Priceline Hotel: 3* Orange County (Costa Mesa-Irvine) Doubletree Santa Ana

[Colfax]

A Friday/Saturday night stay. $109 at Doubletree.com. $59 on HOTWIRE.

Doubletree Santa Ana/Orange County

201 East Macarthur Blvd

Santa Ana, CA 92707

$65 for 2.5* was rejected in four other zones: Laguna Beach, Dana Point/San Clemente, Seal Beach/North Huntington, and Newport/Huntington.

First bid of $45 for 2.5* in Costa Mesa/Irvine was accepted with an upgrade to 3*. I've stayed at this Doubletree before and it's a nice hotel.

Parking is $14/night, but I dodged that last time.

Bids placed through the BetterBidding PRICELINE link.

[thereuare]

Congratulations on your win... an excellent deal for a Doubletree! (and their cookies :) )

Thank you for sharing your win with teh board and using our PRICELINE link to begin your bidding.

Enjoy your stay and good luck evading the parking fee this time around.

[Colfax]

Mr. Doubletree isn't going to like me but I didn't pay the $14/night parking and I didn't pay the $9.95/night for Internet. Yes, I DID tip the maid.

PARKING: Self parking in an underground garage. It's free in the daytime and you're supposed to buy a $14 permit for overnight. Signs about the $14 fee posted prominently at the garage's ungated entrance, again at the front desk, and they asked me at checkin if I was parking a car and needed a permit. I said no.

My car wasn't ticketed or towed. I stayed here one weekend last year and it was the same story then. Looking around the garage it seemed about 1/3 of the overnight parkers didn't have permits. Maybe they only enforce on weekdays? I don't know. Your results may vary.

INTERNET: $9.95/night for wired internet, but I picked up a strong wireless signal in my room. Two of them in fact.

[Colfax]

My old acceptance page shows the Doubletree Santa Ana has been upgraded to 3.5*.

[thereuare]

Thanks, i've spent most of the day today updating the California Priceline Hotel List so the hotels there should be up to date.

[Colfax]

Thanks, i've spent most of the day today updating the California Priceline Hotel List so the hotels there should be up to date.

Nice job, thereuare! That must have been a lot of work. Thanks for the time you spend keeping BetterBidding pulled together.

[mbstone]

Nice job, thereuare! That must have been a lot of work. Thanks for the time you spend keeping BetterBidding pulled together.

Amen.

Mrs. mbstone has a handicapped placard and we parked overnight in the handicapped space without being hassled (which is the law in California, but some hotels have illegally tried to charge for parking in the hotel's handicapped spaces)