HotelDealsRevealed.com is a community-based website where people reveal their Priceline winning bids. The purpose of this forums is to help Priceline customers determine what price to bid and assist users identify their hotel. In brief, we are trying to help people become better bidding travelers.
Priceline Real Winning Bids
Better Bidding: This is pretty helpful for hotel bidding. Knowing the price others paid for a hotel reservation in a particular bidding zone and area can be useful when using Priceline. Unfortunately, what Priceline does not show you is the date(s) of purchase and the hotel received.
The reason dates are so important is because hotel prices fluctuate wildly. For example, weekend rates for hotels can be double or even triple mid-week rates. So while Priceline may show recent winning hotel bids, they could be mid-week rates and you’re bidding for weekend rooms.
Priceline doesn’t reveal the name of the hotel either. While some people do not mind this, I personally like to try to identify my hotel (or at a minimum know what hotel I might receive). Using Las Vegas as another example, if you bid on a 4-star hotel in the “Strip Vicinity South” zone, you might end up with the Westin, a long 2 blocks away from the Strip. (See Priceline Las Vegas Hotels for a list of hotels).
Overall, this feature is not bad, but could be made more useful if the real hotel names and dates were displayed. For users who want to make the most out of Priceline, check out the Priceline forum on HotelDealsRevealed.com. A hardcore fan will also check out multiple forums such as BetterBidding and others as cross-referencing multiple sites is helpful.