Online Travel Booking and Bidding Agencies - West Hollywood Hotels: Priceline

Having never used Priceline to bid for hotels, was wondering if anyone had placed bids for: Mondrian, The Standard, Argyle. If so, what would be considered a reasonable bid for a Friday/Saturday night, end of June. I have checked some consolidator websites for the Mondrian and found the average price around $225, single. Thanks in advance for any input.

Hi Anna,

I have stayed in West Hollywood on a Priceline bid. The stay was probably my best Priceline deal and I owe it to Sheryl of BiddingForTravel for encouraging me to place that bid. Previously, I was only bidding for Westwood. Sheryl alerted me that bids for Westwood are usually not accepted and suggested adding West Hollywood to my list of acceptable locations.

The bid was placed when Priceline was fairly new and prices were lower. My bid of $35 for an early December stay was accepted and I was assigned to the Wyndham Belage.

You mention only the Mondarin, Standard or Argyle hotels. Unfortunately, Priceline does not allow you to specify a specific hotel. You choose the price, date, quality and neighborhood. If Priceline accepts your criteria, they charge your credit card and notify you of the results. You are not allowed to cancel or change a reservation made through Priceline.

If you have your heart set on some specific hotels, I would not use Priceline because you may end-up at a different hotel. I usually don't care where I stay so Priceline works very well for me.

Please let us know how it goes. :-)

-S

[This message has been edited by ASUGymn (edited 06-05-2002).]

As ASUGymn mentioned, you can't specify the hotel you want on priceline, but by reviewing successful bids on biddingfortravel.com, you can get a pretty good idea of what hotels are making rooms available to priceline and prices in specific zones in a particular city for a given time period. Should be plenty of winning bids posted for LA. So even though you may not know exactly what hotel you'll get, if you stick to 3 or 4 star hotels in the zones you want, you probably won't go wrong. Mrs. Soonerman and I will be staying at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego in late July for $55 night on a priceline bid. Great deal for SAN in the summer for a 4* hotel thanks to the info at biddingfortravel.

Hope it works out.

Have a look at www.biddingfortravel.com (http://www.biddingfortravel.com) its a discussion forum where people post there winning bids from priceline. It was a great help to me. FYI the Park Hyatt in Beverly Hills is currently going for $48

Welcome to FT Jester. Here you are contributing on your first post. Way to go.

Not entirely true that you cannot select your own Priceline hotel. If you bid through their vacations product, both airfare and hotel bidding at the same time, you can select the hotel you want.

The only hotels that have come up so far in West Hollywoood are the 4* Wyndham Bel Age, 3* West Hollywood Hyatt, 2.5* Summerfield Suites by Wyndham and the 2* Ramada West Hollywood. Of course, there could be other hotels in their system but that is all I have ever seen.

BTW, there is a brand new Standard Hotel opening in Downtown Los Angeles this month. I am sure it won't be in the Priceline system.

Park Hyatt LA @ $48 is really good.