Priceline Hotel: 3* Fort Lauderdale (Downtown) Hyatt Place Ft Lauderdale 17th St Convention Center

[Warbird]

We will be flying into FLL for a pre-cruise night and then using a car service to get us to the Port Of Miami on Sunday. It's my understanding that there is a Marathon Race in Miami on Sunday and hotel rates seem to be reflecting higher prices based on HotWire rates for the area.

I started my bidding trying to get a 3.5* in the FLL airport area with no success. I was hoping for a hotel with a shuttle from the airport to the hotel. I bid $110 up to $140 on one attempt using available zones. I then started over trying to get a 3* at $120 and $130 with no success using an available zone.

I then had to rethink my strategy. Hotels in the airport zone don't have a lot of restaurants next door. The downtown zone does for what it's worth. Also, given I was going to travel South the next day I could include the Hollywood Zone. If I had to pay for a taxi to get to the hotel at least I was going in the right direction. Hopefully the car service to the Port Of Miami would be a bit more reasonable.

Since the 24 hour time period hadn't expired from my initial bidding try I discovered that by bidding in the Hollywood area with a 3* I wasn't limited to waiting a 24 hour time period. I started in the 3* Hollywood Zone at $90 and added FLL @ $100 and then was successful getting FLL Downtown @ $110.00. As it turns out the hotel has an airport shuttle and free Breakfast which works out really well. Booking.Com lists the room @ $249.00

I used the PRICELINE link.

[AaronJB]

Congrats on your success.

Certainly not a bad deal for this Hyatt Place property.

Thank you for sharing your win and using the site's PRICELINE or HOTWIRE links to start your purchases and searches.

Enjoy your stay.