We all know that nice hotel rooms in New York City can be costly. Priceline® can help you save substantial money on your accommodations. Here is an example of a hotel bidding strategy that was generated using BidSmartForHotels.com’s strategy generator for bidding on a 4* hotel in New York’s Midtown West bidding area. This example should only be used to illustrate how easy it is to create a bidding strategy for New York City using our site. Since bidding areas and maximum star levels can change on a daily basis, you must generate your own new strategy. Please do not use this strategy as it is presented here.
Example: Generating a Priceline® Bidding Strategy for a 4-Star Deluxe hotel in New York’s Midtown West area
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 New York City, NY 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 New York City.
Moving on to step two, we need to enter the name and maximum star level into the Bidding Generator for each and every bidding area. We start by selecting Brooklyn and noting that the highest star level that becomes active is the 3½-Star Upscale-Plus. We enter Brooklyn and 3½-Star Upscale-Plus into the Area Name and Maximum Star Level and then click the Add Area button. The information for Brooklyn is added to the bidding areas table. We then deselect the Brooklyn area and click the Central Park Area noting that the 4-Star Deluxe area is the highest star level that becomes active. Once again we add this information into the Strategy Generator. We repeat this for each available area. After we are done, the bidding areas table looks similar to the following:
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