Christie and I had a friend who was telling us that he likes using Priceline's "Name Your Own Price" feature, so we decided to try it out a few times for our recent California trip. We are now some of Priceline's biggest fans!
In San Francisco, we wound up paying $88/night for a nice hotel very close to the heart of downtown--almost half of what the room was going for elsewhere. We're still not sure why they gave it to us for that price, because surely they were losing money on us--but we certainly didn't ask why!
Then we used it for an airport hotel flying out of SFO. If I had booked the cheapest possible online, we would have paid $65 for a dump. Instead, we wound up in a three-star for $60.
Somewhere, somebody is regretting they ever let people like the Winklers use Priceline.
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Im actually thinking about booking a hotel and airfare to SanFran. through Priceline. What hotel did they give you? Have you ever used Priceline for an airfare?
In SF, we got the Holiday Inn at Van Ness and Pine (listed in the Cathedral Hill district on Priceline). I've never used Priceline for flights and probably never will, because I can be particular about flight times, airlines, etc.
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