Priceline Hotel: 3* Chicago Suburbs (Lisle-Naperville) Lisle Hyatt

[LadyBug50]

My daughter requested I bid for her on a 2.5*, hoping she would get her preferred Courtyard Marriott if they accepted her bid.

I bid for 2 nites at $27, and Priceline countered to up it another $7. I wasn

[thereuare]

Nice to see you're still bidding and using Priceline... and still helping the family with it too i see! :)

Hopefully she'll enjoy the Hyatt just as much as the Courtyard. It's certainly a step up in class, so maybe next time she'll have you bidding only for 3 star hotels!

Thanks for the latest report, good to see you around the board.

[LadyBug50]

Thanks Thereuare. Now I realize why they gave me a 3*. $30 is what the 3*s were going for.

I am curious what would your take be on why they refused my initial bid. Was it the bid, the date, or the 2 nites together? What would you have bid with the option of changing the 2 nites to one, but two nites and 2.5* preferred? I know it is only a few bucks, but I am more concerned on how this whole Priceline thing works and I'd like to beat the system. LOL :)

[thereuare]

You mean trying to avoid the ugprade?

You did bid at the 2.5* level and were upgraded, correct?

[LadyBug50]

Right, the initial bid was 2 nites for a 2.5* at $27 but was countered. Preferring the 2.5* to the 3* in this case, how would I have proceeded from there without accepting the counter....which would probably have been turned into an upgrade to 3* Hyatt anyways, but at a higher price. I dont think the $27 for 2.5 was out of line. Should I have stayed with rebidding at $27 for one nite? Actually it really isnt that important, just curious on how to bid next time.

[thereuare]

Hard to say... if you had time you coudl have raised the bid (but by less than $30, or whatever figure you think 3 stars are typically accepted at) or just re-bid at $27 for the individual nite (but first check to see if the hotel shows a higher rate for the 2nd nite than the 1st, which would have given reason to believe that the bid was rejected for not being high enough for the 2nd nite)