Priceline Hotel: 3.5* NYC (Times Square-Theatre District) Millenium Broadway

[msclare]

Bidding for 25 hours looking for something in TS or MTE or MTW - 4*

Started with

TS - 100 - no luck

TS + CHELSEA - 105 - no luck

MTE - 105 - no luck

MTE+ CHELSEA 108 - no luck

MTE + UES = 110 - no luck

MTW - 110 - no luck

MTW+ CHELSEA - 113 - no luck

TS + LIC - 114 - no luck

TS + LIC + UES - 116 no luck

TS + MTE - 118 - no luck

TS + MTE + MTW -120 - Millennium Broadway Hotel next to Times Square - SUCCESS

[thereuare]

Welcome to BetterBidding!

Thank you for sharing your results with the board. Can you please add a reply to this thread with the date of your stay so we can enable this win to appear in the Priceline and Hotwire Calendar of Wins, and also check your winning bid confirmation page to to verify the star rating of this property as i believe it is still rated 3.5* by PRICELINE. Did you lower your star rating to 3.5* at some point in the bidding process?

Please use the PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links on the board to begin your travel purchases.

Enjoy your stay.

[msclare]

Oops sorry I guess I am new to this.

This was my first time using priceline. It took me a while to figure out the whole permutation bidding thing. I think I did switch to the 3.5 because I wasn't confident that I was going to get a 4* hotel for the price of $120. I am trying to travel with a bit of a budget.

I booked for 03/22- 03/24, 2010 and the hotel star rating is actually a 3.5*

I apologize, I think I read the wrong thing when it said it was a 4*

I also used your PRICELINE link

Just out of curiosity, is this a good deal for this hotel? Or should I have waited and tried again the next day to get a lower price for the hotel? That was what I wasn't too sure of.

[AaronJB]

Thank you for the follow-up. The lowest regular rate on the hotel website for these dates is $233, although Expedia has $255 and Orbitz over $300. So, at nearly half the lowest rate, this is certainly a very good deal. Waiting until the next day would likely have not made any difference. Some people try waiting until the last minute - while that strategy sometimes works, it can also definitely backfire.