It looks like we may be making a short-notice trip to DC. Please share your Priceline recommendations - good properties/locations you can suggest? Trying to do a search, but since time is of the essence, I'd really appreciate some answers, even if they are repeats. Thanks!!

Go to www.biddingfortravel.com and check their list. I usually bid on Convention Center-Capitol Hill 3*, since there are apparently 3 hotels thta PL gives out, all of them convenient and acceptable. A couple of times, I've stayed in Downtown-White House, but thee ar lots of 3* hotels in thta zone and some of them are inconvenient or unacceptable -- I have a bad experience at the Wyndham recently. Next weekend (10/16-17) is super-busy because of the Million Workers March on Sunday -- I ended up bidding $90 for a 4* in the Dupont zone, which is fine, too. Good luck!

Sheesh, that sure was a sloppy post, for an editor! I thought I heard the delivery guy arriving with dinner and I hit "send" without proofreading. Plus, the cat was helping me type. Sorry.

Thanks, Editor! I did refine my search and have been whipping thru posts that feature P'line info. We're veteran bidders and I do consult BfT, but I wanted to get a handle on preferred (convenient) locations...which is looking like DuPont Circle, first off and then maybe the Capital Hill area (which, if I didn't read too fast, is also convenient to Union Station and metro?). That's excellent info about the march this w/e...we're flexible and so could skip arriving this weekend and make it more of a Oct. 20-25 visit - do you know of anything we'd want to watch out for in that time frame? (Hope dinner was good!)

Priceline's DC zone map shows that the CC/CH zone encompasses Union Station, but the reality is that their 3 hotels that are 3* are farther west -- near Chinatown/Metro Center (the Marriott Cetro Center is literally next door to the metro station). So . . . convenient to the Metro but not really walkably handy to Union Station. There are only a couple of hotels right near Union Station.

The Dupont/Woodley area is huge -- the two hotels I've gotten have been next to the Woodley Park/Zoo Metro stop (i.e., Marriott Wardman Park, a 3* and Omni Shoreham, 4*) rather than in the Dupont area.

This weekend is also Parents' Weekend at my dd's college in DC; I ended up with a 4* in the Dupont/Woodley zone, too (the Omni) -- perhaps it's too pricey or far away for those marchers!

Another PL tip -- if you're bidding for 5 nights, split it into two bids of 2 & 3 nights, but avoid starting a segment on a Saturday if possible.

I booked Hyatt Capital Hill thru PL & paid around $69 a night. I'd check Expedia as well.

the editor I just got the Wyndham City Center bbecuase my friend was impatient about bidding what was wrong with it?

It was full of annoying people who monopolize discussion boards by unnecessarily topping 6 posts on the same subject after posting their question.