceline took embassy suites off and now there are only 3* which for that area includes hotels that are in unsafe areas (in general Palmdale is sketchy). Anyhow, Expedia has a good deal on the Agoura Renaissance - buy 2 nights get the 3rd free. Last time I stayed there Expedia even threw in a $50 prepaid Mastercard which about matches the prices I would get on priceline, but it's more work for me. I guess it is still POSSIBLE to win the nicer 3* in Westlake or Agoura but there has been a sudden halt in postings for this area..............I would bid but I dont want to get stuck at the courtyard way in Newbury Park, which will probably be filled first. IMO Any other Priceliners out there with any info on this area???

Hi, I'm planning a trip to the agoura hills area soon and have noticed priceline has removed all 3.5* hotels and reclassified them as 3*. I used to always get the Renaissance Agoura Hills Hotel but that is now reclassified as a 3*. Since this change occured only one person has posted for this search area in the last several months and they won the Thousand Oaks Courtyard which is not as nice. Are the days of getting nice hotels in this area through priceline finished? It seems like a real gamble now Thanks,