Priceline Hotel: 3* Victoria Holiday Inn

[mclan]

Please add the Holiday Inn to the 3* list for Victoria--we were surprised (and disappointed) to get it, not having seen mention of it anywhere on this forum.

Holiday Inn Victoria

3020 Blanshart St

Victoria, BC

250-382-4400

Used this forum to check out prices for 3* hotels in Victoria last September, $90.00. According to posts, 3* hotels were either the Mariott Inner Harbor or the Laurel Point Inn--either of which would have been great. However, we ended up with the Holiday Inn, you can count on a review after we return from our stay.

Bid history: Bid starting at $60 in increments of $10 until we reached $100, then had offer for counter-offer of $122. Disregarded, bid $105 and got the Holiday Inn Victoria. (Could not change zones (greyed out) or dates, so had to wait the 72 hours between each bid.) Checked TripAdvisor.com for rates, found we had saved only about $20 per night, lowest rack rate we found was $124 night for the same dates in September. Also checked availability for the other two hotels mentioned above, and found no availability for our September dates on either Expedia or Orbitz?? Were surprised at this so far in advance. Maybe some big convention happening on those dates or some other event explains the not-so-great deal from Priceline.

[WillTravel]

I had wondered for a while if this hotel was on Priceline. Thanks for confirming :).

This hotel is a couple miles from the parliament buildings and the Inner Harbour. So it's either a nice walk, or a short bus or taxi ride or you might have your own car anyway.

It seems the only way to ensure you will get a location that is close to downtown is to either use Hotwire, which has more zones for Victoria, or bid for a 4* hotel.

[thereuare]

Thanks for adding this hotel to our lists.

Sorry to hear you're disappointed with the property received... hopefully it will be better than you think.

Your winning bid is actually the same rate as the Holiday Inn's website. Next time maybe ask for help before bidding and maybe we could offer some insight... maybe we could have figured out why availability was tough (and adjusted a strategy accordingly) or maybe 5 months was just too far in advance for good rates.

[mclan]

You can rest assured, we will ask for help next time--we learned the hard way! :)