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How can I find out exactly which hotels are in a five star catagory hotel through priceline.com

You can't. That's why Priceline offers such big discounts--you don't know exactly what you'll get until AFTER you pay. If you look at www.biddingfortravel.com, there are extensive lists of what people have gotten IN THE PAST. It is no guarantee that you will get those hotels, but at least you have some idea of what hotels have been offered.<BR>By the way, does Priceline really have a five star category?? I know they have 4 star and resort, but I seriously doubt any real 5 star hotel would sell rooms through Priceline(there are very few of those in the whole US, but lots of 4 star)

Priceline*has* a 5-star category in their own system, and there are indeed a handful of 5-star hotels that show up on biddingfortravel's lists, but I've never checked on whether those hotels are 5-star according to others' lists. IIRC , there's1 each in NYC, California, and Nevada.

Definately www.biddingfortravel.com. It's almost down to a science. A particular dollar amount should be able to predict which hotel you'll get with 1 to 3 choices. I've bid before and got the exact hotel I wanted three times, the others I didn't really care which spot I got as long as it was 4 or 5 star. Look at the dates you'll be traveling and see which hotel others have gotten before you. It's an amazing way to save lots of money.

Hotels rate themselves for Priceline. Those ratings may or may not match AAA or Mobil ratings, but with Priceline, hotels determine what # of *'s they want within Priceline guidelines which are incredibly vague and subjective: &quot;should have&quot;, &quot;might have&quot;. <BR><BR>If Jen is correct, the 5* Priceline hotels are Raffles L'Ermitage Beverely Hills, Waldorf Towers New York, and the Venetian Las Vegas. Of those, only L'Ermitage is a true 5*, Waldorf and Venetian are both 4* Mobil.

The Waldorf Towers has been &quot;won&quot; on Priceline. There is a list on biddingfortravel.com that shows you which hotels have been won in the past. Go to the hotels section, choose New York, and at the top of that there should be a topic called New York Hotel List. This sorts by area and you can see what others have won. Sounds confusing but if you play around with it you see the info. Good luck!

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