Priceline Hotel: Toronto Airport Area - 3.5* or 4*

[DukeC7]

Going on a one week vacation and have an early flight, so we are looking to get a room for the night and then use a Park and Fly before we go. (Since a lot of the hotels that we want to stay at seem to have quite high rack rates for the Stay and Park options)

Must be a major convention or very limited inventory because I'm having a real tough go here.

I'm trying for 2 rooms the night of January 26th.

First session of bidding - started with 4* at $62 using all 10 rebid zones and worked my way up to $87 with no luck.

Now trying 3.5* - started at $50 and have worked all the way up to $82 using the rebid zones (fewer at the 3.5* level)

I'm a little leary to move to the 3* level because at that point we might be able to find a Stay and Park hotel rack rate for close to what we would get going through Priceline and then a Park and Fly separately.

Any suggestions? :)

[Romelle]

That is high for airport hotels. Hotwire has a 3* at $64. The only amenity is Airport Shuttle. I didn't see one in the list of reported hotels that matches this, but maybe somebody else here has some more expertise (if you would be interested in it?). The 3 1/2* was over $100.

Romelle

[DukeC7]

That is high for airport hotels.

Romelle

That's what I thought considering most of the wins for the 4* are in the $65-70 range.

Thanks for the tip, I'll bounce over to Hotwire and have a look. Although, I might just try my luck with the 3* and see what happens.

[AaronJB]

I think the issue would be that there is no guarantee that the hotel would offer the park and fly option - which is an added fee at many properties - with a PRICELINE or HOTWIRE reservation. You could definitely ask/negotiate once you make a purchase, but there would no guarantee they would say yes. What is the cheapest regular rate park/fly option you have found?

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[DukeC7]

I haven't spent much time looking for Park and Fly rates. I know it will be around $70, but I may find something in the $50 range.

I agree Aaron and was thinking that if we won a Priceline bid, we could simply try and negotiate a parking rate at that time. If they didn't go for it, we would just do a Park and Fly separately.

[snowflake]

If you consider doing the Parking separately, I highly recommend the GTAA parking lot at Airport and Viscount. You park and walk to the building where you catch a monorail that arrives every three minutes. The monorail takes you to Terminal 1 then Terminal 3 in no time. No waiting in the cold for shuttles. This is especially nice at the end of the trip when you just want to get home.

[thereuare]

I haven't spent much time looking for Park and Fly rates. I know it will be around $70, but I may find something in the $50 range.

$50 or $70 for both a room and parking?? If you're able to PRICELINE / HOTWIRE a hotel, how much would 7 days of parking cost separately? (i'm assuming more than $20)

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[DukeC7]

Sorry, to clarify, the parking is likely to be in the $50-$70 range. The room would be on top of that.

[thereuare]

So determine an appropriate maximum bid... what is the best rate you're able to find for a Park N Fly Package (which includes both hotel room and parking)?

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