Priceline Hotel: washington dc trip

[ligaya]

my family are planning to go washington dc on 6/03/14-6/7/14. We'd like to stay in the city center as close as possible since we are just going to do the hop on hop off bus and not renting a car. I started bidding on PRICELINE ( I used your link) and so far no luck yet.I'm bidding for 4*, I started with low offer  I believe $60 and currently at $70 right now.  I saw on HOTWIRE $112 for a 4* capitol hill-national mall hotel. My question is since hotwire is offering it at $112 4* hotel, what max I can bid and not overbid? Somebody post a winning bid $80 but its on a different dates though. thanks any tip would help it's my first time using the bid on PL.

[AaronJB]

Welcome to Betterbidding. :)

One issue with PRICELINE is that it only guarantees double occupancy/1 bed. You can contact the hotel for two beds, but they may say no or charge more. Are you willing to take that risk? If not, HOTWIRE would be a better choice, as it allows you to indicate the amount of people in the party (which should result in bedding - 2 beds or 1+ sofa or 1 + rollaway) for the entire party. Another choice instead of bidding would be to look at pl Express and see if a listing is showing a "bed choice" option.

 

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

[thereuare]

My question is since hotwire is offering it at $112 4* hotel, what max I can bid and not overbid?

You should start lower (as you have been) but you could bid up to $112 and not overbid ;) HOWEVER, you don't know if you're comparing apples-to-apples, as each service evaluates and assigns star ratings to hotels based upon their own criteria, so the 4* hotel you're seeing on HOTWIRE may also be 4* on PRICELINE, but it could be a hotel that is 3.5* rated by PRICELINE, thereby making the basis for the comparison flawed from the start.

To move forward, i think the bigger question is one of occupancy that AaronJB raised above... how many adults/children (and what are the ages of the children) will you actually be and are you willing to take the occupancy risk that you receive a room with only one bed?

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