Priceline Hotel: 4* San Francisco (USW-Nob Hill) Prescott Hotel

[sophielaura]

Won this hotel for two nights, two rooms 8/29/11 to 8/31/11 @ $95 per room againnst hotel rate of $319 per room per night. Deal is great even given some of the negative reviews for the hotel.

[AaronJB]

Congrats on your success. :)

Very nice deal for this Kimpton property.

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.

[sophielaura]

I have won two rooms in San Fran @ the Preston. I'm a family of 2 adults and 4 teenagers. Most hotels we win through Priceline give us 2 x double rooms which works fine, and we have no issues over 3 per room.

Dropped the Preston an email re having our rooms near each other. Reply was no worries, we have you down for 2 rooms x 1 Queen per room.

Question, can we have 3 people per room? Never had this before, is this the norm in San Fran??

Kind regards

John

[AaronJB]

Just to confirm, did you mean the Prescott?

Additionally, can you confirm the date/s of travel, price per night and zone? Thanks.

Please reply to the above and we would be happy to discuss occupancy questions/concerns.

Thank you for using the site's HOTWIRE or PRICELINE links to start your purchases and searches.

[Colfax]

sophielaura,

Is this the Priceline win you're referring to?

4* Prescott Win

[Colfax]

If this thread seems a little confusing two threads were merged.

sophielaura,

Priceline only guarantees double occupancy which could be a room with one bed. There are cities/zones/hotel chains where it's usually easy to get two beds on request, and bidders who mostly use Priceline in those places sometimes get the idea that two beds for free on request is the norm everywhere. It's not.

Union Square area is one of those neighborhoods where one bed is the norm on Priceline, and two beds if you're lucky. A lot of hotels near Union Square are 80-100 years old, built when hotel rooms were smaller than they are today, and there's just not room for two beds. They can be very nice hotels, but with small rooms. Paying an upgrade fee for two beds is common near Union Square. Not just on Priceline. The hotels charge more for two beds to guests who book conventionally too.

Some of the newer hotels like Hilton and Parc55 have bigger rooms and more two-beds, but there's no way to assure you'll win one of those on Priceline.

When bidders want two beds near Union Square we usually suggest Hotwire, where you can gurantee bedding for all, although HW usually costs more than PL. Two beds are also easier to get in Fisherman's Wharf zone or near the Airport than Union Square. (But not guaranteed anywhere.)

If Prescott had two-bed rooms available they might offer them to you for an upgrade fee, but all I see available for your dates is single Queen and Single King, from $349. I see two-double rooms available on other nights, but not yours.

I would contact the Prescott and be frank about your situation. "We have two rooms but it turns out there might be six of us. Are any options available? Do you have cots? Could we get two beds for a fee?" Hopefully you can work something out with them. But if you can't you want to know where you stand in advance, so you can make arrangements...maybe a third room if necessary, or a foam pad on floor, if fire code allows.

Different subject but this thread shows how sometimes bidding far ahead is best. You got this for $95 bidding last April. Bidding 4* now would probably need $150 or more.

[sophielaura]

Thanks guys it's my spelling, same hotel. Always buy ahead of time since I found your site last year.

As regards contacting the hotel, guy basically said through several emails get lost and talk to Priceline. No worries yiu win some lose some.

As regards my family we are 3 x 18+ and 3 x under 17. Now according to hotel website no comment re number of people in room other than kids U17 can stay free, so as long as they don't cut up over 3 people per room, my wife and I will slum it.

[Colfax]

Hopefully it will all work out. Maybe someone with a two-bed reservation will cancel at last minute. Fingers crossed!

[sophielaura]

Do you know if anything is on in SFO at that time. There is no availability on the hotels own website and I did check for 2* and 3* hotels nearby and everything is way top $

[Colfax]

I don't know of a specific event those days; SF has just been busy all summer.

With the Prescott now sold out you can almost plan on getting one Queen per room, and probably no upgrades to King or two Doubles will be available. Are you willing to sleep three in a Queen sized bed? If not I'd seriously consider booking another room nearby in advance. At this point a 2* or 2.5* might cost as much as you're paying for the 4*. :)