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Your comments about using Priceline - Name Your Own Price to purchase airline tickets to England is appreciated.
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Sue
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Sue
timesharer said:Your comments about using Priceline - Name Your Own Price to purchase airline tickets to England is appreciated.
Thanks!
Sue
T_R_Oglodyte said:I also do not use Priceline for air tickets. Not knowing whethe the flights are going to leave morning or evening is just too much uncertainly for my travel plans.
I have used PL extensively in the past for hotels and car rentals. But in the last couple of years, Hotwire has consistently beat Priceline for hotel rooms for the travel that I do. I also can always find a rental car cheaper by booking directly with a rental company - or via Hotwire - than I can with Priceline.
Jill - it depends on the particulars. One case in point does not prove anything.JillChang said:I disagree. Hotwire's hotel is always higher than Priceline. In addition, Hotwire does not cover as much area internationally.
Case in example: I recently use priceline and booked a 4* union square hotel for $75 a night. Hotwire's price is between $128 & up for the same date. ...
JillChang said:But I do check both Hotwire, Priceline, hotel's own website, hotel.com, and expedia.
I booked hotels in San Francisco, Tucson, Toronto, Canada, Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, China, Tokyo, KyotoJ, apan, Taiwan, Miami, Hawaii during the past year. I find SF and Toronto, Priceline is always the cheapest, China I get the best rate by calling the hotel. Japan, Hotel.com worked best, because I need a room large enough to fit me and my two sons, I don't dare try priceline and get a room fitting only 2. Hawaii, again Priceline came through. Tucson, hotel's own website beat both Hotwire and Priceline.
But it is also kind of hard to compare Hotwire and Priceline, they don't have the same hotels. In downtown Toronto, priceline's 3 star is a very nice Marriott Courtyard, right on subway line, it is even better than some 4 star. Or you get one of the other two Marriott, which are also beautiful and downtown. Hotwire's 3 star hotel is Quality Hotel Midtown, I wouldn't even call it downtown, never mind a 3 star, at most a 2.5 star. So even if Hotwire's price is better, it is really not as good as Priceline's hotel in this case. Hotwire rates Metropolitan hotel in Toronto as 4.5 star, it is at most a 4 star. Hotwire lists Renaissance in Toronto as 3.5 star, priceline has it as 3 star. I can go on. I have noticed this incosistency before as others have. In general, Priceline's star rating is more accurate than Hotwire's.
But that is just my opinion.
JillChang said:Case in example: I recently use priceline and booked a 4* union square hotel for $75 a night. Hotwire's price is between $128 & up for the same date.
JillChang said:Priceline never worked well for Las Vegas, especially during certain time of the year. This is discussed in www.biddingfortravel.com
Priceline also does not work well for trade shows and conventions dates.
You happened to pick the two events that priceline don't work.
Sorry to argue with you, and not that I am standing up for Priceline. But I still find that for the past 6 years of travelling, Priceline beat Hotwire 90% of the time. I have only found one occasion where Hotwire had hotels which Priceline did not on a particular week for Whistler, BC. But when I tried 3 days later, I got the best hotel, Westin Whistler, for $95, when Hotwire was offering 3* for 140 and did not even have Westin.
Again, this is just my opinion.
Yes - BetterBidding is a valuable site, particularly for Hotwire information.Judy said:Another site with useful advice is www.betterbidding.com It includes hotwire as well as priceline.
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