Priceline Hotel: 3.5* DC (Convention Center-Capitol Hill) Marriott Metro Centre

[Wissenschaftler]

It's my first time to use Priceline and had a very tall order, so I'm posting this in case it's useful to someone else:

I have a 15-day research fellowship and rather slim budget (max $1300 including tax). After failing on 3 consecutive days bidding $60-65 at city centre locations, I thought I would increase my chances with $70 bids, and break up stay into 3 consecutive bids of 5 days each. Moving hotels is fine, but stay in the city centre, along the DC Circulator bus route would be bonus (no car). Got lucky on the 4th day, plus had a fortunate accident. I accidentally pressed '6' days before the bid was submitted so in fact, I scored a 6-day stay (July 29-Aug 04), then Mariott offered option for another 1-6 days at $70-rate. I took the maximum (Aug 04-10) which gave me a total of 12 days.

Now I only have to transfer once, and have only 3 days to bid for (Aug10-13). My strategy: I think I'll lower bid again to $65; try for 3-star at the Convention Center-Capital Hill, which is really where I need to be; bid for 2 days, then accept an offer to extend for another day. My questions:

(1) Does offer to extend come with ALL bookings, or only SOME?

(2) Someone else recently scored a 6-day stay, Aug 11-17, at Residence Inn Capitol at $65 (May 14 post). What do you think are my chances of getting Residence Inn Capitol as well, so close to those days?

Feedback/advice will be greatly appreciated. And thanks for setting up this fantastic site! (I w :) n my PRICELINE bid from link here)

[thereuare]

Welcome to BetterBidding!

Congratulations on your success! Looks like this is working out quite well for you thus far.

To answer your questions:

1) no, the "add a nite" option is not always offered, and when it is, it's not guarnateed that you'll be successful at the same price. PRICELINE may come back telling you that there's no availabiliy, or that they have availabilty, but at a higher price and you have the option to accept or reject the higher priced offer

2) tough to say because i'm not sure how long ago that bid was made, and it depends upon rates at that property on 8/10 (your date not included in their win) as well as 8/14-8/17 (their win dates not included in your date range)... but please start a NEW TOPIC for the balance of your stay as this thread now reflects the information for the property you've already received.

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

Enjoy your this leg of your stay.