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Priceline’s “Name Your Own Price” has revolutionized the way people book plane tickets, hotel rooms and car rentals. Priceline is the only online travel service that allows you to negotiate with the airlines and hotels about your rates.
If you don’t feel comfortable “Naming Your Own Price,” you can make flight, hotel and car reservations through Priceline, just like any other online travel site. There is a $4.95 to $14.95 service charge for all tickets booked with Priceline. Most domestic flight service fees are cheaper than international costs.
Popularity
Priceline.com is probably one of the top 5 travel booking sites on the net in relation to its popularity. Thousands of people use Priceline to get discounts on airline tickets, hotels and more.
Features
Priceline.com has all of the standard features found on most travel booking sites including flight scheduling, hotel reservations, car rentals, vacation packages, cruises and a tours (activities) section. They also have a special PriceBreakers feature that allows visitors to look at their latest hand-picked deals and offers. You can even sign up to have these offers mailed to you regularly. However, the most popular and original feature that Priceline.com has in its arsenal is the Name Your Own Price booking option.
Prices
They give you the choice of naming your own price and then waiting to see if your offer was accepted. The trick to saving money with this option is to first find the lowest deal on the internet that you can find for your flight and then trying priceline.com to name a price slightly lower. I suggest no more than a hundred dollars or else you probably won't get your offer accepted.
Overall Rating
Priceline.com receives a great overall rating for its PriceBreaker and Name Your Own Price features. The latter is highly original and unique to this particular website, which sets Priceline.com apart from the others. Its layout is simple and straight forward, which makes it easy to work with but there is a tendency to force you into booking flights with their Name Your Own Price feature. It can be slightly confusing as to how one books flights using the normal method on Priceline.com. I suggest you only use Priceline.com for their Name Your Own Price option using the strategy given above and not for the standard method of booking as there are many sites that do this better.