In the spirit of the Long Beach weekend earlier, pitflyer used Priceline to get a hotel room, and I thought I'd post it here if anyone wants to try and duplicate it (In Long Beach, many of us stayed at the Renaissance Long Beach through Priceline for $35 after several other folks duplicated my winning bid at the property).
Anyway, his winning bid is described
here, and it looks like a bid of $80 +
$20 AMEX Bonus Money should be able to get you the same deal at the Renaissance Midtown.