Monthly Archive for July, 2009

Bidding for a 5-star luxury hotel in Las Vegas on Priceline

Vegas is an adult paradise in the Nevada desert. From gambling, to shows, to exotic night clubs, and posh pools, Sin City has a little bit of something for everyone. Plus Las Vegas has some of the largest and nicest hotels in the world. Good news, Priceline®’s Name Your Own Price® service currently offers two areas where you can win top of the line 5-star luxury hotels. Those two areas are the Las Vegas Strip Vicinity North area and the Las Vegas Strip Vicinity South area. The other nine area are free rebid areas if we are bidding for a 5-star hotel in Vegas. This article will demonstrate how to use BidSmartForHotels.com’s hotel bidding strategy generator to generate an effective bidding strategy that will allow us to bid multiple times without the 24 hour wait period that Priceline’s requires between issuing the same bid for a 5-star luxury hotel on the Strip in Las Vegas.

Why does this work so well in Las Vegas? It’s simply because Priceline® allows you to rebid immediately if you can change something about your bid. With so many areas in Miami that do not offer 5-star hotels, we are safe to add these areas as long as we keep bidding for a 5-Star Luxury hotel. And if we apply a little combinatorial math to the bidding scheme and are willing to log out of our Priceline account and log back in, our bids are virtually limitless as you will see. The algorithm that BidSmartForHotels.com’s hotel bidding strategy generator uses does all the hard work for us.

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Bidding for a 4-star deluxe hotel in downtown Chicago on Priceline®

My family loves Chicago. There are so many great family friendly attractions in the Windy City like the Field Museum, the Museum of Science and Industry, Millennium Park, the Art Institute, Navy Pier, and the Shedd Aquarium. We love to stay close to all the action downtown off of Michigan Avenue. Retail prices for nice hotels in downtown Chicago can be quite step, but thankfully Priceline® is a great option for securing excellent accommodations at an affordable price. This article demonstrates how to use BidSmartForHotels.com’s strategy generator to create a Priceline® bidding strategy for a 4-star deluxe hotel in downtown Chicago in either the Millennium Park, Loop & Grant Park Area or the North Michigan Ave – River North Area.

Example: Creating a Priceline bidding strategy for a 4-Star Deluxe hotel in downtown Chicago

Using the link presented in step one of the Strategy Generator, we open a new window to Priceline®, click on the Name Your Own Price® link, enter Chicago, IL into the city text field, enter our dates, and then click on the “bid now” button. We are then presented with a list of available bidding areas for Chicago.

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Universal Studios and Priceline: Bidding for a Resort in Orlando for the Universal Studios – Sea World area on Priceline®

My wife and I have younger girls, and so when we head to Orlando, we typically spend our time doing all things Disney: Princesses, character signings, theme meals, etc. But we also love Universal Studios and it won’t be long until we will start spending more time at the there as our daughters get older. Earlier we wrote a post about using BidSmartForHotels.com’s strategy generator to create a Priceline® bidding strategy for the Disney World Vicinity. But what if you are interested in staying near Universal Studios and Sea World? Good news! You can use the same strategy with one simple change.

Since the Universal Studios – Sea World area offers resorts, in step 4 select Universal Studios – Sea World instead of Disney and generate your strategy. Now you will be bidding for a Resort near Universal. Happy Bidding!