SMUS_Style Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 Room Cost (avg. per room, per night): $150.00 (USD)Number of Rooms: 1Number of Nights: 3Room Subtotal: $450.00 (USD)Taxes and Fees: $61.62 (USD)Total Room Cost: $511.62 (USD)Not a great win... I intentionally overbid for this range since I was trying to avoid some of the less interesting Rome hotel options.... $150 a night ended up being more expensive than what Expedia was quoting ($148 a night)... so they gave me $25 and matched. My experience in Italy has been that I would have better off just booking with the hotel websites in all cases... (would have got the same price as I bid... and would have been able to control my own choice of hotel). My first time using priceline in Europe.. but unless I'm going to London or maybe Paris.. I starting to think that just booking the old fashioned way is the best solution. More updates in a sec. This hotel was fine btw.. but they 'upgraded' us to a bigger room when they saw our luggage... to a room that I would say is a standard size... not sure what the other room would have looked like.....!! Link to comment
thereuare Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 Congratulations on your success!Thank you for sharing your win with the board, glad to see you were able to get PRICELINE to match the price and refund the extra $25 and that the hotel upgraded you upon arrival.Can you please add a reply to this thread with the date(s) of your stay so we can add this information to the topic title and enable your win to appear in the Priceline and Hotwire Calendar of Wins.Please use the PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links on the board to begin your travel purchases.Hope you enjoyed your stay. Please use this HOTWIRE and these PRICELINE LINKS: HOTELS, CAR RENTALS, and AIRFARE to begin your travel purchases Link to comment
SMUS_Style Posted August 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 August 23-26 dates.. sorry about that Link to comment
Romelle Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 My first time using priceline in Europe.. but unless I'm going to London or maybe Paris.. I starting to think that just booking the old fashioned way is the best solution.I've also never been able to use Priceline successfully for Rome. However I've had good luck in lots of other places - Manchester, Helsinki, Edinburg, Budapest, Bordeaux, Madrid, ....Struck out for Moscow, Florence, Venice and some other places and had to take my business elsewhere. I'm working on Istanbul right now. I consider Priceline "weapon of first choice", after researching the experiences of other bidders here and checking other information sources. It is always worth exploring the other options. Lots of links under the Support/Travel tab above. And then there is venere.com and others.Romelle Link to comment
thereuare Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 August 23-26 dates..Thanks for the follow-up! Please use this HOTWIRE and these PRICELINE LINKS: HOTELS, CAR RENTALS, and AIRFARE to begin your travel purchases Link to comment
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