Priceline Hotel: Advice-Tampa TPA 4* Grand Hyatt 10/9-10/12 -construction?

[erinys]

I know there is NEVER a guarantee of the hotel likely to be won.

In the past 6 months or longer, the Tampa Grand Hyatt seems to be the most commonly won hotel won for 4* in TPA Westshore. That seems to have ceased recently, with many wins at the Intercontinental. There seem to be no Grand Hyatt wins in the past month.

I anticipate a stay either 10/8-10/11 or 10/9-10/12. Of course, I'm asking because I like the Grand Hyatt (I have 2 free IHG nights to use if PRICELINE is unlikely).

I suspect the lack of winning bids may be due to the completion of the road construction at the exit for the Grand Hyatt.

Does anyone have any thoughts, advice or more information?

[thereuare]

Generally speaking, hotel occupancy is down, so hotels are becoming more comptitive with each other to compete for business. Often the hotel willing to accept the lowest bid gets the business, so at any given time (and on any give date) one hotel may be more competiive and willing to discount more deeply than the others.

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