Priceline Hotel: 5* US Grant San Diego bidding advice

[strom]

Does anyone have a suggested target price for the US Grant? I found it yesterday on Priceline's published hotel deals for $168, I think. Today the lowest price offered is $198 (missed it, darnit!) I was hoping to beat $168 but maybe that's hoping for too much?

I'm not stuck on the Grant. It's that I want to find a hotel near Balboa Park/Gaslamp Quarter but Priceline's inconvenient map of Downtown San Diego/Harbor Island means if I bid on a 4* hotel there I could end up at the Marina, a 1.5 mile walk from Balboa Park, our main destination.

So...I would like to bid on the US Grant which, I believe, is the only possible 5* hotel in that area. On your fabulous maps tool I can't find the US Grant on the list of winning bids. Perhaps nobody has reported a winning bid there in a very long time and it didn't make it on to the list the tool draws from?

If I don't get the Grant, does anyone have a suggestion for a 4* hotel close to Balboa that might be worth paying the published price? BTW - Hotwire isn't showing any 4* hotels in the Gaslamp Quarter North and no hotels at all in the Gaslamp Quarter South. The highest is 3.5* and it's in Downtown/Harbor Island which is similarly shaped to Priceline's and includes the Marina.

Thanks, everyone! And a special thanks to betterbidding.com for their amazing tools and great advice to be found on these forums. I used Priceline once before and had very good results using the A AB ABC, etc. method described on a post on your forums to re-bid and got a great hotel in SF on my 7th bid. The advice made a very complicated procedure relatively easy to use.

[thereuare]

Welcome to BetterBidding and thanks for the compliments on the site features! :)

For starters, what are the date(s) of your stay? In between our replies, you can use our sister site, MAPS and HOTELS.com, to see options closest to your desired destination. The feature of that site is that it shows both prices and star ratings directly on the map, so it's easy to see how much more/less it will cost to stay closer/further from your ideal destination as well as well going higher/lower in star level.

Let us know the dates and we'll take it from there.

Thanks for using the PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links on the board.

[strom]

Thanks, I'll check out that site. We arrive late on 6/7 and stay through 6/10.

Does anyone have an opinion on Britt Scripps Inn on Maple at 4th? It's 2 blocks from the West side of Balboa Park, 1 mi north of the Gaslamp Quarter and advertised for $245/nt through Kayak (includes full breakfast). I know I can't bid on Priceline for it but it's so close to the park and looks very nice.