Priceline Hotel: Resort Palm Springs (Rancho Mirage-Indian Wells-Palm Desert) Hyatt GC

[peakay]

Just posting for anyone else who can find this of use.

Started our PRICELINE bid from the betterbidding.com link banner -- we thank you for all the help you've given us on travel over the last couple of years!

- Bid $59 on resort in Rancho Mirage... area.

- Bid rejected, asked us to bid $74

- We did not do that, went back to redo our bid and added the free re-bid zone of Indio (they don't have resorts in that zone)

- Bid $64

- Won Hyatt Grand Champions at $64. Best rate on their web site is $149.

Now that we have this down, the entire bid process only took 10 minutes or so including our pre-research.

Thanks again BB! One request: As someone who lives in southern cal, it would be really helpful to have palm springs as a separate subcategory in your forum. The other cities category gets really crowded and Palm Springs is a really popular destination here for which many people use PRICELINE or HOTWIRE.

thanks again.

[yellowdog]

Congratulations on your success!

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

We hope you had a nice stay.

Yellowdog.

[thereuare]

Thanks again BB! One request: As someone who lives in southern cal, it would be really helpful to have palm springs as a separate subcategory in your forum. The other cities category gets really crowded and Palm Springs is a really popular destination here for which many people use PRICELINE or HOTWIRE.

Everyone has their own most frequently used cities which they feel should be sub-divided (many of which are more popular/frequently purchased than Palm Springs). We've been working on a project for quite some time which should be a good solution for everyone, but it still requires further work, and will still take some time before we're able to launch it.

HOWEVER, the current (and easy) solution is to type "Palm Springs" in the QUICK SEARCH box at the top of the board and you'll see all threads pertaining to this particular region... in a sense creating your own virtual forum :) As well, you can either further filter it by zone... search for (without the quotes) "Palm Springs Rancho Mirage", "Palm Springs Indio" to see results for just those particular zones. As well, you can search negative words, such as "Palm Springs -Rancho -Mirage -Indio" which will show you all Palm Springs zone as it shows threads which are about Palm Springs but not about Indio or Rancho Mirage :)