Priceline Help San Antonio

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Use Priceline's Bid your price option and start low, usually 45 or 50 and work your way up, select 4 stars and the area you want to stay and you'll end up in a nice place for under $70 bucks taxes included.

Use it all the time when I go to Houston and stay in downtown for Rockets games.

 

No problem, I've used this method exclusively since I found out about it for various cities and have always stayed in nice hotels.

If you have any trouble just let me know. Small note, you can only attempt a price point once a day. So you can bid 45 bucks today, if it doesn't take you'll have to wait till tomorrow to try 50 bucks and so on....

 

Just try again tomorrow, I usually do $5 increments per day.

Also, be sure to try the highest star rating, they will typically offer the lowest deals, 4 star in this case.

 

It's going to be tough to get under $100 near the River Walk since Cowboys Training Camp starts this weekend.

 

Your best best is to check all the major sites, Hotels.com, Expedia, Travelocity and Priceline and pick the best price.

 

Hadn't thought of that but, as an example, I was a able to get a room at a 4 star hotel for $65 tax included for the Cows thanksgiving day game in Arlington. High demand day for hotels and still didn't have any trouble.

 

I don't know about that, I just did that for a trip to SA last weekend and going through the hotel website was just as cheap as those sites.

I honestly had no idea until just now that you could "bid" on a hotel room and get it for much cheaper. On those forums that playlife posted, someone booked the same 4-star hotel I stayed at for last weekend went for HALF the price on the same days I was there. Ouch.

 

Yea, this is my second time planning a week-long trip to San Antonio in two years (my son and I, girlfriend and her daughter are going again next week) and, like above, I've found the hotel's site has the same price as other sites like Travelocity or hotels.com.

I've never tried bidding on Priceline. Does it work well when you have two kids and need to get double beds in a room, etc? I just saw that the bid only goes towards a room of just two adults.

 

You get extra bids if you increase your area to include nearby areas that don't have that hotel star rating.

Example:
You want the Riverwalk in a 4 star hotel. Select that and bid. If you get rejected select the Medical Center (staying on your 4 star selection) and increase your bid (free bid). Since the Medical Center only has 3 star and below hotels you won't get a Medical Center hotel. Then if you get rejected again, select Market Square Area and increase your bid. Keep doing this until your have selected all the areas that don't have a 4 star hotel in that area.

Be sure that the area you are adding does not have the hotel class you are bidding on or you may be staying in that area.

 

http://biddingfortravel.yuku.com/forums/88/t/Texas-San-Antonio.html

This site helps. I love priceline! I've used it for cars and hotels in LA several times.

 

Arlington isn't a destination spot like San Antonio.

 

So your saying that the cows first thankgiving day game at the new stadium in Arlington this past year is less of a destination spot than the cows training camp in SA during the summer? Don't think so. We stayed at the hilton which was less than a mile away from the stadium.

As I mentioned, I've also used the bid system in various other city with major events happening.

 

Once you book the hotel you can just call the hotel directly and request the type of room you want, most will be will to give you whatever you want.

 

D/FW is spread out. Many hotels to stay in that area. San Antonio isn't as sprawled out and San Antonio is a popular vacation/tourist spot and now with Cowboys in town, getting a hotel room for a cheap rate isn't going to happen. There's no need for hotels to offer a discount.