Priceline Hotel: 5* in November, trying to avoid Trump...

[danuary]

Hi All...

Looking at a long weekend in November with the wife, planning to do a 5* on the strip.

From reading this forum, I'm a bit concerned about using PRICELINE because it seems that every 5* win lately has been Trump. While this seems like an OK hotel and an OK location... The wife has never been to LV before, kind of want her to have the full experience at a hotel with a casino.

I see a lot of people getting Trump at $100-120... Reality is my budget is a bit higher than that. I'd go as high as $160. My question is this... If you bid higher on priceline, does it potentially change what hotel you'd get, or does it just mean I'd just end up overpaying for Trump? For example, does PRICELINE say 5*... On the Strip... $100-$120... OK that's Trump -- but $120-$150... That's some other hotel?

In looking through the last couple months of this forum, I haven't seen a single 5* win on the strip that HASN'T been Trump. That makes me a little leery of using Priceline this time around... Yet the 5*'s at HOTWIRE are a little out of my price range for the dates I'm looking at.

Any thoughts?

[AaronJB]

If you bid higher on PRICELINE in an attempt to get a different hotel, the most likely result is that you'll overbid for the hotel you would have gotten for cheaper.

So, I wouldn't recommend bidding higher to get a particular hotel.

Which date/s are you looking at?

Please use the site's HOTWIRE or PRICELINE links to start your purchase.

[danuary]

Which date/s are you looking at?

Looking at Nov. 4-8 or 11-15.

Thanks!

[thereuare]

The PRICELINE 5* properties are mostly Trump wins as those who are trying to avoid that property have been using HOTWIRE :)

Is SPLITTING YOUR PRICELINE BID an option? Perhaps staying at 5* Strip hotel via HOTWIRE for 11/11-11/13 and then changing hotels to a different (likely 4*) property for the remaining 2 nites of your stay?

Please use these PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links to begin your travel purchases.