Hotwire Hotel: 3* Philadelphia (Mt Laurel) Hyatt Place

[timelord]

Hyatt Place in Mount Laurel, NJ is already on your list. $54 per night, taxes and fees were $58.89 extra, for a total of $436.89.

This is my second week-long trip to this hotel. Last year, the total was $478.95. Thank you betterbidding.com (oh yeah, and thank you HOTWIRE, too).

Amenities were complementary breakfast, fitness center, pool, business center, and high speed internet, but this year, a sixth amenity (smoke free hotel) was added.

Cheapest rate online was $94 (government rate, for which I qualify and would have accepted if not for Hotwire). Best rate on Expedia et.al. was $130. Last year, the best rate online was $152 per night.

This is also a 3* hotel in PRICELINE, but Priceline has up to 8 three star hotels in Mount Laurel, making it harder to get the exact hotel you want (if that's important to you). A member in a competing forum says she got this hotel recently (spring of '09) for $40 per night.

I searched for the hotel like this: searching for Bensalem, PA or Cherry Hill, NJ yielded a slightly lower rate ($2 per night less) for this hotel than did searching for Mount Laurel, NJ. Using Firefox instead of IE got $2 per night less. And using Vista instead of XP yielded $1 less per night. It's possible that Hotwire fudges the fees so that the total is about the same no matter what (I did not verify this one way or the other). See discussions on opacity elsewhere in this forum for a possible explanation of why Hotwire does this.

I did use the HOTWIRE link on betterbidding.com, BUT... this hotel does not appear with the default settings (2 adults, 0 children). Without closing the Hotwire window, I clicked on the link to the Hotwire home page and changed the parameters to 2 adults, 1 child. The web page remembered all the other settings (dates, location, etc.). Then this hotel shows up. I do not know if betterbidding.com gets credit when I do this or not.

[thereuare]

Congratulations on your success!

Glad to see you received the hotel you were hoping for and that you're happy with the results! Looks like a very nice deal with significant savings.

Thanks for using our HOTWIRE link to begin your purchase and letting us know about the new "smoke free" icon now associated with this property, we've added it to the Hotwire Hotel List.

Enjoy your stay.