Frommers article mentions Betterbidding

[WillTravel]

http://www.frommers.com/activities/money_&...&articleid=2004

Also contains a tip for figuring out what rating Priceline considers hotels to have.

[WillTravel]

The article mentions the TravelWeb tip and also that there are some discrepancies. I found one right away, possibly. The Marriott Copenhagen is listed on TravelWeb as 3*. This is hard to believe, since it's probably one of the nicest hotels available in Copenhagen and some sites say it is 5*. It's come up on this board as a Priceline 4*.

[gleff]

Thanks!

[cakobau]

(FYI, this post was moved here; somehow I missed the original thread. Sorry about that... My unaltered original text follows.)

Not sure if this has come up before, but a search for the link did not yield any results on this site.

Just FYI.

Link to the Frommer's article:

http://www.frommers.com/activities/money_&...&articleid=2004

Quote from the article:

"Now, there's an official way to check Priceline's hotel star ratings. Earlier this year Priceline bought most of hotel-sales Web site Travelweb (www.travelweb.com) and said they intend to buy the rest of the site in the future. (Travelweb was originally owned by five hotel chains, but they decided to sell the site in favor of running specials on their own individual Web sites.)

Later this year, Priceline will integrate Travelweb's hotels into searches on Priceline.com, letting you see the names of hotels before you buy (at somewhat higher rates than you'd get by bidding, of course.) That won't affect the super-low rates you get by bidding for mystery hotels, though it'll probably add another screen you have to click through to get to the good stuff.

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The Travelweb purchase still helps bidders, because Travelweb's hotel star ratings will soon be the same as Priceline's, with one important exception. Travelweb doesn't use half-stars, so Priceline's 2.5-star hotels will show up on Travelweb as 3-star hotels.

Priceline and Travelweb are still working out some glitches in their system. For example, Travelweb rates the Four Points in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood as a 3-star hotel, while Priceline calls it a 2-star. Priceline's Brian Ek assured us that the ratings will soon be brought in line."

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