Priceline Hotel: 4* London (Chelsea-Knightsbridge) Millennium Chelsea Football Club

[vanpoodle]

In follow up to my earlier long-winded post (see all the gory details there), I managed to book 2 nights for my uncle at the same hotel that we're at for 3 nights at $120 a night. Started at $95 a night (of course using the PRICELINE link), referred to the lengthy permutation table in the "re-bids explained" section and used the usual 2 rebid zones plus Mayfair, Westminster and Regent's Park as rebid zones (hotels there that week are so much more expensive than this one so I figured these would be safe rebid zones, especially since I'd been shot down up to $145 for these areas yesterday). Followed the table for my bidding strategy -- Chelsea became "A" and the other zones I deemed "B" through "F". Upped by $2 a night following the table until I got a counteroffer of $135 at $107. Then bid in $1 increments when it was finally accepted at $117.

[thereuare]

Congratulations on your success!

Nice to see you received the same hotel as your previous priceline win for a date range which included this same dates, so that everyone in your group will be at the same hotel.

Thank you for sharing your win and using the PRICELINE links on the board to begin your bidding.

Enjoy your stay.

[vanpoodle]

Thanks thereuare. It was a calculated gamble -- based on my experience bidding since August, I just knew that there were NO GOOD DEALS for my dates in November until I saw this outlier when I started using map view for my nights instead of list view. Actually, that's not 100% true, I did score the weekends before and after these room nights for $84 and $83 respectively at a great hotel. But the convention this week really did appear to be causing some trouble. Good thing I was right with my gamble or I would have been in big trouble from my mother for having my uncle stay somewhere else!