I just stayied in Puerto Rico, and priceline.com got me a rate of $78 a night. Starwoods rate was $209 a night..

on check-in, I got upgraded to a junior suite and got my points, and saved over $130 a night for 5 nights!!!!

Just FYI!

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by LukeSky:
I just stayied in Puerto Rico, and priceline.com got me a rate of $78 a night. Starwoods rate was $209 a night..

on check-in, I got upgraded to a junior suite and got my points, and saved over $130 a night for 5 nights!!!!

Just FYI!</font>


That's a great deal.

When you say you got the points, are you talking about a Platinum amenity? Or did you get stay credit?

There seems to be a bunch of PL fanatics going around posting pro-PL in all the hotel message boards. I use PL myself quite extensively but do not like or trust these kinds of posts. Not sure if PL is sanctioning these people or it is just one or two deeply "converted" with different handles.

When did PL become a religion anyway? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

As a proud Priceline user myself I appreciate learning here that the Westin Puerto Rico can be had for less than $80. As for Priceline becoming a religion, be careful, a lot of people think all of FlyerTalk is a dangerous cult.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by venk:
There seems to be a bunch of PL fanatics going around posting pro-PL in all the hotel message boards. I use PL myself quite extensively but do not like or trust these kinds of posts. Not sure if PL is sanctioning these people or it is just one or two deeply "converted" with different handles.

When did PL become a religion anyway? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif</font>

Venk- FWIW, I think that you could post what you just posted with Starwood replacing Priceline, and it would be just as accurate.

FWIW- I too, am a pCLN fanatic. I usually don't get points or stay credit. I hope you find me credible. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

i love priceline but i don't typically post my success stories here. i just got four rooms (for two different dates) in boston and just so happened to get my fav. starwood property in the area, the Sheraton Boston. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

i paid a fraction (less than 50%) of what spg.com was offering.

while i love the points and stay credit, i just can't pass up a &gt;50% savings.

edited to add: i don't end up using it that often because i strive to keep my Platinum status (which also has great value to me). but, when the discount is overwhelmingly substantial i go for it.

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What's the best way to use Priceline but still get the property you want? I hate the idea of guessing the hotel and paying for it without knowing I got the right property. Any suggestions you Priceliners have would be helpful.

Check out and read

www.biddingfortravel.com (http://www.biddingfortravel.com)

You can learn to bid on certain properties that might only have one hotel in a certain category, so you know what you are getting.

It takes a while to read everything but it is well worth it.

KT

Those dirty Priceliners aren't a religion, they are a cult, trying to brain wash the rest of us http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Also try http://www.betterbidding.com or the Online Bidding forum in FT Travel here if you'd like a friendlier environment to talk about Priceline.

Hope this thread gets closed with extreme prejudice!

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by LukeSky:
on check-in, I got upgraded to a junior suite and got my points, and saved over $130 a night for 5 nights!!!!

Just FYI!</font>

I thought with priceline you were in eligible for points or nights credit.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Fletch!:
I thought with priceline you were in eligible for points or nights credit.

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you don't get the stay credit and you only get points for eligible incidentals. but, you still get your upgrade/platinum amenity.


[This message has been edited by fly co to see the yanks (edited 02-26-2003).]

Found this on some guy's website. He may be a maniac or a genius - I don't know. His ideas are interesting, nonetheless. To save you some time, just skip down to the highlighted part that explains how priceline has come to be a mind-controlling cult:

Let's make a star. Let's create a star of our very own, from our own ranks, from scratch, without any prodding from big media. Let's do it without any pretense of them having any great and superior merit over the rest of the world other than their own star quality. Let's promote a personailty in such a way as to allow the people to construct their personality in their own head to suit their own entertainment needs. Let's give him dreams and hope and ambitions and the capability for great good and the immense penchant for deep evil so to show a duality of persona and connect with the everyman we all wish we identified with.

It's really simple, you see.. It starts with a phrase. For example, omnibuscortex. Only one guy who reads this site even knows what it means, so it's perfect in its ambiguity, just as "amazon" is to amazon dot com, in that it means nothing in particular. A phrase, a symbol, or even a mere idea is only as important as what it means. And even then not what it actually means, but what it means to an organization, to a group, or more importantly, to an individual. Apple computers is marketing the switch from PC to Mac platform by pushing comfort. They're not selling computers, they're selling comfort and ease. The computers are just a medium.

So let's take our star to be, for ease of example we'll call him barry, and our phrase, omnibuscortex. We need to associate the phrase to something intriguing, eg., the case of "Obey", which is associated with the "propaganda posters" of Andre the Giant which currently have an underground popularity. Like plants, all things blossom from seeds planted in dirt. The internet is fertile enough soil for our purposes. We need to associate the phrase with coolness, and make it so those who are "in the know" about it are a part of an elevated, enlightened "minority", such as the early cult status of the "All Your Base" hype. Unfortunately, AYB was never associated with any personailty in particular, so no fruit could be harvested from it. This is what we call a fluke.

Soon people begin to tag their newgroup posts and emails with the phrase, and associate the phrase with pictures of amusing things, like monkeys and robots. Imagine a robot head with omnibuscortex scrawled upon the forehead, or a monkey holding a sign with omnibuscortex on it. This creates a cult status from thin air. The benefit for those on the ground floor is being able to ride the cult status closely and direct it, promoting themelves and their own websites and agendas in the process. But we're straying from the point.

Now we associate the person to the phrase, giving it staying power. This is why ad companies throw thousands of dollars as William Shatner to promote priceline.com. You may not know what they peddle, but you know the name and the face. Soon people will forget about asking "who is barry?" and start asking "what is he thinking?" How the subject came to be will not be as important as its current state. Everyone forgets history, which is why it repeats itself. Here we're counting on human nature to drive the propaganda past a sticky point, and with proper marketing, it will surely do so.

So now we have a phrase, a personality, and a following. Therefore, we have a media voice we created ourselves. Instead of having to respond to media, we will have the power to make it respond to us. We have a star of our very own, through our subject, me.

So let's begin. Make "omnibuscortex" mean more than a website. Spread it around. Put it on pictures of monkeys and robots and pizza and Britney Spears and Darth Vader and anything else amusing and pop culture-esque. I'll do the hard work of making propaganda to spread. I'll create a section to assist in our noble cause. Stay tuned.