Does hotel or car rental company knows it is from PL or HW?

[stanleyko]

I have a general question.

After I won and confirm a reservation (thru PL or HW) with a hotel.

When I call the hotel to reconfirm my stay, will they know my reservation is from PL/HW?

Because of this, will they (hotel) gives me a smaller room than book directly thru agent or their own site?

Do the same apply to car rental as well?

[dahammer]

were you successful in bidding for a room using priceline? Please post your results and we will be happy to comment.

[TNT]

They will know your reservation is from Priceline, do not konw if it is the same case for Hotwire.

Because last time, when I checked out, the staff said to me:"you paid everything on princeline, then you are done, no more charge, blah blah blah...."

[ufauxreal]

I don't know if the car rental agents know how you booked, but since you reserve a specific class of car.. i.e. compact, full size, etc, I don't think it would affect which car you get.

Actually, last year I booked a car through Priceline in Ft. Lauderdale, and they gave us an SYV instead of the compact car we reserved. They were insanely busy and I suspect it was the only car available at the moment.

JB

[micheles]

yes the car company does know

when we collected our car in hilton head the clerk said that we were going to be upgraded - a particularly good deal he said, considering the rate we had negotiated with priceline....