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$130.16 saved on 2 Night Hotel Stay! – Hotel Tips - Priceline Express Deals

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Channel: J Utah · 2015 · Travel & Events

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We book all of our hotels using Priceline Express Deals.  This is one of the most valuable websites we've found to use while traveling!  
After booking, we always check at least one competitor's pricing and the pricing on the hotel's website to see how much we saved.  The savings are always excellent!  A few notes:

1) With Express Deals, "travelers are presented prices but are not told the name of the establishment".  This is the main point.  As long as you know the general location where you would prefer to stay and you have a standard of service and amenities in mind, it is an excellent method of booking a room!
2) We always select 2 & 1/2 stars or higher.  If it is off season for travel, we will sometimes book as high as 4 star hotels. 
3) We typically book close to city center.  Hotel and parking prices are more expensive but the convenience of being located close to popular attractions and amenities pays off.
4) 95% of the time, we book the day of our stay.   

Hope this helps you spend less and travel more!!

http://www.priceline.com/promo/expressdeals.do

Priceline.com is an American company and a commercial website that claims to help users obtain discount rates for travel-related purchases such as airline tickets and hotel stays. The company is not a direct supplier of these services; instead it facilitates the provision of travel services by its suppliers to its customers. It is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States.
Priceline was founded by Jay S. Walker, who left the company in 2000.[2] Hong Kong company Cheung Kong Holdings later purchased a significant portion of Priceline's stock.[3]
Chris Soder was named priceline.com's Chief Executive Officer in June 2011.[4]
History
Priceline first became known for its Name Your Own Price system, where travelers would name their price for airline tickets, hotel rooms, car rentals and vacation packages. While the purchaser can select a general location, service level and price; the hotel, rental car company and/or airline (as well as the exact location of the hotel and the exact flight itinerary) is disclosed only after the purchase had gone through, with no rights to cancel.
Priceline's cut of the proceeds was the difference between the price an individual named and the price charged by the service establishment. More recently, it has added a more traditional model, called Express Deals,where travelers are presented prices but are not told the name of the establishment.[5] Travelers can still choose to name their price for airline tickets, hotel rooms and rental cars. The number of airlines, hotels and car rental company participants in the name your own price program has increased as these suppliers utilize this opaque market Priceline created to sell their perishable inventory without lowering prices through other traditional sales channels. Priceline now also sells discounted cruises, as well as tours and attractions.

William Shatner
In 1997,[9] William Shatner became the spokesman for Priceline.com, agreeing to do the spots in exchange for stock in the company.[10] The arrangement turned out to be quite profitable for Shatner, who sold much of the stock shortly before its value plummeted in the dot-com bust and has since made approximately $600 million from Priceline.com. (This reported sum has been met with some skepticism from the financial press.[11]) An early ad campaign featuring Shatner had him belt out popular songs in spoken word, in the style of his album, The Transformed Man. He was "replaced" in 2004 by his Star Trek co-star, Leonard Nimoy. Shatner still appeared in spots for Priceline, running into Nimoy as his replacement. When that campaign ended, Shatner again became Priceline's sole spokesperson.
In 2007, an ad campaign by Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners had Shatner take on the role of the Priceline Negotiator. In commercials that began airing January 22, 2012, Shatner's Negotiator character apparently dies as a bus falls off a bridge and explodes.[12] Subsequent ads have featured his "spirit," still advertising Priceline.com from beyond the grave. In August 2012, Shatner was brought back in a commercial located on a stormy, cloudy beach, parodying the end of the film Point Break. A man, apparently an investigator, stands next to Shatner. Shatner is holding a wooden surfboard, wearing a suit with shortened pants and pitching the new way of booking a hotel. He states that surfing is his life now and "we'll see where the waves take me. Sayonara!" and goes charging into the waves.
Priceline has been parodied on The Tonight Show by Jay Leno and in multiple Saturday Night Live skits. In a September 2008 SNL skit, during the opening monologue by Olympian Michael Phelps, Shatner rose from the audience to give Phelps tips on product endorsements

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