Online Travel Booking and Bidding Agencies - Priceline.com Announces The End Of One-Size-Fits-All Packaged Vacations

Priceline.com Announces The End Of One-Size-Fits-All Packaged Vacations

Now, custom-build your own priceline.com Name Your Own Price vacation

...Today, priceline.com announced the launch of a new Name Your Own Price(sm) packaged vacation service that enables travelers to custom-build their own vacations and then pick the prices they want to pay for them.

Priceline.com vacations is the latest new travel service from priceline.com. Recently, priceline.com also launched a cruise service offering special deals on cruises throughout the world on all the popular major cruise lines. Priceline.com also sells leisure airline tickets, hotel rooms and rental cars...

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020513/132296_1.html

doc I didn't want to pile on to the other threads, but wanted to say its good to see you back, even though you did snub me at CatmanDo 3 http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/smile.gif

On topic, this looks like that you basically are still bidding on the airline tickets+a chosen hotel. Since I would think that the airline tickets would be priced similarly through the regulair airline service, the question is if the price of chosing your own hotel is much higher than just chosing a class of hotel in a given area.

I'm skeptical to say the least. If you are going to use Priceline, it seems to me best to break it out into separate offers.

Thanks pitflyer, and good advice too, I suppose. As you know, as a status freak, I'm surely no Priceline expert but rather a novice! http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/wink.gif