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I'm BACK!! It's fr...fr...fr...freezing here!! In the middle of packing... HAPPY 2007 EVERYONE!!! Black Friday was a Success! Freebies of the week 11/29 Held up at gunpoint... BLACK FRIDAY.......the journey continues.... 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Going to San Antonio!
I'm so excited! I have been busy planning our little summer vacation for the past few days. We wanted to go to Concan and stay in a cabin at Garner State Park...but that ain't happ'nin. I didn't know you needed to reserve so early in the year you're either wearing winter coats or still in your bathing suit the summer before you want to go. Wow! They are all booked up.
So then we thought, okay, lets go to South Padre and stay in a hotel and have fun at the beach. But honestly..I'm just not a beach person. I like to go and spend the afternoon on one..but a whole weekend? It was an option, but I wasn't giving up finding another place. Then I thought about San Antonio. We've never been. Only through it on our way to California back in 1990. It seemed like a nice place to go for a mini summer vacation on a weekend in July. So I checked around. Hotels are quite expensive there. I haven't stayed in a motel in over 10 years, and that was just a Motel 6. Yeah, exactly. I thought, well, we can try for a decent hotel like Holiday Inn or La Quinta. Sounds decent and probably reasonable. Heck, those hotels wanted about 70-90.00 a night for the weekend we wanted to go. I'm sorry..I must be stuck in the 90's, when did these hotels cost so much? Then one of my friends told me about priceline.com. You can use priceline to name your own price. You choose what star rated hotel you want to stay in and then the area of the city you are going to and then type in a price you're willing to pay. It helps if you do some research first directly at the hotels websites and put in your info like your wanting to reserve a room for your dates. It will give you prices and give you an idea to go on for bidding. Priceline gave me about 5 hotels that I would be placing a bid on..and one of them will either accept a bid from me eventually. Not saying your first bid will be accepted. Some take a few days of bidding to finally get accepted. But you just have to know how to play the game. I found another site biddingfortravel.com. Exellent information on how to play the game with priceline for hotels, airline tickets, vacation packages, and rental cars. After some reading, I jotted down the steps and went back to priceline. Followed the steps to my bidding war. I chose a 4 star hotel. Doing my research, I knew these hotels wanted to charge me anywhere from 159.00 to 269.00 for a weekend. But I thought...if I can win a bid with a price of 60.00 to 90.00, what Holiday Inn wanted to charge for a 2 star hotel..I would be doing great. I started my bid at 60.00. No go. I kept increasing my bids by 2.00 each. Each time adding another area of San Antonio, or taking one away, but also staying with the main area I really wanted to stay in, the downtown/riverwalk area. Finally...ACCEPTED! My bid for a 4 star hotel, the Hilton Palacio Del Rio on the riverwalk was accepted for 78.00 a night! This hotel had quoted me a price for two adults and three children at 169.00 a night. Wow..and here I got it for the price of a Holiday Inn. One thing you have to remember with priceline though is, you will have to put in your credit card/debit card information, because if a bid is accepted, they charge you for it right away. They also offer insurance for 5.00 per night just incase you get sick and cannot make your reservations. You have to have a doctors diagnosis that you are too sick to travel in order to get your money back. If don't take the insurance, then you are just out of luck getting a refund..you lose the hotel and your money. I chose against the insurance. I figured..I don't care who is sick..they get left behind. If I get sick..I will still make the trip and spend the weekend in the hotel at least sick in comfort while John and the kids enjoy the weekend. We're planning on doing the riverwalk on the day we arrive, July 28th. Seaworld with the kids on Saturday all day and then on Sunday, we plan on seeing the Alamo and the four Missions and then head home. A very small vacation, but John doesn't get a paid week vacation until next year. It will be his very first paid vacation in all 17 years of our marriage. He will be at his current job for a whole year this October. We are very blessed. Here is the link to the hotel we'll be staying at. There are clickables to see the rooms too. I think I'm gonna like it there!http://www.hilton.com/en/hi... target='_blank'>Hilton Palacio Del Rio 0 comments from 0 users
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