Priceline Hotel: lower east side sept 5-13

[waxhotel]

Hi,

First timer here. Never used priceline bidding before.

Ive tried to bid for a 4 star hotel on priceline in the lower east side for the dates 5-13th sept. It says the median price is 466 and have entered bids of 240,250,260,270 and 275.

Am i bidding too low? Do i need to bid at a different time?

How else can i get something relatively 'trendy' for under 300 a night in les???

thank you!

[AaronJB]

Welcome to Betterbidding.

A few thoughts/issues:

4* bidding in the LES is (I believe) fairly new and no hotels at that level have been reported to the board. That said, I also don't believe there's that many.

Limiting to one zone (where there's a fairly limited amount of 4*'s, at least in comparison to other NYC zones) is going to result in in this case higher costs. You have bid up to $275 for a 4* in LES, but HOTWIRE has a 4* in the Downtown/Soho zone for $205, a 4* in TS for $211 and a number of others between around $225-275. Most likely, you could get a 4* for less in any of these zone/s via bidding.

Would any other zone/s besides LES be acceptable? Additionally, there's no way to bid for a particular hotel or even style ('trendy', etc.)

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

[waxhotel]

id like to stay in the LES. perhaps my stay is too long. maybe i should split my time with one of your suggestions and the les?

[thereuare]

I think your issue is that you're being too restrictive you in your search...

We have never seen a 4* hotel won in this zone thru PRICELINE's Name Your Own Price, and it is very possible that there is currently only one (or possibly two) 4* rated hotels in this zone. If the one (or two) hotels have not offered inventory to PRICELINE for the entire length of your stay, it could be impossible to win a 4* hotel in this zone for your dates.

So while the length of your stay may be an issue, i think the bigger issue may be your need to expand the areas that you're willing to stay in to give more hotels the opportunity to accept your bid.

I am seeing what i believe to be the Affinia Shelburne (or the Affinia Dumont), both of which are very highly rated/reviewed, for $247/nite... would this be of any interest?

Please use the PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links on the board to begin all your bidding, searches, and travel purchases.

PS- i typed my reply before seeing AaronJB's post, but i think my thoughts reinforce his comments.