Priceline Hotel: 2.5* Kansas City MCI Amerisuites

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First bid of $30 reject with a counteroffer of add $8. Re-bid at $32 thinking Homewood Suites but also rejected. Didn't want to bid $35 in fear of getting upgraded to the Hilton (they charge $5 a day for park and fly) so bid $34 and got this. Used SavingsBarn.com.

Congratulations, you got your price of $34 for a 2

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Smart bidding!!

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New for me, yes. It's been reported 'elsewhere' though.

I'm hoping they have liberal park and fly rules and will call and check tomorrow. Although the policies vary widely among hotels in this zone, none of them discriminate against PLers that I can tell.

To summarize what I've found so far, Hilton 3* is $5/day (which is the same as the airport so no savings), Chase Suites 2.5* is a flat $10 per trip no matter how long and requires a one night stay on either side of the trip, and Homewood Suites 2.5* doesn't charge anything if you stay a night. I'm hoping Amerisuites is competitive with the other 2.5*. There are several other PL hotels in this zone.

The parking issue is just a nice thing though; I needed a room no matter what as I have a 6:30am flight to LA.

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Just to beat this to death, the Amerisuite parking policy is $20 to park for up to 2 weeks with any stay (PL is OK). The stay can be any time during the two weeks. Airport parking is $5/day so not a bad deal if you're gone a while.