Hotwire Hotel: 4* Philadelphia (Center City East) Loews Philadelphia Hotel

[PartyGirl]

Did some research here on better bidding and decided to start with $76 for a room on 4/17-4/18 in Philadelphia- university city (only wanted this area bc I am attending a conference at Drexel). Used the PRICELINE.com links posted and...

$76, rejected.

$82, rejected.

$88, rejected.

$96, rejected!

$96 with taxes and fees minus 7% using coupon code was about $110- which is a dollar more than hotwire is offering a 4 star hotel.

There are reasons I didn't just go ahead and book with hotwire:: 1, based on my previous experience, rooms booked through hotwire are lower quality e.g. poor/no view, undesirable location (like at the end of a looong hallway or in front of an elevator which gets really noisy), smaller than other standard rooms. This can be sometimes remedied if you complain to the desk but I've never had this problem with priceline, even gotten really nice rooms a few times. 2, hotwire has a room for a hotel that I wasn't able to identify, I will post and ask for help in the hotwire section.

[PartyGirl]

Used the HOTWIRE links and found one room that might work as I am attending a conference at Drexel and would like to be in university city:

Center city west/ university city area boutique

4/17/14-4/18/14

$109

Amenities:

Boutique, non smoking, fitness center, restaurant, business, laundry, hi speed internet.

Accessibility Features:

Accessible for the blind, Accessible for the deaf

I didn't see any hotels matching this one on the list, namely because it's listed as "boutique"

Ay ideas?

[AaronJB]

Please keep all posts regarding this stay within this thread - thanks.

 

I believe there are more amenities then what you have posted above as HOTWIRE has a new interface that does not show the complete set of amenities unless you click thru a few extra links.

If you repeat your search using our BiddingHelper.com.com tool... use the HOTWIRE EASY VIEW tab and then click the GREEN BUTTON next to this listing, do you see more amenities then what you have listed above?

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

[PartyGirl]

I forgot all about this! Sorry....

 

Amenities:

Fitness Center Restaurant(s) 

Business Center
High-Speed Internet Access

 

Bid $104 Total $126.90

[thereuare]

Thank you for closing this thread and sharing your win with the board.

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