Priceline Hotel: 4* San Jose (Santa Clara) Hilton Santa Clara

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Offer Price: avg. per room, per night $66.00

Room Subtotal: $132.00

Taxes & Fees: $26.90

Total Charged to Card: $158.90

I needed a room somewhere near Palo Alto or San Jose (flying in and out of SJC and visiting family in Palo Alto).

I'm very happy with my deal since I tried the exact same search one week ago and up to $80 was rejected.

Prices had obviously dropped since last week. Perhaps because we are now only 8 days from check-in.

Priceline Express Deal 4* Santa Clara was now available @ $72 and Hotwire 4* @ $79 for my dates of travel.

My Bidding strategy for a 4* hotel:

Avoid Zone 7 San Jose (nice 4* properties but expensive parking)

Avoid Zone 8 San Jose South (wrong direction of where I'm heading)

Bid up to a maximum of $68 in $2 increments adding first 4* zones and later zones with no 4* properties.

This left me with 4 zones containing 4* properties and 5 zones containing no 4* properties - a total of 9 possible bids.

Hence starting bid:

Zone 9 Santa Clara $52

Added:

Zone 5 Palo Alto $54

Zone 1 Cupertino - Campbell $56

Zone 6 Redwood City - San Carlos $58

Zone 3 Mountain View $60

Zone 10 Sunnyvale $62

Zone 2 Milpitas $64

Zone 11 West San Jose $66 -> accepted and won Hilton Santa Clara

Great I didn't need my last possible bid (adding Zone 4 Newark - Fremont $68)

I think it was possible to add a 5% off coupon to the Priceline Express Deal of $72 getting it down to $68 so that was the reason for chosing $68 as my maximum bid.

While I might not have saved heaps of money compared to my other booking options it sure was more fun bidding and winning a deal

Please use the links on this site for your Priceline and Hotwire bidding.

I'm afraid I forgot by accident this time (my apologies). It wont affect your bidding but it will keep this great site up and running due to a referral system they have in place if I understand it right.

[yellowdog]

Thank you for sharing your result with the board!

Enjoy your stay.

Yellowdog.

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