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I love the "name your own price" function on Priceline.com. I've personally enjoyed the perks of the function. For instance I paid $39 instead of $99 for a four star hotel room over-night at a wedding, and $42 instead of $179 for a hotel room for a rock concert! I've recommended this website to many different friends, and everyone has been pleased with their travel results!

Name your own price requires a certain amount of schedule flexibility but will save you an average of 40% on flights, 50% on hotel rooms and 30% on car rentals. If you have a favorite airline, hotel chain or brand of car you MUST HAVE, this function is not for you. However, if you really don't mind as long as you get a good quality deal log on and start clicking!

Let me start by explaining the process. At www.priceline.com you can choose to buy a discounted flight, hotel or car rental or combination package. You will know what flight, time, hotel name, or type of car you will be getting. OR, you can pick the "name your own price function". You will know certain specifics but not exact details about your choice until you pay for it. When you pay, you find out the exact details of your purchase immediately.

FLIGHTS

Pick your departure airport, arrival airport and dates for flights. Next, NAME YOUR OWN PRICE per round trip ticket in the provided field. Write in your name and click "next".

Price guarantees your trip will start between 6am and 10pm on your chosen dates and you will arrive no later than 12:30am the next day. You will have a maximum of one connection each way with no layovers over 3 hours.

If you accept these terms you have the option to purchase trip protection for around $15. Trip protection includes unforeseen illness, lost baggage, injury, medical expenses up to $1500, emergency evacuations up to $50,000, with a 24 hour worldwide assistance service!

At this point, you fill in your full name, address and payment information and click "buy my tickets now". If your price is accepted, you find out your travel itinerary. If your price is declined, priceline will give you options for trying again such as changing your date or raising your price.

HOTELS

Pick the city where you'd like to stay, dates of stay, number of rooms you'll need and press "bid now".

STEP ONE: On the next page will have a map of the city broken into different districts on the right hand side of the page. On the left hand side will be a list of the city districts with tick boxes beside them. You can pick one or even all

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