Priceline Hotel: 4* San Diego (Coastal) Hyatt Islandia

[wwang]

Hello, Everyone,

I found this forum serveral days ago when I search for "hotel deals". This is an awesome forum. I followed the suggestions on hotel bid and here's my experience.

I plan to stay in San Diego for 3 days at first. A 4* hotel in La Jolla is my first priority. On 9/9 I started my bid from

$65, rejected and

added another zone with $70

...

and so on with $5 increment.

Very quickly, there were not too many choices left. I added Mission Valley which I knew there're 4* hotels. But that's fine to me. And I bid $90. It's accept. The hotel is Hilton Resort on Mission Valley. The total of three nights stay swith tax is $310. It works! I'm so excited.

Soon, I realize that I may need one more night stay in San Diego. There were two ways to do:

1. Make a phone call to Hilton and ask them for one more night extension.

2. Re-bid for one night.

I pick to re-bid. Because:

1. Bid is so fun.

2. It's not a bad idea to stay in a beach hotel.

Since it's just a one night stay, I thought it should be cheaper than 3 nights. But I was wrong.

On 9/12 I started from

$75 and picked Cornado, rejected

added $5 more and another zone, rejected

...

and so on.

When I added to $100 and got rejection again, I started to consider what my bottom line was. At that time, there were only two zones left( I don't like downtown area). I had to increase $10 to $110. I was rejected. In my last try, I gave a $125 which was my bottom line. And it was accepted. The hotel is Hyatt Islandia.

Then I found to bid one night, I still need to pay over $20 surcharge. But that's OK since it's still below my budget.

My experience:

1. Bidding is so fun.

2. Don't bid twice.

Thanks,

wwang

[thereuare]

Thanks for separating the posts :)

Enjoy your stay.