| If you are looking for cheap hotels in Chattanooga, | | | | Ringgold, GA: 2-Star Moderate |
| Priceline's Name Your Own Price service is the place | | | | For each of the given zones I typed the highest star |
| to find them. How does it work? Often, hotels have | | | | level available |
| rooms which they'd like to sell off at discounted rates. | | | | Priceline allows you to rebid immediately after a failed |
| Priceline connects customers who do not mind not | | | | bid if you change something about your search criteria. |
| knowing which hotel they'll be staying in with these | | | | Otherwise, you can rebid after 24 hours. I assume that |
| hotels. | | | | you want to keep everything the way it is. But how |
| Why do Priceline customers not know which hotel | | | | can we get immediate rebids if we don't want to |
| they'll be staying in? Because, with Name Your Own | | | | change anything about the search criteria? You |
| Price, you bid for a particular zone(s) and a chosen | | | | change your zone criteria by adding zones which have |
| star level. You only find out the exact hotel you'll be | | | | a lower maximum star level than the one you are |
| staying in once your bid is accepted and your credit | | | | bidding on. Say you want to stay in a 3-Star Upscale |
| card is charged. Zones are simply neighborhoods | | | | hotel in the Chattanooga Airport zone. |
| which your hotel will be in. | | | | Your first bid is rejected. You can rebid if you add a |
| Because Priceline allows you to bid for your hotels | | | | zone which has a maximum star level lower than your |
| (Naming your own price as a result), the key to getting | | | | chosen 3-Star Upscale star level. For your next bid, |
| the very best prices is by rebidding. How do you | | | | you can include 2 zones, the Airport zone and the |
| rebid? By using "dummy" zones. | | | | Lookout Mountain zone, for a total of 2 zones. |
| Once you type in Chattanooga in Name Your Own | | | | Because 3-Star Upscale hotel is your chosen star |
| Price, along with your dates, you'll notice that Priceline | | | | level, you know you won't end up staying in the |
| gives you 6 zones from which to select: | | | | Lockout Mountain zone because its maximum star |
| Chattanooga Airport (CHA): 3-Star Upscale | | | | level is 21⁄2 Moderate-Plus. Lookout Mountain is a |
| Chattanooga South: 2-Star Moderate | | | | "dummy" zone, which you've used to bid again! Of |
| Downtown Chattanooga: 31⁄2-Star Upscale-Plus | | | | course, there are many more "dummy" zones |
| Hixson: 21⁄2 Moderate-Plus | | | | available and thus immediate rebids for cheap hotels in |
| Lookout Mountain: 21⁄2 Moderate-Plus | | | | Chattanooga! |