Vapno

That was yesterday. You wouldn't be able to have the advertisement honored like that today.

MyXa

It's not only the video there is a survey in between too. But I managed to book the Palm Island Resort in St. Vincent yesterday for 7 nights. I guess if you try not so popular destination you could get it. I guess they limited the dollar amount or if they had reached the limit on the rooms in some popular hotels. My boyfriend didn't have luck with Barbados.

ellenface

can you please explain what IE stands for?? i do have some auto-fill features with my norton software, but really would prefer to have things completed as you did. sounds like the way to go. i am not particularly computer ignorant, but definitely not on the top of that game, either. so, how does one create an IE add-on????? thanks so much and happy travels! congratulations

rogue409

I got a 4* in Cancun, it's now advertised as ~$150. I had eyeballed and saved some 5* All-Inclusive properties that were between $220-650 per night. None of them were available for booking. All are available right now.

Clues:
Episode 2 - GR201 on the sweatshirt. I interpret this as 201 AM Greece Time. This is approximately 701 PM Eastern.

Episode 4 - The 9AM bells ring at the Beitgemal monastary in Israel. Also if you read the LMT comments at youtube for this episode, you'll learn that episode 3 occurs in Milan (although putting $1 into the machine makes no sense if this were the case).

Edit: A bit more troubling: My 4* at lastminutetravel.com is a 3* at priceline, expedia, orbitz, hotels.com, and kayak. It's a 3.5* at travelocity.

miadec15

Yesterday I missed it and that was my fault but, today they screwed up and they also took all the good hotels down atleast the ones I wanted in DW. I just dont think that's right at all.

eSurfer

yeah, that's a good one.

BIMMERKID2

Damn it, so this started right after i got offline to go to class... Im gonna sit around and wait until my next class .. im not going anywhere.. im assuming this is going to be broken into two again....

vatraveler

Availability in my city of choice (Sydney, Australia) dropped from 30 properties to 20 during the "promo" window. Back up to 30 now, of course. I'm glad some people are getting in on this, but the way it's being run is a total fiasco that's unethical, possibly illegal.

sc flier

I guess so if you're willing to risk losing your first booking. I'm not willing to take that risk. I like my first reservation.

Ahhhh! When I read your post yesterday, I thought you meant that you got a room on Palm Island in Dubai! I was thinking a little over the top!

ClimbGuy

that is 100% correct, I called LMT and spoke with an agent named Marci, she told me they were aware of the fact that people couldn't book higher end hotels.

If you watch this promo video for the $1 rooms:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQiNd1e91fI

it clearly states that "all of their over 15,000 premium hotels" will be just $1 a night. I downloaded the video and took print screens of what booking options were available during the $1 booking period and which ones were available during the normal booking period.

Marci asked me to email all the information to customer service and assured me someone would be in contact.

If the don't honor my request to book a five star hotel, i will be speaking with a lawyer.

BIMMERKID2

I was thinking the same thing as you That would have been nice

etcaveatamator

Good point, and I agree with you. I just meant that in general, I don't have a problem with them limiting the promotion. But you are right, they should make that clear in their terms.

Speaking of the T&C, I note that it describes an individual Campaign as "an individual fifteen (15) minute period during a Booking Period in which a Traveler is able to make a Dollar Booking." By that wording, have they not forced themselves to make each promotional period at least fifteen minutes instead of these smaller time blocks we are receiving? And it mentions a fifteen minute interval - doesn't an interval refer to a successive amount of time, or can blocks of smaller intervals (2 minutes here, 5 minutes there) at different times be considered one interval? I know, I am completely over thinking the semantics on this.

Obviously they are opting for the latter split-segment approach, but I want to know if this is in accordance with what the T&C conveys. If this is allowed per the T&C, they can technically offer fifteen 1-minute windows per day and say, "Best of Luck!"

miadec15

I agree!! I would have been able to book if the hotel i researched liked the email said, was there even my 3 other back ups were gone but, now they are back!! If they were going to limit the hotels they should have stated that only hotels in a certain price range would be available. That's false advertisement. I hope they do it again today and get it right this time!! Or I may contact authorities as well

MrHalliday

Interesting observation !
But why Greece Time, and not GMT, i.e. 2 hours earlier ...?

Travelmecrazy

Other than the vidoes, I thought they would continue to send additional clues???? I too experienced 3 videos in a row.. after that it was 45 seconds left...
But yesterday I also thought they ran the contest a few times..