Priceline Hotel: 2* Colorado Springs (Central) Crestwood Suites

[hcm]

Lots of bids to get this one:

Bid $60 for 4* South - rejected

Bid $45 for 3.5* South - rejected

Bid $45 for 3* South - rejected

next day:

Bid $35 for 3* South - rejected

Bid $35 for 2.5* South - rejected

Bid $50 for 3.5* South + Central - rejected

Bid $40 for 2.5* South + Central - rejected

next day:

Bid $52 for 3.5* South + Central + Air Force - rejected

Bid $50 for 3* South + Central + Air Force - rejected

Bid $45 for 2.5* South + Central + Air Force - rejected

Bid $40 for 2* South + Central + Air Force - accepted Crestwood Suites

Check-In Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010

Check-Out Date: Sunday, August 1, 2010

Hotel Name: Crestwood Suites Of Colorado Springs

6210 Corporate Drive

Colorado Springs, Colorado 80919

719-593-8188

Your Offer Price: $40.00

Number of Rooms: 1

Number of Nights: 1

Subtotal: $40.00

Taxes and Fees: $11.44

Total Charges*: $51.44

[AaronJB]

Congrats on your success. :)

Sweet deal for this all-suite property. Thank you for letting us know about this new PRICELINE property so that we can update the site's Priceline Hotel List for the state, as well.

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

Enjoy your stay.

[travelguy2]

Not to rain on the OP's parade but I have stayed at this hotel and $40 is about what it's worth. It is a basic, extended stay "suite" hotel (suites as in each room has a small kitchenette, not that each room is a multi-room suite) similar to the Extended Stay America just down the block. Beware that the front desk does close down at some point late at night (not uncommon for this type of property).

OP, would you be so kind as to double check your confirmation? I would bet anything that this hotel is rated 2* not 3*. Your bidding history also seems to suggest this, but the headline is posted as 3*. Thanks!

[yellowdog]

travelguy2

Thanx for the heads up! Yes, Crestwood Suites is currently rated 2* by PRICELINE

Yellowdog.

[hcm]

travelguy2 is exactly right - this was a DREADFUL hotel and I'm very sorry I won it. Easily the worst Priceline experience I have ever had. The place seemed to be full of people just hanging out and up to no good. There was a prostitute in the "lobby", if you can call it that, and two pimps outside the front door who would go back and forth between loud arguing between themselves and rudely speaking to women in the lobby who were associated with them. The place also seemed to be home to several loud parties of fully grown adults (ie not teens on a road trip). There was one employee in the entire place at 8pm when we arrived and she was totally over her head and couldn't handle things; the room wasn't ready...I could go on.

Anyway, when I get a chance I will figure out how to report this to Priceline, but in the meantime, beware if you bid for a 2* in Colorado Springs.

[thereuare]

Thanks for the report and the 'warning' about this property... hope your future stays are better, and thankfully this was just for one nite.

[hcm]

Thereuare, you know, the more I think about it, Priceline really shouldn't sell this hotel. I told them about it, and they sent me a $10 per night bid coupon, which I appreciated, but I wrote back saying I don't really want a coupon, I just don't want other people to have the experience I had - I mean, I wouldn't dare even bid on a 2* anymore in Colorado Springs. I told them they should consider just removing this awful place from their listings, and pointed them to the last four reviews on Tripadvisor, which are all the lowest rating and each of them a horror story. Of course I added my review to Tripadvisor, and filled in a low review on Priceline too. Can you point me to any article on how to get more traction on a complaint like this?