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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 27, 2010, 11:26:19 pm ---Priceline.com and hotwire.com really do not compare to the usual travel sites -- like expedia.com or kayak.com, for example -- at all.
If you guys don't want to believe me, then part of me is fine with that, actually. I do want to be of service, if possible. But when I started using priceline, my first reaction was, Oh my god, I'd better not tell anybody about this, because there's no way they (priceline) can keep doing this once a lot of people find out about it.
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I believe you! I believe you!
If I were feeling a bit more adventurous this trip, I'd think seriously about giving it a try. This time out, though, proximity to the Amtrak pick-up/drop-off point is important. Not only will I be leaving San Francisco by train fairly early on August 9, I also plan on day-tripping via train to Sacramento to visit the California State Railroad museum. So I'll be using that "station" "a lot" during a four-night stay.
OTOH, like Milo, I've used Hotels.com for research but not booking--particularly when I went to Denver in April. And I just more or less picked Hotels.com at random last summer. When I needed to find places to stay in Chicago, Seattle, and San Francisco for my Rail Odyssey, the plethora of travel web sites very quickly became bewildering. More or less on the theory of six-of-one, half-a-dozen-of-the-other, I went with Hotels.com.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 28, 2010, 02:01:20 pm ---I believe you! I believe you!
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:)
milomorris:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 27, 2010, 11:26:19 pm ---Priceline.com and hotwire.com really do not compare to the usual travel sites -- like expedia.com or kayak.com, for example -- at all.
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Oh, I believe you. I have gotten some good deals on Priceline in particular. But let's face it, travel & lodging can be a crapshoot. especially international travel.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: milomorris on June 28, 2010, 03:14:36 pm ---Oh, I believe you. I have gotten some good deals on Priceline in particular. But let's face it, travel & lodging can be a crapshoot. especially international travel.
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True. I haven't used Priceline for international travel. But I've had great luck with it for domestic hotels. I've used it maybe a dozen times, and the worst I've encountered was a snafu with the information getting to the hotel that resulted in my having to wait 20 minutes or so to get into the room. That was eventually cleared up, and has only happened once. The rooms have all been great.
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