Name your price sites for London hotels

zagmund

I was all set to bid low for a 4* or 5* hotel in London for next Friday (14th September) on www.priceline.com, but it seems they only accept US & Canadian credit cards for their bidding engine. They take international cards for their regular booking engine though.

Does anyone know of sites that accept Irish credit cards for bidding engines ? I'm pretty easy on the location within central London as it's just me and I'm just spending one night there after a couple of days work elsewhere in England.

From a "get to London, check in to hotel and go walkabouts" point of view Paddington or environs would be best but I'm open.

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BuffyBot

Priceline takes Irish cards: see tip here. Don't forget to look at Hotwire too.

zagmund

Thanks for that. I had checked with their live agent thing which told me they only accepted US & Canadian cards (as distinct from only people resident in those countries).

As suggested in the other thread, I entered "Armed Forces, Elsewhere" for my state & 90210 for my zip. Everything *seemed* to go smoothly.

The hotel was one of the outer-ish Marriotts - got it for $127 (or about €105-€110ish) while the booking engines were showing it as £120 plus tax, so I think I got a reasonable deal.

I looked at hotwire, but they only seemed to have mystery hotels at fixed prices rather than a bidding engine. Did I look in the wrong place ?

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NeVeR

Never knew about this site... So all you do is put in a price per night,, and if they accept it you can then book it ?

zagmund

If they accept it, then you're already booked it. You make a bid of $X backed up with your credit card. If the bid is successful your room is booked, so you don't get an option to proceed or not.

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NeVeR

ah i see..

from looking at there site you can't pick the hotel.. you can only pick the star rating. Is that correct ?

zagmund

NeVeR wrote: »

ah i see..

from looking at there site you can't pick the hotel.. you can only pick the star rating. Is that correct ?

Yup, star rating, price, location (in broad area terms).

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BuffyBot

zagmund wrote: »

Thanks for that. I had checked with their live agent thing which told me they only accepted US & Canadian cards (as distinct from only people resident in those countries).

As suggested in the other thread, I entered "Armed Forces, Elsewhere" for my state & 90210 for my zip. Everything *seemed* to go smoothly.

The hotel was one of the outer-ish Marriotts - got it for $127 (or about €105-€110ish) while the booking engines were showing it as £120 plus tax, so I think I got a reasonable deal.

I looked at hotwire, but they only seemed to have mystery hotels at fixed prices rather than a bidding engine. Did I look in the wrong place ?

z

Slightly different model than Priceline, yes - same end result. Discounted (but set) rates on anonymous hotels.

Ponster

Priceline just takes a little background research before you begin bidding for it to work properly. I've used it many times and got pretty good deals (5* Mayfair, London for €70)

www.betterbidding.com is site that gives you results of other searches so you know what max. price you should beging with.

Yamanoto

Link for Priceline's UK site. You still need to manipulate the address and billing address methinks.

http://partners.priceline.com/hotels/lang/en-uk/itinerary.asp?plf=pluk&refid=PLU&refclickid=null