Priceline Hotel: 4* Chicago North Shore (Northbrook) Renaissance Chicago North Shore

[Frogger85]

Pretty standard bidding...worked the North Shore Zone at the 4/3.5 levels. I started with Wheeling (as I was trying for the Westin) at $41. No Luck,

worked the other zones except Deerfield , I stayed at the Hyatt not that long ago..nice hotel..but I wanted a change. After a bid of $48 I got the

offer page. This was a bit strange since I could increase my offer from $25 to $175 dollars. I could understand if this was downtown where there are

so many 4* hotels. But in this zone the only two 4 star hotels in are the Westin (Wheeling) and Renaissance (Northbrook). I declined the offer and

kept bidding,dropped to 3.5 * and on my last try got the Renaissance for $55. Nice deal.

Like I said the strange thing was the offer page, I know that you go lower than the offer they give but usually by 10-15 bucks. I'm sure I could have

got the Westin for $75-80 not for over $200. I know there some debate about overbidding and hotel price points. It seems like in Downtown Chicago

if you bid high the hotels change (ex: $70=Hyatt, $80=Hilton or Drake ect..). But in this case you could clearly overbid.

Regards

[AaronJB]

Congrats on your success. :)

Nice deal for this property, which I thought was a pleasant hotel. Barnaby's across the street is also recommended for pizza.

Were you shown a list of retail hotels or did you get a counter-offer bid page for $175? Certainly odd to get that degree of counter-offer, if that's the case.

Thank you for sharing your win and using the site's PRICELINE or HOTWIRE links to start your purchases and searches.

[Frogger85]

No it was counter offer...I have never seen one so high..even when I've gotten the offer page for Downtown Chicago the range was around $15-$95.

The Westin was $99 on the retail page, that's why I thought I might get it for $60 or so.

To me this seems like proof that you could really overbid in a small zone. Since the downtowns have more hotels it might not be that big a deal since there has to be some understanding between hotels.

It was odd.