Another New Hotwire Format

[steveref]

Now that Hotwire has stopped the practice of providing a hint for each offering in which they identified the names of several hotels (none of which were usually the actual property for sale), I have encountered what appears to be a new format while conducting a search for Las Vegas hotels. After seeing the list that is created from the search and then clicking on a particular offering there is a message at the top of the next page that reads "Book Soon! The last person got the Aria Resort and Casino Las Vegas."

Since the list of amenities should be unique to a specific property, wouldn't this violate their policy of not revealing the name of the hotel until after the purchase? If not, then are they misleading us in some way?

Also, their usual practice has been to provide one offering per star level in each geographic zone. My search came back with two 5-star offerings for The Strip-South area as well as two 5-star offerings for The Strip-North area. In both cases the price and amenities were different yet the message alluded to above referred to the same hotel. In the case of the South area both were the Aria and for the North area both were Trump International.

Does anyone have any insight into what Hotwire is doing?

[thereuare]

We have already been observing this for a few weeks.

It would be appreciated if you followed-up your previous Hotwire Guanacaste thread with whatever you decided to do for that stay, as well as use the requested PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links on the board to begin all your future bidding, searches, and travel purchases.

Thanks.

[steveref]

I followed up on the Guanacaste thread.

Do you have any sense yet as to how much we can rely on the property being referenced with "The last person got..." verbiage?

[thereuare]

...as well as use the requested PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links on the board to begin all your future bidding, searches, and travel purchases.

2x

Also, if you have had any PRICELINE or HOTWIRE wins in the last 3+ years please begin to share them with the board so that others can benefit from the information.

[Nichole333]

Does anyone have anything to add regarding Hotwire's new "Back soon, the last person received XXX hotel" results?

Thanks

[thereuare]

The message shown by HOTWIRE is in reference to the last person who won a hotel in that zone at that star rating... it doesn't apply to the amenity set of the current offer nor does it say anything about the current hotel offered.

Please use the PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links on the board to begin your travel purchases... and your searches too!

Thanks.

[Nichole333]

That makes sense, thanks!