Hotwire Hotel: 4.5* botique hotel Gold Coast/Mich Ave

[chwtom]

Wondering if anyone could offer me some help. Looking to book a hotel for December 11, 1 night in the michigan ave area. What comes up is a 4.5* hotel for $157. The listed features are botique hotel, restaurant, fitness center, business center. Looking at the lsit on this site, it appears this would be the Burnham hotel. Does anyone out there think this is correct. Also, The Burnhams "rack" rate for that and any other night is $199. Is the quoted price of 157 likely to change up or down (i realize you have no crystal ball).

Finally, does the amount of traffic for a particular set of search criteria affect the price? that is, if i keep checking the site using the same parameters each day, is the hotwire computer going to think there's lots of interest in that scenario, and increase the price?

thanks a ton for any help you can provide.

tom

[thereuare]

Welcome to BetterBidding!

The Burnhams is not believed to have a Business amenity icon associated with it, which this hotel does. My best guess is that this is more likely the Sutton Place.

Prices are set by the hotel and then Hotwire adds a variable mark-up to that price. The variable mark-up is so that the same hotel doesn't always appear at the same price, thus increasing the opacity (so that users don't know, "the $100 4* hotel in this zone is always XYZ Hotel, while the $108 hotel is always Hotel ABC")