Priceline Hotel: 4* DC (Dupont Circle-Woodley Park) Omni Shoreham

[CrazyOne]

Last night I'm sitting in the Marriott Wardman Park (unable to reach Better Bidding, BTW, both last night and this morning, do they have it blocked?) and needed one more night in DC. Hotels looked as bleak as they did before, with the Marriott Wardman being sold out as well as the Hiltons, etc. I went to Priceline and it said that 3.5* in Dupont-Woodley was the best deal. Huh? Oh, well. I'll bid it anyway. I didn't have much time to deal with this.

Plugged in $160, the same bid I won for the 3.5* Marriott Wardman for the last two nights (bid last week), put in 3.5* level and Dupont-Woodley. Immediate win for Omni Shoreham. I knew there was space available there, and I had that same fallback of the $255 AAA rate at the Shoreham that I had last week. The regular going rate is $299, as was the only regular rate I could get at the Marriott for the other days. So it's still pretty good, but anytime I get an immediate win I wonder if I should have bid less.

So tonight I'll move across Calvert Street to the Omni Shoreham. Works for me.

[thereuare]

Congratulations on your success!

Glad to hear of you're PRICELINE win and that you're happy with the results. Given the likely scenario that you would need to change hotels, sounds like this didn't work too bad.

Thanks for sharing with the board.

Enjoy your stay.