burritomaki Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Awsome forum! From the ammenities I could tell looking at the hotel list exactly what hotel it was before booking it. Hotel website was $255 no refund rate, priceline $199, hotwire $192. When I clicked to buy on hotwire, I entered info + credit card number. Finally on the last click, it denied me because room was "no longer available". Sounded like a bait and switch. Same thing happened on the $199 priceline (published) page.30 minutes later, the same room showed up on hotwire for $153. Done! Funny, hotel website and priceline rates did not change. Score, $40*2 additional savings!I'm happy, I'd call that 40% off published rate, with no guess work involved! Now, I hope they dont treat hotwire guests as second class guests... Link to comment
AaronJB Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Congrats on your success and thank you for the compliments on Betterbidding. :)Fantastic deal for this property! It's not too unusual for HOTWIRE listings to run out of inventory before being removed ("no longer available" message) , but I think this may have been an instance of an adjustment to inventory and you lucked out with the new price. Either way, certainly a great price for this Affinia property.Thank you for sharing your win and using the site's HOTWIRE link.Enjoy your stay. Link to comment
burritomaki Posted February 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Hotwire ammenities match the ammenities list on this site:Fitness Center, Restuarant, Business Center, High Speed Internet, SPAArgh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Today is the day before my trip, and the hotel website is now $148/night, less than my Hotwire price a couple weeks ago! Thought I was being clever... Oh well, at least I locked in the lower price weeks ago. I just hope they dont discriminate against hotwire customers. Link to comment
AaronJB Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Thank you for the follow-up. Sorry to hear that the price has dropped a bit, but I think you managed to get close to the likely floor (and thankfully got a better deal than the original $192 you saw.) Link to comment
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