Priceline Hotel: 4* St Petersburg-Clearwater (St Pete Beach-Treasure Island) Tradewinds

Bid $150 Rejected. PL offered re-bid with $25 increase which I did - accepted $175.

Your Offer Price: $175.00

Number of Rooms: 1

Number of Nights: 2

Subtotal: $350.00

Taxes and Service Fees: $55.66

Total Charges*: $405.66

Would have been a great price for the Don Cesar (the only known 4* currently listed here) - not so great price for the Tradewinds Island Grand (AAA rate is $171). Add to that a $25/night resort fee.

Please add Tradewinds Island Grand to the hotel list as a 4*.

All in all, a great property and last-minute on a holiday weekend. I was just hoping for the kind of deals I have in the past with PL.

Is their anything I could have done differently?

Thank you for the website / contributions. I have learned alot here.

Glenn

Welcome to BetterBidding!

Thank you for sharing your win with the board and helping us add this property to the PRICELINE HOTEL LIST.

If you have time, or re-bid zones (Priceline Re-Bidding Explained), you can usually undercut PRICELINE's counter-offer. See this thread for more info: Priceline Counter-Offer

Glad to hear the information on the board was helpful... please use these PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links to begin your future travel plans.

Enjoy your stay.

Is this only reason Glenn had to bid over $150 because it was on Memorial Day? Should it drop afterwards? I am looking at 6/6/08 - 6/8/08.

The only other 4* reports on here are:

4* St Petersburg-Clearwater (St Pete Beach-Treasure Island) Tradewinds

$110 ... 8/24/07-8/25/07

4* St Petersburg-Clearwater (St Pete Beach-Treasure Island) Don Cesar

$100 ... 8/4/06-8/6/06

Also regarding the $22/$25 Resort Amenity Fee, is there any way to get out of it? What if you don't want that stuff? Why dont they just add it to the room rate?

So let me get this straight, they add this charge on top of the Priceline price you win and agree to by contract? How are you supposed to know there's going to be a fee if you don't know what hotel you're going to get? How can that be legal? I don't see how they can be a Priceline hotel and then charge a fee on top of the PL price. FYI, this should be noted in the hotel list.

I am looking at 6/6/08 - 6/8/08.

I don't see how they can be a Priceline hotel and then charge a fee on top of the PL price.

You agree to the possibility of these fees when you use PRICELINE.

Depending on the property you stay at you may also be charged (i) certain mandatory hotel specific service fees, for example, resort fees (which typically apply to resort type destinations and, if applicable, may range from $10 to $40 per day),...

Please start a NEW TOPIC for your own stay.

Sorry. I was going to once I got an answer about Glenn's bid. I needed to know that before I knew how much to figure what my highest bid would be, which I would post in the new topic.