Priceline Hotel: 2* Los Angeles (Airport LAX) Extended StayAmerica LAX

[tiger_fly]

Bid via SavingsBarn link.

Check-In Date: Thursday, March 22, 2007

Check-Out Date: Friday, March 23, 2007

Hotel Name: Esa Lax-Airport

6531 South Sepulveda Boulevard

Los Angeles, California 90045

310-568-9337

Your Offer Price: $50.00

Number of Rooms: 1

Number of Nights: 1

Subtotal: $50.00

Taxes and Service Fees: $14.45

Total Charges*: $64.45

Getting this night organized turned a little difficult since my Priceline Hacienda bid was canceled by priceline at my request.

I had decided I wanted to pay $60-65 for a 3-4 star property at LAX for this night. Using all zones as free rebids except Downtown (since I had never seen any other zone except LAX & DT come in at these price levels), I'd bid:

LAX 4* $60 (if fail, then)

LAX 3* $60 (if fail, then)

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LAX + 1 zone 4* $65 (if fail, then)

LAX + 1 zone 3* $65

If that failed, I assumed inventory hadn't been released yet and would wait a while and come back and try again later, adding any additional zone (except DT). This let me continue the same bid session over an entire day. My travel partner would then try the same strategy the next day. We finally gave up today after more than a week of constant trying and bid for a 2* and above (while hoping the Hacienda wouldn't show up again!).

We started at $35 and went up by increments of $5 until getting the Extended StayAmerica LAX at $50 (which shows rack rates of $120 for this date). There's only one TripAdvisor rating but it's recent and very positive. We just needed a place to sleep from a late night LAX arrival so this will be fine. I guess Thereuare can add this hotel to the LAX list.

As a footnote: I had tried mtc's strategy of going with EasyClickTravel's $70 CrownePlaza "on request" offer. Unfortunately, I didn't experience the same responsiveness as mtc. I waited from Wednesday to Sunday for them to confirm and finally gave up and asked them to cancel the order as I was running out of waiting time.

[thereuare]

Sorry to hear this took such an effort, but it looks like it paid off as this is well under half price of a conventional booking at this property.

Thanks for sharing your win and for using the SavingsBarn.com links to begin your bidding.

Enjoy your trip!

[humble]

Wow, Extended Stay America for $50, that is awesome deal, I am looking for a hotel with Kitchen. ESA would fit easily, is there anyway I can get it for sure. I know it is a hit/miss, but just wanted to know...

[thereuare]

As mentioned in our reply to your own Priceline Los Angeles thread, you can not bid on a specific property.

As well, priceline only guarantees double occupancy... and you're seeking quadruple occupancy (plus a baby = quintuple occupancy). Given the ESA properties 'standard room' (which is what you'll get thru the opaque providers) is a room with one bed, i don't think this property would work out too well for you, even if you could guarantee this is the one you would receive.