Priceline Hotel: 3* Northern VA (Airport Dulles IAD) Crown Plaza

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Doing a global bid and got $45 for this nice hotel.

[biddingforhotel]

After visiting DC Zoo at 7am and Natural History Museum at 10am, it was about lunch time and could not sustend any more since the previous night Hyatt Summerfield Suites at Gathersburg MD was sold out and the old way of drop in could not work. So, what was the hotel? Thought could just go to nice 2* Hampton Hill at Dulles to have a cup of coffee and bid on PL, I was totally wrong! It won't work any more, the wireless around are now all protected.

Then we found this next door nice new Townplace suites that's the only wireless still comlimentary to visitors, so we went there to bid and got this nice Crown Plaza which was very surprised since we been so many hotels in the area and never heard that one till someone said it was an upgraded and renovated Days Inn.

The PL says can check in at 2pm which was about the time, but then it has a huge International Conference, hundreds of Indian families gathered there from all over the world. Dulles seems to be one, other than Atlanta has direct fly to India. So, we went to this nice Chuck E Cheese not far away to have lunch and rest a bid. Somehow, Chuck E Cheese does not provide wireless Internet, but neighborhood has many, so we were able to get on Internet there, which is great.

Next time, I would heading here to bid PL since it is now before 11pm to bid on same day and Chuck E Cheese open till 11pm during Friday and Saturday nights.

When we finally checked in, we were given a very nice room with good view to a sports park with quite a few soccer fields. The pool was big and nice and kids got great time. The parking lots have one section under the building, very clean and feel very comfortable.

The next day we went to this nice PH99 Vienamnese restaurant right next to Chuck E Cheese in the same plaza near hotel for lunch before heading to Georgetown University which has wonderful building and the campus is so clean, can't find a tresh. Many people encountered using wireless Internet are not students there, they are just visitors, and the A/C were so cool, view so nice. May be next time heading to DC could also consider landing here since nearby Georgetown has lots of stores, shopping and restaurants.