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okay in this video I want to show you how to get a really great price on a hotel using a Priceline trick so for this example I'm going to assume that we want to go to New York and we want to stay in a five-star hotel on Friday night May 12th so before we go into the Priceline trick I'll just show you what a hotel like that would cost if we were to buy it on Orbitz I chose Times Square Friday May 12th through Saturday May 13th five-star and I sorted by price low to high so for $233 we can book a hotel and we get to see it's name and everything but again for this example let's assume we don't really care if we know the name of the hotel were satisfied with it just being five stars in Times Square so before we go to Priceline the one other place to look at is Hotwire so we type in New York May 12th through May 13th and find a hotel and the way Hotwire works is you can buy a hotel right away usually I mean almost always cheaper than you can do it on Orbitz but you don't get to see the name of the hotel but you do get to choose the area so let's say I choose Times Square South and Times Square North I'm open to the hotel being in either of those two areas and I say it needs to have a five-star rating so you can see right now we can book it for a hundred ninety-three dollars plus tax of course on Hotwire we don't get to know the name of it until after we book but you know it's probably gonna be a pretty good hotel if it's a five-star hotel in Times Square so this is the number we really want to beat is 193 and in my experience with the Priceline trick I'm about to show you you can always beat the lowest Hotwire price so we go to Priceline and you don't want to enter your information in up here because this is not the way we want to buy the hotel we want to do the name your own price method by bidding now so we click on this bid Now button type in New York 12 to the 13th and bid now Priceline then pulls up a map similar to hot wires showing the different areas that you can bid in and you can see that if you click on Times Square and then you go down to the star level Times Square has properties at all these star levels and you know for our purposes most importantly has a property in the five star level one or more we don't know how many properties but but it's possible to bid for that what you want to do before you start this is really the key to the whole trick is you want to go through these other areas and see does Midtown East have a five star hotel no it does not okay that's actually helpful to us for a reason I'll describe in a minute does Grand Central have a five star hotel no it does not okay that's great so you go down this list and you figure out which of these have five star hotels and which do not I already went ahead and did that so I'm going to show you here these these ones from the list in red they do have five star hotels so that's not good for us for this trick that I'll show you but the other ones do the other ones do have or sorry the other ones do not have five star hotels here which is really good so the reason this is good is because Priceline allows you to choose an area and a star rating so Times Square five star and then to come down and name your own price and so let's say we choose something absurdly low ten dollars you know we're never going to get that Priceline tells us that but if we submit this bid it's going to get rejected surely at ten dollars there's no way and if we want to bid again but just change the price Priceline won't let us do it it'll make us wait at least two hours so let's say our next bid would have been twenty dollars well we'd have to wait two hours to then submit that bid which would be rejected then we have to wait two more hours to some that have been for $30 you know as we continue to keep walking up the price to find what is the absolute lowest price that Priceline will actually sell us a five-star hotel in Times Square for the caveat and the trick here is Priceline will allow you to submit another bid if you add an area in and so what we're going to do for our second and third bid is we're going to come back in here and we're going to say we still want a five-star hotel we're still open to Times Square but we're also open to Midtown East so hey Priceline as long as you give me a 5-star Hotel in either of these two areas I'm fine with that but what we've already done is we've predetermined that Midtown East does not have a five-star hotel so we know that when we submit our are slightly higher bid you know for twenty bucks if that bid gets approved the hotel that we're going to end up with is going to be in Times Square then you know know our twenty dollar bid doesn't get approved so now we want to submit a bid for thirty dollars we don't want to wait two hours so we just come back in here we're going to add another area we're going to leave it at the five-star now we're going to submit our bid for thirty dollars and you know maybe it gets approved product probably not but we just keep walking it up knowing that actually there are 22 areas in this list that do not have 5-star hotels in them so we can actually submit if we would want we could submit up to 22 bids in you know rapid succession without having to wait the two hours so let me just walk you through I mean that's really the trick if you get that you don't even need to watch the rest of the video really but but I can just show you how it works so Times Square five-star hotel ten dollars and I was like preview offer some terms here but they're basically saying you know no chance if you want to confirm that you really want to submit for ten dollars yes I do I click Next I deny the trip protection I accept the terms click continue verify my card and buy hotel so Priceline is checking we're sorry we can't accept a bid of ten dollars now watch what happens if we if we don't add a new area in here if we just come in and say okay okay that's fine I'm fine with twenty dollars and click continue it's going to say select at least one additional area or star level so it wasn't it won't even process our request by changing only the price however if we add in Midtown East an area that we know does not have a five-star hotel we can now submit this bid for $20 submit that let's see they're going to make me confirm again I do not want to purchase that and submit well price I'm thinking about it okay unfortunately we can't accept your offer of course now what they're going to try to do is they're moving me over to this other page where they want to just sell me things that are more profitable for them so I don't want to get into this loop I want to go back to the screen that we were working on and of course Priceline doesn't provide any easy way right here that I see to get back to that screen so we have to go back to the home page scroll down to the bid Now button type it in again bid now and now you know Times Square Midtown and now we're going to add Grand Central which again we verify does not have a five-star hotel because we determine that earlier choose the five-star hotel now we'll try $30 you know etc etc so put in the name this is the last one of these I'll do I think you get the point at this point thirty bucks no yes and by hotel so you you know if they can't accept their offer of $30 very understandable so we just keep going through this process just barely moving it up like ten bucks at a time and what's going to happen I mean I just about guarantee at least based on my experience is at some point and it's tough to know when but at some point you are going to get a price accepted by Priceline that's lower than this one ninety three and I mean it you know it might be $80 it might be a hundred and forty dollars it might be a hundred and seventy dollars you know I don't know where it's going to hit that Priceline says yeah we accept that bid but by virtue of this trick you are going to get the lowest rate you can the last time I did this was in Miami and I booked $150 a night hyatt that's what I would have had to have paid you know just out of pocket for I think it was 65 was either 60 or 65 dollars and you know it did that on Priceline using this trick so it was quite a good deal four-star Hyatt in Miami so anyway if you like this trick please leave a comment below or you know if you any questions leave a comment below and if you wouldn't mind sharing it with others I'd appreciate it thanks

Channel: Brian McAdam

Views: 55,635

Keywords: money, save money, travel, priceline

Id: dYOzG0lmUXg

Length: 10min 40sec (640 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 30 2017