Priceline Hotel: 4* London (Mayfair-Soho) Millennium Hotel Mayfair

[msauk]

$139 for one night 21-Aug-2010 (room only). Rack rate according to websites is about $265, so a good saving.

I had plenty of time to try incremental bidding using the permutation method - I started bidding on 11-Aug-2010 for this four star hotel in London.

I had no particular worries which of the following zones the hotel would end up in:

Zone 1 - Bloomsbury - Marble Arch

Zone 2 - Chelsea - Knightsbridge

Zone 7 - Mayfair - Soho

Zone 11 - Westminster

I was buying the room as a gift for my parents to stay over in London, and priceline makes this possible by allowing you to put in a different name to the one on your credit card that you use for bidding.

The permutation system worked like this (using all 8 re-bids at 24hr intervals, from 11 Aug). For each re-bid, I increased the bid by

[AaronJB]

Congrats on your success. :)

Very nice deal for this London property. Thank you for sharing your bidding history.

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.