Priceline Hotel: What is up with Beverly Hills/West Hollywood Prices?

[Captain Jack]

My bidding:

Beverly Hills/West Hollywood

3* 12/10 - 12/12

$70 Rejected

$77 Rejected

$85 Rejected

Chen bid this zone up to $100 and was rejected

If you check historically in this forum, 3*s in this zone have never gone above $90 and all of my bids have been accepted at some point.

Why are these bids not being accepted? What is going on?

[thereuare]

The hotel market is the strongest it has been in MANY years. The opaque providers typically get excess inventory, and with occupancy levels very high, there isn't as much excess inventory as there has been in the past. As a result, many hotels may not feel the need to offer inventory to the opaque suppliers, offer only far in advance of the stay (or very close to the stay), or may load prices that are higher than they have been in the past.

[chen]

I've had a lot of luck getting hotels from the Hyatt chain for substantially lower than listed prices through priceline throughout the country (eg., San Fran, New Orleans [pre-Katrina], D.C.). I figured the same would hold true in LA, especially with so many Hyatt hotels. As we can see, this was not the case.

I am curious to know whether this current trend holds true for Hyatt hotels in other places. Perhaps the Hyatt is releasing less inventory to PL?

If someone had a lot of time, they could crunch out some statistics from this website and create some cool charts, which would enable us to see potential trends. I'd be curious to see which hotel brands gave the deepest PL discounts nationwide over the last few years (my guess is Hyatt). Although I think it's a good idea, I'm not volunteering! :)

Anyway, it looks like you need to head downtown or LAX if you want good PL deals in LA.

[Captain Jack]

Well that's just peachy.

Thanks for the replies. I am not going to give up, and will keep everyone posted about what happens. This forum is a great asset if you use priceline or HOTWIRE.

I always bid using the SavingsBarn.com link.