Priceline Hotel: 3* Northern Virginia (Fairfax) Marriott at Fair Oaks

[AmericaWestCMH]

Hello all, new to the boards (banned from TOBB for no reason whatsoever).

This is a new-build Marriott in the Fairfax zone, near IAD. Website rate is $239.

Your Offer Price: $55.00

Number of Rooms: 1

Number of Nights: 2

Subtotal: $110.00

Taxes & Service Fees: $19.86

Total Charges: $129.86

Bid up to $63 in the Dulles zone (using free-rebids of East Falls Church, Mannasas, Sterling), then decided to add Fairfax; lowered bid to $55 and was successful.

[thereuare]

Welcome to BetterBidding!

Thanks for the post and enjoy your stay.

[TravelGuy]

This hotel was actually fomerly a Holiday Inn but has been very thoroughly renovated to the point where it looks like a brand new construction. I drive by it all the time and it looks quite nice. It's adjacent to Fair Oaks Mall and about 15 minutes from Dulles Airport. Although a 3*, the newness factor arguably makes it a better alternative than the 4* Hyatt Fair Lakes, which is getting rather tired.

[AmericaWestCMH]

Thanks for the info, TravelGuy. Thanks for the welcome, thereuare.

The Fairfax Hyatt is now a 3* (so a possibility now besides this Marriott). No more 4* hotels in the Virginia suburbs of DC. For the hotel list, Westfield's Marriott in IAD zone is again a 3*.

[thereuare]

Thanks for the update on the Hyatt.

[AmericaWestCMH]

No problem. The Westfield's Marriott in the Dulles zone is a 3* as well, if you want to update that.

[TravelGuy]

Wow, they must have done that very recently as I've seen a winning bid elsewhere reported on 1/20 with the Hyatt as a 4*. I guess Priceline agrees that it's lost some of its luster. :)

If there's no more 4* bidding in the Dulles zone, they've also dowgraded the Hyatt Reston from 4* to 3* - although perhaps that was done even earlier.

[AmericaWestCMH]

Was originally planning for that 4* Hyatt Reston, and was pretty bummed to see no 4* catagory.