After making 3 other bookings for $58 at the westin nova scotian around the same time, including one on the same date, priceline started rejected the same bid for 4*. Bids up to $82 for halifax 4* and 3.5* were rejected, although in both cases I was getting the 'one time offer' to increase my bid by $18, so must have been close. I went down to 3* and got accepted at $74. I wasn't paying attention to the hotels in the re-bid zones so this is in dartmouth, but fortunately in reality its right across the river from the westin so the group isn't far separated.