Priceline Hotel: Help with Missoula hotel 9/28/12-10/2/12

[chrisz]

Im looking to stay near the University and hoping to use Priceline. On the hotel list the Doubletree (the hotel I was hoping to get) is listed as a 3.5 star but there are no options for that rating when I go to place my bid. Can you guys give me suggestions on what zones to bid if I want to stay near the University?

[thereuare]

Please click each of these PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links, then reply to this thread and we'll have a look at your post above.

Please use the PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links on the board to begin your travel purchases... and your searches too!

Thanks.

[Romelle]

You can zoom in on that PRICELINE zone map. I did that. Then I Googled the University and found a map of that. I put the two side by side and got them roughly the same size. As near as I can tell, the University of Montana at Missoula is in the northeast corner of the Missoula zone (#2 at the moment). While it is irregularly shaped, the long measurement across the zone looks to be more than 2 miles. When bidding, you have to be prepared to accept any hotel in the zone at the star level (or higher) at which you are bidding.

Depending upon just what "close" means to you, you might prefer using HOTWIRE, where it is possible to make an educated guess as to what hotel you might receive.

Romelle