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elchrist
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 Posted: 06 Jan 2004 11:33 AM Post subject: Online Hotel Booking and Reservations |
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I was always skeptical of booking a hotel room using the Internet because I just wasn't ever sure what kind of room I'd end up with. The pictures always look nice online, but you can expect the room to be a dump when you arrive.
I have a made a couple reservations online before and both have turned out fine. My first experience was through the hotel's preferred booking service and the other was through Priceline.com.
If you've never used Priceline.com, then you're in for a treat. You're pretty much booking a room with almost no knowledge what so ever of what you're paying for. You select the city, area, and hotel rating and provide a price. That's it. If your price is approved, your credit card is automatically charged and you don't have a second chance. Sounds a little scary, but it's really not that bad especially when you have a useful resource like BiddingForTravel.com.
Clark Howard has a short note on how many name brand hotels are offering very competitive rates now, up to 25% off the rate they find at many of the online reservation Web sites. Verbal was telling me the other day how a hotel in Las Vegas is doing something similar.
If you do a lot or little of traveling and aren't already taking advantage of these online services, you might want to give them a try. |
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| Posted: 06 Jan 2004 12:34 PM Post subject: Re: Online Hotel Booking and Reservations |
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| elchrist wrote: | I was always skeptical of booking a hotel room using the Internet because I just wasn't ever sure what kind of room I'd end up with. The pictures always look nice online, but you can expect the room to be a dump when you arrive.
I have a made a couple reservations online before and both have turned out fine. My first experience was through the hotel's preferred booking service and the other was through Priceline.com.
If you've never used Priceline.com, then you're in for a treat. You're pretty much booking a room with almost no knowledge what so ever of what you're paying for. You select the city, area, and hotel rating and provide a price. That's it. If your price is approved, your credit card is automatically charged and you don't have a second chance. Sounds a little scary, but it's really not that bad especially when you have a useful resource like BiddingForTravel.com.
Clark Howard has a short note on how many name brand hotels are offering very competitive rates now, up to 25% off the rate they find at many of the online reservation Web sites. Verbal was telling me the other day how a hotel in Las Vegas is doing something similar.
If you do a lot or little of traveling and aren't already taking advantage of these online services, you might want to give them a try. |
Vegas, baby!
After countless trips to Sin City I have found out that depending on the hotel it is best to just go to the hotels own website. I mean it doesn't hurt to visit expedia, travelocity, and other travel search engines, but for the most part in Vegas the hotels own website has the best rate. If you been to Vegas more than 3 times you've pretty much have a feeling what you are going to do and where you want to stay at. So, stay at one hotel all the time. I personally like to stay at Treasure Island. I often get rates that run at $49 Sun-Thurs and $59-69 Fri-Sat. Also, one of our friends who we like to call mini-vegas likes to play slots a lot. The key here is to get the players club card(free) and play. Last year we spend the entire week of New Years in Vegas for $120. We just had to pay NYE night and the rest of the 4 nights were on the house. The thing is that he doesn't drop more than 400 dollars on each trip. Its just knowing how to play 'sluts'.
Motel 6 is pretty cheap too. It's right behind Tropicana, but there's a huge gap between the wall and the AC unit, so expect a draft. If you want to be more in the middle of the strip there's always Imperial Palace. If you want a comparable hotel to Motel 6, then there's Ellis Island that is right behind Bally's. The cool thing is this small hotel has there own sports book. So you can get up and place your bets without having to go to one of the major hotels. |
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pato
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| Posted: 06 Jan 2004 02:17 PM Post subject: |
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| When I go to Vegas I stay at the Hampton Inn on Tropicana Ave, and since my friends sisters work there, I stay there for $26 on weekends, I don't know how much for a weekday, probably like 12 bucks. I've never tried priceline.com, but my brother has and he has gotten 4 star rooms for about 45 bucks a night, real close to the strip. I guess that's pretty good for LV. I remember the first time I went to LV, we paid about 75 bucks for a damn motel 6 or some other shitty hotel. |
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| Posted: 07 Jan 2004 12:18 AM Post subject: Re: Online Hotel Booking and Reservations |
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| elchrist wrote: | I was always skeptical of booking a hotel room using the Internet because I just wasn't ever sure what kind of room I'd end up with. The pictures always look nice online, but you can expect the room to be a dump when you arrive.
I have a made a couple reservations online before and both have turned out fine. My first experience was through the hotel's preferred booking service and the other was through Priceline.com.
If you've never used Priceline.com, then you're in for a treat. You're pretty much booking a room with almost no knowledge what so ever of what you're paying for. You select the city, area, and hotel rating and provide a price. That's it. If your price is approved, your credit card is automatically charged and you don't have a second chance. Sounds a little scary, but it's really not that bad especially when you have a useful resource like BiddingForTravel.com.
Clark Howard has a short note on how many name brand hotels are offering very competitive rates now, up to 25% off the rate they find at many of the online reservation Web sites. Verbal was telling me the other day how a hotel in Las Vegas is doing something similar.
If you do a lot or little of traveling and aren't already taking advantage of these online services, you might want to give them a try. |
I book online all the time.
I never booked on priceline.com and I understand the concept.
So when you get there are the rooms nice or what? |
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elchrist
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| Posted: 07 Jan 2004 08:45 AM Post subject: Re: Online Hotel Booking and Reservations |
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| Ame-ricano wrote: | I book online all the time.
I never booked on priceline.com and I understand the concept.
So when you get there are the rooms nice or what? |
It depends, I suppose. I don't stay at hotels a lot, but I'm pretty sure that most of the rooms don't look or smell like they're supposed to, unless they are legitimite 5 start hotels.
You do need to do a lot of research on where you're staying. I know with Priceline.com you don't know where that is, but with a combination of resources like BiddingForTravel.com for techniques and a review site like TripAdvisor.com for unbiased reviews, you'll have a good idea of where you're staying at. |
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| I've used Hotwire, twice, myself, and was quite happy with the results both times. |
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