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Comment by Paul Sanders (15) on August 11, 2009 at 5:25pm

yeah, you dont know what exact hotel your getting, but you do get to choose the "class" - for example 3 stars, 3 1/2 stars, 4 stars.....I never bid below a 3 1/2 star because most of the time those hotels always have room and the hotels aren't dumb, they would rather have a full hotel at some rate, then an empty hotel with no revenue coming in.

Comment by Craig (17) on June 26, 2009 at 12:52am

Geez, those deals sound incredible! Isn't it true that you can't see what hotel you are booking and there are no refunds if you didn't want to stay there? I have never tried to use them because of this...

Comment by Ken Lee (30/43) on June 23, 2009 at 7:38am

In a post above I mentioned getting the Wardman Marriott Park in DC for $60/night. That hotel was simply AMAZING! Problem is, when we walked in, we felt outta place cause it was sooooo fancy. I always travel in shorts and a tshirt when I fly, and that's what I walked in there wearing. Oh well, they still treated me great! :) We found out the next morning that this was the hotel where GW Bush had his main Inaugural Ball back in 2001 as well.

Comment by Mike Z (12) on June 22, 2009 at 5:47pm

Got to love Priceline. I just used it to book my hotel for St. Louis this weekend and will be sure to use it for my road trip in August.

Comment by Ken Lee (30/43) on June 7, 2009 at 8:33am

P.S... I just checked the Chasers guide for Fenway Park and the hotel we are staying at for $75/night, the Sheraton, is listed under "Unlimited Budget". :) The last time I was in Boston (May 2005) we booked via Hotwire, stayed north of town in Woburn (rode the train in daily) and we played darn near $100/night. Of course I will have to pay for parking at the downtown hotel, but for 1 night, I'm game with that (it also means I wont have to pay to park anywhere else in town, so its a wash, if not in my favor), especially that close to everything....

Comment by Ken Lee (30/43) on June 7, 2009 at 8:21am

Here ya go... http://www.komonews.com/news/7516117.html.

Comment by Paul Sanders (15) on June 7, 2009 at 6:18am

Ken....do you have a link to that article?
I am planning two other trips this summer..... Florida/Tampa Bay and Milwaukee/Chicago/Detroit

I was going to throw Cincy in there, but I am gonna save that for 2010 when the Mets are in town and go with my brother.

Comment by Ken Lee (30/43) on June 7, 2009 at 2:40am

Priceline is the ONLY way I book hotels for my trips now... I have done so great with it, especially if you have read the article "How To Beat Priceline". I got an amazing place in Minneapolis last year, that was about a 5 minute walk from the Metrodome, for $50/night, it was normally $299 a night on their web site. In Boston on the 18th of this month we will stay at the Sheraton on Dalton which is less than 8/10th of a mile from Fenway, for $75, normally $200/night... not as great, but that close for that price, holy cow. Our first night in Washington DC on this trip we pulled for $60 for the night the Marriott Wardman Park and a look at their web site a couple days ago told me those rooms were going for $299-$339/night... of course its about 6 miles to the ballpark, but that still rocks (and we wont be going to the game that night anyway).

Anyway, yes, gotta love Priceline, I certainly do... especially after reading that article on how to beat Priceline. Like I tell all my friends, "Read it, learn it, love it" I figure the bottom line is that my average is $100/night when I am on the road, doing it this way I generally stay for less than that or if I pay that, I am at a much nicer place... which is always cool :)