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i'm about to convert.
Seriously, you guys. I'm going to have to look into what it takes to become an acolyte at the Church of Shatner. Because listen:
I have to be in Rochester, NY from December 27-31. I have family up there, but they start out medium-far from the curling club (where I'll be for four draws a day omfg) and get further, and it'll be a busy time for them in the post-Christmas rush, and I'll be keeping early and late hours (see above re: four draws a day), so I need a hotel. A hotel near the airport. When we curl at Rochester we normally stay at the Holiday Inn, which is up a street and under an overpass and around a corner and that's it; very close. They're advertising $104/night, which, okay, I don't know if they've noticed, but they're the Holiday Inn at the Rochester Airport, but what the hell, it's good to have ambitions.
Hotwire.com said they could get me a room at a Rochester airport hotel for $49/night. They wouldn't say which one until I booked it, because that's how they roll; if you want to be picky, you spend more money, I get it. Anyway. Not bad, I thought; still two hundred bucks for four nights, but better than four hundred, that's for damn sure. I looked to see what I could arrange with Expedia (about the same as the hotels said themselves) and with Priceline. Which is when it got interesting.
Priceline listed approximately the same prices for the airport hotels by name as Expedia - but there's also this name-your-own-price tab they've got there. And the way that works is, you tell it approximately where you want to stay - I was able to specify "North Rochester/Airport", so I didn't wind up clear on the other side of the city (though the city is Rochester, so it wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world, only again see above re: four draws a day; I want to be close) - and make them an offer, and if they don't [find a hotel that can] accept your offer, they say so and you try again; but if they do find a hotel that can accept your offer, they charge your card and you're booked. So I thought, okay, aim low, right? And I offered them $30/night.
And they took it. I'm staying at the Rochester Airport Radisson, three stars (bless its heart), for $30 a night, which when I looked it up at the Radisson website was normally $139, marked down to $103.25 in some sort of Special Offer.
I know n=1 is not a good sample size. But right now I'm quite tickled with my success. Thanks, Bill.
I have to be in Rochester, NY from December 27-31. I have family up there, but they start out medium-far from the curling club (where I'll be for four draws a day omfg) and get further, and it'll be a busy time for them in the post-Christmas rush, and I'll be keeping early and late hours (see above re: four draws a day), so I need a hotel. A hotel near the airport. When we curl at Rochester we normally stay at the Holiday Inn, which is up a street and under an overpass and around a corner and that's it; very close. They're advertising $104/night, which, okay, I don't know if they've noticed, but they're the Holiday Inn at the Rochester Airport, but what the hell, it's good to have ambitions.
Hotwire.com said they could get me a room at a Rochester airport hotel for $49/night. They wouldn't say which one until I booked it, because that's how they roll; if you want to be picky, you spend more money, I get it. Anyway. Not bad, I thought; still two hundred bucks for four nights, but better than four hundred, that's for damn sure. I looked to see what I could arrange with Expedia (about the same as the hotels said themselves) and with Priceline. Which is when it got interesting.
Priceline listed approximately the same prices for the airport hotels by name as Expedia - but there's also this name-your-own-price tab they've got there. And the way that works is, you tell it approximately where you want to stay - I was able to specify "North Rochester/Airport", so I didn't wind up clear on the other side of the city (though the city is Rochester, so it wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world, only again see above re: four draws a day; I want to be close) - and make them an offer, and if they don't [find a hotel that can] accept your offer, they say so and you try again; but if they do find a hotel that can accept your offer, they charge your card and you're booked. So I thought, okay, aim low, right? And I offered them $30/night.
And they took it. I'm staying at the Rochester Airport Radisson, three stars (bless its heart), for $30 a night, which when I looked it up at the Radisson website was normally $139, marked down to $103.25 in some sort of Special Offer.
I know n=1 is not a good sample size. But right now I'm quite tickled with my success. Thanks, Bill.