Priceline Hotel: 3* Charleston (North-Airport CHS-Coliseium) Holiday Inn Airport

[thebizz1913]

I won a bid for the North Charleston Airport area for the Holiday Inn Charleston Airport & Convention Center.

Now that I am looking back over what I got versus the advertised priceline price and star rating of the hotel I am not sure how great a deal I got. I signed up with priceline to get notifications of winning bids for 3.5 star hotels for the week of my travel. I sent in bids that were in line with what other people were bidding based on the priceline notifications. Those bids did not work so I had to log out come back to this site so that I could use the PRICELINE link and start over. I eventually bid $70 for 3 star hotels in the North Charleston Airport area for this busy weekend when there was a major event at the Coliseum that I also had to attend. Priceline on its page ranks this hotel as 2.5 so I am not sure how I got there because I would not bid $70 on a 2.5* hotel. At the time was grateful since it was actually one of the hotels I needed to be in for the conference I was attending. No idea how I got into this hotel, but I am still grateful since most things were booked due to the tax free weekend and this hotels location right next to the Outlet entrance and Coliseum entrance and I had to be in this area. I wish I could be more helpful with this post but I don't know how I got this hotel and did not stay longer since it was not quite what I wanted but was what I needed.

S/N is there any purpose of using those priceline suggested bid prices if its going to just randomly drop you into a 2.5 star level when you wanted 3.5 and settled for what you thought was 3 just to be in the Airport area.

[thebizz1913]

I just checked my priceline profile for trips won and it classifies this hotel as a 3* on my profile. It is not classified as such on the web page if you try to book it directly. At any rate I enjoyed the stay and the the staff members went above and beyond with customer service so I was completely satisfied.

BTW... please use the PRICELINE links when bidding I did....I want the tips on this site to be around for a long time... :)

[thereuare]

I just checked my priceline profile for trips won and it classifies this hotel as a 3* on my profile. It is not classified as such on the web page if you try to book it directly.

Not sure where you're seeing this listed as a 2.5* property, but currently if you were to book directly it's 3* rated by PRICELINE.

Thanks for sharing your win and experience with the board and using the PRICELINE links to begin your bidding.

Glad to hear you enjoyed your stay and this worked well for your needs.