Priceline Hotel: 3* DC (Crystal City) Hyatt Regency

[TBQ]

This was an interesting bid in that there is limited availability in the Natonal Airport/Crystal City area for this night, and even more interesting, the hotel that I won shows as being sold out for the night in question on hyatt.com :)

Hyatt Regency Crystal City

2799 Jefferson Davis Highway

Arlington, Virginia 22202

703-418-1234

Check-In Date: Sat, May 28, 2005

Check-Out Date: Sun, May 29, 2005

Your Offer Price: $51.00

Number of Rooms / Nights: 1 / 1

Subtotal: $51.00

Taxes & Service Fees: $14.42

Total Charges: $65.42

Tax Rate is 10.25%

Note: A couple of weeks ago hyatt.com was showing a $109 noncancel/nonchange rate, but the hotel has been sold out on hyatt.com for the last 4 days at least.

Also: Some of the zone headings on the PL hotel list look outdated (apologies in advance if I read them wrong).

[thereuare]

Thanks for sharing your win with the board.

Occaisionally we do see a sold-out hotel get won thru the opaque providers... guess you should just consider yourself lucky! :)

The hotel lists seem to correspond correctly to the current classifications; perhaps you were looking at the HOTWIRE HOTEL LIST and not the PRICELINE HOTEL LIST? Which zone(s) in particular do you think are outdated?

Enjoy your stay.

[TBQ]

Hi thereuare,

Here'a a copy-and-paste from priceline's Washington zone page:

Alexandria - Mt. Vernon Area Details

Alexandria - Pentagon Area Details

Arlington Area Details

Convention Ctr - Capitol Hill area Area Details

Crystal City Area Details

Dupont Circle - Woodley Park Area Details

Georgetown - Foggy Bottom Area Details

Springfield Area Details

White House - Downtown Area Details

My specific note was about the first listing in the betterbidding PL list - I think that "Airport (DCA)" may have been the old name for what PL now simply calls the "Crystal City" zone.

This is a guess, but I think that the "Hilton" listed under both "Airport" and "Crystal City" is the same hotel.

And for the "Marriott" listing in the "Airport" list, do we know which one of the two Marriotts in Crystal City this refers to? There are two separate full-service Marriott hotels about three blocks apart:

Crystal City Marriott

http://marriott.com/property/propertypage....arshaCode=WASCC

and

Crystal Gateway Marriott:

http://marriott.com/property/propertypage....arshaCode=WASGW

(Note: both offer free shuttle to the airport)