Priceline Hotel: San Juan pre & post 4/10, 4/18-20

[krw_cox]

thereuare,

I'm working with my in-laws to try to save them some money on their hotel costs in San Juan before and after their cruise.

I've been to San Juan and stayed at Marriott Resort using an Internet rate and enjoyed the stay.

I've since seen people, through Priceline, get much better rates for the other resorts in San Juan. Although I do not suspect it matters which resort, the Caribe Hilton and Marriott San Jaun would be my first choices if I could use a bidding strategy to get either of those.

They will arrive 4/10 and board on thier ship 4/11.

They then are looking at staying after the cruise for a couple days from 4/18 - 4/20.

Can you please advise what bids to use for each case? I suspect the necessary bid for 4/11 will need to be higher then the 4/18-20 dates due to it being Easter weekend. I don't want to have to rebid too many times after the 72 hr wait period since time is getting close, so your advice would be appreciated.

Thanks, Kevin

[thereuare]

Welcome to BetterBidding!

I edited your title to 4/10 instead of 4/11 since that is the check-in date.

Rates are indeed different for these dates, but a quick look reveals that the 18th-20th is actually cheaper!

Let's use this thread for the pre-cruise stay and start another thread for the post-cruise stay since it's likely that different hotels will be won and this way we can keep the title straight and easy to read.

For the first date i would bid $120 at the Resort level. If that is rejected i would wait the 72 hours and bid $130. If not having to re-bid is more important to you than the $10, then just try $130.

Feel free to ask any questions you may have.

Good Luck and let us know how it goes.

[krw_cox]

Tried at $130 at the resort level. No luck.

We'll wait 72 hours. We are also going to reserve one directly with the hotel of choice in case nothing pans out. Any other suggestions?

[thereuare]

Just book a cancellable back-up and continue to try at this level. If you don't like the bidding process, watching Hotwire for any rate drops is a good non-bidding exercise as it can often clue you in to price drops and new inventory becoming available.