travellin'paul

Hotwire was listing this as a Customer Favorite.

Restaurant(s)

Fitness Center

Tennis Nearby

Business Center

This seemed to be a tough day. I tried priceline many times and couldn't land anything reasonable. So, I assume this rate is a little high.

-paul

$65 seems to be a magic number for me on Priceline. Got this one on my first try as well.

Listed online at $169.

paul

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Your Offer Price: $65.00

Number of Rooms: 1

Number of Nights: 1

Subtotal: $65.00

Taxes & Service Fees:

$17.51

Total Charges: $82.51

Got this on first try at $65. Listed online for $169.

paul

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Your Offer Price: $65.00

Number of Rooms: 1

Number of Nights: 1

Subtotal: $65.00

Taxes & Service Fees:

$17.08

Total Charges: $82.08

Got this on first try. Looks like Priceline moved this up to 4 star pretty recently (some reviews on tripadvisor.com said there were recent renovations).

Price on Hyatt website was $169.

paul

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Your Offer Price: $65.00

Number of Rooms: 1

Number of Nights: 1

Subtotal: $65.00

Taxes & Service Fees:

$18.65

Total Charges: $83.65

Checked online and found this for $120. Decided to start a little low, thinking I might get it for $79... but got accepted on first try. I also thought I might get Palmer House, because that was online at $109... but oddly enough I just checked again and Hyatt is $120 and Palmer popped up to $139 (on Expedia).

I do hear that parking is $39 a night, but still a pretty good deal for 3 nights in Chicago...

paul

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Your Offer Price: $75.00

Number of Rooms: 1

Number of Nights: 3

Subtotal: $225.00

Taxes & Service Fees: $43.36

Total Charges: $268.36

Started with bid of $48 after seeing success with Hyatt at that price. Unfortunately, I didn't have the same luck. Kept adding other areas and $3 or $5 each time. Finally got it at $63. I think the last bad bid was $58.

Your Offer Price: $63.00

Number of Rooms: 1

Number of Nights: 4

Subtotal: $252.00

Taxes & Service Fees:

$47.85

Total Charges: $299.85

Meant to say that I added the airport zone to my second attempt... not the hotel zone.

I tried to go for this hotel at $58 after reading the posts here. It was denied, but said I could do a free attempt if I was willing to increase my bid by $17.

Instead I retried by adding the hotel zone (which doesn't have 3 star properties) and by raising my bid to $65. It was accepted.

Thanks for all the advice on hotels and strategy. I cashed in some frequent flier miles, so airfare and hotel for 7 nights in Hawaii is costing me just under $570.

Thanks again,

paul

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Your Offer Price: $65.00

Number of Rooms: 1

Number of Nights: 7

Subtotal: $455.00

Taxes & Service Fees:

$67.99

Total Charges: $522.99