Priceline Hotel: 3* Salt Lake City (Downtown) Best Western

[562bulldog]

still time to experiment so i went with a low bid of $32 for Provo 3* 1 night July 4 ... got rejected ... added 2.5* and bumped it up to $34 and was rejected with a re-direct to lowestfare.com ...

i will try again next week at $39

[562bulldog]

$39 & $44 rejected as well

[562bulldog]

Salt Lake City

Downtown And University Park 4* $45 July 4 (1 night) rejected

added 3* $45 rejected

added (presumed free rebid with)South Salt Lake $51 rejected

added (presumed free rebid) Valley Area $55 rejected

not sure if i have any more free re-bids or if an unknown 3* is worth $70

so i'm going to shop around but can anyone advise another re-bid zone

added another zone and upped it to $58 still rejected ...

[562bulldog]

any idea what hotel this is ?

Downtown SLC 3* Hotwire offer $62

ammenities

shuttle, restraurant, pool, fitness and laundry

the self-service laundry is the one that throws me

is this the Red Lion? they dont mention laundry in previous posts

[thereuare]

The above Hotwire hotel is a match for the Best Western Salt Lake Plaza Hotel so that would be our best guess.

Regarding Priceline, when bidding 3* in Salt Lake City you have six re-bid zones avaiable. How to determine your re-bid zones is explained in PRICELINE RE-BIDDING; please read the prior link and feel free to ask questions and/or confirm your re-bid zones with the board. It's important to know how to determine re-bid zones yourself as they should be checked before each round of bidding (or you could end up in a zone you don't really want!)

Once you have your re-bid zones down let us know your maximum bid and we'll suggest a strategy to follow... or let us know if the Hotwire hotel above suits your needs well enough to go that route.

[562bulldog]

hotel was in fact Best Western Salt Lake Plaza Hotel

3 star $62 plus tax/fees came out to $75.95 HOTWIRE ... incidently when i used the savingbarn hotwire method the same hotel showed at $67

Expedia rate via betterbidding for same hotel is $79+$10 tax

so Hotwire was a $15 or 17% savings

not great but $15 is still better than nothing

i noticed a lot of winning bids for lower than my $58 rejected Priceline offer ... i guess July 4 is a busy weekend for SLC ??

[thereuare]

Glad it worked out as expected.

The price change is completely random, it could have just as easily gone the other way. See this thread for more info on why HOTWIRE PRICES CHANGE throughout the day.

Enjoy your stay.