Priceline Hotel: 3.5* Northern Virginia (Airport Dulles IAD) Sheraton Reston

[apkesh]

won this at $48 night for 9/20-9/24. Used the PRICELINE link. Here's something interesting I noticed along the way, I wonder what PL's logic is behind this:

Bid1: $42 IAD - retry page.

Bid2: $43 IAD, area B- got page saying raise price by $12 (okay, at this point I knew I was getting close)

Bid3: $45 IAD, area B, C- got page saying raise price by $13 (it raised the amount by $1, strange logic, isn't it?)

Bid4: $47 IAD, area B, C, D- Retry page (now, that's even more strange. I was expecting another counter offer from PL)

Bid5: $48 IAD, area B,C,D,E- SUCESS!!

[thereuare]

Congratulations on your success!

Nicely done and a nice deal as a results.

The counter-offers are independent of your previous bids, so to see the counter-offers remain the same or go up a few dollars, even though you've increased your bid from the previous attempt, is nothing unusual and we see it often. As well, you can sometimes get a a counter-offer at one bid, increase slightly, and not get a counter-offer on the next bid... we see that happens sometimes too.

Thank you for sharing your win with the board and using our PRICELINE link to begin your bidding.

Enjoy your stay.