Boomer ~ One thing you have to remember about 5 star hotels, and I remember reading this somewhere in the Priceline stuff, is there are only at most a handful of them in any city.

A 4 star hotel is even pretty limited and will be of a very high quality ...

demeter ~ I don't necessarily agree with you extending your bad experience with one online service to another service that is in a similar line of business. It sounds like the only basis you have for not recommending Priceline is that they didn't accept your bid.