Articles About Hotels and Hotel Deals

Pet-Friendly Hotels

Finding and Reserving Pet-Friendly Hotels

Since the pandemic began in 2020, travelers are spending more vacation time domestically and less time traveling abroad. As a result, travelers are also choosing to take their pets with them on vacation. Unfortunately, this has cause strife for many travelers as not every hotel accepts pets. Doing a bit of prep work before jumping in the car for that road trip can help avoid headaches and help toward a more relaxing and enjoyable vacation.

Priceline Bidding on Waikiki

Priceline Hotels in Waikiki and Oahu, Hawaii

Priceline offers several dozen hotels in Waikiki and throughout the Hawaiian island of Oahu. For a complete list of Priceline hotels in Oaha, visit the Waikiki and Oahu hotel list. In this article, I take a closer look at some of the more popular hotels in Hawaii that show up on Priceline, and in particular, the resort and vacation areas of Waikiki and other popular destinations. Use this list for better bidding on Priceline hotels in Hawaii.

Waikiki Marina Priceline Bidding Zone: I generally recommend people avoid this zone if they can. It’s simply too risky because there are many hotels here that are too far away from the beach.

Ala Moana Hotel: This hotel is situated in a weird location. It’s neither close to Waikiki Beach nor Ala Moana Beach. The hotel rooms are nice enough but if you’re wanting to be close to the beach, avoid this help by not bidding on a 3 1/2 star hotel on Priceline in the Marina zone.

Hotwire Waikiki Hotels

Hotwire Hotels In Waikiki

As Waikiki falls within the city limits of Honolulu, Waikiki falls within Honolulu on Hotwire. In Honolulu, there are 6 bidding zones, one near the airport, one in downtown Honolulu and 4 in the tourist zones of Waikiki. In Waikiki there are many different rental options for accommodation, and Hotwire is only one of them. It is well worth checking out the plethora of other options including vacation rentals etc. But Hotwire is still a great choice and quite often there are many excellent deals to be had.

Most Popular Hotwire & Priceline Forums

This website is just coming up on its 2-year anniversary. Many thanks to the thousands of contributors who have posted in the various Priceline and Hotwire forums, as well as the tens of thousands each month who use the site. I’m love data, and I thought it would be interesting to look at the most […]

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Salisbury Hotel in Manhattan on Hotwire

New York, and Manhattan in particular, is an expensive city and hotel accommodations are no exception.  With the high price of real estate, it is very difficult to find a basic hotel under $200 per night.  This is one of the many reasons travellers turn to opaque bidding sites like Hotwire or Priceline when booking […]

Priceline “Real Winning Hotel Bids”

Priceline recently launched “Real Winning Hotel Bids”, a feature that allows you to specify a city and see successful bids. The information that Priceline provides includes city and bidding zone (e.g., Las Vegas, Strip Vicinity South), price, and star level (also known as the hotel rating; e.g., 3 1/2 stars).