Priceline Hotel: Resort Orlando (WDW) Gaylord Palms

[bluesavvy]

Zone - WDW Vicinity

Resort $70 bid rejected

Added zone - Resort $75 bid rejected

Resort $86 bid accepted for Gaylord Palms

Glad to get Gaylord Palms and not Hilton after reading Hilton reviews. We won at $70 once before for similar length of stay for the Swan, but the dates were low season (May).

We looked at availability of hotels through Expedia and Priceline's compare and choose hotels options to make sure that there were several hotels available. Our previous plan was to go earlier, but only the Marriott, Hyatt, and Hilton were available. We wanted the possibility of the Dolphin/Swan, Gaylord, and others, too.

[bluesavvy]

Are the hotels in the non-bidding section of Priceline in the same inventory as the bidding section? For example, is it likely that the same hotels that show availability the same ones that could potentially accept your bid? We used Priceline that way to make sure that at least some of the hotels we liked were available before bidding, and the dates of availability were different than the ones in Expedia. Expedia showed that at least one hotel was available on 7/29, while Priceline didn't show it available.

:)

[thereuare]

Congratulations on your win.

Always nice to see this hotel come up... and at a great price!

The "shop and compare" portion of Priceline's website, as well as Expedia, have both proven to be poor indications of availability so you may want to think twice before using them for such purposes in the future.

Enjoy your stay.