Hotel auction website??

vp143

I have heard lots about hotels accepting prices for hotel rooms well below what is offered on other websites when they have lots of availability. Has anyone done this before? If so, what steps did you take to get a good deal?

Does anyone know of any website that might help with this such as a hotel auction/bidding website?

claire16c

Priceline is a bit like that

vp143

Yes, I have seen that but I really want to know which hotel I am booking- my understanding is Priceline allows to choose an area only.
It looks good but not ideal for me.

bcl999

I used to visit a US site that had hotels, cruises, flights all on auction. I can't remember the name of it now but it couldn't have been much cop as I stopped visiting.

Added
Still had it in my bookmarks - www.skyauction.com I did say I stopped visiting so it's probably not much use but have a look.

vp143

I was just going to mention skyauction.com. I did a search for hotels, cruises, flights all on auction us and that one came up.

Looks ok, but you are right it does not look ideal.

bcl999

Why ask & not mention you already Know about it then??????? I schlepped thjrough 00s of bookmarks to find the darn thing for you, thank you very much!

vp143

Sorry bcl999, you misunderstood. I didnt know about it before your post. I took some of post "hotels, cruises, flights all on auction" and put into Google. I found skyauction.com website that I had not seen. When I went to post, I saw your addition.
I appreciate your help and sorry you went to so much trouble.

visidigi

vp143 wrote: »

Yes, I have seen that but I really want to know which hotel I am booking- my understanding is Priceline allows to choose an area only.
It looks good but not ideal for me.

Use this website http://www.betterbidding.com/

In association with PriceLine and Hotwire, it helps you massively narrow down the hotel you are actually bidding on, additionally it also has a calendar that shows what others have paid for rooms through the sites - I used it for my last two trips to the US.

bcl999

vp143 wrote: »

Sorry bcl999, you misunderstood. I didnt know about it before your post. I took some of post "hotels, cruises, flights all on auction" and put into Google. I found skyauction.com website that I had not seen. When I went to post, I saw your addition.
I appreciate your help and sorry you went to so much trouble.

You're forgiven this time

(Actually I felt a little guilty after i had posted when I saw you were relative newcomer - I'm not usually so angsty - it just took me ages to find teh bookmark as it wasn't where I thought i.e. my Auctions folder then it wasn't in my Travel folder so ended up going through the whole darn lot to get it. ) Had a look round again myself yesterday and it is a bit carp isn't it?

bcl999

visidigi wrote: »

Use this website http://www.betterbidding.com/

In association with PriceLine and Hotwire, it helps you massively narrow down the hotel you are actually bidding on, additionally it also has a calendar that shows what others have paid for rooms through the sites - I used it for my last two trips to the US.

Agree, it is very useful for priceline & hotwire but OP is looking for an auction site with named hotels. He'd still not know for sure that the offer he got was the same hotel as someone reported on betterbiddding.

vp143

bcl999 wrote: »

Had a look round again myself yesterday and it is a bit carp isn't it?

Yes, its not that great at all! I wish there was something better!