A Travel Tip with Priceline

We recently went to California for my sister’s in law wedding. Since we needed to buy 4 plane tickets I was doing research and checking prices for a long time. I love to look on sites such as Kayak, Orbitz and Priceline. A lot of travel websites offer the same prices, but every once in a while one of them will be a little cheaper than the rest. Even $10 is reason enough for me to hunt down the best site with the best deal.

You know what Priceline is famous for  Priceline Flights – Select your Exact Flight & time or Name Your Own Price! I have tried on a few occasions the “Name your own price” feature on Priceline. I always get turned down… can’t blame me for trying to get affordable travel right? Well for our California trip the prices of flights were not in budget at all, so I attempted to name my own price again. I did get turned down, but then I got an email with a counter offer! I didn’t know a counter offer was an option. The deal was still pretty good, not as good as I was going for, but it was within budget so I accepted it. Our flight times were also pretty good! No middle of the night travel, which is nice since we were traveling with 3 kids.

Here is another tip, if you do name your own price there is an option to mark a lap child, but you still have to CALL the airline to provide the child’s name and information! Don’t forget that step, or your child won’t be on record and you will have delays!

The moral of my story – keep trying the name your own price on Priceline because it just might work! Or it might get you a counter offer.

Have you ever used name your own price and won?