Entertainment Magazine: Travel: Priceline

Priceline Bids, Videos and Deal Page

When Priceline launched its Negotiator advertising campaign starring William Shatner, of StarTrek and Boston Legal fame, they had no idea that it would take on such a life of its own. In an effort to boost its visibility into the crowded online travel network, the satirical commercials portray Shatner as an eerie cross between his past and present television characters.

To maintain its lead in the travel industry, Priceline allows customers to bids on airline flight tickets, booking hotel rooms, renting cars, vacation packages and cruises. They are the only travel merchant with offerings that appeal to both flexible and non-flexible travelers.

Priceline half price hotels everyday

When you Name Your Own Price ® for Hotels you can expect to save up to $100 a night over other leading travel web sites, according to Priceline. Also, Priceline will not charge hotel cancel or change charges.

Priceline is the only place where you can shop and compare from over 60,000 hotels around the world and select your exact hotel and price - or - Name Your Own Price® and save even more! With Priceline's Best Price and Quality Guarantee, you can be sure you're getting the lowest rate at top-notch hotels - even at the last minute!

Look for available Priceline.com Hotels - save up to 50%

No More Flight Booking Fees on Priceline

In his never ending quest to save you even more money on travel, the Negotiator has decided to permanently eliminate airline ticket booking fees on all domestic and international published fares.

With a simple chop of the hand, you can save on airline tickets over leading sites like Expedia, Travelocity, and Orbitz even when you don't want to Name Your Own Price ®. (Note that booking fees still apply when you Name Your Own Price ®.)

Priceline Low Air Fare: NO priceline Booking fees on ALL published Airfare!

Watch Priceline Negotiator video ads starring William Shatner: Video Clip #1: "Naughty" Video Clip #2: "Dad"

No More Booking Fees on Priceline Air Flights! Forever

In his never ending quest to save you even more money on travel, the Negotiator has decided to permanently eliminate airline ticket booking fees on all domestic and international published fares.

With a simple chop of the hand, you can save on airline tickets over leading sites like Expedia, Travelocity, and Orbitz even when you don't want to Name Your Own Price ®. (Note that booking fees still apply when you Name Your Own Price ®.)

With low prices and more choices, Priceline makes it easier to save money on airfare, plus there are no booking fees. Priceline does not offer promo codes for discounts. Instead of using promotional codes or coupons, Priceline lets you bid on your own price and does not charge booking fees on published flights. Get NO Priceline Booking fees on ALL published Airfares!

Bid on Vacations, cruises, hotels and airfare

Priceline.com customers have saved more than $6 billion on their travel purchases by bidding for vacations, on cruises, hotels and airfare. No other major travel site gives customers more ways to save than Priceline. They are always working to find the best deals and stretch your travel dollar to the max! Priceline offers bids on airline flight tickets, booking hotel rooms, renting cars, vacation packages and cruises.

You pick the exact hotel you want to stay in and Priceline chooses the flights on your travel dates that give you plenty of play-time at your destination!

Shop And Compare Prices at Priceline.com

Looking for a specific flight, hotel, rental car, or vacation package? No problem. Just tell Priceline what you want and they'll search through thousands of published itineraries and prices.

Priceline will instantly show you an easy-to-compare product and pricing chart drawn from the thousands of flights, hotels, rental cars and cruises available to priceline. Then, just choose what works for you. They do all the work so you can find exactly what you want in seconds.

This is a sampling of the ways you can save big by purchasing your travel through Priceline.com:

Last Minute Deals

Priceline is the online price leader for last-minute trips. The biggest names in travel use Priceline to sell last-minute seats on airplanes, fill empty hotel rooms and cruise ship cabins and move unused rental cars - all at huge discounts. Save up to 60% if you name your own price. Priceline bids will save you hundreds of dollars when you take advantage of Priceline Last-Minute Hotel Deals!

Name Your Own Price ®

This deal is what made Priceline.com famous. If you can be flexible when you travel, Priceline can save you up to 40% or more on your hotel rooms and airline tickets, and up to 25% or more on your rental cars, compared to the other leading travel sites.* You name the price, Priceline will pick the flight, hotel or rental car it's that simple. NYOP Airfare | NYOP Hotels | NYOP Rental Cars

According to Priceline:

Flights: Over the last 12 months, a substantial percentage of searches on priceline.com have resulted in up to 60% savings on Name Your Own Price® in comparison to the lowest published fares on priceline.com (same travel dates and origin and destination dates). Savings are not guaranteed and will vary based on offer price and availability. Airfares are subject to change frequently and there is no guarantee that an offer will be accepted. Priceline's Name Your Own Price® service is different from other travel sites. Exact airline and flight times are disclosed only after purchase. Choose your flight or Name Your own Price

Hotels: Over the last 12 months, a substantial percentage of accepted offers have resulted in savings of up to 50% in comparison to the lowest published rates on other leading online travel sites for the same itinerary. There is no guarantee that hotels, dates or prices will be available and savings are not guaranteed. Actual prices and availability are always subject to change. Priceline's Name Your Own Price® reservation system is different from other online travel sites. With priceline's Name Your Own Price® reservation system, the exact hotel is shown only after purchase. Name your own hotel room rate and see winning Priceline bids in top cities!

Rental Cars: Over the last 12 months, a substantial percentage of accepted offers have resulted in savings of up to 30% in comparison to the lowest published rates on other leading online travel sites for the same itinerary. Percentage based savings claims apply to rental car purchases using priceline's Name Your Own Price® reservation system only and are compared to published price for the same rental car type and dates and do not include taxes and fees. Rental car savings are not guaranteed and will vary based on offer price, availability and actual itinerary. Priceline's Name Your Own Price® reservation system is different from fixed price travel sites. With priceline's Name Your Own Price® reservation system, the exact Rental Car company is shown only after purchase. Save up to 30% on Rental Cars

Vacation Packages: You can save up to $325 when you use priceline.com's Vacation Package service to book your hotel and flight together. The savings figure is based on an internal study comparing the price for travel for two passengers of booking a flight and hotel together using priceline.com's Vacation Packages to booking the same hotel and similar flight itinerary (same travel dates and origin and destination cities) separately on priceline.com. The Vacation Package price yielded a savings of up to $325 over the separate prices of the same hotel and similar flight itinerary. Vacation Package prices shown are per-person based on double occupancy, include round-trip airfare and hotel, and all taxes and fees. Vacation Package prices shown are based on availability over the last 21 days. There is no guarantee that Vacation Package hotels or prices will be available. Requests for same-day travel must be submitted prior to 12:00 PM local time in your departure city. Priceline Last-Minute
Vacation Package Deals

Buy a Package and Save

Buy your flight, hotel and rental car as a package and you can save up to $325 than booking separately. Priceline has over 2,000 destinations to choose from. No bidding or flexibility required. Just pick the exact hotel and flight you want and Priceline will show you the best price. Shop for a Priceline package right now. Big City Packages: 4 nights + Air from $66/night!

More Ways To Save" Trip Tips

Here's where Priceline goes "above and beyond."

Every time you shop and compare prices for flights, hotels, rental cars, or vacation packages, they'll not only show you the best available options for what you asked for, they'll also recommend additional ways for you to save on that trip. Like using a different airport. Or flying on different dates. Or staying at a hotel in a different part of town. It's like having a personal savings consultant at your side. Start your next search and look for the "More Ways to Save" recommendations.

Source: Priceline.com

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Priceline Airlines- NO FEES, LOW PRICES, and GREAT PRODUCTS!

Now is the best time to be booking Priceline’s Airline reservations as June and July are typically the highest volume booking months of the year.

No booking fees: Unlike Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity, priceline never charges a booking fee when you purchase published airfare tickets from priceline.com. This is very important in this highly price sensitive market, particularly as rates continue to rise.

Name Your Own Price and published airfares: Priceline.com is also the only place where customers can pick, compare the price, airline they want or “Name Your Own Price®” for more savings.

Wide Variety of Airlines: More than 100 airlines including American Airlines, British Airways, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airlines, Lufthansa, Mexicana, Midwest Airlines, Northwest Airlines, United, US Airways, Virgin America, Virgin Atlantic, Alaska Airlines, Aeromexico, Air Canada, Air India, Air Jamaica, Airtran Airways, and many more.

State of the art comparison shopping: Priceline’s airline product continues to evolve to allow customers to easily compare rates among a wide variety of published rates from many different airlines. Key features include:

- Inside Track: A sophisticated, yet personal ticket scout that combs through thousands of flights and fares, both now and in the future, to find customers the best possible deals for the trips they want to take. Allows Priceline customers to be the first to know when flight prices drop, the best days to fly from favorite cities, and to see exclusive Name Your Own Price® winning bids.

- Multi-Airline Trips: Ability to build multi carrier itineraries for lower fares creates another pricing advantage

- Great add-on products: Exclusive low-rate rental car and vacation package products offered during the booking process to make it easier for the customer to book everything they need. You make more money when customers book an airline ticket and add on a rental car or choose a vacation package.