American hotel rooms

[Nickyboy]

Anyone know if there is any sites similar to laterooms.com for the US??

Google isnt much help when it recognises you are in the uk

[Henry Hawthorne]

No idea about specific sites, but use this (http://www.americanproxy.org/) and Google will think you're in the US.

[shakotan]

Nickyboy said:

Anyone know if there is any sites similar to laterooms.com for the US??

Google isnt much help when it recognises you are in the uk

I use Hotwire.com, but it isn't any good if you want to know the exact Hotel name/chain before you book. There are ways of finding out though, through the BetterBidding forum.

http://www.betterbidding.com/index.php?s=c37f58318...

[Nickyboy]

Nice one, i'll give them a try thanks

[fatboy b]

www.booking.com

[Du1point8]

or when you go into google just change the url to .com instead of .co.uk?

I have an american server so thinks Im in US rather than UK, I start google up and then do the above (oppostire of course) and it switches to the UK search engine.

[GCH]

www.priceline.com

The 'name your price' option has worked well for me in the past

[Nickyboy]

GCH said:

www.priceline.com

The 'name your price' option has worked well for me in the past

Have you managed to get a decent price on anything? The rental car we're looking at is around $700, if i named a price around the $450 mark would that be taking the piss?

[andrew311]

Quickbook are good, especially for US cities.

[IM NUTS2]

Nickyboy said:

GCH said:

www.priceline.com

The 'name your price' option has worked well for me in the past

Have you managed to get a decent price on anything? The rental car we're looking at is around $700, if i named a price around the $450 mark would that be taking the piss?

Used to use Priceline when living in the US and manage to get a full size car hire for around $15pd and hotels for around $60pn for a Hyatt Place/ Marriot Courtyard in.

Only thing say with buying car hire from a US site is if you have car hire insurance on a credit card great if not then you will have to pay extra for insurance, so stick to booking through a European site as the hire company has to supply the minimum insurance cover under EU regulations.

use http://biddingfortravel.yuku.com/ to see what hotels are in the area you will be staying in, as when you bid on Priceline you could end up in 1 of 5 hotels and you wont know till you have placed a successful bid what one it will be.

[JONSCZ]

Good place for printing coupons that you can use for 'walk-in' offers is http://www.roomsaver.com/
You can get the actual booklet from outside Diners / supermarkets when you are over there, too.
Jon